Comments on: Politico’s Rathergate moment

By: Aaron Read

Aaron Read — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:52:46 +0000

He said “truthiness”!!! Everyone do a shot!

By: Mike Stucka

Mike Stucka — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:43:13 +0000

Crooks and Liars has an interesting composite of cases where one side continued to rely on, cite and quote a purportedly fraudulent memo irregardless of its authenticity. Why let the truth get in the way of politics? Ugh.

By: BP Myers

BP Myers — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:58:57 +0000

Wow. Awesome smackdown. And the comments connected to Politico's non mea culpa are pure gold. I particularly liked the one that is simply an entire WorldNetDaily article about how Obama founded "Alinsky Academies" in Chicago to teach leftist activism. Have no idea if the commenter meant it sardonically, though I hope he did. But it really doesn't matter, because it too seems to meet Politico's demonstrated standard for journalism.

By: Dan Kennedy

Dan Kennedy — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:44:34 +0000

@Steve: Not quite that bad. Ben Smith and Michael Calderone are good. But, yeah, kind of.

By: Steve Stein

Steve Stein — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:31:22 +0000

Gillmor concludes:

Politico is widely considered a new gold standard of political reporting.

Really? I thought it was just a way for the right to “launder” Drudge stories so the mainstream media wouldn’t have the Drudge taint.

We’re doomed.