Oops! Coors' photo used in Klan story [NYT 'accidentally' smears GOPer]

rocky mtn news ^ | 4/23/4

[NativeNewYorker]

Thursday's New York Times misidentified GOP Senate candidate Pete Coors as a Ku Klux Klan member who murdered a black sharecropper.

The Coors campaign found the error "so outrageous it's kind of funny," said spokeswoman Cinamon Watson.

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"It could have been worse," she joked. "Pete could have been identified as John Kerry."

The Times story concerned a federal court decision upholding Louisiana resident Ernest Avants' 2003 conviction in the slaying.

The story indicated the accompanying photo was of Avants. But the picture actually was of Coors on the day the Golden beer baron announced he was running in Colorado's open Senate race.

Coors' picture ran on page 21 of the A section in the Times' national briefs package.

Prosecutors maintain that the Ku Klux Klan plotted to kill White in 1966, in an attempt to lure Martin Luther King Jr. to the state so it could assassinate the civil rights leader.

Watson said she notified the Times after the Rocky Mountain News spotted the mistake.

"I think there will be a correction," she deadpanned.

The Times did not return a call from the News.

Watson said the Times is working on a story about Colorado's Senate race, which has been a national political story since Ben Nighthorse Campbell's surprise announcement on March 3 that he would not seek re-election.

"I'm assuming they were pulling pictures for the Senate story and somehow got them mixed up," Watson said.

"We all have off days."<

[Mr. Jeeves]

What are the chances they would make this "mistake" with Democratic Senate candidate's picture?

[CatoRenasci]

Honest mistake. right. and I have a bridge for sale. connects Manhattan and Brooklyn. cheap..... a steal....

[TomGuy]

As I've posted in various threads, for the liberals, it isn't a lie unless you get caught. Then simply offer a retraction (printed in Section W, Page 81).

Tell the lie or lies enough and part is bound to stick.

[JeeperFreeper]

And liberals criticize Fox News, but it sure seems that the MSM are the ones who drop it in the dirt alot. But maybe that's just my bias against bias at work.

[henderson field]

"It could have been worse - Pete could have been identified as John Kerry."
John Kerry?
Why the long face, John?

[skinkinthegrass]

Oops! Coor's...smears GOPer]

...of course it was a "Mistake". /sarcasm off

..just another GOP'er that fits the Liberals' Racist "Template"...but, you can't unring a bell... 8|

[Paleo Conservative]

The New York Times should receive the Jayson Blair award for journalism.

[Spok]

"Coors' picture ran on page 21 of the A section in the Times' national briefs package."

Any bets on how they'll bury the correction?

[hgro]

What the New York Slimes needs is a few "on" days. With a history of chronic fake reportage, just another one of those "off" days.

[SittinYonder]

No chance. They know all the Democratic Senate candidates personally. They have lunches and dinners with them, probably go out on dates with them. They'd spot that mistake right away. The Republicans, on the other hand, all look like Kluxers to the New York Times.

[Sloth]

Pete Coors.

[ConservativeMajority]

Now if they had put a photo of Robert Byrd there instead, they would have been right!

[MPJackal]

"Tell the lie or lies enough and part is bound to stick."

That is what Hitler said. Or pretty close, "Repeat a lie often enough and people will start to believe."

[sharktrager]

"It could have been worse," she joked. "Pete could have been identified as John Kerry."

How long until a version of this becomes someone's tagline?

[watchin]

What are the chances they would get it right with senator Byrd?

[claudiustg]

Sue the ninnies!

[Psalm 73]

The Coors campaign found the error "so outrageous it's kind of funny," said spokeswoman Cinamon Watson.
"It could have been worse," she joked. "Pete could have been identified as John Kerry."

Oh, man - that's the funniest thing I've heard all week !!!

[Tall_Texan]

They won't be laughing so hard when Mr. Coors sues the NYT for $7.3 million dollars for defamation of character.

I'd sue them just to make a point. If you were starting a political campaign and were incorrectly connected with the Ku Klux Klan, would an apology and a retraction be sufficient? It wouldn't for me. I'd sue them to hell and back.

[Corporate Law]

He doesn't look anything like Sheets Byrd!