NY DAILY NEWS, Will Ferrell mock NY POST re: Gephardt headline. . .LOL

[wndycty]

Another Post 'exclusive'

Kerry picks Gephardt? Wrong!

BY PAUL COLFORD
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Not since the Chicago Daily Tribune proclaimed "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN," in the 1948 presidential election, has there been such a colossal flub.

Leave it to the New York Post to further tarnish its shoddy reputation with yesterday's front-page "exclusive" declaring John Kerry had picked Dick Gephardt as his running mate.

"KERRY'S CHOICE," blared the headline.

The paper was hitting the stands amid the first media reports that Kerry's real choice was John Edwards.

The Post's humiliating gaffe was greeted with derision and knee-slapping laughter here and abroad, while it created a fast market for copies of the paper on the auction Web site eBay.com.

"Ouch!" NBC Nightly News correspondent Fred Francis said on last night's broadcast. "Its place alongside other outrageous gaffes is assured."
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Actor Will Ferrell, appearing on the "Today" show as blow-dried anchorman creation Ron Burgundy, held up the flawed Post and said with yeah-right mockery: "This is an ... excellent journalism periodical."
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/209851p-180850c.html

Drinks on us and egg on them


Editors at the New York Post surely needed a few cold ones yesterday. But none seemed to be in the mood when the Daily News showed up with a case of bubbly to toast the Post's front page "exclusive" — er, disaster.

The newsroom wouldn't take calls from the Post's lobby heralding the arrival of 12 bottles of Cold Duck and a congratulatory bottle of sparkling wine from Post owner ­Rupert Murdoch's home turf, Australia. A little note with the bubbly read, "Congratulations on your 'exclusive'!!! Have a nice day."
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Newsers Lisa Fleisher, Ralph Ortega with bubbly.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/209850p-180849c.html

You gotta believe tab's not credible

The New York Post front-page fiasco is sure to increase the tawdry tabloid's already embarrassing credibility gap.

A recent Pace Poll Media Survey, conducted by Pace University, found that the Post was the only major media outlet in New York to have negative credibility among city residents.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/209849p-180848c.html

[calico1]

1. I love it!

The NY Post is going to have a hard time being looked at as a serious, professional newspaper. Also, don't forget last year during the play-offs they also published an article saying the Yankees had lost to the Red Sox, when in fact, they had won the game!

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Anybody else suspect Kerry & Co. somehow set them up on this one?

Pretty damn' effective way to out one of these RW scandal sheets is to show how unreliable they are by getting them to print something so obviously wrong. Then everybody will maybe start taking their other lies about you, the not-so-obvious ones, with a grain of salt.

In retrospect, maybe he set Drudge up with the false intern story as well, just to burn him a little.

[LTR]

3. Gotta love Will Ferrell!

Ha ha!

[wndycty]

4. I wish I had seen it

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