AP puts out fake Rand Paul quote

[Jackie Moon]

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

What? How does she not say something?

 

[Southerner]

FOX to blame. Who is surprised?

Oh so FNC INTENTIONALLY transcribed it wrong???, so an AP reporter who does no more research other than read a link, and probably gets a Rand Paul spokespersons voice mail... Makes it FOXs fault?

Remind me to never ask you about 911 and building 7 Bruno. sheesh.

 

[BlackTerrel]

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 people only read articles once and probably wont even know its been retracted.

I would bet more people read the retraction than the original. And I don't believe that in 2016 people are going to cite this as evidence of Rand's views.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

I would bet more people read the retraction than the original. And I don't believe that in 2016 people are going to cite this as evidence of Rand's views.

If they DID it would only help Rand though, because the retraction was more widely published than the original. It would make it EASY for us to point to a blatant lack of integrity, which would gain US several points in the debate.

You are right though, they won't run it, because the know the score too, and they know how much they would be shooting themselves in the foot to do it. I kinda hope they do try it though. In a GOP Primary it would dam HELP lol, and then in the General, we win the integrity debate.

"Go ahead, punk. Make my day."

 

[Occam's Banana]

Paul says he sees voters wanting, quote, "somebody who wants to round people up, put in camps and send them back to Mexico."

Entirely aside from the fact that the "journalist" here could not be bothered to do even cursory fact-checking, note the curiously bizarre use of the word "quote".

This usage is standard in spoken reportage (in conjunction with the word "unquote") to delimit words spoken by others with "verbal" quotation marks.

In written reportage, however, it is sufficient merely to surround the words spoken by others with - you guessed it - actual typographical quote marks.

Apparently, the jackass who wrote this (and the editor who let it pass) was so eager to pull a "gotcha!" that he felt impelled to emphasize the issue by explicitly prefacing the obviously quoted matter with "quote".

It never ceases to amaze me (but never really surprises me) just how lazy and ham-fistedly transparent these so-called "reporters" can be ...

 

[VoluntaryAmerican]

Journalist? More like stenographer.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Journalist? More like stenographer.

You mean xerographer.

FNC already did the stenography - and botched the job.

The "journalist" simply copied & pasted it.

 

[georgiaboy]

smh

 

[jct74]

fake quote has been picked up in international press now, lol.
http://guardianlv.com/2013/02/senator-rand-paul-of-kentucky-dumber-than-i-thought/
http://i.imgur.com/1m8nWam.jpg

 

[acptulsa]

fake quote has been picked up in international press now, lol.

If you believe Fox's transcription of the interview, and couldn't be bothered to listen to the interview, then you're even dumber than we Yanks thought. Last I heard you people were even more familiar with Rupert Murdoch and his yellowcake journalism than we were. For shame.


We'll see how long that stays up.

 

[acptulsa]

The bad news is The Guardian still hasn't pulled that story. The good news is they still haven't pulled the comments either. And Gunny's is even more acerbic than mine.

 

[jct74]

it's not even the first time that Rand has been burned from a bogus TV interview transcript, surely some people here remember how they made up a fake quote following the Maddow interview and used it in hundreds of articles.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...crition-of-Rand-Paul-s-appearance-with-Maddow

 

[itshappening]

it's not even the first time that Rand has been burned from a bogus TV interview transcript, surely some people here remember how they made up a fake quote following the Maddow interview and used it in hundreds of articles.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...crition-of-Rand-Paul-s-appearance-with-Maddow

NBC is really terrible. I'm glad he cancelled that Meet The Depressed appearence. Gregory is one of the worst hacks and all they do is try and get Republicans into a "gotcha" while giving Democrats the most soft interviews ever. I hope Rand stays clear on NBC and the networks because they're all partisan hacks and if he's the nominee he should insist that they're not allowed to moderate the debates as all they want to do is try and play 'gotcha. This includes but not limited to Gregory, Stephanopoulos and Schieffer. In fact the GOP should not let them near their debates and should instead use the print journalists and sponsors to ask the questions

 

[boat6868]

The "press" is just despicable...when I saw the headline I thought there is no way that Rand said that...and it was easy enough to find the video and see what hea really said.

 

[Pericles]

it's not even the first time that Rand has been burned from a bogus TV interview transcript, surely some people here remember how they made up a fake quote following the Maddow interview and used it in hundreds of articles.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...crition-of-Rand-Paul-s-appearance-with-Maddow

That is what they do. Propaganda

 

[S.Shorland]

Yep

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

 

[acptulsa]

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

The Guardian has yet to cough up a retraction. In fact, they've yet to pull their column based on the erroneous information.

 

[Origanalist]

AP taking quotes out of context

In other news, the sun rises in the east, sets in the west........

 

[Anti-Neocon]

This isn't bias. It's just a lack of professionalism because they based the article on the rush transcript from foxnews.com.

 

[acptulsa]

This isn't bias. It's just a lack of professionalism because they based the article on the rush transcript from foxnews.com.

This isn't bias? He proudly admits that the only reason he remains a Democrat is because he finds presidents x, y and z reprehensible (with no reason given), but he isn't biased? He titles the piece Rand Paul is Even More Dumb than I Thought but he isn't biased? He attributes stuff Ron said to Rand, but he isn't biased?