Cracks appearing in Washington Post hit piece on Mitt Romney (voters, campaign)

[dixiegirl7]

On Thursday, the Washington Post's Jason Horowitz published a 5,400 word article clearly meant as a hit piece against presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney, highlighting the former Governor's days at the prestigious Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in the 1960's.
As it turns out, Romney was a bit of a prankster in high school, and Horowitz focused on several incidents, including one where the young 18-year-old Romney cut the hair of a fellow student after pinning him down.
One of the classmates Horowitz cited was Stu White

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ABC News, however, reported that White said he "was not present for the prank, in which Romney is said to have forcefully cut a student’s long hair and was not aware of it until this year when he was contacted by the Washington Post."
In other words - Horowitz says White was made aware of the incident before the Post contacted him, but White told ABC just the opposite.
Earlier in the day, several outlets, including Breitbart.com, noticed the discrepancy, and reported that Horowitz wrote: “'I always enjoyed his pranks,' said Stu White, a popular friend of Romney’s who went on to a career as a public school teacher and has long been bothered by the Lauber incident."
"Because Mr. White had not been aware of the incident until this year, it was inaccurate and misleading for the Washington Post to report he had 'long been bothered' by the incident," Breitbart.com noted, before requesting the Post correct their story.
Even if Horowitz edited the story since it was first published, there still appears to be a discrepancy in the account.
The Daily Caller's Matt Lewis asked: "What are we to make of this?"
Redstate's Erick Erickson wrote Thursday that the "Washington Post can’t be bothered to worry about Barack Obama’s college years, college transcripts, communist friends, cocaine use, or cop-killing plotters in whose living room he first launched his major political career, but they can get in the really way back machine to 1965 and Mitt Romney’s high school years."
"Mitt Romney cut a hippy’s hair at his preparatory high school. A day after Barack Obama caved on gay marriage, the Washington Post 'coincidentally' says Mitt Romney cut the hair of a boy who 'was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality,'” Erickson added.
Newsbusters' Tom Blumer called Horowitz's article "hatchet work" that readers can smell "a mile away." He went on to say that readers "are sick and damned tired of it, and are avoiding contact with it as much as they possibly can."
This is the Democrat-media complex at work, and voters can expect much more of this sort of thing between now and the November election.

Cracks appearing in Washington Post hit piece on Mitt Romney - Spokane Conservative | Examiner.com

[doctrain]

Originally Posted by dixiegirl7

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Cracks appearing in Washington Post hit piece on Mitt Romney - Spokane Conservative | Examiner.com

Not surprising at all. Dirty politics at work as usual.

[northbound74]

The timing speaks volumes.

[tmsterp]

It looks like we need to find another term to replace the phrase swiftboating. I'll work on it

[d4g4m]

Romney dog on the car roof countered with Obama ate dog meat. What's worse, driving with a dog on the roof or eating the dog?
Romney was a bully 47 years ago in high school. [Amazing how people can remember word for word action for action of something 47 years ago]. countered with Obama was a bully when he shoved coretta. [from 'Dreams from my Father]

[Loveshiscountry]

I'm not a fan of Mittens but this is irrelevant.

[banjomike]

Originally Posted by d4g4m

Romney dog on the car roof countered with Obama ate dog meat. What's worse, driving with a dog on the roof or eating the dog?
Romney was a bully 47 years ago in high school. [Amazing how people can remember word for word action for action of something 47 years ago]. countered with Obama was a bully when he shoved coretta. [from 'Dreams from my Father]

It is no so amazing that people clearly remember an incident that shames them deeply afterward. Guilt and shame have a way of sticking around in memory forever quite clearly.

[dixiegirl7]

Originally Posted by banjomike

It is no so amazing that people clearly remember an incident that shames them deeply afterward. Guilt and shame have a way of sticking around in memory forever quite clearly.

Uh...except the guy who was supposed to be the victim is deceased (how convenient when fabricating a story) and his family and siblings say it isn't factual. It doesn't add up.

[Ponderosa]

Originally Posted by dixiegirl7

Uh...except the guy who was supposed to be the victim is deceased (how convenient when fabricating a story) and his family and siblings say it isn't factual. It doesn't add up.

His family did not say that. How would they know? They were not present. They said he never mentioned it. Four or five people involved say it did and one has forgotten about it. Guilty as charged. Case closed.

[Dockside]

Unfortunately it doesn't matter. The WP sucessfully deflected attention away from Obama's "evolution."