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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (4829)9/12/2004 5:14:27 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Patterico
September 10, 2004 (Hat tip to Gina Vener)

<font size=4>NPR and Media Matters Can't Tell Time

It's a two-fer tonight: evidence of incredible carelessness at both NPR and Media Matters.

The moonbats at these organizations have been floating an absurd theory: that the individuals who first noticed discrepancies in the CBS documents may be the very people who forged the documents.

Unfortunately for the tinfoil hat crowd, this nutty theory is based on a simple mistake made by ABCNEWS regarding the timezone of a time stamp on an internet site. ABCNEWS failed to note that the time stamp was Pacific time. Based on this simple mistake, ABCNEWS falsely concluded that internet posters had posted their doubts about the documents before the program had ended.

Once that mistake had been made, it was a short hop to the sinister conclusion: the posters could not have seen detailed mistakes in the documents before the 60 Minutes program had even ended. They must have done the forgeries themselves!

ABCNEWS has since corrected the mistake. However, the crazy theory has been picked up by the sloppy <font color=blue>"journalists"<font color=black> at NPR, and is also being perpetuated by the lunatics at Media Matters, who have yet to note ABCNEWS's correction -- and indeed are even now continuing to quote the original, mistaken version.

Pathetic.<font size=3>

Read the amusing details here:
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