Pelosi Quote Slamming Obama Advisers Is False

[UrbScotty]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/newsbeast-pelosi-quote-slamming-obama-advisers-is-false.php

Some tough words from Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) about President Obama and his team's communications strategy was raising eyebrows in Washington Monday morning, but that was before Pelosi disavowed the quote and Newsweek's Daily Beast admitted a mistake and retracted it.

"I think you need to talk about how poorly they do on message," Pelosi is quoted as saying in a story by Howard Kurtz. "They can't see around corners; they anticipate nothing."

Pelosi's office quickly denied having ever made the comments, and Newsweek/Daily Beast has since issued a broad correction.

"Editor's Note: An earlier version of the story included a comment erroneously attributed to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, criticizing the White House's efforts at political messaging. Newsweek and The Daily Beast regret the error."

[MineralMan]

1. And, yet, we're going to see it again and again and again.

It's never possibly to debunk anything on the Internet. Once it's out there, bloggers will keep finding it and reporting it as gospel truth. That's one of the bad things about the Internet.

[MineralMan]

2. Check this Google search

http://www.google.com/search?gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22pelosi+slams+obama+team%22

As of now, 156 hits on the search.

Check it tomorrow. That will be multiplied many times. It's yet another incorrect story that will be repeated ad infinitum. Watch for it in a forwarded email tomorrow and on your Facebook page by tonight.

[mazzarro]

3. But the adminstration has a lousy messaging team - IMO

Right from the beginning, I have been unimpressed with their messaging team. It seems as if they ditched the campaign messaging team and took on a bunch of deaf and blind people to do their messaging. I guess it was their effort to ignore the "radical left" that led them to be completely disconnected from reality all along.