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Speaking of Ketchup Boy, did anyone catch Limbaugh today talking about a BBC/Compost story by some guy named Glen Frankel. Or maybe Frankel was quoted in the piece. Apparently between yesterday and today, the BBC edited out a paragraph in the story that mentioned why the WP wouldn't print a story about Kerry's infidelity even if it had pics. The BBC left the article's time stamp alone and never mentioned that the article had been edited. That paragraph just vanished down the memory hole. Except that Limbaugh has a copy of both versions. Anyone seen the story Limbaugh's talking about posted on FR?

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Re#18 Heard Rush talking about it, don't know if I've seen both here, though. Maybe Rush's site has some info. I'll keep an eye out here and ping you if I see it here....

[Republican Red]

The Washington Post London correspondent Glenn Frankel, a Pulitzer Prize winner and former editor of the Post's Sunday magazine, defended his newspaper's editorial judgment.

"We've been down this road many, many times before. We are extremely reluctant to follow this kind of thing up unless there is a really, really compelling public interest. We don't feel there is any reason to until it reaches a threshold.

"All we have at the moment is that the woman's parents, who are republicans, don't like Senator Kerry.

"In any case, nobody would be too shocked if Kerry lied about an affair. Even if someone came to us with photographs we still wouldn't run it. Lying to Don Imus [the radio host to whom Kerry gave his initial denial] is not a federal offence."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1079218/posts

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3493277.stm


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"The Washington Post London correspondent Glenn Frankel, a Pulitzer Prize winner and former editor of the Post's Sunday magazine, defended his newspaper's editorial judgment.

"We've been down this road many, many times before. We are extremely reluctant to follow this kind of thing up unless there is a really, really compelling public interest. We don't feel there is any reason to until it reaches a threshold.

"All we have at the moment is that the woman's parents, who are republicans, don't like Senator Kerry.

"In any case, nobody would be too shocked if Kerry lied about an affair. Even if someone came to us with photographs we still wouldn't run it. Lying to Don Imus [the radio host to whom Kerry gave his initial denial] is not a federal offence."



NEW QUOTE TODAY

"Mainstream media defence

The Washington Post London correspondent Glenn Frankel, a Pulitzer Prize winner and former editor of the Post's Sunday magazine, defended his newspaper's editorial judgment, which has proved correct.

"We've been down this road many, many times before. We are extremely reluctant to follow this kind of thing up unless there is a really, really compelling public interest. We don't feel there is any reason to until it reaches a threshold," he said. "