Man, here we go again.
The Washington Post was caught totally BSing a story meant to make the Kavanaugh controversy look like it took a horrible toll on the reputation of Georgetown Prep. And they just made it all up.
Here’s the article:
https://twitter.com/ellencarmichael/status/1053403420265250816Ellen Carmichael basically sums it up, but it gets worse.
The writer of the piece, Emily Heil, actually wrote to the school asking for information. Then she completely ignored the information she provided, because it would have completely undermined her piece.
As you can see from the email exchange below, a representative for the school responded to the Washington Post reporter, Emily Heil, 8 minutes after she first contacted the school. He clearly told her the position was posted in July.
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) October 20, 2018
WaPo chose to run with their story anyways. pic.twitter.com/eH3dNnjKdl
When this was pointed out to her, she just said OOPS I messed up! No biggie!!!
This was a completely unintentional error-I read right over the date in haste. Story was corrected and correction is noted. Have a great weekend, all!
— Emily Heil (@emilyaheil) October 20, 2018
Amazing. As many pointed out on Twitter, we’re expected to believe that she reached out to the school for info, received that info, and completely overlooked it. By accident. And wrote a lie obscuring the truth in contradiction to the information she asked for and ignored. Wow.
You are still being dishonest. Here’s proof.
— Jim McCarthy (@JMacNYC) October 20, 2018
(1/2)
- You never replied to Prep and they had to push again the next day for correction.
- You ignored that too and Prep had to contact masthead editors.
Here's the emails on that: pic.twitter.com/YhNhECVjZA
(2/2)
— Jim McCarthy (@JMacNYC) October 20, 2018
- Meantime, you attempted to stealth-edit the piece, see below.
- You have expressed zero apology or contrition to Prep. pic.twitter.com/j9zXLDrSLe
If these a-hole journalists would EVER hold to the standards they’re supposed to have, bloggers would be out of business.
Thanks to the idiots that work at places like Washington Post, I have plenty of job security.
[h/t: that nutty pseudo-Korean lady on the podcast]