It was NOT breaking news. It had been reported hours earlier -- and denied by Carson's camp. Yet for another 4-6 hours the Cruz people kept it alive, and even embellished it, sending out texts and emails and telling hundreds or thousands of caucus goers the lie -- even when Caron's own wife was present. Revolting. Class act my ass.
This was a story that broke about an hour before the caucuses opened and developed throughout the evening. What happened was a fog of war sort of situation not a dirty trick. Still don’t understand Carson abandoning his troops during the caucus to fly home for R&R that is just bizarre and made it very believable that he was about to drop out of the race.
Recheck your timing. As of 6:45 CNN was still reporting this. CArson’s advisor didn’t tweet the “going home for a change of clothes” story until 7:11, after seemingly having been made aware of the issue at 7:03pm.
Somebody give me a timestamp on when CArson’s clarification came out. My bet is sometime between 7:03 and 7:11pm.
It was CNN who had access to the spokesmen for Carson and kept the story alive from about 4:47 until at least 7:03...
When will CNN apologize? And when will the folks here at FR apologize for believing CNN, just as Cruz’s people made the mistake of doing?