News Sites Deadline Retracts Fake News About Mike Pence Having Covid, But Won't Clarify WHY it Was Wrong

In an utterly shameful episode of journalistic malpractice, Deadline published a completely false story claiming that Vice President Mike Pence had tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. While the news outlet quickly retracted the story, it did not explicitly correct the record or state that Pence definitively does not have COVID-19.

The Deadline story was clearly an unfinished draft. The headline read, “PREP. DO NOT PUBLISH UNTIL THE NEWS CROSSES. Vice President Mike Pence Tests Positive For Coronavirus 8 Days After Donald Trump.”

Katie Miller, the vice president’s communications director, condemned the story as “IRRESPONSIBLE & UTTERLY FALSE.”

Deadline immediately retracted the story but did not explicitly state that Pence does not have COVID-19.

“A draft post of a story about Vice President Mike Pence testing positive for coronavirus that was never meant to publish was accidently posted on Deadline. It was pulled down immediately,” the news outlet explained. “It never should have been posted and Deadline will take steps to see this kind of thing never happens again. Apologies to the Vice President and our readers. We regret the error.”

Deadline’s tweet announcing the retraction also did not clarify Pence’s coronavirus status.

“Deadline Note To Readers: A draft post of a story about Vice President Mike Pence testing positive for coronavirus that was never meant to publish was accidentally posted on Deadline. Apologies to the Vice President and our readers,” the outlet tweeted.

Yeah, but the slugs out there that can only read five or six words at one time without losing track of what they are reading would believe it. Most of the Marxist side cannot read, thus need books written with picture drawings like comics to have it explained to them, and that would be most Harvard and Yale grads with 1.6 GPA’s being on the dean’s list!! These slugs cannot read. I have met tons of them that cannot spell six letter or more words. Tell them to look it up in a dictionary and they will say “is that like spell check on my phone?” Stupid fools. Most and I mean 99% of the voting members of the Marxist Party of Dimocrat Homo Baby Murderers in this country are fools that cannot read and need everything given to them because they cannot get decent jobs because of being High School dropouts and life failures. They are lead by the deadheads of the major liberal colleges who are YES men and women, who cannot think for themselves and just say yes to the lefty leaders of the Homo Party. They line up for free this, free that and if it is not free, loot and burn, rape and murder to GET IT FREE!!! Oh, and the cops won’t be around to stop them. No investigations. No checking out who did it. That way, they can DO IT AGAIN!!! LOCK AND LOAD FOLKS. The NEXT Civil War is coming on November 3d, right after the polls close. Especially if it looks like Butthead Biden is losing big.

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