Plop, plop, fizz, fizz
Oh what a relief it is.
Posted on 04/02/2010 5:22:59 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Kudos to William Douglas of McClatchy newspapers. That reporter can write and file stories with amazing speed. One such story was this article that Douglas filed about the March 20 Tea Party protest in Washington, D.C. where racial slurs were supposedly hurled. Jack Cashill of American Thinker was so impressed with the speed in which Douglas wrote his story that he wrote this American Thinker blog about this feat accompanied by a video. Here is Cashill as he observes with awe how quickly Douglas wrote his McClatchy story:
...I checked with my source on the scene, Greg Farrell, to get a timeline on the passage of the Black Caucus members from the Cannon Building to the Capitol and back. According to Farrell, they left the Cannon Building about 2:30 PM on March 20th and returned about 3:15 PM. He had no reason to exaggerate.
I asked because at 4:51 that same day, McClatchy reporter William Douglas posted an article on the McClatchy website with the inflammatory headline, "Tea party protesters scream 'nigger' at black congressman."
In other words, Douglas, with an attributed assist from James Rosen, managed to interview representatives John Lewis, Emanuel Cleaver, and Barney Frank, compose an 800-word article, and have it edited and formatted for posting within a 90-minute window.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
I hear that US worker productivity is up, but this seems extreme ...
You just write the story in advance and file it as soon as the event occurs.
MSM are trying to create race riots of Blacks against Whites to shut down protest.
MSM doesn’t need facts for that, but they do need speed.
“speed writing takes special skills. “
And how many pages was ObamaCare?
Again, I personally was ten feet from the location of the NON-spitting, NO name calling event.
it is ALL LIES!!!
The USSA needs its Pravdas, comrade.
Because it was PLANNED ahead of time. The entire event was a construct of the Democrat/Media Propaganda Complex. Pelosi strutting through the "teabagger" crowd flanked by her A-A Civil Rights props was simply to give the pre-constructed LIE a framework.
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Winston Churchill.
“it is ALL LIES!!!”
yea, that’s the point. It was a pre-fab story.
I’m sure the writer was thinking “These are right-wingers so they will use the “N” word, I’ll save time and write this ahead of time so I’ll have time to go play golf”
Why wait?
It was said that Soviet historians could, with unerring precision, predict the ineluctable future, but could never foresee the ever changing past.
...The good news here is that William Douglas can now simply redeem his journalistic reputation by finding a video of the N-word being used from any of the dozens of cameras recording that scene.A simple call to the Capitol Police would have killed the spitting story and a review of the video footage would have thrown the screaming of "nigger" by multiple "protestors" into such serious doubt that no responsible paper would have printed it.
Alternatively, the good news here, for Douglas at least, is that he was not burdened with onerous task of working for a responsible paper, he works for the American mainstream media.
Is the James Rosen who assisted him in this article the James Rosen of Fox News?
I was just asking myself the same thing. My guess is yes.
FOX has been going the way of State Media lately.
McClatchy is one of the absolute worst.
Unless it was planned or written in advance.
McClatchy's William Douglas
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