Mediaite's Tommy Christopher Responds to Retracto (We Think)

For the record: Mr. Christopher informs us that he did, in fact, write his post without any assistance. Although, to be fair, we didn’t ask him to swear on George Soros’ purse strings…

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We think maybe Tommy Christoper took some night classes in creative writing at Middlebury College or something because his response to Retracto’s correction request from last week show a distinctive shift in writing style. It’s almost as if he had help crafting his very carefully worded response. We know that the ownership at Mediaite boasts some very impressive legal minds, with skills in crafting words in just the right way, so maybe this response was more of a team effort.

From the opening paragraph, Christopher attempts to re-frame his own argument making it much easier for him to respond to Retracto’s specific correction requests.

Last week, I posted a response to Andrew Breitbart’s claim that he had proven, with the help of the New York Times, that nothing “racially charged” happened on March 20, 2010, when several black members of Congress claimed that they heard racial epithets directed at them by a crowd of protesters. He challenged the MSM to “air the exculpatory evidence” that he had posted, which I did.

Since then, some of the writers from Breitbart’s “Big” sites have responded to my response, and in doing so, have walked back on Breitbart’s original claim. They have demanded corrections to my piece. I am always happy to correct the record where necessary.

It is important to note that my article was not intended to prove anything more than that Breitbart’s “exculpatory evidence” doesn’t prove anything, and that news outlets were justified in reporting the story in the first place. Andrew Breitbart asked for an airing of his video, and that’s what Mediaite gave him.

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