If you thought Steven Crowder handled himself bravely while wildly outnumbered by union thugs, you have to hand it to Ace of Spades today. Ace is tirelessly keeping up the fight against media lapdogs and their (lack of) coverage of the “mostly peaceful” protests in Michigan Tuesday that left Crowder with a chipped tooth.
You could say that Ace is taking on all comers, from NBC to the Washington Post, aside from the detail that he has to shame the media into covering the mob’s “less peaceful” actions at all. The New York Times finally took notice of the assault on Crowder and the Americans for Prosperity tent, in the form of a blog post, but they couldn’t get the story quite right. Reporter Robert Mackey’s apparent source for his post, entitled “Selective Editing by Fox News Contributor Revealed by Fox News,” was a progressive blog. Did Mackey attend journalism school with Soledad O’Brien?
In any case, Ace has once again come out swinging.
Read the NYT to keep on all the finest reportage from leftwing conspiracy blogs http://t.co/ApMIV8eZ
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012
The New York Times: All the News We Read on a Blog (TM)
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012
NY Times issues correction to @scrowder blog post: http://t.co/QzoAoW2C
— John Sexton (@verumserum) December 13, 2012
@verumserum but they had their own error in there until then. They Read It On A Blog (TM), then inserted additional errors.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012
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The correction? It seems Mackey had to clear up the fact that the dramatic shot of Crowder being punched was not a “selectively edited” frame from a YouTube video, but a still shot by Detroit News photographer John Greilick. A bit late, but there’s still time to check with the folks who were actually there.
@greilick I'm a New York Times reporter and would like to speak to you about your photo of the punch being thrown at the RTW protest. DM?
— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) December 13, 2012
@RobertMackey @greilick Hey, since you've already published on it… why not public tweets instead of DM
— the forgetler (@theforgetler) December 13, 2012
After filing his report on what leftwing blogs told him, only now does @robertmackey Tweet to the Detroit photographer to ask questions.
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012
The original post on EclectaBlog has also been corrected in light of additional video demonstrating that a retreating Crowder was not “pretending” to be pulled back into the crowd by a protester. Is it time for the mainstream media to stop relying on left-wing blogs for their reporting?
.@robertmackey which leftwing blogs will you be taking your reportage from today? Perez Hilton, maybe? You know Anne Hathway had cooch shot
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012
.@robertmackey I want to read Kos but I don't know the URL. Can you type up what he's saying for publication in the times? Thanks, A Fan
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012
.@robertmackey How do leftwing blogs know why you chose to embargo coverage? Did you tell them? or did they guess correctly?
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012
@NoahPollak Since I realized that the Bookmark Bar was the tool of The Devil I've had to rely on @RobertMackey for all my lefty blog reading
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012
There’s have been plenty of reports trying to explain away the union members’ assault of Crowder, including MSNBC’s claim that AFP representatives tore down their own tent. (MSNBC’s source? A YouTube interview posted by ProgressMichigan and picked up by lefty blog Daily Kos.)
Sure, union thugs pulled down a huge tent on a bunch of people & punched a guy for trying to stop them, but FOX NEWS. Right, @RobertMackey?
— China is lying (@jtLOL) December 13, 2012
as a leftwing blog made an error and you repeated it, that means you didn't actually check the claims made by a blog, right? @robertmackey
— Ursus, Director of Weather and Banana Programming (@AceofSpadesHQ) December 13, 2012
Right?
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