Nobody Reads Your Blog

I woke up yesterday morning in Vermont to Jessamyn announcing that Kerry had picked Edwards as a running mate. My sense of reality was somewhat shaken when I returned to New York to find a copy of the New York Post in a subway station whose headline implied that Kerry had in fact chosen Gephardt. Who to believe? Well, never the paper which ran pictures of the UN with ferrets Photoshopped in over the blazing headline “AXIS OF WEASELS” when the UN refused to support Bush’s declaration of war… but who could have guessed they would actually make such a Dewey-Wins-size error in this day and age? Neil tells me he watched them take the stuff down quietly off the site — he says he did not see a retraction. So, what really happened here? They say someone sent them a bum email, but this made it to headline news — it should have been checked at least three times over. You have to wonder. Were they trying to somehow cast doubt on the announcement? Introduce disinformation which might swing voters? naah, too little, too early in the race. Did the person sending them the info want to see egg on the Post’s face? Hmmm….