Posted on 09/03/2008 7:21:25 AM PDT by flyfree
Yesterday the New York Times ran a front-page story by Elisabeth Bumiller that was riddled with factual errors. Among them was the assertion by Bumiller that Governor Palin "was a member for two years in the 1990s of the Alaska Independence Party." There was no evidence offered to support this statement, and as this campaign pointed out, it is untrue. Now the Times reports:
The information in the Times article was based on a statement issued Monday night by Lynette Clark, the party’s chairwoman, who said that Ms. Palin joined the party in 1994 and in 1996 changed her registration to Republican.
On Tuesday night, Ms. Clark said that her initial statement was incorrect and had been based on erroneous information provided by another member of the party whom she declined to identify.
Just to be clear, Bumiller asserted as fact what turns out to have been an "incorrect" statement by a single, unidentified source. Given that the story appeared on the front-page of this country's 'paper of record,' we might be forgiven for expecting a slightly more rigorous standard of reporting, yet Bumiller makes no apologies. Howard Kurtz reports in today's Washington Post:
Elisabeth Bumiller, the lead author of the Times report, said she is "completely confident about the story." As for the campaign's criticism, she said: "This is what they do. It's part of their operation."
She is completely confident in the word of a single source who has since retracted her claims? What kind of operation are the editors at the Times running?
(Excerpt) Read more at johnmccain.com ...
Yes. Any FReepers who actually pay real money to Dead Tree newspapers for subscriptions should cease that practice and instead send it to FR. It is priceless.
Liberals had a lot of practice lying over the last eight years.
Let's ck into Bumiller’s life.
I'll take "a propaganda and disinformation campaign" for 100, Alex.
Nice posting devolve!
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Thanks potlatch
Note that Governor Sarah Pain is always smiling
And Barack Hussein Obama Junior is always smirking and his wife is frowning
Someone once told me, “you always have a smile on your face”.
And I did!
Another NY Times partisan media shill wondering when she can expect her Pulitzer.
Cute!
No, only political.
Ahhh, Sara was wonderful, she was beautiful and did a fabulous job. What a great talker she is, everyone loves her there!
My computer is very slow and pager goes down, has to be FR.
I need some coffee!
I wrote them, “I see you still enjoy the ability to produce the most reliable unsourced news on the net (sic)”
and then
“how bout a retraction??”
Grampa, my ISP has been switched several times since I
signed up for ATTBI (ATT Broadband Internet) in Oct. of
2001.
Comcast bought ATTBI, and now it is Time Warner.
At one time, I had a great pic of a man standing next
to his caged pet bird and remarking something to the
effect that his bird didn’t like the NYT in the bottom
of his cage, LOL!
Remember that one?
Well, in all the changes in my ISP, I lost that great
cartoon. :(
I lost a lot of great ones including the bird in its cage when 2 computers ago, that computer died.
This August I replaced that replacement with a new HP with Vista. What a freaking pain to transfer the data from the old computer to the new one. I had to buy the kits to transfer, one didn’t work, one transferred the files, but they couldn’t be read by Vista. Finally, the Belkin Easy Transfer Cable for Window Vista worked. It took over 4 hours with only a 80 hard drive with 45% free. All of the old programs and data work with the exception of my Genealogy Program, only two years old and is incompatible with Vista.
Now I’m trying to decide what online backup system is the best. I can’t copy to my Maxtor 80 mg USB portable hard disk.
When this computer gets ready to die, I may go to the Mac system to avoid this bs.
BUMP
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I was about to reply last night and the internet went down
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