Media Matters: Timeline of a Smear: Obama Visiting Wounded Soldiers


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 31, 2008 2:39 PM	CONTACT: Media Matters J. Jioni Palmer, National Press Secretary, Media Matters for America (202) 756-4116 (office) (202) 580-5814 (cell)

Timeline of a Smear: Obama Visiting Wounded Soldiers

WASHINGTON - July 31 - Few examples of the conservative noise machine are as clear as the recent flap over Sen. Barack Obama's decision to forgo a visit with troops at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. A storyline quickly developed that Sen. Obama snubbed wounded troops because camera crews could not join him. The story of how this came to pass is the tale of how an echo chamber of talk radio, conservative blogs and members of the national media kept a false story alive despite early and repeated factual rebuttals by members of the press who were there and who also confirmed that Sen. Obama did in fact visit wounded troops without media or cameras earlier in his trip. In an effort to set the record straight for members of the press and the general public, Media Matters for America has produced an extensive timeline of this media-hyped faux-scandal. To read the timeline and learn more, click here: http://mediamatters.org/items/200807300011 ###

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