Excerpted from Michael Calderone’s article at huffingtonpost.com:
Politico acknowledged Sunday that it was a “mistake” for one of its top reporters to send the Democratic National Committee an advance copy of an article while emphasizing there were no substantive changes made to the piece prior to publication.
A May 2 article by Politico’s Ken Vogel and Isaac Arnsdorf ― “Clinton fundraising leaves little for state parties” ― has come under scrutiny since WikiLeaks publishedover 19,000 internal DNC emails on Friday.
In an April 29 email thread, DNC national press secretary Mark Paustenbach shared Vogel’s detailed questions with others working to coordinate a response to what would be an unflattering story about fundraising efforts. Paustenbach also spoke to the Clinton campaign that day in preparing the DNC’s pushback, according to the emails.
In other words, politico.com has been caught red-handed, and embarrassed into the above admission that it made a “mistake” (apology? What apology?)
A few questions for you:
-Would politico.com ever have done this if it weren’t caught and embarrassed into doing so?
-Can you possibly believe this is the one and only time this has happened?
-Are the politico.com people apologizing for the other times – the ones they haven’t been caught red-handed on?
-Is this a case of obvious media bias?
Media bias on behalf of Democrat? Naaaaahhhh….couldn’t be. When does that ever happen?
