Posted on 06/10/2011 11:49:47 AM PDT by Mount Athos
News site Politico.com admitted Friday that it made an "error" in attributing a nasty quote about Rep. Michele Bachmann to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
The article said: "Palin's bus tour had some of the hallmarks of a primal scream: 'I built this constituency, not Bachmann, not anyone else,' she said. Looking at it through her eyes, she has a point."
However, Palin never said that. Her political action committee promptly issued a statement urging the media to "quit making stuff up."
"An absurd opinion piece in Politico includes a quote attributed to Governor Palin that is a total fabrication and yet is deliberately written to appear as if it is a legitimate direct quote. By any standard this is unacceptable even for an opinion piece," the statement said.
By Friday, Politico had stripped the quote marks and the attribution, and issued a formal correction.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Pollutico trying to stir trouble.
Let’s never have emotional knee-jerk reactions to what we hear, without getting the entire story, especially if it’s from a liberal group, like Politico.
Keep these two A-HOEs in-mind going forward!
Error = Got called on their lies!
Just an unfortunate coincidence I’m sure...
We need their email and phone numbers and blast their sorry a$$es with outrage! Let’s go Alinski on the miserable SOBs!
When Politico says “Error” they mean they lied and got caught..Politico are spokespeople for the DNC..always have been
Yet when you receive your google or Yahoo News Alerts for Sarah Palin news, you’ll see about 25 reposts of the original story that picked it up from some news service provider.
It’s how they work. They do it all the time.
bump
Politico lied, got called on it and lies again.
The stuff I flush down my toilet, holds more credibility than the lying faggots at Politico.
Absolutely that’s how their smear game works. They retract it later, but its out there as an uncorrected link forever (or nearly so).
>>>The stuff I flush down my toilet, holds more credibility than the lying faggots at Politico.<<<
Finely crafted understatement.
Perhaps Politico needs to be banned from being posted here. They don’t deserve any traffic.
They’re “presstitutes”.
politico : “wimmins all look alike to us”
The a_holes called it an “editing error.”
How can you ‘atrributed a completely made up quote to someone’ and then said it made an error?
From now on, can we please view Politico as in ‘fantasy’ category?
Back in the late 1970s, when I was just starting out in journalism, this sort of behavior would have instantly gotten you fired.
God help us.
It is a total waste of time and energy going through Palin’s e-mails s the “Media” will make up any story that they want if it’s true or not.
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