As our friends at Media Matters have noted, the US media continues ignoring the GOP led delegation which also visited Assad in Syria, in "cooperation with the administration.Here is the beginning of my post."
"On the April 3 edition of Fox News' Special Report, host Brit Hume reported that "[t]he White House tried to discourage" a trip by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to Syria to meet with President Bashar Al-Assad because the administration says "such a visit sends mixed signals to countries in the region and to the Syrian government." But like numerous other recent media reports on the White House criticism of the Pelosi-led trip, Hume did not mention a Republican-led delegation that met with Assad in Damascus on April 1. An April 3 report on CNN and an April 4 report on ABC made similar omissions. At the end of his report, Hume added: "Democratic Senators John Kerry [MA] and Chris Dodd [CT] both today issued statements defending Pelosi's trip. The senators had their own meeting with the Syrian president this past December." But Hume failed to mention that in addition to Kerry's and Dodd's meetings with Assad in December 2006, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) also visited the Syrian president later that month."Yep, you read right. This is from the Lancaster, PA's Intelligencer Journal: "Gabe Neville, Pitts' chief of staff, said Monday the conference between Assad and the three Republicans was intended to be "low profile." [...] "It was done in cooperation with the administration," he said."
Yet, despite a GOP-led delegation visiting Syria's Assad "in cooperation with the administration," our media continues to ignore this fact while at the same time repeating Bush talking points lashing out at Pelosi for doing what three GOP congressmen also did.
Oh, and what with all the graphics mocking Pelosi, isn't it about time we saw similar graphics depicting Bush and Cheney visiting with questionable world figures?
