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(966 posts) Mon Nov 10, 2014, 01:21 AM Nov 2014

Breitbart Criticizes Wrong Loretta Lynch

Source: Huffington Post

In a now-removed article criticizing Loretta Lynch, President Obama's nominee for attorney general, conservative news site Breitbart achieved two remarkable feats: it attacked the wrong Lynch, and issued one of the best correction notices of all time.

Breitbart alleged that Loretta Lynch, the New York federal prosecutor Obama has nominated, was a part of the defense team for former President Bill Clinton during the 1992 Whitewater scandal. She wasn't.

Breitbart cited a 1992 New York Times article that "reported that Lynch was one of the Clintons' Whitewater defense attorneys as well as a 'campaign aide.'" But the Loretta Lynch in the 1992 Times article is a California-based attorney and former California Public Utilities Commissioner, and not Obama's attorney general nominee, as Media Matters points out.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/09/breitbart-criticizes-wrong-loretta-lynch_n_6130372.html

If Andrew Breitbart were alive today...he'd be furiously scratching at the inside of his coffin

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Breitbart Criticizes Wrong Loretta Lynch (Original Post) KinMd Nov 2014 OP

I think he would try to turn the knife more, he loved lying. Thinkingabout Nov 2014 #1

And corporate media will run with it as FACT Iliyah Nov 2014 #2

Yup. SoapBox Nov 2014 #4

Breitbart applied the George Costanza rule about telling lies. Major Hogwash Nov 2014 #11

dont forget,,,, Cryptoad Nov 2014 #17

That is one of my favorite Seinfeld lines..... George II Nov 2014 #18

I fucking love your commentary. ZombieHorde Nov 2014 #3

Who wants to bet ... SeattleVet Nov 2014 #5

Followed by cnn Iliyah Nov 2014 #6

Ahhh... they go into convulsions.... ReRe Nov 2014 #7

Sadly many here at DU go into the same convulsions. George II Nov 2014 #19

+1 Blue_Tires Nov 2014 #20

Precisely - Breitbart knows if you whisper the lie the readers believe it JustAnotherGen Nov 2014 #28

The fact that he is dead is not good enough to undo all the dirty slime he helped promote davidpdx Nov 2014 #8

I'm surprised they didn't think... Old Nick Nov 2014 #9

^^THIS^^ BumRushDaShow Nov 2014 #12

That's exactly what I expected them to do. nt dflprincess Nov 2014 #23

Who wrote that article, Homer Simpson? Major Hogwash Nov 2014 #10

Breitbart dispatching operatives to Butcher Holler, Ky. to dig up dirt Adenoid_Hynkel Nov 2014 #13

I heard they're driving around the Kentucky backwoods asking for directions to Fist City. Erose999 Nov 2014 #27

Breitbart rtracey Nov 2014 #14

And even if it was true, so what? Mr.Bill Nov 2014 #15

When did the Truth matter to the Rethugs? nt Cryptoad Nov 2014 #16

Duh shenmue Nov 2014 #21

.... and we'd turn up the volume until his scatchings ceased. marble falls Nov 2014 #22

Last week, Breitbart demanded HuffPo to apologize for "making up" the story.... TRoN33 Nov 2014 #24

I like some of her songs, though, that Loretta Lynn LeftinOH Nov 2014 #25

Didn't some guy named Breitbart die from syphilis? About 2 or 3 years ago? Erose999 Nov 2014 #26

I thought it was a blow addiction? JustAnotherGen Nov 2014 #29

Well, VA_Jill Nov 2014 #31

Now we know for sure VA_Jill Nov 2014 #30

Thinkingabout

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1. I think he would try to turn the knife more, he loved lying.