Hey Think Progress: Everytime You Point Your Finger At Someone, There Are Three Pointing Back At You
Think Progress is a site that dedicates itself to pointing an accusatory finger at all things Republican, while rarely, if ever, discussing Democratic talking points. It is a site that references itself as the source. Within the past 2 weeks, Amanda, an author at the site has been caught telling fibs. Fibs may be a strong word, so I will change that to, Amanda did not take the time to verify what she was writing about:
Last week Think Progress blogger Amanda accused John McCain of plagiarizing a speech from Admiral Timothy Ziemer only to retract the story hours later. Amanda, last name unknown, had failed to check with McCain’s office before running her “exclusive,” and she failed even to check McCain’s website to see if he had used similar language in the past. In fact, he had. In a 1995 speech to the VFW, a speech predating Ziemer’s, McCain had uttered the same phrases he was now alleged to have plagiarized. Amanda apologized for her sloppy reporting, but apparently she didn’t learn much from the episode.
Today she runs a story about North Carolina Rep. Patrick McHenry under the headline: “Rep. McHenry calls U.S. soldier in Iraq a ‘two-bit security guard.’”
Well, it isn’t true. Think Progress provides the video, but at no point does McHenry indicate that the “security guard” is an American soldier. In fact, if Amanda had bothered to call McHenry’s office, she would have learned that the security guard was one of the foreign contractors so reviled by the left–an individual who in any other circumstance Amanda would likely label a “mercenary.”
H/T to memeorandum
April 5, 2008 - 03:52 PM on April 5th, 2008
Think Progress is just a wish of the brain dead libs like Hillary Clinton. They also lie like both Clintons do.