July 07, 2004
Post Scoops Times -- In Alternate Dimension!
I woke up yesterday morning in Vermont to Jessamyn announcing that Kerry had picked Edwards as a running mate. My sense of reality was somewhat shaken when I returned to New York to find a copy of the New York Post in a subway station whose headline implied that Kerry had in fact chosen Gephardt. Who to believe? Well, never the paper which ran pictures of the UN with ferrets Photoshopped in over the blazing headline "AXIS OF WEASELS" when the UN refused to support Bush's declaration of war... but who could have guessed they would actually
make such a Dewey-Wins-size error in this day and age? Neil tells me he watched them take the stuff down quietly off the site -- he says he did not see a retraction. So, what really happened here? They say someone sent them a bum email, but this made it to headline news -- it should have been checked at least three times over. You have to wonder. Were they trying to somehow cast doubt on the announcement? Introduce disinformation which might swing voters? naah, too little, too early in the race. Did the person sending them the info want to see egg on the Post's face? Hmmm....
Posted by Gus at July 07, 2004 11:58 AM
Yeah, it's clearly a vast disinformation conspiracy. Nosy losers with nothing better to do spotted the campaign plane getting a stealth, middle-of-the-night paint job to reflect the new ticket (which, I might add, is dreadful--it looks like an ad campaign for Old Navy), and although no one got a photo, the "chatter," as they say, was pretty conclusive by the time the Post went to press. Plus, nobody who has been paying any attention REALLY thought he'd pick Gephardt. Jeeeeezus, that would have been a fucking disaster! Governor Nut-Sack had better chances. Shit, I would have put money on *Hillary* over Gephardt, if only because the unwashed masses would simply not abide a VP debate between Dick and Dick.
Posted by: bacon at July 7, 2004 11:46 PM
I'd pay money for that weasel picture.
P.S. The Gephardt thing doesn't bother me half as much as CNN et al. accidental posting of articles on their websites which proclaimed Howard Dean's unexpected and staggering loss... twelve hours before the polls opened. The former is blatant stupidity, the second is a little more scary.
Posted by: Otter at July 8, 2004 12:14 PM
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