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Kate ZernikeNYT Questions Palin's 'Parenting'; Bumiller Flubs Palin's AIP 'Membership'Editor's Note: A longer version of this article originally appeared on our affiliated site Times Watch. Bristol Palin's pregnancy made the top of the fold of Tuesday's New York Times in a story by Elisabeth Bumiller, who helpfully summarized all the scandalettes (and at least one fake one) burbling around the Palin pick in "Disclosures on Palin Raise Questions on Vetting Process."
NYT's Attack on Verb 'Swift Boat' Ignores Facts and Media's Role
In dredging up this issue, Times' writer Kate Zernike not only misrepresented many of the facts surrounding the claims made by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, but also completely ignored the mainstream media's role in turning the name of this patrol craft into a political pejorative. In fact, something the Times conveniently chose not to share with its readers was how one of its own columnists, Frank Rich, wrote one of the earliest and most prominent pieces recharacterizing this nautical term as a smear tactic in his August 21, 2005, article "The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan." But before we get there, here's what the Times had to say Monday (emphasis added throughout, h/t NBer Bingo): NY Times's Zernike: Dishonest Charges by Swift Boat Vets Have Been 'Undermined'
The background: Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens issued a challenge last November -- $1 million to anyone who could disprove a single charge the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth made against Sen. John Kerry. A group of Kerry's Vietnam crewmates have sent a package to Pickens (and apparently to certain media outlets as well), including a 12-page letter and a 42-page attachment of Kerry's Navy records. Zernike wrote it up as "Veterans Rebut Swift Boat Charges Against Kerry -- Say Their Service Was 'Tarnished.'" The NY Times Again Corrects Itself on John Kerry's "Botched Joke"For the second time in less than three months, the New York Times is forced to correct basic facts in a story regarding Sen. John Kerry's "botched joke" about U.S. troops being "stuck in Iraq." (TimesWatch pointed out the repeat flub yesterday.) The Times has appended a thorough correction to political reporter Adam Nagourney's Thursday article. Once Again, the NY Times Botches Kerry's 'Botched Joke'Why is it so hard for the New York Times to obtain the basic facts of Sen. John Kerry's "botched joke"? Political reporter Adam Nagourney, like Kate Zernike before him, spins Kerry's November gaffe about U.S. troops "stuck in Iraq" at a political rally in California to make them seem less harmful, in Thursday's "Kerry Will Not Enter Presidential Race."
NY Times Marks "Poignant Commentary on the War" from Bush-Bashing Sen. Webb
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