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The White House on Monday sent a scathing letter to NBC News, accusing the news network of “deceptively” editing an interview with President Bush on the issue of appeasement and Iran.

At issue were remarks Bush made in front of Israel's parliament earlier this week.

Specifically, White House counselor Ed Gillespie laments that the network edited the interview in a way that “is clearly intended to give viewers the impression that [Bush] agreed with [correspondent Richard Engel's] characterization of his remarks when he explicitly challenged it.

“This deceitful editing to further a media-manufactured storyline is utterly misleading and irresponsible and I hereby request in the interest of fairness and accuracy that the network air the President’s responses to both initial questions in full on the two programs that used the excerpts,” said Gillespie in the letter to NBC News President Steve Capus.

Gillespie used the opportunity to also inquire whether NBC News still believes that Iraq is in the midst of a civil war. In November 2006, the network decided to label the infighting in the country a “civil war.”

“I noticed that around September of 2007, your network quietly stopped referring to conditions in Iraq as a ‘civil war,’ ” Gillespie wrote. “Is it still NBC News’s carefully deliberated opinion that Iraq is in the midst of a civil war? If not, will the network publicly declare that the civil war has ended, or that it was wrong to declare it in the first place?”

Gillespie also hit NBC News on its reporting on the state of the economy.

“I’m sure you don’t want people to conclude that there is really no distinction between the ‘news’ as reported on NBC and the ‘opinion’ as reported on MSNBC, despite the increasing blurring of those lines,” Gillespie concluded. “I welcome your response to this letter, and hope it is one that reassures your broadcast network’s viewers that blatantly partisan talk show hosts like Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann at MSNBC don’t hold editorial sway over the NBC network news division.” More here:

Yes -- oh boy -- a letter -- they're prolly repent now, eh? LMAO. When are you idiot conservatives ever going to learn? They'll screw you EVERY chance they get -- and if they don't get one, they'll make it up through editing. Anyway, I'm guessing you'll never learn.

WHAAAAAATTTTT, Mr President? You think we PURPOSELY misrepresented you? Ohhhh, no -- nothing like that -- it was just, what we in the business call "a grabber" -- you know -- to grab attention -- SURE -- don't worry -- just calm down -- buy the way -- you might want to smear some of this lube on your sphincter.

Cracks me up -- threatening them with "reassures your viewers" -- as if their viewers perceive they're being brainwashed. Oh man -- that's a knee slapper. HEY -- YOU CAN'T SAY IT ON TV IF IT ISN'T TRUE, RIGHT, ASSHATS?