Politico’s “Bogus Coffin Story”
[Guest post by DRJ]
Politico reported a Missouri Tea Party group left a coffin on Rep. Russ Carnahan’s lawn, a report Politico had to correct within hours:
“Politico reported an inaccurate tea party hit piece yesterday about a protest at Russ Carnahan’s home and office. They were fed their information from the Carnahan camp and forgot to factcheck it.
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This was not true. The coffin was used in a prayer service for the elderly who will suffer under Obamacare and for the unborn who will be slaughtered under this plan. The protesters prayed for their loss of freedom thanks to this nationalized democratic plan. The St. Louis tea party patriots also prayed for Russ Carnahan and democrats who were voting at that time to nationalize the health care industry.The Politico made the accusation that the coffin was placed (and left) near Carnahan’s home. It wasn’t. The protesters were never on his lawn. They said some prayers at his house and then took the coffin with them when they left. It’s currently sitting in a garage.
Well, it took the Politico about 12 hours but they finally updated their hit piece.”
This fit the narrative the Democrats are pushing — that Tea Party members are threats and may become violent. Journalists are supposed to be leery of narratives, not promoting them.
— DRJ
Notice too that the news networks are promoting every claim of vandalism against Democrats with video but vandalism against Republicans get only a scrolling text mention.
And for each claim of vandalism, don’t forget “Ariel Attacks”, the Democratic trans-gendered activist caught vandalizing the Democratic HQ in Denver during the DNC.
SPQR (26be8b) — 3/25/2010 @ 12:02 pmI now group Politico with Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Media Matters.
PCD (1d8b6d) — 3/25/2010 @ 12:18 pmOnly reich-wingnutz are violent, SPQR. It is true.
JD (b6878a) — 3/25/2010 @ 12:20 pmPolitico has chosen to go left and it will hurt their business model. This is a gross example.
Mike K (2cf494) — 3/25/2010 @ 12:28 pmExcept they didn’t correct the headline much. These guys would make Chavez proud.
Kevin Murphy (805c5b) — 3/25/2010 @ 1:52 pmMeanwhile, some pretty nasty mob violence in Philadelphia that could easily have resulted in fatalities :
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20100322_Another_flash_mob_rocks_South_Street__In_the__tsunami___chants_of__Burn_the_city__.html
I don’t think they were Tea Partiers.
icr (dd7f16) — 3/25/2010 @ 2:48 pm