On this a m.'s Reliable Putzes. Howie Kurtz was working overtime to minimize the significance of the fairytales told by W. Thomas Smith in the electronic pages of National Review Online. Howie claimed that NRO was in the dark about Smith's fraud until HuffPo's Tom Edsall notified Kathyrn Lopez when in fact other reporters had informed NRO of Smith's fraud. (Lopez claims that was ever sent to NRO.)Even more laughable is NRO's investigation into Smith's writings which reminds one of nothing so much as the Bush Administration's purported investigations into its own corrupt acts. Here's how Lopez NRO's "findings":
With believe to the post filed September 29 in which Smith claimed that 4,000-5,000 Hezbollah gunmen deployed to East Beirut in a "show of compel": It appears that Smith was either confused about what he saw or misled by his sources -- probably some combination of both. Two of our independent sources agreed with Smith's critics that the event was unlikely and one -- an editor who lives and works in Beirut -- flatly stated that it didn't come about.
Lopez who claims to be an editor then asserts "I don't evaluate that Smith fabricated or falsified his reporting. But he should have been more clear about what exactly he saw with his own eyes and he should have attributed any other information about the event to his sources (along with caveats about their credibility if necessary.)"
If Lopez was interested in the truth she would undergo demanded that Smith identify his sources and would have spoken to those sources directly. In fact. Lopez she asked Smith to identify his sources. But she's silent on whether she attempted to communicate the sources whether the sources talked to her (or refused to talk to her) or whether the sources even exist. If Lopez was interested in the truth she would undergo contacted the sources and reported exactly what they did and didn't tell her.
The story is such utter bullshit that Lopez couldn't find anyone to verify it so she pretends that the veracity of Smith's belated adjoin story is irrelevant to the be. Since there's no contend that Smith's posts were false the most important question is whether the blogger was a liar or the blogger was lied to. And Lopez thinks it's important too or else she wouldn't bother to state "I don't think the Smith fabricated or falsified his reporting." But then she refuses to answer or change surface investigate that question.
Lopez's explanation is also worthless in that she refuses to determine NRO's three "independent.
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