According to multiple other online sources appearing in the same Google search, the Iowa audience resoundingly supported Representative Kucinich’ (D-OH) call for impeachment. It looks as if the USA Today reporter on the scene may have relayed this truth to headquarters and it showed up online for a short time but then someone back at USA Today overrode this story and removed the truth the reporter had relayed back to the station.
What might be the reason for USA Today having a vested interest in suppressing the truth about how popular the impeachment of Cheney is among audience members at an Iowa presidential primary election campaign stop?
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USA today also censors reader comments that do not support their own views.
Some of my posts will only show up when I am logged into my account making it appear to me that I am posting.
However, if I log out and blow away my cookies and return to their site – my comments do not appear.
USA Today sucks
I appreciate the cross-referencing. I just asked the question after noticing the discrepancy. This sort of thing happens all the time. An article goes out, sits on the web for a bit, then gets adjusted as time goes along. Accounts of Washington D.C. protests, for instance are so completely inaccurate in the first editions, but are corrected later. The problem is that all the papers that pick up and publish the story, do so from the first edition – spreading the inaccuracies.
Yes, I should have found the actual article that was supposed to be featured on the USA Today website. Here it is(I think)–this one’s from the AP via Google: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jVbCCOVnbwIhoHdCa99s2muTPJRAD8T8U4R00
The MSNBC article, while it mentions impeachment, it was not the article that was supposed to be featured on USA Today. The article they currently have up is from the Des Moines Register.
You might be right that they switched articles, to avoid the topic of impeachment.
Sorry David, but that explanation doesn’t quite fly but thanks for sending that possibility in. The link from Google went to the USA Today article and it was different than what was quoted on the Google. The MSNBC link you added is a different quote than that quoted on Google.
After doing a bit of research, I think the problem is an error on USA Today’s part. I think what really happened, is the link to the article, “Democrats Cope With Iowa Ice Storm” got mixed up with “Dems Do More Listening Than Talking At Iowa Event”.
You can see this is evident when near the top of the “Dems Do More Listening” article is a link to “Democrats Cope With Iowa Storm” and when you click on it, it sends you right back to “Dems Do More Listening…”.
Check that out here: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2007-12-01-democrats-iowa_N.htm
I would be concerned if it was “Democrats Cope With Iowa Storm” and the impeachment reference had been removed, but as you can see it’s a different article.
Here is a link to the article, “Democrats Cope With Iowa Storm” from the MSNBC website: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22058976
This is precisely the reason that Dennis Kucinich has been ostracized by the corporate media….he is speaking an inconvenient truth. Dick Cheney and George Bush genuinely feel that they are above the law. They claim to be exporting democracy but in actually they are killing it…right here in the USA. Both men have committed crimes that would be punished in another era by members of both major political parties. Oh how happy Richard Nixon have been if he had the same political climate that now exists.