Let’s take a look at the lib Twitter feeds to see if there’s any acknowledgement of their errors when they jumped all over the now debunked Deadspin article by Dave McKenna on Rep. Cory Gardner’s high school football career. Hint: Not really.
First up, David Corn. As of this morning, no sort of apology, but he did make this joke:
https://twitter.com/timothypmurphy/status/522524816004628480
.@timothypmurphy Halloween costume?
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) October 15, 2014
Yes, Halloween. That’s it. You’ve figured it out.
How about Eric Boehlert?
ah my bad, @CoryGardner *quit* football in HS. good to know.
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) October 16, 2014
if Al Gore ever recalled his HS football glories when he was really talking about 8th grade/frosh team, DC press would've crucified him.
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) October 16, 2014
So the guy who writes for an organization called Media Matters doesn’t care at all that he was punked by a media organization? It doesn’t matter?
Dylan Scott:
https://twitter.com/dylanlscott/status/522520283685871616
That’s at least better than Corn and Boehlert.
Update: Dylan Scott points out that his article debunked Deadspin’s lies. Good for him:
https://twitter.com/dylanlscott/status/522725467301109760
Here’s Adam Weinstein going on the attack, however, against tweeps who called him out, because it can’t be Adam’s fault:
https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/522545237122875392
https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/522556339890184192
https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/522547284559818752
Stay classy, Adam.
Kenneth Vogel did tweet this out rather quickly, though:
Cory Gardner's response to @Deadspin story suggesting he fabricated his high school football career: https://t.co/s5WON9Ik28
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) October 15, 2014
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We don’t see any sort of acknowledgment that the Deadspin story was wrong from Laura Chapin, but she did tweet this out after the one we published last night. Keep hoping, Laura!
.@corygardner led a Washington Post to believe he was on his high school football team when he wasn't. Now parsing #COpolitics
— Laura Chapin (@LauraChapin) October 15, 2014
Nothing at all from Kevin Collier, but here’s a gem. The tweet before his Deadspin one looks to be about yesterday’s New York Post piece that ran the wrong picture of the Ebola nurse’s dog:
https://twitter.com/KCollierWrites/status/522481747825803265
If only Kevin held himself to his own standards.
And nothing we can see at all from Brad Woodhouse, who we should note went the extra mile and tried to get Chuck Todd to pounce all over the fake Deadspin story.
Come on, guys. Just say you’re sorry and we can move on. It’s not that hard.
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with an additional tweet.
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‘Backfiring so hilariously’! Deadspin beclowns themselves in Cory Gardner hit piece