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Lame Gray Lady: NYT Scrubs Major Portion of Original Obama-Olympics Article [FR mentioned]
NewsBusters ^ | October 4, 2009 | Tom Blumer

Posted on 10/04/2009 11:40:54 AM PDT by 50mm

Edited on 10/04/2009 3:31:45 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Those who read the New York Times's coverage of the unsuccessful results of Barack and Michelle Obama's attempt to seal the 2016 Summer Olympics bid for Chicago on Friday afternoon ('For Obama, an Unsuccessful Campaign") might want to read it again.

If it doesn't seem the same, it's because it isn't.

Blogger Weasel Zippers (HT Hot Air Headlines via Instapundit) caught the Times committing a major scrub of the story. But it's really worse than that.

An excerpt of the item's first five paragraphs posted at FreeRepublic at 4:44 Eastern Time on October 2 shows that the article was apparently originally published under the same title with Peter Baker's byline Friday sometime Friday afternoon.

Excerpt

NYT: For Obama, An Unsuccessful Campaign ["He Could Not Even Muster The Silver Or Bronze"]


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2016olympics; bho44; downthememoryhole; fail; freerepublic; frinthenews; ioc; mediabias; newyorkslimes; nyslimes; nytimes; obama; obamafail; olympics; olympicsfail; partisanmedia; purge; revisionisthistory; zerofail
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61 posted on 10/04/2009 4:40:59 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Pimp my mortgage)
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To: Steelfish

62 posted on 10/04/2009 4:44:39 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Pimp my mortgage)
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To: 4Liberty

Well done! RNC should use this.


63 posted on 10/04/2009 4:45:35 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: 4Liberty

Funny you should post that. It was the National Enquirer that broke the John Edwards “Love Baby” story. The NY Slimes continues to ignore it.


64 posted on 10/04/2009 4:45:53 PM PDT by 50mm (AARP is a steaming pile)
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To: 50mm

Remarkable. The NYT really isn’t the newspaper of record now in so many revealing ways.


65 posted on 10/04/2009 4:58:08 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (There is no "gray area" on issues. I see things from both sides, but I choose the right side.)
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To: ConservativeMind
The NYT really isn’t the newspaper of record now in so many revealing ways.

They are setting a record for operating losses for a newspaper though. LOL

66 posted on 10/04/2009 4:59:58 PM PDT by 50mm (AARP is a steaming pile)
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To: libstripper

Did anyone ever get an actual count of the crowd as I note you said 1.8 million. My friend that went said it was at two million. I do know some of the groups asked people to text to try to get a better idea of the number present.


67 posted on 10/04/2009 5:15:08 PM PDT by ohiogrammy (12)
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To: 50mm
Just another instance of the state run media whitewashing the truth to provide cover for their messiah.

Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm. Barack Hussein Obama!

Satan's latest tool!

Mmmm, Mmmm, mmmm! Barack Hussein Obama!

A "bought by Soros" fool!

68 posted on 10/04/2009 5:26:20 PM PDT by airborne (Don't let history record that, when faced with evil, you did nothing!)
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To: 50mm

Your home page is to Die For!
EXCELLENT!
GROSS BUT RIGHT ON TARGET!
Everyone oughta check it out...:-)


69 posted on 10/04/2009 5:34:41 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: True Republican Patriot

Thanks.

That reminds me, I did a new one for JimRob and forgot to add it.


70 posted on 10/04/2009 5:37:21 PM PDT by 50mm (AARP is a steaming pile)
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To: 50mm

huge difference


71 posted on 10/04/2009 5:39:18 PM PDT by GeronL (meow)
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To: holdonnow; Ann Coulter; suspects

Of interest...


72 posted on 10/04/2009 5:55:22 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: ohiogrammy; All

“Did anyone ever get an actual count of the crowd as I note you said 1.8 million. My friend that went said it was at two million. I do know some of the groups asked people to text to try to get a better idea of the number present.”

The best study done by anybody that I’ve seen was done by Zac Moilanen of Indiana University. You can read and download it here:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/19743935/The-Real-Number-of-Protesters-Zac-Moilanen

Also, here’s the best panoramic picture of the event, taken by a photographer for Fredomworks.com from the Capitol dome:

http://www.freedomworks.org/node/20204

It pretty well corroborates the Molianen article, which makes an estimate of about 1,780,000.


73 posted on 10/04/2009 5:57:09 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: True Republican Patriot; 50mm

Ha! Made me look - outstanding! Love the blue prompter....just what would he do?


74 posted on 10/04/2009 6:00:49 PM PDT by 4woodenboats (Facts are like fried eggs - just give 'em to me hot off the griddle, I'll add my own dang salt .)
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To: 4woodenboats

Thanks.


75 posted on 10/04/2009 6:02:12 PM PDT by 50mm (AARP is a steaming pile)
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To: All

The real question that should be asked is if the White House is so hypersensitive to criticism that a re-write was ordered on such a non-important story, can we trust the Pom Pom media to be fair and accurate about important issues like Obama’s indecision on Afghanistan or Obama’s destruction of our economy?


76 posted on 10/04/2009 6:09:11 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (What's the difference between Obama and Hitler? Hitler wrote his own book.)
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To: 50mm; Jim Robinson

Great catch. Proving once again that Free Republic does the work that the Media refuses to do! :)


77 posted on 10/04/2009 6:11:42 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: 50mm
One word: Narcissism. Just as he thinks he can talk Iran out of making atom bombs, he thought he could talk the IOC into choosing Chicago. Nothing is impossible for Dear Leader!!
78 posted on 10/04/2009 6:13:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2 million for Sarah Palin if she runs; What will you do?)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Actually, Blogger Weasel Zippers caught the Slimes, Newsbusters reported on it and I just posted the Newsbusters story. That’s the beauty of the VRWC network.


79 posted on 10/04/2009 6:13:39 PM PDT by 50mm (AARP is a steaming pile)
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To: the anti-liberal; libstripper

Here are pictures of the helicopters that were flying overhead watching the 9/12 March in DC (Where are the pictures they took of the masses?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344103/posts?page=11#11


80 posted on 10/04/2009 6:14:45 PM PDT by Matchett-PI (A Socialist becomes a Fascist the minute he tries to enforce his "beliefs" on the rest of us.)
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