AP puts out fake Rand Paul quote

[itshappening]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican senator says he sees some in his party favoring a 2016 presidential candidate with an immigration policy that would "round people up ... and send them back to Mexico."

Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky on Sunday said he would be a presidential candidate if he thought he could win. The tea party favorite says he sees an opening for a "libertarian Republican narrative" to help the GOP win on the West Coast and New England.

Paul says people want a party that's "less aggressive on foreign policy" and drug laws. Paul says he sees voters wanting, quote, "somebody who wants to round people up, put in camps and send them back to Mexico."

A Paul spokeswoman, Moira Bagley, didn't offer further explanation.

Paul spoke on "Fox News Sunday."
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I didn't see the full segment but the way the AP "reporter" has written that story is suggestive that Rand wants to round up immigrants when he probably doesn't. Either way they're definitely not reporting it accurately and his spokesman should have made that clear when "contacted"

 

[itshappening]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., saying he sees some in the his party favoring a 2016 presidential candidate with an immigration policy that would "round up people ... and send them back to Mexico." That quote was in the transcript of "Fox News Sunday" that was distributed after Paul's interview on the show. A subsequent Associated Press review of an audio recording of the show determined that the transcript had dropped the word "don't" from that quote, and Paul actually said, "They don't want somebody who wants to round people up, put them in camps and send them back to Mexico."
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Haha, you morons.

I swear to god, journalism is a joke.

 

[VoluntaryAmerican]

From the looks of it, AP did not do this on purpose. Still a huge gaffe, whoever wrote that story should have actually watched the damn show, not read a transcript. What an idiot.

 

[itshappening]

They just corrected it on the twitter as well :

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@AP
Correction: Rand Paul said some in GOP "don't want somebody who wants to round people up ... send them back to Mexico" http://apne.ws/UvrooU

 

[itshappening]

Politico calls this "retraction of the year"

Retraction of the year:

Date: 02/17/2013 01:44 PM

US-Paul-Immigration/113
BULLETIN KILL. Do NOT use BC-US--Paul-Immigration. A kill is mandatory.
STORY REMOVED: BC-US--Paul-Immigration

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/02/ap-kills-rand-paul-immigration-story-157228.html

 

[Galileo Galilei]

effin' amazin'.

 

[Varin]

An honest mistake

 

[Galileo Galilei]

An honest mistake

The AP released the story without even bothering to watch the interview. Fox released the bogus transcript without double-checking it. Both are at fault, not Rand Paul.

 

[Varin]

The AP released the story without even bothering to watch the interview. Fox released the bogus transcript without double-checking it. Both are at fault, not Rand Paul.

Thinking of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3HoefweQXc

 

[phill4paul]

Glad they issued a retraction. They need to let yahoo news know about it as the original is still on it's front page.

 

[acptulsa]

Glad they issued a retraction. They need to let yahoo news know about it as the original is still on it's front page.

The damage having been done, the AP immediately issues a retraction in the vain hope that their reputation won't sink to the level of Fox's reputation.

 

[kathy88]

Ron wouldn't even have gotten a retraction. They probably would have edited the audio to match what they initially wrote.

 

[phill4paul]

The damage having been done, the AP immediately issues a retraction in the vain hope that their reputation won't sink to the level of Fox's reputation.

Too late.

 

[itshappening]

The Associated Press is a disgrace. Hack reporters and endemic liberal bias.

They owe Rand a puff piece, let's see if they'll do it.

 

[fr33]

I hate the media so much.

 

[jct74]

Oops! AP botches Rand Paul immigration quote

Posted at 5:37 pm on February 17, 2013 by Twitchy Staff

This morning, the “real reporters” at the Associated Press ran a report quoting Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) saying that some voters want an immigration plan that would “round up people … and send them back to Mexico.”

Many MSM outlets ran with the story:

Predictably, some Twitter users went ballistic. How dare anyone suggest that some voters want our country’s immigration laws to be enforced!

Just one problem. The quote reported by AP was incorrect:

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read more:
http://twitchy.com/2013/02/17/oops-ap-botches-rand-paul-immigration-quote/

 

[Southerner]

I get so tired of seeing folks call FNC "faux news", when the news organizations they "respect", publish AP (ABSOLUTE PROPAGANDA)

 

[alucard13mmfmj]

damage is done. people only read articles once and probably wont even know its been retracted.

 

[green73]

Just went up on Drudge:

AP Kills Article Titled 'Sen. Paul: Voters Want to Round Up Immigrants'
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-s...ul-voters-want-round-immigrants#ixzz2LCa0EOvu

 

[Bruno]

FOX to blame. Who is surprised?