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Right-winger to Arianna: Lawyer up (for posting fake video accussing him of racism)
I've warned you before, progressives of the world: rid your mind of the tendency to see racism in almost everything. After all, not every tall monument is a black man's penis.
Anyways, let's get to my story. The Huffington Post (and others) posted a video the other day purportedly showing Fox commentator John Gibson comparing Attorney General Eric Holder to a monkey. But turns out the video was doctored by someone in Baltimore, forcing Arianna's online gossip/politics website (which apparently lacks an editor or fact-checker) to apologize.
David Kurtz reported the apology here recently.
This reminds me of that fake primary campaign video in which a Hillary Clinton supporter allegedly called Indianans "shit", adding ""How would like to be a worthless white nigger?" in a question to George Stephanopolous.
Remember that?
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Journalist makes a mistake, journalist apologies and retracts. Big whoop.
FYI video link takes you to a diary that no longer exists on DKos.
February 23, 2009 8:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
I know it doesn't exist. It was deleted. The tag "Mickey Kantor" shows that it referred to the Indiana fake video. Also note that the link contains the string "2008/5/1/", indicated it was postd on May 1, the date the video surfaced.
Do you care to speculate as to why it was deleted?
February 23, 2009 9:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, because the whole thing is a non story. Huff post did something stupid, they retracted and apologized. Gibson has zip case. The mere fact HuffPost apologized and retracted puts than above most media outlets.
February 23, 2009 9:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Non-story.
February 24, 2009 9:46 AM | Reply | Permalink