NYT Epic Fail - pulling a boner re: Rep Weiner

[kpete]

MON MAY 30, 2011 AT 05:42 AM PDT

Not one word on Breitbart's
lying sack of shit past.

NYT Epic Fail - pulling a boner re: Rep Weiner
byfromer

Short and not-so-sweet: the NYT is playing the false-equivalence game, again, this time on the Rep. Weiner hacking story.

As they would have you believe:

The episode unfolded Saturday night when it was reported on the Web site biggovernment.com, run by the conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart. It played out all day Sunday on the Internet, with Mr. Weiner, a Democrat who represents part of Brooklyn and Queens, addressing the matter on his own Twitter and Facebook accounts, and with bloggers from the left and the right arguing about whether this might be the start of a scandal or an example of how easy it is for political rivals to harm each other’s reputations using new technologies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/nyregion/congressman-says-hacker-sent-lewd-photos-from-his-account.html?_r=2&hp

Fuck you NYT and Fuck you MARIA NEWMAN.
MORE: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/30/980536/-NYT-Epic-Failpulling-a-boner-re:-Rep-Weiner?via=siderec

[SpiralHawk]

1. No mention of Brietbart's (R) record of lies and distortion?

The NYT has devolved to an alarming level...

Ptoooey.

[Blasphemer]

2. I've noticed that NONE of the stories in the MSM address Breitbart's history

They mention the denials, the stalker/hacker but they don't focus on the political agenda of someone who has a history of lying to discredit people on the other side of the political spectrum. I hope Weiner and Cordova are quietly trying to gather evidence before taking legal steps. It's the only way there's any chance of the whole story being reported.

[xchrom]

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