Debates: Rudy Hints At “Negative News” Bias Surrounding War

By Brian 

Rudy Giuliani received loud applause from the Republican crowd at tonight’s debate when he sneaked in a comment about media coverage of the war.

“I just want to ask one question I didn’t get to ask before,” he said in response to an audience member’s question.

“When you said ‘If Gen. Petraeus comes back in September and reports that things aren’t going well, what are we going to do?’

But suppose that Gen. Petraeus comes back in September and reports that things are going pretty well. Are we going to report that with the same level of attention that we would report the negative news?

> Update: 9:20pm: “That was Giuliani’s play to conservatives — go after the press,” CNN’s Bill Schneider says…

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