December 26, 2007

The NY Times Retracts Its Anti-Ron Paul Smearblog

Sorta. Needless to say, though the Times should be crawling on its belly like a reptile, it tries to diminish its guilt by admitting to errors of journalistic convention only. Nevertheless, the Ron Paul movement--and the Internet--won. We bombarded the Times with protests, criticisms, and corrections. We forced the newspaper to repudiate its lying blog, and to say: "The original post should not have been published with these unverified assertions and without any response from Paul." Read the whole somewhat-smarmy retraction.

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