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WaPo Corrects Feith Scoop: Almost All the Quotes Were Wrong
NRO ^ | 2/9/07

Posted on 02/09/2007 4:14:49 PM PST by bnelson44

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To: rfp1234
How about "the excrement Carl Levin?".

Oh come on. Do you have to speak so lowly about excrement? At least excrement, when properly applied, helps plants to grow.

Carl Levin, unlike excrement, works to make liberty wither on the vine.

61 posted on 02/10/2007 3:40:58 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat (I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!)
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To: Para-Ord.45
"Rat Levin is a despicable loathsome toad."

Because our state has been hijacked by a vile hateful group of voters who believe firmly in getevenwithemism. Those voters are, in large part, brain dead union goons in the truest sense of the term, or they are union goon wannabes. We are also cursed with the most worthless state Republican organization in the country which is incapable of capitalizing on the target rich environment that democraps give them on a daily basis. MIGOP leaders are busily pushing the candidacy of John MeMeMeCain for president.

62 posted on 02/10/2007 3:49:07 AM PST by RushLake (I neutered my dog; now he's a liberal.)
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To: bnelson44

The ABC radio news shills for the democraps ran with the WaPo misinformation at the top of the hour newscasts all day long on FRIDAY February 9. Of course, the correction was no where on their radar screen. Karl Lenin looks over his glasses and down his nose at us peons for good reason.


63 posted on 02/10/2007 3:51:29 AM PST by RushLake (I neutered my dog; now he's a liberal.)
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To: Laverne

Where ever would you get the idea that these journalist would be embarrassed? They should, but they won't. They won't pay any penalty. and someone earlier wondered how Levin continues to get reelected in Michigan. Well, it is a union driven state, and he has a long record of . . . well I can't think of anything. LOL


64 posted on 02/10/2007 3:55:52 AM PST by healy61
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To: musicman
Any guess on what page the retraction and corrections will be on??

Here's what is on page one in an article entitled, Senators Debate Significance of Pentagon Report On Intelligence in paragraph 5:

An article in yesterday's Washington Post misattributed to the inspector general's report critical comments about the Pentagon operation made by committee Chairman Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.). In a statement he released Thursday, Levin, not the inspector general, said the Pentagon effort used intelligence reporting of "dubious quality or reliability." [See correction, A2.]

I can't find page A2 on line.

65 posted on 02/10/2007 3:55:52 AM PST by Mr.Unique ("Are you gonna propose? Because if you're not, quit staring at me!")
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To: Temple Owl

ping


66 posted on 02/10/2007 4:20:19 AM PST by Tribune7 (A bleeding heart does nothing but ruin the carpet.)
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To: healy61

I agree, but if the WAPO wanted to fix it, they would fire the turds; they won't, but the should. They are just digging their grave deeper and deeper. They already had no credibility with fly-over americans, and I think finally, some republicans are growing spines, and will take on the WAPO over this. Cornyn has taken them on over the Arkin mess, maybe he will take them on over this as well. (Dreaming here obviously).


67 posted on 02/10/2007 4:35:57 AM PST by Laverne
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I'll just cut and paste my remarks to you from another posting.
Imagine how stressed out and shamed John Phillip Sousa would have felt if he could see how the WaPo turned out. His wonderful Washington Post March would ring like a horrible sound in his ears! As for Levin. Is he a snake or a toad. Or a clever cross breed.
68 posted on 02/10/2007 12:32:38 PM PST by Marine_Uncle
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To: RushLake

-We are also cursed with the most worthless state Republican organization in the country which is incapable of capitalizing on the target rich environment that democraps give them on a daily basis.-

The California GOP must be a close second in ineptitude
(e.g. the pathetic effort against Bow-wow-Boxer in 04). Only rhinoceri like Schwarzenkennedy stand a chance here anymore.


69 posted on 02/10/2007 12:51:20 PM PST by rfp1234 (Custom-built for Bill Clinton: the new Toyota Priapus.)
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To: Sam Hill

Powerline has obtained an email received by a reader inquiry to Jeff Smith of WaPo. It's fascinating for its confirmation that (1) WaPo DID have the accurate info in advance, and some unnamed reporter(s) other than Smith botched the article so badly. Since the only other reporter's name on the byline is the highly biased lib Walter Pincus, that would seem to suggest rather strongly that Pincus just patched together what he and Sen. Carl Levin wanted the IG's report to say, rather than what it actually did say.





http://www.powerlineblog.com/

One of our readers has now penetrated inside the Post through an email exchange with Jeff Smith, one of the Post reporters "credited" with the story. Smith is unhappy at being associated with the debacle. This is what Smith emailed to our reader:

I agree with you that this was an egregious error. I also had nothing to do with it. All I did was obtain a copy of the unclassified summary of the IG report and write a precisely correct account, which I turned over to the other reporters. I'm not happy my name was put on that story by the editors, and I was astonished by the mistake. I blew the whistle on it internally. So don't attribute the mistake to me.

Cheers,

Jeff Smith

So someone--Pincus is an obvious candidate--had the two-page public portion of the IG report, and also had an accurate account thereof, but nevertheless managed to misrepresent the report's contents to make it look more critical of Feith's group than it actually was. Is there any possible explanation for that "egregious" and "astonish[ing]" error, other than a political agenda that trumps all else?


70 posted on 02/12/2007 8:11:53 PM PST by Enchante (Chamberlain Democrats embraced by terrorists and America-haters worldwide!!)
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To: Enchante; bnelson44
I was about to post the same excerpts.  A blockbuster revelation in the follow-up by the PowerLine reader!  I'll repeat a portion for emphasis.

A Glimpse Into the Sausage Factory  PowerLine  2-12-07

So someone--Pincus is an obvious candidate--had the two-page public portion of the IG report, and also had an accurate account thereof, but nevertheless managed to misrepresent the report's contents to make it look more critical of Feith's group than it actually was. Is there any possible explanation for that "egregious" and "astonish[ing]" error, other than a political agenda that trumps all else?

71 posted on 02/13/2007 3:29:42 PM PST by windchime (I consider the left one of the fronts on the WOT.)
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