Clinton Cash Author Peter Schweizer's Long History Of Errors, Retractions, And Questionable Sourcing

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Cause For Concern: 10 Incidents Of Significant Errors, Retractions, Or Questionable Sourcing By Schweizer. Reporters and fact checkers have excoriated Schweizer for massive factual problems over the years. A Media Matters analysis found at least 10 separate incidents in which the media called out Schweizer for botching his reporting.

The following is how reporters have described Schweizer's work: "Incorrect," "inaccurate," "bogus," "a fatal shortcoming in Journalism 101," "the facts didn't stand up," "unfair and inaccurate," "specious argument," "there was nothing there," "suspicious," "the facts don't fit," facts "do not check out," sources "do not exist or cannot be tracked down," "confusion and contradiction," "discrepancies," "admitted a mistake," "neither journalism nor history," "a polemic so unchecked ... that we can't tell the fact from the fiction," sources "have clearly used him," and "tacitly conced[ed] he was wrong."

http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/04/20/clinton-cash-author-peter-schweizers-long-histo/203209

[1StrongBlackMan]

1. In first with ...

"Every one knows Media Matters is in the tank for HRC!"

[Scurrilous]

2. K & R

[gratuitous]

3. A refreshing breath of fresh air!

Last time around, folks like Ann Coulter and the other self-described "elves" in the workshop operated in the dark, off-camera, and certainly obscured from public scrutiny. You could never quite tell where something was coming from, although James Carville's dictum that you could drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer part and get someone somewhere to say something bad about the Clintons probably wasn't too far off the mark. Shadowy sources, repeated gossip, and innuendo given the weight of fact all came together to create a steady drumbeat of scandal. When Drudge finally "broke" the story that was spoon-fed to him so he wouldn't fuck it up, the popular media and the country were well-primed to think that Bill Clinton getting blown by an intern was the Scandal of the Century.

This time around, the New York Times isn't going to bother with the dumbshow of printing dubious sources; they're just going to pay the scandal-mongers outright. Peter Schweizer has scored the Lost Ark of prizes for bottom feeders. It's only a matter of time before others jump on the gravy train, and what is the Times going to do - claim that it doesn't pay gossip peddlers? Too late for that.

[JaneyVee]

4. KNR! Media Matters does great work.

[okaawhatever]

5. Thank you for posting. Media Matters keep it up. nt

[Hekate]

6. KnR

Thanks. I already used this link in another post.

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10. sorry i missed that.

[Hekate]

11. You got in with it first! I just meant I borrowed your link posthaste-- thanks much.

Let's see if we have any effect.

[Historic NY]

7. A while back people here were gleefully posting about the Clinton financial woes...

which proves some here right that some will post RW propaganda and repeat it w/o checking the exact sources....Rachel had a story on it last evening.

[erronis]

8. Am I the only one having problems parsing this title?

[valerief]

14. Nope. I haven't a clue as to what it's saying. nt

[awoke_in_2003]

19. 'Clinton Cash" is a book by

Peter Schweizer, who has difficulty with the truth, and likes to make shit up.

[realFedUp]

9. Schweizer's past history should be disclosed

If discussing any of his book on Hillary. MSNBC should air a retraction.

[William769]

12. Kick & recommended.

[workinclasszero]

13. Just another lying RW hit job

Maybe these assholes can unskew the polls again. It worked great for Rmoney! LOL

[cynzke]

15. Already The Sanctimonious BS

is showing up on blogs. Taking "FOREIGN MONEY"!!!! Well....lets see them complaining about the money GOP candidates rake in from Israel and other countries. They all gleefully take the money.

[malaise]

16. Since when do they care?

Spread the lies - then hide the retractions.
Look what they did to Kerry.

[Vinca]

17. I think the Clintons should sue the guy for defamation. Enough already.

He's clearly releasing the book for 1 reason only: to cash in. The same fools gifting the homophobic pizza joint with nearly a million bucks will be lining up to buy the thing.

[DallasNE]

18. It Looks To Me Like

The Republicans are bringing in a balloon filled with smoke then they bring in the NY Times and Washington Post to come in and report on the release of the smoke from the balloon. The hope is that those two sources will observe smoke and then declare that where there is smoke there is fire. And with the race to the bottom with journalism that is what the NY Times and Washington Post are likely to do. After all, the media need a horserace and the only way to get that is to somehow sully Hillary Clinton. Been there, done that how many times?