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	Credibility gap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Credibility gap is a political slogan, originally used in the New York Herald Tribune in March of 1965, to describe then-president Lyndon Johnson's handling of the escalation of American involvement in the Vietnam War.
		A number of events—particularly the surprise Tet Offensive, and later the 1971 release of the Pentagon Papers—helped to confirm public suspicion that there was a significant "gap" between the administration's declarations of controlled military and political resolution, and the reality.
		"Credibility gap" was, itself, a takeoff on the phrase "missile gap." This phrase was used repeatedly by John F. Kennedy during the 1960 presidential campaign to criticize the Republicans for their complacency in regard to supposed Soviet ICBM superiority.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Credibility_gap (252 words)

	Credibility Gap
		Possibly one of the oldest, yet widely un-heard bands in the Rocky Mountain area, Credibility Gap was conceived during a pickin' party in early 1984.
		Credibility Gap is experiencing somewhat of a "coming out" after years of self-imposed semi-exile to its machine shop rehearsal space.
		Credibility Gap continues the long tradition of bluegrass bands who earn their livings doing something other than playing bluegrass music.
	www.credibilitygap.com /bios.htm (240 words)

	Credibility Gap
		Barak's battle to defend his credibility is expected to go on for many months, following a one-two punch squarely aimed at the campaign finance of his One Israel bloc.
		Barak is also claiming that the alleged misdeeds were not criminal because the attorney general himself, in two formal letters he wrote in 1997, had ruled that funneling funds through amutot was not a chargeable offense in the context of the prime ministerial elections.
		Barak argues that the gaps in the existing laws reflect a glaring weakness in the system -- and says he will initiate urgent legislation to set things right.
	www.jewishjournal.com /old/barak.2.4.0.htm (1108 words)

	"Say What?" -- BuzzFlash presents P.M. Carpenter
		What goes to credibility, however, is that 2 years ago the White House puffed the Laffer-ble prediction that its fiscal policies would ensure a 1.5-trillion-dollar surplus, especially, of course, since it was slashing revenues.
		But then again, the White House could hardly air the fundamental reasons behind its martial spirit: that war is a dandy distraction from carrying out domestic policies contrary to good sense, and that the administration harbors a fanatical band of jingoistic ideologues who have wet-dreamed of this war since Papa wimped out in 1991.
		One of the many potentially tragic repercussions from Bush and Co.'s credibility abyss is wholesale public cynicism in the event of an actual threat.
	www.buzzflash.com /carpenter/03/02/24.html (675 words)

	ZNet \| Iraq \| The President's Global Credibility Gap
		The phrase "credibility gap" first entered American political vernacular in 1965, in the middle of an era of "gaps" (from the "missile gap" to "the generation gap").
		Journalist David Wise used it to highlight the gulf between President Lyndon Johnson's claim that American military escalation in Vietnam was limited and defensive and an emerging public perception that it was, in fact, massive and aggressive.
		In light of the current situation, it is important to recall that the Vietnam-era credibility gap took years to form and did not become a Grand Canyon until the Nixon years, late in the war, after some 35,000 Americans and at least a million Vietnamese had already died.
	www.zmag.org /content/Iraq/appycred.cfm (1317 words)

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		Problem is, journalists of the generation of the author [2] had a considerable personal interest in distinguishing the Johnson-Nixon era from earlier times when they had quite happily regurgitated undigested every scrap, be it fillet steak or pig-swill, that any branch of government put out for them, under the pernicious doctrine of objective reporting.
		Of course, the credibility gap with Tailgunner Joe that continues to this day is that he didn't start McCarthyism - he came way late to the party in 1950 as a little known and less regarded freshman Senator whose main achievement was to have finished off the La Follette dynasty in Wisconsin in 1946.
		After all, running a credibility gap is only bearable to a government so long as it isn't being effectively called on it; or if its voters are of a mind to ignore those calls.
	web.pitas.com /halcombe/16_10_2002.html (1548 words)

	Closing a Credibility Gap in Congress (washingtonpost.com)
		But in the present Congress, a number of changes have been made to the committee's rules, and we are deeply concerned that they may spell the end of a credible, effective ethics process in the House.
		But such a structure is the cornerstone of a credible ethics process: It guarantees that no action will be taken without at least some degree of support from both parties.
		In the days and weeks to come, all members will need to decide whether they wish to continue to have a credible, effective ethics process, and to then consider the actions and conditions necessary for such a process to exist.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A48136-2005Apr12.html (868 words)

	Credibility gap widens with new ads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The commercial, much like the old swing one (but less appealing), has the kids line-dancing to some country jam, and the people over at the Gap are waiting at the door for our arrival.
		The bell-bottoms eventually changed to disco wear, and now the Gap is trying for a switch to bootcut.
		Whether the public cares or not about how trendy their clothes are, everyone will be subjected to the Gap campaign.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V136/N58/03-credit.58v.html (489 words)

	Accuracy In Media - Weekly Column - THE MEDIA’S CREDIBILITY GAP
		President Bush’s “credibility gap” on Iraq was a major issue during the journalists’ roundtable discussion on NBC’s Meet the Press on February 15.
		This “gap” allegedly occurs because some of the pre-war intelligence, relied upon by both Democrats and Republicans and the international community, appears to have been faulty.
		As long as the media allow Kerry and Carville to get away with such whoppers, any discussion of the Bush administration’s “credibility gap” has to be dismissed as just a campaign tactic by the Democrats and their media lackeys.
	www.aim.org /publications/weekly_column/2004/02/17.html (774 words)

	Cooped Up: The Credibility Gap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Whether his credibility is becoming a problem domestically I do not know.
		Internationally, though, this will not wash. I am sure some countries will continue to provide us with ample respect and cooperation in any case because they regard it as so strongly in their interest to do so.
		But at the margin the cost in credibility will have to be high.
	www.jeffcoop.com /blog/archives/002052.html (402 words)

	Bush's Vietnam-sized credibility gap
		WASHINGTON -- President Bush has a huge credibility gap stemming from his exaggerated rhetoric that led the United States to attack Iraq.
		The term "credibility gap" was coined in the Johnson era and popularized by Washington Post reporter Murray Marder.
		Although the Bush administration credibility gap looks more like the Grand Canyon, don't expect the president to take the responsibility for any false claims.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /opinion/132700_thomas29.html (745 words)

	TomPaine.com - Bush's Widening Credibility Gap
		The prevalent reaction in this region was that he has merely raised the level of American double standards in the world to a new level of incredulity, given the massive gap between America's rhetorical commitment to democracy and freedom and the reality of its often whimsical foreign policy priorities.
		This flagrant gap between an American rhetoric of liberty and a long-standing policy commitment to Israel that perpetuates Palestinian occupation will continue to be the single biggest reason for deep Arab skepticism of American promises or rhetoric.
		The gap between the rhetoric and the policy is simply too wide, and has been for many, many years.
	www.tompaine.com /articles/bushs_widening_credibility_gap.php (1015 words)

	Fool.com: The Credibility Gap [Motley Fool Take] November 19, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In further support of an investment thesis for Gap, the company argues in its press release that it has strengthened its balance sheet and is maximizing shareholder returns with debt paydowns and share buybacks.
		And it's true that over the past three months, Gap has paid off $397 million in debt ($122 million of that ahead of schedule) and repurchased about 17 million shares at an average price of just under $20 per share.
		What's more, Gap is less than halfway through its currently authorized $750 million share-repurchase plan and still has net cash (cash and equivalents minus long-term debt) of $1.8 billion -- plenty to complete this buyback plan and start one or two more when it's finished.
	www.fool.com /News/mft/2004/mft04111914.htm?ref=foolwatch (527 words)

	The New Credibility Gap- by Justin Raimondo
		These are the same people who stovepiped lies cooked up by a bunch of Iraqi exiles and passed it off as "intelligence": nuclear "centrifuges" that didn't exist, links to Al Qaeda that were utterly fictitious, a fleet of "drones" supposedly capable of bombing American cities that might just as well have been paper airplanes.
		During the Vietnam war era, the phrase "credibility gap" was popular shorthand for the distance between the War Party's proclamations of impending victory and the reality of a futile, impossible war.
		Today that same gap is opening up between the Bush administration's mindlessly optimistic effusions and the rising reality of the Iraqi resistance: it is so wide that the Bushies are in danger of falling into it.
	www.antiwar.com /justin/?articleid=3057 (1425 words)

	mjh's Dump Bush weBlog: The Credibility Gap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The president's claim yesterday that Congress had access to exactly the same intelligence he had was inaccurate, and his comments about the new commission he has appointed to look into intelligence gathering made it clear that he has no intention of having his administration's actions included in the probe.
		The president is genial enough, but it might be time for a bipartisan truth squad to follow him around, sorting out the facts from his musings, speculations, fantasies and mis-rememberings.
		The credibility that he enjoyed during that campaign, and which reached a peak in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, has steadily eroded since then.
	www.mjhinton.com /blogs/000423.htm (513 words)

	MediaGuardian.co.uk \| Media \| US journalists face credibility gap
		American journalism is suffering a crisis of confidence in the wake of high-profile reporting scandals at the New York Times and USA Today in which reporters were found to have fabricated a series of major news stories.
		A growing number of American journalists working for national newspapers and magazines believe they lack credibility with the public and that their news stories are increasingly "full of factual errors" according to a new study of the profession.
		The research by The Pew Research Centre, which conducts a survey of US journalists' opinions every five years, found that almost 40% of national print journalists believe credibility with the public is the biggest challenge facing the media industry in the US.
	media.guardian.co.uk /site/story/0,14173,1224127,00.html (768 words)

	Nov. 1995: The Public & The Media
		The credibility of the news business had become "a media obsession," blared a trade magazine headline in 1985.
		The news industry's interest in credibility is partly based on the commonly stated belief that "credibility sells newspapers" (so said the 1987 chairman of the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Credibility Committee) and keeps viewers tuned into TV news.
		So if the news industry has a credibility problem (which it has), it should be corrected (when it is correctable), not because of a potential loss in the marketplace (which, unfortunately, ain't necessarily so), but because professionals should want to do the best work they are capable of doing.
	www.naa.org /presstime/96/PTIME/novhess.html (1768 words)

	Narrowing the `Credibility Gap' -- Kruszewski 40 (20): 29 -- Psychiatric News
		Narrowing the `Credibility Gap' -- Kruszewski 40 (20): 29 -- Psychiatric News
		It is my opinion that psychiatry has a credibility gap and that
		credibility gap is widening as the disclosure of public psychopharmaceutical embarrassments
	pn.psychiatryonline.org /cgi/content/full/40/20/29 (671 words)

	View from the Hill Online - Representative Jan Schakowsky, 9th District, Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		When Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle reached back a generation and revived the term "credibility gap" for a rhetorical attack on the policies of President Bush, it was not a casual or accidental choice of words.
		But the Bush administration offers a credibility gap with a new twist.
		The first Ways and Means Committee member approached by the White House to sponsor the scheme flatly refused, and a senior House GOP member with close White House ties told me the package was "a mistake" and would soon be abandoned.
	www.house.gov /schakowsky/article_02_09_03budgetcredibility.html (789 words)

	Closing the credibility gap by Brian Easton \| New Zealand Listener
		Early in January the Act Party released a paper that calculated the tax collected from Maori was $2.3 billion a year, while government spending on Maori was $7.3 billion a year.
		Racists may sumise that the gap shows Maori are not pulling their weight.
		I leave others to ask what the credibility of Act's economics policy is when the party loses $14b of tax revenue.
	www.listener.co.nz /default,1417.sm (748 words)

	TomDispatch - The President enters Credibility Gap
		Credibility, as Jonathan Schell so famously wrote in his book about the Nixon presidency, The Time of Illusion, was a strange, ephemeral quality -- something that could only be measured in the eyes of others.
		Credibility, hard as it was to grasp, was the currency of the Vietnam era.
		I don't know whether the Russert interview gave the President what might be called an instant "Saddam blip" in his polling figures or not, but the return of "credibility" and its instantaneous descent to the opinion polls is startling.
	www.tomdispatch.com /index.mhtml?pid=1251 (3692 words)

	Bush credibility gap - a slow, quiet crumble \| csmonitor.com
		Bush credibility gap - a slow, quiet crumble
		Slowly and quietly, a credibility gap is opening, and this White House needs to be careful.
		If not, the gap may open wide enough to swallow up Bush's high poll numbers.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0624/p11s01-codc.htm (752 words)

	What credibility gap? - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sensing a weakness, some partisans have begun to claim that the administration has a "credibility gap." Yet despite the absence of such evidence, and notwithstanding the hopes of war opponents or the pious pronouncements of some Democratic presidential hopefuls, President Bush appears to be maintaining his trust with the populace.
		According to a Gallup Poll released yesterday, 86 percent of Americans continue to be certain, or at least believe it is likely, that before the war Iraq not only had the facilities to develop weapons of mass destruction, but that it also possessed biological or chemical weapons.
		The clamor about a "credibility gap" really seems to be coming from the partisans — such as Sens.
	www.washtimes.com /op-ed/20030616-093407-7884r.htm (490 words)

	eclecticism: Credibility Gap
		The Bush Credibility Gap: The Photographic History of the Bush Administration Putting Its Mouth Where Its Money Isn’t
		Very interesting just on its own, but take a moment to note the web address — this is coming from the House of Representatives server, and was created by the Democrats in the Appropriations Committee.
		It’d be nice to see SOME political group grow some balls besides the Republicans and their bigger, scarier brother the Reform Party.
	www.michaelhanscom.com /eclecticism/2003/03/credibility_gap.html (408 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S. struggles to breach wall of Iraqi skepticism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Haroon is referring to the Arab satellite news channel known for its skeptical view of the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq.
		As President Bush tries to convince Iraq that he has a plan for its success, American credibility here may be at its lowest point since the war began in March 2003.
		Sensational stories in some of the estimated 200 local newspapers are fueling antagonism toward American soldiers and may inspire some Iraqis to join the insurgency.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2004-05-24-us-credibility_x.htm (910 words)

	Bush's Credibility Gap
		But if Bush has his way, he's not going to do anything to help the American people--or the global community--assess his credibility before he stands for re-election.
		The commission he has appointed to review the faulty prewar intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction will not report its findings until March 2005, months after the election.
		Bush's credibility has become an issue of late.
	www.thenation.com /docprem.mhtml?i=20040301&s=editors (594 words)

	Online NewsHour: Media Credibility Gap -- January 13, 2005
		Eroding press credibility, believability has been a fact of life over the past decade and a half, two decades.
		But I think the fact that the media are an elite -- that they are a very - a group of reporters, as Ken Auletta is saying, they - now they bloviate, they seem like they're very self-important, and they're not getting out I think enough into the country.
		I tried to show that in the eight or nine months leading up to the war, there is a sort of complete, not complete, but general capitulation of the media to the administration, and this is another issue that in terms of press performance it often gets lost.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/media/jan-june05/credibility_1-13.html (2699 words)

	Bridging the CIO/CEO Credibility Gap
		The IT credibility gap "is not a new problem," concedes Stan Lepeak, vice president of technology research services at MetaGroup.
		The credibility gap is less acute at startups where CIOs are as young as all the other executives, says Patrick Wheeler, a technical services manager at IT consulting firm Taos, and who previously was CIO at an interactive television firm in the San Francisco Bay area.
		The recent technology boom hasn't made things any easier as "a lot of people got burned" by over-investing in technology, says Cayce Ullman, a former CTO at PostX who bridged the credibility gap so well that he is now president and CEO at the Cupertino, Calif.-based e-mail security firm.
	itmanagement.earthweb.com /cio/article.php/3429031 (1073 words)

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