Newsweek's False Story About John Bolton Speeds Through Liberal Media With No Fact-Checking

Here’s an interesting illustration of the sad state of the main stream liberal media in 2010. It’s hard to say whether it’s corruption, intentional misrepresentation, or merely incompetence.

On Monday, the project Election Day Tea Party (of which I am a co-organizer) launched. We issued a press release announcing our “List the Top 50 House Races” and our partnership with former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton. Ambassador Bolton is participating as a volunteer citizen encouraging people to visit the site, where tea party activists can make the most difference in securing a victory.

Newsweek has reported this story incorrectly. Out of thin air, they made up a non-existent event, and claimed Ambassador Bolton would attend that event. Here’s what they said:

… and TPM’s Jillian Rayfield reports, [John Bolton]’s preparing for an Election Day Tea Party rally at Ground Zero.

The fact is, Ms. Rayfield’s article in TPM that day made no such claim. Newsweek either misread the article or intentionally misreported it.

Newsweek failed to check on their own false report by contacting either us, at ElectionDayTeaParty.com, or Ambassador Bolton himself. It appears they made this up out of thin air, because there never were and never have been such plans.

But it gets better.

Today, Stuart Shapiro repeated Newsweek’s false story on Alan Colmes’ Liberalland website.

With liberal journalistic standards so low, little wonder these media outlets continue to lose readers and money.