[tobyhill]

The Slimes said in a statement that she thought she was in Iraq.

[Blueflag]

Gotta hit that deadline! Facts be damned, journalistic standards to the winds!!

[Quick or Dead]

Why let a little thing like the truth get in the way of a good anti-military story?

[Ignatz]

Summary: We couldn't prove it was true before the deadline, so since it might make the war (and by extension the President) look bad, we ran it anyway.

[jpl]

"Don't believe everything you read in the newspapers."

-Jayson Blair

[starbase]

Aaron Rectica, who runs the magazine’s research desk, disputes that. He said that by [the NYSlime's silly company] deadline, the Navy had not given the Times any reason to disbelieve Randall’s claim of service in Iraq. Rectica said the Navy only told the paper that Randall’s commanders believed she’d been in Iraq but that no one in the unit had been in combat.

Oh, I see. The mighty Aaron Rectica sits in judgment of the US Navy. The US Navy needs to hurry if it hopes to please Aaron Rectica!

[bigbob]

Funny the NYT isn't invoking "Rather rules"

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Interesting stuff here...

[Thombo2]

And yet the big shots at the NYTimes can't figure out why ciculation is in decline?

[bikerMD]

"What's all this talk I hear about the Right Wing Conspiracy trying to Swift Boat another Democrat War Hero. What was that? She was never in Iraq? She made up the entire story? Well that's different. Nevermind."

[Beckwith]

From the headline, I thought this was about Rosie O'JeezImFat.

[Lexington Green]

Can the Slimes be sued for slander/libel? This was a knowing lie.

[Wuli]

Someone probably identified the fraud and the NYSlimes probably then went out and offered their "source" some sort of payments if she'd cooperate in officially being outed as a fraud - instead of just admiting their own complete lack of due diligence because she made a "story" that - like Dan Rather - they believed was true.

Remember, liberal/leftist journalism is a religion, not an objective profession.

[philled]

They should have asked her if she still has the hat. Perhaps it is on loan to Jon Carry?

[RJL]

The New York Times published a lengthy editor's note yesterday. Actually, it published two of them; both are on this site today. This one involves a former naval construction worker who told the Times magazine that she served in Iraq, was in a Humvee that blew up, and was raped twice while serving in the Navy.

Yet another example of the MSM's numerous editors and fact checkers that those on the Internet just don't have!

/S

[razorback-bert]

it is now clear that Ms. Randall Kerry did not serve in Iraq Cambodia, but may have become convinced she he did.