Amateurs Like Obama: The Washington Post’s Romney hit piece comes apart

Christine Lauber told ABC News that her brother never mentioned the allegedly life-destroying traumatic incident related by the Washington Post, and “probably wouldn’t have said anything” even if something like it did happen, because he presumably was not the fragile character he has been portrayed as.  Furthermore, she tearfully insisted that “if he were still alive today, he would be furious” over the Post story.

But wait!  This gets worse.  Someone at the Post apparently panicked after Stu White spilled the beans to ABC News, because they committed one of the greatest sins in journalism: they quietly edited the Romney hit piece without publishing a retraction, as Breitbart.com requested in writing.  The false statement about Stu White has been changed to read as follows:

“I always enjoyed his pranks,” said Stu White, a popular friend of Romney’s who went on to a career as a public school teacher and said he has been “disturbed” by the Lauber incident since hearing about it several weeks ago, before being contacted by The Washington Post.  “But I was not the brunt of any of his pranks.”

This was a colossally stupid move on the Post’s part.  How often do people have to be reminded that the Internet never forgets?  That caches and screen grabs of dishonestly edited material rest comfortably in the hands of media watchdogs?

via The Washington Post’s Romney hit piece comes apart – HUMAN EVENTS.

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