truthout: We’re Not Wrong, We’re ‘Standing Down’
Marc Ash, executive director of the severely credibility-impaired truthout, otherwise known as ‘the outlet that published Leopold’s lies’, has a rather remarkable way of avoiding responsibility – standing down(!):
Yesterday, most Mainstream Media organizations published reports about a letter supposedly received by Karl Rove’s attorney Robert Luskin. As an example of the supposed letter’s contents, TIME Magazine stated that, “Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald said or wrote, ‘Absent any unexpected developments, he does not anticipate seeking any criminal charges against Rove.’”
Truthout of course published an article on May 13 which reported that Karl Rove had in fact already been indicted. Obviously there is a major contradiction between our version of the story and what was reported yesterday. As such, we are going to stand down on the Rove matter at this time. We defer instead to the nation’s leading publications.
We are going to stand down on the Rove matter? Is that an admission of wrong? Is that an apology? Is that any way to repair lost credibility?
Ash continues:
Mr. Leopold did not act alone in his reporting of this matter. His work, sources and conclusions were reviewed carefully at each step of the process. There is no indication that Mr. Leopold acted unethically.
Yes, well, that’s all well and good, but it doesn’t answer the only two salient points:
(1) Was Leopold wrong?
(2) Why don’t you say so and apologize?
I think the answer to #1 is self-evident; Ash promises a fuller accounting on Monday. If it does not include an apology of some sort, I think it’s more than fair to question the veracity of anything that carries the byline of either himself or Mr. Leopold in the future…
We all make mistakes: let Leopold and Ash seek redemption, and they may yet find it; but this is altogether the wrong way to go about it…
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