WaPo ombudsman rips WaPo “Obama is a Muslim” story but fails to fully correct it

Posted by Robert on December 9, 2007 7:51 AM

[1] obama-hot-air.jpg
This is what I really said about the "Obama is a Muslim" rumors, back in March

Bryan at Hot Air has [2] a good write-up about how the Washington Post ombudsman [3] rightly ripped WaPo reporter [4] Perry Bacon's piece on the "Obama is a Muslim" rumors, but did not correct Bacon's use of a quote from [5] a column of mine in which he made it appear as if I was saying exactly the opposite of what I was really saying.

Once more, for the record: in that column, I discussed the fact that Obama is not a Muslim. I do not believe that rumors that he is one. Last March, in [6] a Hot Air video, I dismissed such rumors as "a lot of hooey." So why no correction on this from the WaPo? Is it acceptable to retail falsehoods about those with whom one disagrees?


Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/12/wapo-ombudsman-rips-wapo-obama-is-a-muslim-story-but-fails-to-fully-correct-it.html

URLs in this post:
[1] http://hotair.com/archives/2007/12/08/wapo-ombudsman-rips-wapo-obama-is-a-muslim-story-but-fails-to-fully-correct-it/
[2] http://hotair.com/archives/2007/12/08/wapo-ombudsman-rips-wapo-obama-is-a-muslim-story-but-fails-to-fully-correct-it/
[3] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/07/AR2007120701799.html?sub=AR
[4] http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018982.php
[5] http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=19879
[6] http://hotair.com/archives/2007/03/20/a-word-with-barack-obama/