Nagourney is at it again.... quotes unnamed source about Dean comment.

[madfloridian]

This made a lot of us mad last week. Howard Dean wrote the paper, and Nagourney still attributes it to unnamed source.

Here is the Public Editor remark on the statement.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/weekinreview/31bott.html?pagewanted=2&n=Top%2fOpinion%2fThe%20Public%20Editor

SNIP...Unattributed Source Watch: Last Sunday, in "Scenarios: What if They Lose? Calls to Reinvent a Party" Adam Nagourney wrote that Howard Dean "is said to have told associates that he believes an antiwar candidate would have fared better against Mr. Bush." Dean wrote me to insist he has not said anything of the sort to associates; Nagourney told me he relied on "Dean associates who said they heard Dr. Dean express this feeling."

Without a name attached to it, this just isn't news...."END SNIP

Here is the original.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/weekinreview/24nago.html

SNIP..."And there will, no doubt, be still another round of intraparty fighting over the war in Iraq, with some Democrats wondering if the party would have been better off nominating someone who opposed the war from the start - say, Howard Dean - as opposed to Mr. Kerry, whose initial vote for the war resolution has proved a constant complication for his presidential campaign.

Dr. Dean, who did not return a telephone call, is said to have told associates that he believes an antiwar candidate would have fared better against Mr. Bush....."END SNIP

Adam, you need to be a real reporter and not pretend to be one.

[wildflower]

1. Uh oh, I can already see the steam coming out of Sam's ears...

(Sam Seder, that is.)

-wildflower

[madfloridian]

2. Sam is most definitely not a Nagourny fan.

Come to think about it, I think a lot of us here are not. A lot of us wrote to the Times about the comment....but then it depends on whose ox is being gored.

We all need to stand together against reporters like him. We should not let him get away with it.

[Redleg]

3. Nagourney is an self-centered, ignorant prick.

You would agree if you had ever gone to his Blog.