In a news brief published by the Greensboro News & Record on February 1, 2010, the segment “James Who” contains a reference to an attempt to “bug” Sen. Landrieu by James O’Keefe and three other conservative activists in New Orleans:
O’Keefe was busted last week and charged with attempting to bug U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu’s phone in the Hale Boggs Federal Building in downtown New Orleans
It also contains a claim O’Keefe attempted to tap the phones of the Louisiana Senator:
But he said that nobody should take his backing of the resolution, filed months ago, as an endorsement of O’Keefe’s attempted phone tapping.
There are no allegations of any attempt to “bug” or “tap” Sen. Landrieu’s phones in the FBI affidavit, and a law enforcement official has conceded that the four men were not attempting to wiretap or intercept calls. Furthermore, legal representation for the accused has gone on record stating there were no intentions to wiretap.
We kindly ask the Greensboro News & Record to issue a correction/retraction to this story.
We have been/will be making similar requests of other news sources to correct similar errors. Some, such as the Washington Post, MSNBC’s David Shuster, Talking Points Memo, CBS News, the Associated Press, Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic and TIME have already posted corrections or retractions.
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Get 'em Retracto! You go alpaca!
domo arigato Mr. Retracto!
Retracto is no doubt alpaca non grata in newsrooms across the USA.
Go get 'em, my fine furry friend.
Hannity is raking O'keefe over the coals.. (in a good way) trying for the winner. No luck.. Can't comment during a "investigation" Now there is a "BIG" story… why ask questions you know the guest can't answer?
And the list of those publishing retractions/corrections continues to get bigger and bigger.
During the John Edwards scandal, The News & Record was one of the last papers in NC to report on the 2008 presidential candidate's many troubles. The paper's editor defended Edwards nearly up until the day the 2004 Democrat VP nominee "confessed."
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