And The New York Times has a lot of crap to get rid of.
Earlier today, The Washington Free Beacon‘s Brent Scher reported that liberal opposition research group American Bridge had been poking around Miami-Dade County court records — a little more than a week before The New York Times published its hard-hitting exposé about Marco Rubio and his wife’s traffic violations.
Well, Scher attempted to contact the NYT about its story, but the Times apparently didn’t have time for him:
None of the reporters involved responded to Washington Free Beacon requests for comment by press time.
They were not, however, too busy to contact someone they perceived as a friendlier face: Politico’s Dylan Byers.
https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/606883319054245888
If this strategy sounds familiar, there’s a good reason.
https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/606883689637806081
Last month, the Free Beacon’s Andrew Stiles did the responsible thing and contacted ABC about George Stephanopoulos’ hefty donations to the Clinton Foundation. ABC didn’t bother to get back to him, but you know who they did reach out to? Dylan Byers.
For the record, Byers doesn’t seem all that bothered by the NYT’s shady behavior:
https://twitter.com/SonnyBunch/status/606860432117264384
It’s a great @FreeBeacon report, but before right gets its shit in a twist it might want to remember the Times took Clinton Cash oppo, too
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) June 5, 2015
https://twitter.com/Domenic_Re/status/606897831077683200
No wonder he’s the media’s go-to guy when something smells rotten.
All media roads lead to Dylan Byers apparently.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) June 5, 2015
How does it feel to be the go-to guy for major news orgs trying to soft-pedal their ethical problems? https://t.co/p0vtR1PmCy
— ?It's?Almost ⛄️Christmas? (@jtLOL) June 5, 2015
So is Dylan Byers the guy everyone runs to do to damage control when @FreeBeacon catches them with their pants down?
— NeoN: Automataster (@neontaster) June 5, 2015
cc: @FreeBeacon RT @john1gun: Wouldn't it just save time if The Free Beacon hired Dylan Byers.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) June 5, 2015
Not a bad idea. Apparently if we want to get more — albeit possibly incomplete and/or dishonest — answers from the NYT, we’ve got to look to Byers:
I’ve asked @NYTimes for name of retrieval service they say they used to obtain Miami-Dade court docs… will update if and when they respond.
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) June 5, 2015
@AndyWIII @nytimes @DylanByers To be fair, this is Dylan's beat. He's following up, advancing the story. We'll see if they clam up.
— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) June 5, 2015
And if it’s Byers or bust, we’ll take what we can get. But this is Scher’s scoop — he did the work, and he deserves the credit.
https://twitter.com/OrwellForks/status/606895168596279296
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Update:
Kudos to you for pointing this out, @DylanByers. https://t.co/C1IIYNsRCU
— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) June 5, 2015
and 3. It’s not clear to me why NYT won’t respond to Free Beacon, which led reporting. I assume its perception of right-wing bias. But still
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) June 5, 2015
Indeed. Good on him.
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