Damage already done. Front page headline followed 4 days later by a retraction on the bottom of page B8. It is an old Media trick. It is right up there with “my opponent is not a wife beater and I have never called him a wife beater nor has anybody on my staff every called my opponent a wife beater” routine.
The late and unlamented Julia Carson (D) actually used that against her last opponent, a very successful Black businessman, four years ago. Mr. Dickerson had one domestic disturbance charge filed against him by his ex-wife. She even came out and said she had never brought charges against him, she just called the police once when they were going through their divorce. The DNC sent a 4 color mailer to everybody in the District actually calling him a wife beater. Julia of course claimed she had nothing to do with it.
In their black hearts and diabolical minds, the know the only thing the “botched” was getting caught in their lie before they destroyed Palin’s candidacy. Here the MSM had been whining and weeping about not getting a chance to interview her, and damn near all of them (except FOX) have engaged in these “gotcha” schemes in an attempt to shake her up, rather than ask straight up questions and glean meaningful information. How these a$$holes can call themselves journalists is beyond me. They’re nothing more than press secretaries for Obama.