Comments on: Pajamas Media: How TNR got “suckered” by Scott Thomas Beauchamp

By: Steve Skubinna

Steve Skubinna — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:48:37 +0000

This is another of the “The narrative is right, we just got the facts wrong” arguments. As if facts are irrelevant, nothing more than styling accessories.

My own take on the Rather/Mapes story is still valid, I think: “Just because we’re lying is no reason not to believe us!”

By: daveinboca

daveinboca — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:20:59 +0000

One commenter to Confederate Yankee came up with this egregious solecism:

“Yes, Beauchamp’s articles may contain some untruths. They might be total fiction. But it doesn’t matter, does it?”

Is it just me or doesn’t that sound like Evan Thomas’ lame excuse for Newsweak when the Duke Lacrosse stripper-lies surfaced?

“The narrative was right, but the facts were wrong.”

Sounds like the commenter was just the average CSJ graduate—cheating on his/her ethics exam.

By: Great White Rat

Great White Rat — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:37:37 +0000

Hoven’s got one great list there…a handy reference the next time a leftists tries to claim there’s no media bias, like one who trolled in here a few days ago.

I’d add one right away to his list: CNN’s Peter Arnett, making up the quote that “We had to destroy the village to save it” during the Vietnam war. Apparently leftists haven’t changed a bit since then – if the facts don’t match your politics, make up new “facts”.