“In the course of that report, I made the statement that a lot of the birthers are bigots and racists and there was a picture of Lakin behind me. I didn’t mean to suggest that he was a bigot and a racist. I was just talking more generally.”
-Jeffrey Toobin, CNN Legal Analyst
Generally speaking, this is not much of a retraction. How about ... ‘I said birthers are racist, bigots and I was wrong. I shouldn’t have said that.’
Yeah, there is a lot of back tracking on statements lately. as in, they didn’t really meant what they said.
Toobin has enough troubles these day.
He’s on the journOlist.
He’s got a baby outside of his marriage.
He’s garbage!!!! Just sayin.
Yeah... that is no retraction - it’s not even a decent clarification.
CNN is toast if they don’t do better than this. Get out the butter and jam, there’s a toast bonanza fixin’ to pop up.
And Lou Dobbs was canned when he inquired about the birth certificate, hmmmm!!!
Wiki
“Toobin is a longtime friend of Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan, having met her while the two were students at Harvard Law School.[9]
In March 2009, Politico revealed that Toobin was a member of the private discussion group JournoList, where “several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics” “talked stories and compared notes.”[10] [11]
[edit]Personal life
In 1986, Toobin married Amy McIntosh and together they have two children. In 2010, Casey Greenfield, daughter of ABC News journalist Jeff Greenfield, took Toobin to court claiming that he fathered her baby and has refused to pay child support.[12]”
Jeffrey Toobin, CNN Legal Analyst
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Jeffrey Toobin, who presents himself as a middle-of-the-road analyst on CNN is a JOURNOLISTer
Journolisters suggested smearing conservatives by calling them racists
When Nidal Hasan murdered 13 people at Ft. Hood, Texas, shouting “Allahu Akbar!” before opening fire, members of Journolist debated whether the media should report on Hasan’s apparent ties to Islamic extremism.
Jeffrey Toobin of The New Yorker and CNN contributor called Palin “a joke,”