I first saw the Drudge headline about armed neo-Nazis patrolling the streets of Sanford, FL yesterday but was too busy to look into it. I’m glad I didn’t waste my time. The link went to the New York Daily News, which got the story from the Miami New Times. Nobody bothered to do any fact-checking and just ran with the story.
Prof. William Jacobson, who blogs at Legal Insurrection, contacted the Sanford Police Department who denied any knowledge or reports of neo-Nazis on patrol. Both news outlets eventually corrected their articles, but not until after Jacobson informed them of the Sanford PD denials. Unfortunately, as of 7:35 PM ET the Drudge headline remains. LI has the screen capture.
In all fairness to Drudge, it is a holiday weekend and perhaps it is just an oversight. Let’s hope he didn’t purposely leave that inflammatory headline up there all weekend. The situation is bad enough without adding fuel to the fire, especially when people associate neo-Nazi with conservative, as opposed to socialist – which is what Nazis are.
Via NewsBusters
Update: It’s now 9:00 PM ET and I see that the Drudge headline has been removed, or at least it’s no longer at the top of the page.
Update: See comments below. The headline just before midnight was moved to the right column of the page.
As of 11:45 PM Sunday night, Drudge still had “Armed Neo-Nazis Now Patrolling Sanford, FL… ” in the right hand column linking to the Miami New Times Blog. But at least the Miami New Times Blog had been updated with the Sanford Police Department denials.
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Thanks, I missed that.
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I think the default defense for this epic bullshittery from the race baiters and their media enablers is gonna be “This is the same Sanford police that didn’t arrest George Zimmerman!
Interesting how the MSM wants everybody to get their panties in a wad over nonexistent neo-nazis patrolling the streets of Sanford, but hasn’t said word one about an insurrectionist militia putting a bounty on the head of an American citizen before any due process from the judicial system is applied
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Fenway_Nation, you have said it all. Add that to NBC’s duck and cover over being caught editing the tapes and so called celebrities releasing addresses, and we have the usual lib circle jerk.
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Adam Weinstein at MotherJones today has that NeoNazis are “reportedly” patrolling. In spite of what he says are ‘frequent updates” it appears that there was no call to verify ! Yet his column says “explained” . It seems to me that he is about as much a Journalist as Bill Moyers – whose website is all about advocacy and activism. oh , when did a lack of facts ever give them pause ?
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