This used to be the way the WSJ ended their article. I wrote a recommended diary on this a few days ago, visible here.
At a rally today, Sen. McCain again asserted that Sen. Obama has requested nearly a billion in earmarks. In fact, the Illinois senator requested $311 million last year, according to the Associated Press, and none this year. In comparison, Gov. Palin has requested $750 million in her two years as governor -- which the AP says is the largest per-capita request in the nation.
Here is my google search on the article. I don't see a cached copy.
The first link from there doesn't work. The second does.
This is what they now end with:
"The only people 'lying' about spending are the Obama campaign. The only explanation for their hysterical attacks is that they're afraid that when John McCain and Sarah Palin are in the White House, Barack Obama's nearly $1 billion in earmark spending will stop dead in its tracks," Mr. Rogers said.
This is the state of our US media.
Pure propaganda.
Can anyone help me find a cached version of the article?
Update [2008-9-11 14:13:37 by Paul Anderson]:Machiado busts em.
"At a rally today, Sen. McCain again asserted that Sen. Obama has requested nearly a billion in earmarks. In fact, the Illinois senator requested $311 million last year, according to the Associated Press, and none this year. In comparison, Gov. Palin has requested $750 million in her two years as governor -- which the AP says is the largest per-capita request in the nation." [Wall Street Journal, 9/9/08]
Update [2008-9-11 14:22:18 by Paul Anderson]:Magnifico finds the cached article. Thanks Mag!
Update [2008-9-11 14:45:05 by Paul Anderson]: Image of the article just in case. I also downloaded the cached copy.
Update [2008-9-11 15:09:22 by Paul Anderson]:free speech zone initiates a CALL TO ACTION:
Please write to people about this. Emails:
Comments: feedback@wsj.com
Comments on news coverage: newseditors@wsj.com
Editorial page staff: wsj.ltrs@wsj.com
Members of the media who are interested in news about the Online Journal or an interview, please send an e-mail to ashley.huston@dowjones.com
Authors of this WSJ article: elizabeth.holmes@wsj.com & laura.meckler@wsj.com
Keith Olbermann and Countdown email: countdown@msnbc.com
Rachel Maddow Show: rachel@msnbc.com
Update [2008-9-11 15:39:43 by Paul Anderson]:dj angst and madwayne give us a DIGG link. So go DIGG it.
Update [2008-9-11 15:47:43 by Paul Anderson]:
WSJ has changed the ending again... in order to disguise the facts about Obama requesting less money in the last two years than Palin and to lower Palin's requests by not including certain items. Disgraceful.
"The only people 'lying' about spending are the Obama campaign. The only explanation for their hysterical attacks is that they're afraid that when John McCain and Sarah Palin are in the White House, Barack Obama's nearly $1 billion in earmark spending will stop dead in its tracks," Mr. Rogers said.
Sen. McCain regularly charges that Sen. Obama has requested nearly a billion dollars in earmarks. Sen. Obama's actual total for his four years in office is slightly lower at $860 million, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, which does not include $78 million for projects that were of national interest and requested by many lawmakers. Sen. Obama did not request any earmarks for fiscal year 2009.
For her part, on behalf of the State of Alaska, Gov. Palin has requested $453 million over her two years in office. That does not include any requests made by the Alaska Railroad or the University of Alaska.
They went from comparing 2 years to 2 years (apples to apples) to comparing 4 years of Obama to 2 years of Palin (apples to oranges)... and they scrubbed the key line:
which the AP says is the largest per-capita request in the nation.
This was posted here by snapples not long ago:
Just got an anwer from WSJ (2+ / 0-) Laura Meckler from the WSJ just emailed me back very quickly stating,
"Relax. The paragraph as written was imprecise & confusing. We are replacing it shortly with a more accurate paragraph that gets at the same point."
Let's keep up the pressure!
by snapples on Thu Sep 11, 2008 at 12:16:04 PM PDT [ Reply to This | Recommend ]
Update [2008-9-11 16:07:05 by Paul Anderson]:
Screenshot of the end of the article for the 2nd version... the way I found it before we busted them on it.
Update [2008-9-11 16:33:50 by Paul Anderson]:
Also note that in the original diary I wrote on this article, the WSJ got another thing wrong too, and later corrected it after we pointed it out. They misquoted Barack to make him look like he was attacking Americans. They quoted Barack as saying "Americans aren't that stupid" instead of correctly quoting "Americans aren't stupid."
rasbobbo first pointed it out.
Update [2008-9-11 17:08:05 by Paul Anderson]:
BonnieSchlitz asks: Who are these "journalists" at the WSJ? All of them have printed garbage for McCain.
Elizabeth Holmes has a number of hacktacular articles listed at Media Matters.
Media Matters on Laura Meckler
linocut finds the dirt on Amy Chozik
Update [2008-9-11 "later this evening" by Paul Anderson]:
ehalprin has directed us to the WSJ's "clarification."
Gov. Sarah Palin has requested $453 million in federal earmarks in her two years in office, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense. That total doesn't include any requests made by the Alaska Railroad or the University of Alaska. Sen. Barack Obama has requested $860 million in earmarks during his four years in office, excluding $78 million for projects that were of national interest and requested by many lawmakers, according to the group. He requested no earmarks for fiscal year 2009. A Sept. 9 article published on WSJ.com about Gov. Sarah Palin's record on a proposed bridge in Ketchikan, Alaska, has been updated to add additional detail to the final paragraph of the original article, which was based on a wire-service report.
The most important part of their original article is still missing:
which the AP says is the largest per-capita request in the nation.