Free Weintraub Update
Fresh Potatoes fact-checks the latest effort by SacBee “ombudsman” Tony Marcano to explain away the muzzling of Daniel Weintraub. Boifromtroi notes that Marcano’s latest screed does not address the incongruity between the new editorial policy and the “Why a Blog” statement that remains on California Insider to this day. Even Justene Adamec, one of the few bloggers to defend the Bee’s new editorial policy early on, thinks that this time around, the Bee should have left bad enough alone.
So there now seems to be a solid consensus among right-thinking bloggers that if the editorial policy itself wasn’t a bad idea, Tony Marcano’s smarmy defenses of it certainly were. This view, is somewhat less popular, however, among wrong-thinking bloggers.
Brad DeLong seizes upon what passes for a smoking gun among liberals, making much of the huge non-contradiction between one Weintraub entry that stated that McClintock demonstrated an encyclopedic knowledge of the budget in last week’s debate, and another accusing McClintock of taking liberties with certain aspects of it. Ooh, we caught a conservative journalist writing both good and bad things about the same candidate! Whoopee. Nevermind that both statements are true - McClintock does have an encyclopedic knowledge of the budget and did misstate certain aspects of it last Wednesday. Actual truth doesn’t matter, as long as we can make it look as though a conservative was caught in a lie. Cf BushLied
September 29th, 2003 at 8:42 pm
http://www.hayekcenter.org/prestopunditarchive/001749.html
Xrlq has a “free Weintraub” blogosphere update / roundup….
September 30th, 2003 at 7:36 am
Oh, ye of little faith…
Did you really think I was done?…