Okay, I’m a gleeful partisan, but this is too good not to share. Dave Weigel, “Daily Caller Cites 24-Year-Old Fake Princeton Newspaper to Attack the NYT’s Benghazi Reporter“:
…Three days into the new year, Johnson appeared again in the Daily Caller with an apparent scoop about David D. Kirkpatrick, the New York Times Cairo bureau chief who’d just filed a lengthy corrective history of the 9/11/12 Benghazi attacks. Never mind Kirkpatrick’s reporting; Johnson proved that Kirkpatrick had “show[ed] his naked body to all” while a student at Princeton 25 years ago….
Turns out, Kirkpatrick was busted for ‘public lewdness’ while in college (art class pranking & streaking), but the more outrageous claims Johnson cited were from a college parody paper. Johnson replied to Wiegel’s “So … what do college stunts during the George H.W. Bush administration says about Kirkpatrick’s journalism now?”:
… I am rather notorious for not understanding sarcasm or satire and I am deeply embarrassed by the whole article…
And some people say the Daily Caller has never printed a single factual statement. Haterz!
… As an aside some people are arguing that I was trying to discredit Kirkpatrick’s controversial reporting on the Benghazi attack which is false. I simply wrote up the story because his name was in the news. I have no idea if what he reported was accurate…
Well, Mr. Johnson, if you’d stopped after “I have no idea”, even your meanest critics would’ve conceded your accuracy!*
* Incidentally, this falls under the “sarcasm or satire” rule.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
So there are no nudie pics of Mr. Kirkpatrick then?
Schlemizel
Chuckie is deeply unhappy that nobody – NOBODY – wanted to see his body, unclothed or otherwise when he was in college
Shortstop
Complete inability to understand sarcasm or satire? There’s a lot of that going around today. ;)
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Back from Honduras. My wife is trying to come up with things to be happy about, like there isn’t sand in the beds or in our underwear, and that we now have a bathtub and hot water, and that we can drink water right out of the sink, and we can flush our toilet paper rather than having to throw it in the trash can; but I’m not sold here. It’s cold, and there’s a front yard in the front yard, rather than the Caribbean Sea, but I guess I’ll have to find a way to deal with it anyway. I hope to have some pictures and pithy commentary soon, if John Cole will let me put it on the front page…
dmsilev
Has the Daily Caller ever printed an accurate story? You know, just for the novelty value.
Schlemizel
@dmsilev:
Maybe once, by accident. The odds are they did but not on purpose.
Big R
I will give him this much: he owns the screwup. That’s something that’s missing from most modern conservatives and journalists, though I repeat myself.
Omnes Omnibus
@dmsilev: Once, but they filed a quick correction and kept their perfect record.
max
And you write for a living?
max
[‘Consider the merits of accounting.’]
Violet
@dmsilev: Wasn’t it the Daily Caller that first published the Journo-list story?
dmsilev
@Violet: I don’t remember to be honest. Though the right wing’s view of Journo-list (“liberal media conspiracy! !”) was just a tad exaggerated from the reality, so I’m not sure I’d count that as an accurate story even if the Daily Tucker did break it.
jl
“show[ed] his naked body to all”
What? I never saw it. Johnson never called me about the story to verify either.
burnspbesq
@Shortstop:
Fuck off. ;-)
BGinCHI
This blog needs a Streaking feature. Maybe a button or something.
CaseyL
@BGinCHI: A gif of a naked… doggie? to run across the page would be awesome.
Anne Laurie
@BGinCHI: Kids these days! Too fat and lazy to run naked through a public place, like we did in the good old days when we had to make our own fun! (/geezer)
Comrade Jake
I suspect most of the Daily Caller writers attended schools where humor was considered some kind of a sin.
dmsilev
@Anne Laurie: Anyone streaking in Chicago right now could properly be described as ‘suicidal’. Or possibly ‘flash frozen’.
SiubhanDuinne
@Shortstop:
@burnspbesq:
Woah
Shortstop
I have crude (haw) footage of my older then-neighbor streaking in the 1970s. He had one of those concave ass-cheek things going. And if he tells me one more time on Twitter that atheists lack a moral center…
RareSanity
@Comrade Jake:
Reminds me of this exchange from Men in Black:
scav
@dmsilev: You
Flash Frozen.
MoeLarryAndJesus
I’ve seen pictures of Tucker Carlson with a live salmon up his ass, but not recently.
eemom
fuck this cold fuck this cold fuck this cold and have I fucking mentioned FUCK this cold.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Feh. It’s supposed to be above freezing here on Friday. They don’t make January like they used to.
Ash Can
Like BigR says @ #7, Johnson actually admits that he’s an idiot. That’s what’s really newsworthy here.
Bill E Pilgrim
“I repeated bogus charges about him because his name was in the news. I have no idea who he is, what he wrote about, or if it’s accurate. Benghazi you say? Never heard of it.”
eemom
@Anne Laurie:
Not true. At UVA they still streak across Mr. Jefferson’s sacred Lawn. It’s tradition from when they used to ride their horses naked, or something.
MattR
@Ash Can: Nah. His admission is preceded by the reason he is not really at fault. (He only saw the article, not the whole issue. Yet somehow the Daily Caller piece links to the entire issue) And he is completely full of shit regarding why he wrote his piece initially. If you think it was just “because his name was in the news”, I have a bridge to sell you.
Amir Khalid
To all of you suffering in this bitterly cold North American winter, my sympathies from here in the nice, warm tropics.
Bill E Pilgrim
@eemom: Sending those shots and bells to warn the British that we wouldn’t be taking any cheek from them.
I think that was it anyway.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Amir Khalid: It’s still better than 95 and humid.
trollhattan
@Schlemizel:
Darn, and here I thought they did so annually, on April 1.
Has Treacher trolled here lately? We might could ask him.
Shortstop
@Amir Khalid: as we say in Chicago, “Now, whyou gotta be datway?”
trollhattan
@Shortstop:
I took it as an open invite. Checking flights right now.
Shortstop
@trollhattan: get an aisle seat for me, please.
Mike in NC
Per Letters to the Editor, where I live all of the wingnuts who were previously demanding to see Obummer’s birth certificate have neatly pivoted and now want to know what BENGHAZI!!! coverup was engineered by Hillary. Must be a FOX News talking point, however stale. Still works for Lady Lindsey Graham, who cannot sleep at night for fear of the Tea Party fairies who cloud his dreams.
MattR
@Mike in NC: Not surprising at all. One of the comments that Johnson left on Wiegel’s piece, emphasis mine.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Damn right.
PIGL
I notice that the minceing little weasel used his fauxpology to smear as “controversial” the article he pretends he was in no way writing about. Why do these people never die horribly? Case in point, Breitbart. I mean, yes, he dead, but it wasn’t horribly enough. It’s like they have pacts with Satan.
Omnes Omnibus
@PIGL: What would constitute “horribly enough?” Fed to pigs? Drowned in sewage?
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Eaten alive by 120 dogs. Not 110—120.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: It’s been done recently. My jaded sensibilities demand novelty – or at least variety.
StringOnAStick
@PIGL: Breitbart died in a totally banal way, after spending the last few hours of his life hate-splaining in a twitter battle. Not how I’d want to spend my last moments, but I’m not a rage-hag nutbag either.
fleeting expletive
This is just about the funniest BJ thread I have ever read, and I haven’t read all of it. Please carry on and bqwhatervre (Tshirt copyright there).
mclaren
Apropos of nothing in particular, here’s a timeless passage from Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments:
PIGL
@Omnes Omnibus: well, the Romans had a truly well thought out punishment for parricide, but since the sack stuffed with malefactor, hound, viper and rooster had be thrown into a specific river, us New Worlders will have to think of something original.
And despite my evil nature, I am trying to think of the mortifying, ignominious and mythic, rather than the protracted and agonizing. Those are too easy….what we want is something that will set a notorious yet mock-ably bad example for thousands of years, something that will make our anti-heroes names ring with scornful laughter down through the ages, like an Icarus or a Judas after Jonathan Swift got through with them.
Any ideas?
Omnes Omnibus
@PIGL: The Fargo woodchipper?
Paul in KY
@PIGL: I wouldn’t want to sacrifice an innocent dog, snake, rooster to kill a POS. Just hang him/her.
Johannes
@Steeplejack: oh, come now. Any after the first 100 are just for show.
Steeplejack
@Johannes:
Exactly! Style points.