Brad Friedman’s Video Expose of the Kochs: Misleading
“Heavily edited and deceptive” is the phrase that comes to mind, for some reason:
In sum, Brad Friedman’s splashy claim about Charles Koch comparing the President to Saddam Hussein is false and Mother Jones really has no leg to stand on refusing to correct it.
Shocking and disappointing!
Given Brad’s well-known penchant for accuracy at the expense of partisanship, you can expect a correction posthaste.
Kudos to Kevin Drum, who is having none of it.
Patterico (f724ca) — 9/7/2011 @ 8:37 pmlies lies lies yeah they’re gonna gitcha
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 9/7/2011 @ 8:38 pmIn other words, water is wet.
JD (318f81) — 9/7/2011 @ 8:39 pmBrad Friedman has his head firmly embedded in Mother Jones butt which goes fart fart fart.
DohBiden (d54602) — 9/7/2011 @ 8:40 pm“Heavily edited and deceptive” – The deuce you say.
I am totally shocked. Brad vouches for his own character every day and tells himself he is completely above reproach.
How could this happen?
Where are the layers and layers of fact checkers?
The horror, the horror.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 9/7/2011 @ 8:56 pmI am so sick of these people.
They never stop lying.
Dustin (b2fb78) — 9/7/2011 @ 8:58 pmSeems like deliberate misinformation to me.
Oh Noes!
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 9/7/2011 @ 8:59 pmBrad was also hyperventilating about how it was a “secret” meeting. Well, I guess it was not a secret to the 300+ attendees. If it was secret, how did they get there? Maybe the new definition of secret on the left is when they are not invited or something.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 9/7/2011 @ 9:03 pmBut remember, folks: it’s Andrew Breitbart who deceptively edits things for political advantage!
So if the Left can try to create terms like “breitbarting,” what can we do with Brad Friedman?
Simon Jester (9797e2) — 9/7/2011 @ 9:14 pmFreidmanization?
DohBiden (d54602) — 9/7/2011 @ 9:22 pmThey always accuse others of doing what they do themselves, because they’re convinced that “everyone does it”. I noticed this in the Clinton years, when his favourite defense against any accusation was to claim that “everyone does it”. One example was when the Senate was holding hearings into the Clinton/Gore campaign’s fundraising from foreigners, and the Democrats called Haley Barbour to testify about some money he’d raised in Hong Kong. He patiently explained that that money was not used for campaign purposes, because that would be illegal, so it was carefully segregated from any account used for campaigning; his Democrat interlocutor couldn’t believe he was serious, and was all “yeah, yeah, we know the drill, but we all know you used it for the campaign, right?”, and Barbour explained again that no, they didn’t, because it was against the rules. It was clear that the Democrat couldn’t believe this because he knew that his side lied about this stuff routinely, so how could the Republicans not be doing the same?
Milhouse (ea66e3) — 9/7/2011 @ 10:21 pmIs that like “swift-boating”, meaning to tell the truth about long-ago lies? Perhaps to “breitbart” means to catch someone on film telling the truth about himself.
Milhouse (ea66e3) — 9/7/2011 @ 10:23 pmBrad Friedman is a pimp.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 9/7/2011 @ 11:27 pmSaddam didn’t say Mother of all Wars, he said Mother of all Battles. Which he predicted if US forces attempted to expell his occupation troops from Kuwait.
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ropelight (30c312) — 9/8/2011 @ 5:27 amDaleyrocks, as a professional pimp; I resent that!
BarSinister (5a3146) — 9/8/2011 @ 7:52 amI actually laughed out loud. I swear.
John (1a890d) — 9/8/2011 @ 11:37 pm