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Factual Errors in the Ron Paul Story? |
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 by Izzy Grinspan, November 13, 2007 |
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Andrew Sullivan reprints an e-mail from the JTA’s Washington Bureau Chief, Ron Kampeas, under the heading “Kirchick and Sieradski: Factually Wrong On Ron Paul.” Says Kampeas:
The problem with all this, is that the Paul campaign WAS responsive, giving my intern here, Beth Young, an exclusive statement on where Paul stands on Israel for a story we posted yesterday (the day Dan posted his blog item.)
But that’s not when Dan posted the story. He initially published it on his personal site November 1, over two weeks before the Paul campaign got in touch with Beth Young. We poached it for Jewcy and put it up it November 9. It’s been on the site ever since.
Yesterday afternoon, feeling that the Paul story deserved more attention, we decided to put it in the lead space (still dated November 9, by the way, because that’s when it was first published.) Not long after it went up, Dan contacted us to say that the JTA had just published a Paul article. We updated the story and posted a link to the JTA piece, but not before Ron Kampeas of the JTA had contacted Sullivan.
Dan, meanwhile, has addressed the issue on his personal site. And Ron Paul’s campaign is still $500 richer thanks to a neo-Nazi.
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Izzy Grinspan is Jewcy's ex-managing editor. Her work has been published in Salon, The Believer, and The Village Voice. |
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George Dance
he knew back on Nov. 9 that Paul had contacted the JTA and his claim that the Paul campaign "won't return phone calls from Jews" was untrue. Yet the story stayed up as is, on both your site and his, until the 13th - long enough to be picked up by The New Republic, American Thinker, et al, and spread around the blogosphere without that rather important correction of fact attached. It was still being repeated, as fact, as late as last month.
George Dance
Actually, Sieradski did not post his story "two weeks before" the Paul campaign got in touch with the JTA, but less than a week before. He posted his story on Nov. 1, as you say, while the Paul campaign released an exclusive statement to the JTA on Nov. 7, which was published by the JTA on Nov. 8 - the day before you first "poached" Sieradski's "won't take calls from Jews" story. Had you checked that with the JTA, at the time, you would have discovered that it was incorrect.
Cavanaugh
but I hope you're not under the impression that this viral inaccuracy is the sole reason why an otherwise intelligent and reasonable person would not take Paul's candidacy seriously.
George Dance
about many things to do with Paul's campaign, which have to be rationally addressed. (That is, if we're still allowed into the debate. 8) That's one reason I've been writing on the subject.
In this case, I was researching an article on the "won't take calls from Jews" story today, which is how I stumbled across this comments field. It does, though, give me a chance to indulge in some shameless self-promotion by advertising the resulting article:
Kirchick, Paul, and Anti-Semitism
http://www.nolanchart.com/article2564.html
It isn't the last word that needs to be said about Ron Paul, by any means. But I hope it's the last word on this particular story. Of course, I'd appreciate anyone fact-checking my work in return.