Illinois Television Station Retracts Mention Of Obama/Blago Meeting

• December 11, 2008

Earlier today I accused Obama of lying based on reporting from KHQA which suggested that Obama and Blago had met about the nomination of Obama’s successor. Now KHQA has retracted that story:

KHQA TV wishes to offer clarification regarding a story that appeared last month on our website ConnectTristates.com. The story, which discussed the appointment of a replacement for President Elect Obama in the U.S. Senate, became the subject of much discussion on talk radio and on blog sites Wednesday.
The story housed in our website archive was on the morning of November 5, 2008. It suggested that a meeting was scheduled later that day between President Elect Obama and Illinois Governor Blagojevich. KHQA has no knowledge that any meeting ever took place. Governor Blagojevich did appear at a news conference in Chicago on that date.

It’s worth noting that KHQA’s original story has been sent down the memory hole (gotta love the honesty and transparency) but here’s the pertinent quote as preserved in my earlier post:

QUINCY, IL—Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in the U.S. Senate representing Illinois will have to be filled.
Obama met with Governor Rod Blagojevich earlier this week to discuss it. Illinois law states that the governor chooses that replacement. There’s already been speculation about his selection…from Congressman Jesse Jackson, Junior to Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs Director Tammy Duckworth.

Basically, KHQA is saying that they alluded to a meeting that never actually took place. Here’s the problem, though: According to a story published three days after KHQA made the original mention of the Obama/Blago meeting the two actually met. The meeting was reported as fact (the link below is to a cached version as KHQA has disappeared this story too):

QUINCY, IL — Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in the��U.S. Senate representing Illinois will have to be filled.
Obama met with Governor Rod Blagojevich earlier this week to discuss it.

So how does KHQA explain the later reporting stating this meeting as fact? And will KHQA disappear this story from its website as well?
And shouldn’t these journalists be trying to get to the bottom of Obama and Blago’s meetings and arrangements instead of trying to obfuscate them?

Tags: Domestic Issues, Politics

http://Array RebTex

Revisionist reporting.
How convenient.
http://magyartruth.blogspot.com/ Chief RZ

NoJelly. Glad to know there are more here that can recognize communism when the see it.

Better copy this before the MSM tries to delete it from their memory banks.
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

Does the station manager fear for his family?
Dino

Maybe Obama threatened to do a “Vince Foster”!

Reeeeealllly grabbing at the straws here.
RebTex

I’ll bet it’s a conspiracy

Those are your words not mine.
I havn’t so much as mentioned a conspiracy involving UFO’s.
While you may not mind things shoved in your mouth,I do. Please don’t put your words into mine.
http://norunnyeggs.com/ steveegg

I have two questions:

- How did two reporterettes from that station get “duped”?

- How did that story get “uncaught” for a month until it got attention from the blogosphere?
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

Dino may be on to something.
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

Maybe Obama threatened to do a “Vince Foster”!

Are you suggesting Obama threatened to kill himself?
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Dino may be on to something.

More likely just on something.
Doug

This whole Chicago Blago deal is starting to smell like B.O.
http://magyartruth.blogspot.com/ Chief RZ

Same thing Joseph Stalin did to his opponents.
The Truth is the first thing to go in a communist takeover.
11B40

Greetings:

Sounds like David Axlerod’s earning his money.

I wonder if the US Secret Service detail has records of trips or visitors.
Dino

Yes, Rebtex. I’ll bet it’s a conspiracy. Obama threatened to make the station’s FCC license disappear if they didn’t retract the story. Or maybe he called his muslim friends and they were going to jihad all over the place. Barack might have even called his old friend Bill Ayers to whip up a batch of dirty bombs.

Yes, that must be it. Good thinking.
NoJelly

This, I believe, is how the tranition to state-run media is beginning in this country. America is not the USSR or Cuba or any panty-waist Iron Curtain satellite. This country has known far too much freedom for Obama’s form of communistic tyranny to explode on the scene. There will be intimidation and incentive to toe the Admin’s line, at first of course. This practice will slowly intensify until it simply becomes second nature to follow doctrine. By that point the People will have been desensitized to the absurdity of it and broadcasts will have the seal of government approval imprinted on the screen. Financial failure will only help, as the gub’mint will have to “save” them.

Of course, most networks are already aligned and anticipating this with legs a’tingle. They must want state control, for the pathetic fellatic pandering they’d performed during the last election cycle…

Perhaps the Obama machine has taken a bit from the Marine style of conditioning soldiers; Remove all semblage of self identity, then rebuild the man as desired…American society will be bludgeoned into the lowest state possible, then the Messiah will descend to adoring throngs, which has already happened to those on the koolade…

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