![]() Furthermore, I have not heard anyone from his campaign make such a claim until this week, when the Obama ad mocking his ignorance hit the air.” (NOTE: Obviously this reader had never seen the 2000 Globe story.) “Though we have all heard – relentlessly – in the past couple of months about McCain’s POW experiences, he has never asserted that his disabilities account for his utter lack of even basic computer literacy. McCain has the same effect on computers as he does on airplanes. That’s just called plain old fashioned lazy.” He doesn’t use one (if he actually doesn’t) because he doesn’t WANT TO. On this 2008 edition of its Caucus Blog liberal commenters to the Times relentlessly mocked McCain’s inability to use computers and e-mail. To his credit Obama running mate Joe Biden finally manned up and told Katie Couric on CBS that the ad was “terrible.” But as the Stephenson NewsBusters item was prescient enough to correctly anticipate, there was no “outrage” from The New York Times and other liberal media outlets over the mocking of McCain’s disability that I can find. Yet there was the Obama campaign mocking McCain’s war-generated disability. “The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type.” “McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes.”įorbes magazine made McCain’s problem using a computer and doing e-mail even plainer: ![]() Ignoring this Boston Globe story on McCain’s physical disabilities because of his time as a Vietnam POW. Yes indeed, it seems that the 2008 Obama campaign had aired a commercial (see here) that mocked Senator John McCain for not using a computer or e-mail. Will Media Report Obama's Mocking of McCain's Disability? He said in part that he was “merely mocking the fact that the reporter was trying to pull away from a story that he wrote 14 years ago” and that he was not mocking the reporter's disability.īack there in the pre-historic days of September, 2008, NewsBusters headlined this story by John Stephenson: Trump immediately issued a statement - refusing to back down. ![]() Having been caught out with a story from 2001 that did in fact report allegations of Jersey Muslims celebrating 9/11, the issue suddenly becomes Trump mocking the reporter’s disability. At a speech in South Carolina Trump mocked the “who, me? defense and was quickly accused by an “outraged” New York Times of mocking Kovaleski’s disability (he suffers from arthrogryposis, a congenital condition that affects joint movement.) He says he now doesn’t remember “thousands or even hundreds” of celebrants but doesn’t quite deny that he wrote there coulda/maybe/kinda possible were some. Suddenly as well Kovaleski is out there with a “who, me?” defense about the story. “Those allegations were never corroborated but have persisted in online rumors in the 14 years since the attacks.” …In Jersey City, within hours of two jetliners' plowing into the World Trade Center, law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river.”īut wait! Now that Kovaleski’s story has been dug out of the Post archives, where the Post’s own “fact check” guy Glenn Kessler couldn’t seem to find it, now suddenly the Post is throwing Kovaleski - these days a New York Times reporter - under the bus. I think now is the time when the broad spectrum of possibilities has to be looked at.” "They are not knocking down any straw men at this point. Kallstrom, the former head of the FBI's New York office. So I am sure that area is of great interest to investigators right now," said James K. …"The area in and around Jersey City has provided individuals in the past who were bent on terrorism. It was there, in Jersey City, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, that a Muslim cell plotted the 1993 bombing of the twin towers and sought to destroy other New York landmarks as part of an urban guerrilla war against the United States. “The FBI investigation into the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon has led agents back to a familiar area: northern New Jersey. Kovaleski and Fredrick Kunkle, who, now famously, wrote among other things that: Eventually it was confirmed that The Washington Post had in fact noted just this, here in this story from September 18, 2001. This time around? The dustup began as an offshoot of Donald Trump’s allegation that Muslims in Jersey City cheered as the towers fell on 9/11. ![]() The brazenness of the double standard is increasingly stunning.
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