RNC attacks reporter- "admitted he was previously an editorial writer"

[Algorem]

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/opinion/13624551.htm

Posted on Sat, Jan. 14, 2006

An attack on accuracy

Zealous partisans work to undermine fact-based Alito story

- On Dec. 1, Knight Ridder's Washington bureau sent a story analyzing the record of Judge Samuel Alito to our 32 daily newspapers and the more than 300 papers that subscribe to the Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service. Written by Stephen Henderson, Knight Ridder's Supreme Court correspondent, and Howard Mintz of the San Jose Mercury News, it began:

"During his 15 years on the federal bench, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito has worked quietly but resolutely to weave a conservative legal agenda into the fabric of the nation's laws."...

The Republican National Committee circulated a blistering attack on Henderson, taking quotes out of context to try to portray him as biased.

The RNC said Henderson "admitted he was previously an editorial writer," as though that public part of a distinguished reporter's career was a secret he'd tried to hide. The statement linked Henderson to editorials he didn't write...

[AnnieBW]

1. Hmmm...

Knight-Ridder? Wasn't that the outfit that the RW is pissed off at and wants to take over?

[Greeby]

2. When will Republicans admit

That they were previously sane, rational human beings?