CNN botches National Review quote in Palin interview

Just one week after performing some great journalisism, reporting on ACORN vote fraud, CNN's Drew Griffin made a fool of himself and his network by confronting Sarah Palin with a way-out-of-context quote from a Byron York National Review article.

Perhaps Griffin was burned by a staffer who wanted to interpret York in a different way.

Transcript courtesy of Newsbusters:

DREW GRIFFIN: Governor, you have been mocked in the press. The press has been pretty hard on you. The Democrats have been pretty hard on you, but also some conservatives have been pretty hard on you as well. The National Review had a story saying that, you know, 'I can't tell if Sarah Palin is incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt, or all of the above.'

PALIN: Who wrote that one?

GRIFFIN: That -- that was in the National Review. I don't have the author.

PALIN: Who wrote it? I would like to talk to that person.

GRIFFIN: But they were talking about the fact that your experience as governor is not getting out. Do you feel trapped in this campaign, that your message is not getting out, and, if so, who do you blame?

But this is what York wrote, one issue back, in the print edition of NR:

Watching press coverage (emphasis mine) of the Republican candidate for vice president, it's sometimes hard to decide whether Sarah Palin is incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt, backward, or — or, well, all of the above.

As I write this post, CNN has not issued a retraction.

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