Yesterday, the Washington Post tried to gin up outrageous outrage over an alleged “bullying” incident involving Mitt Romney while he was in prep school. As Twitchy reported earlier, it began unraveling as people who do the job that the media doesn’t want to discovered just how much hackery and outright false information was included in the hit piece.
https://twitter.com/#!/ChrisOfRights/status/200952738085994496
From the article at Human Events:
Romney friend Stu White dropped the first bombshell on the Washington Post’s phony story, telling ABC News “he was not present for the prank, in which Romney is said to have forcefully cut a student’s long hair, and was not aware of it until this year when he was contacted by the Washington Post.” The assertion that he was “long bothered” by Romney’s alleged display of full-contact barbering was entirely false, and there is no way to claim it was not a deliberately false impression inserted into the Post story, since they knew perfectly well that they are the ones who told White about it, just a few weeks ago.
Much worse for the Post was a statement released by John Lauber’s sister Betsy, which reads, in full: “The family of John Lauber is releasing a statement saying the portrayal of John is factually incorrect and we are aggrieved that he would be used to further a political agenda. There will be no more comments from the family.”
Wow. Just… wow. The Post apparently didn’t bother clearing their smear job with the victim’s family, even though they interviewed both Christine and Betsy Lauber for the piece. They thought they were contributing to a respectful tribute, not an ugly partisan hit.
Christine Lauber told ABC News that her brother never mentioned the allegedly life-destroying traumatic incident related by the Washington Post, and “probably wouldn’t have said anything” even if something like it did happen, because he presumably was not the fragile character he has been portrayed as. Furthermore, she tearfully insisted that “if he were still alive today, he would be furious” over the Post story.
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Wow. It’s not just bias, it is outright lying. The Fourth Estate is morally bankrupt.
Twitter once again calls out this latest egregious move by the lapdog media and it sparked the hashtag #WaPo. Some tweets helpfully point out other “bombshell stories” that Washington Post may cover.
https://twitter.com/#!/MLAS/status/200954600650571777
https://twitter.com/#!/Rschrim/status/200615189429755905
https://twitter.com/#!/tebuckey/status/200968009064521728
https://twitter.com/#!/against_obama/status/200963060079411202
https://twitter.com/#!/TeriChristoph/status/200961749443280896
https://twitter.com/#!/AriDavidUSA/status/200978546095689728
https://twitter.com/#!/ToddAdams2/status/200976472784121857
https://twitter.com/#!/ProLifePolitics/status/200973736776704000
https://twitter.com/#!/schwingcat/status/200972225585750017
https://twitter.com/#!/shaner5000/status/200970993634770944
https://twitter.com/#!/d0gmah/status/200970029032943617
https://twitter.com/#!/26jerome/status/200968724151406592
https://twitter.com/#!/TeriChristoph/status/200969105094885376
https://twitter.com/#!/317fletch/status/200970301067104256
https://twitter.com/#!/EWErickson/status/200968003473510400
Not only are they being called out on their liar, liar pants on fire story, but their cute little attempted ploy to demonize Romney is back-firing.
https://twitter.com/#!/baseballcrank/status/200969258975510528
Ha! In your face, Washington Post! Oh no, we suppose that’s awfully bullying of us? Maybe you can do another 5,000-word expose.
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