November 4, 2011 /

Egg On The Face Of The Conservative Media

This post is going to serve, in part, as an update to the post I did yesterday about the Herman Cain sexual harassment scandal now involving sex. It seems that PJ Media updated the story and it’s much less damming to Herman Cain that before. Here’s what the original article said: According to both sources, […]

This post is going to serve, in part, as an update to the post I did yesterday about the Herman Cain sexual harassment scandal now involving sex. It seems that PJ Media updated the story and it’s much less damming to Herman Cain that before. Here’s what the original article said:

According to both sources, Mr. Cain and the woman had been with a large group for a long evening of food and drink at the Ciao Baby Cucina, a restaurant near NRA headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C. This was anormal routine, as the trade association worked with the food and beverage industry. Afterwards, Mr. Cain allegedly took the woman by taxi to his apartment, where she spent the night and woke up in his bed. The female source told PJ Media that she witnessed the woman entering a taxi with Herman Cain.

That paragraph took the issue to a whole new level, but later this appeared on the article:

A previous version of this story mentioned that a source witnessed Cain and the woman entering a taxi together. This was incorrect. The previous version also mentioned that the woman awoke in Cain’s bed — the source only claimed that the woman awoke in Cain’s apartment. The previous version incorrectly attributed comments from one source to the other source.

Which changed that damaging paragraph to read as this:

According to the female source, Mr. Cain and the woman had been with a large group for a long evening of food and drink at the Ciao Baby Cucina, a restaurant near NRA headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C. This was a normal routine, as the trade association worked with the food and beverage industry. Afterwards, Mr. Cain allegedly took the woman by taxi to his apartment, where she spent the night and woke up.

That “correction” made the whole story seem much more innocent than it did originally. Maybe the media is out to get Herman Cain, but not the media the right wants us to think. This article was published by a media organization that is staffed, championed and was founded by conservatives. In other words it was the “conservative media” that did a hit job on Cain, not the “liberal media”.

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