As Twitchy reported, The Guardian on Saturday ran a photo spread of GOP candidate Ben Carson’s home in Maryland, along with a piece titled, “Ben Carson: inside the worldview of a political conundrum.”
Ben Carson: inside the worldview of a political conundrum https://t.co/z26Musw6ec pic.twitter.com/fIBbgkM2gj
— The Guardian (@guardian) November 7, 2015
In that piece, writer Tom McCarthy makes note that the Carson campaign was “rocked on Friday by an admission that he had invented a story about being offered a full scholarship to West Point military academy.”
That sentence links to The Guardian’s own 1,300-word piece on the West Point “scandal” broken by Politico. And just as Politico “stealth edited” its headline to remove the word “fabricated,” the epic Guardian exposé, also written by McCarthy, appends an editor’s note:
Correction, 6 November 2015: The original headline and first paragraph of this story misstated the extent of what Ben Carson’s campaign had admitted. This has been corrected
So the writer for The Guardian used the Politico piece as his source, changed the headline and first paragraph on Friday just as Politico did, and then repeated the following day the original claim that Carson had “invented a story”?
Fox News’ Brit Hume today asserts that a piece called “Insiders: Carson can’t win” could very well be true, but adds that Politico is the last publication that ought to be reporting it today, having been caught Friday trying to quietly “fix” its hit piece on Carson.
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This may be true but this is the last publication that should be saying it, esp. based on anonymous sources. https://t.co/iQhgDJNjwK
— Brit Hume (@brithume) November 7, 2015
@brithume @politico Hillary must really be afraid of Carson for the scum from Politico to pull out their knives so soon.
— Doug L. Hoffman (@ResilientEarth) November 7, 2015
https://twitter.com/christophermah3/status/663126112159985664
@brithume the US political media that accepts "Reverend" Al Sharpton uncritically is now piling on and demonising Dr Ben Carson
— Gray Connolly (@GrayConnolly) November 7, 2015
@brithume @politico Personal character assassination of a truly great American icon. And we wonder how we end up with lousy presidents.
— Colorado (@Colorado_Right) November 7, 2015
@brithume @politico
You are correct Brit. Politico has an agenda. I think we all know what that agenda is. Making Hillary president.— Deirdre Robinson (@DeirdreDrdr) November 7, 2015
@brithume Dr. Carson you are needed for brain surgery STAT for the staff @Politico and #1 priority see if there is a brain at all!
— Karen ? (@KarenNativeCA) November 7, 2015
@brithume @ProudoftheUSA : politico is the tip of the iceberg for information mishandling. #Fact
— Zanne (@ZoomZanne) November 8, 2015
@brithume the past couple of days have shown the true racists are @politico and the test of the leftist MSM. How dare he be a black in GOP?
— Noone of consequence (@maybewise) November 7, 2015
Will there be another hit piece on Carson tomorrow, after his appearance on “Face the Nation”? Or will Politico and the rest take Sunday off?
https://twitter.com/Ken_Dye/status/663125374889390080
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