CNN no longer safe for Dems as @AndersonCooper rips #DNC2012’s @DWStweets

The Politico sets the stage:

Debbie Wasserman Schultz and CNN’s Anderson Cooper engaged in a heated exchange Thursday night when Cooper charged that the Florida congresswoman “misquoted” the Los Angeles Times in a letter that the anchor also said misrepresented Mitt Romney’s stance on the Republican Party’s abortion platform plank.

The segment, which has gone viral in the conservative blogosphere, features Cooper, on his CNN show “Anderson Cooper 360,” pointing to a fundraising email Wasserman Schultz signed. He said that a quote she used from the Los Angeles Times in the appeal was taken “completely out of context.”

“The DNC chairwoman calls out Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan for saying they don’t entirely agree with that plank,” Cooper said. “And here’s how she backs it up…’But guess what? ‘The Los Angeles Times’ reported yesterday that the platform was, and I quote, ‘written at the direction of Romney’s campaign.’

But Cooper said the quote “was ripped, in fact, out of a sentence,” saying that the real piece read, “Delegates for presumptive nominee Mitt Romney are voting down substantive changes to the platform language that were written at the direction of Romney’s campaign.”

“Do you at least acknowledge that the quote that you gave from “The L.A. Times” is completely incorrect?” Cooper asked, after a back-and-forth over Romney’s record on allowing for abortions in certain instances, like rape.

“No, I don’t acknowledge that. I know that is what you’re saying,” Wasserman Schultz shot back. When he started to read the quote, she interrupted, “Anderson, what I’m saying is, it doesn’t matter.”

Watch the full exchange below:

Ouch.

That makes three instances in less than two weeks that a CNN anchor has called out Debbie Wasserman Schultz on outright lies being told by her and her party’s surrogates. While these can hardly be considered a “watershed” moments for our overwhelmingly pro-Obama mainstream media, it should be considered an indication that some left wing journalists are finally starting to realize that if they continue to let demagogues like the DNC Chair flagrantly lie on any given issue, New Media will seize on it and essentially shame reliably liberal news media outlets into having to issue embarrassing corrections.

#Winning!

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