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November 3, 2006

NYT Admits They Lied About Kerry's Speech

Topics: Political News and commentaries

Via Charles at Little Green Footballs, the New York Times has issued a correction for their article about John Kerry's slam against the military, in which they didn't even print his actual words:

A Political Memo article yesterday about the fallout for Senator John Kerry over what he called a "botched joke" referred incompletely to the differences between prepared remarks and what he actually said about the Iraq war to students at Pasadena City College in California on Monday. Mr. Kerry not only dropped the word "us," but he also rephrased his opening sentence extensively and omitted a reference to President Bush. Mr. Kerry's aides said that the prepared text read: "Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush." What he said: "You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

According to LGF, this is the Times' time-honored modus operandi--publish a shockingly biased story leaving out important information, then a day or two later, a belated correction to give them cover. One would think that sooner or later we'd all get educated to the NYT's tricks and simply ignore them in the first instance.

Posted by Richard at November 3, 2006 12:04 PM

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