Joan Walsh makes quotes up?

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Saturday March 29, 2014 · 12:23 PM PDT

2014/03/29 · 12:23

I read Joan Walsh and Bob Somerby because they are liberals, and I am a liberal. My reading is constrained to liberals and mainstream news outlets with the exception of Fox News and other right-wing outlets.

Today Bob Somerby points to a Joan Walsh column in which she quotes the recent Christie report on Bridge-gate as calling Bridget Kelly "erratic" and "stupid".

WALSH (March 28, 2014): " If you believe an “emotional” and “stupid” jilted woman caused Bridgegate, I’ve got a bridge to sell you." link

Somerby (March 29, 2014): According to Walsh, the Mastro report was “mind-blowingly mean” when it called Kelly “erratic.” But go ahead—search the text!
You won’t find the word “erratic,” a word Walsh placed inside quotes.

Where did Walsh get the idea that the Mastro report called Kelly “erratic?

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Additionally, Walsh quotes a press conference in which Christie calls anyone who may have been involved in Bridgegate (male or female) "stupid" as proof of misogynist.

Are we in presence of a very bad blogger with weak journalistic skills? (Walsh), or is Mr. Somerby wrong that the Christie report called Walsh erratic and that Christie singled out a female as "stupid" in his press conference?

I hereby ask you readers of this diary to help me search for the word "erratic" in the report, as it is very long. Thanks in advance.

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Did Ms. Walsh falsely state that the Christie report called Ms. Kelly "erratic"?

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Did Ms. Walsh falsely state that the Christie report called Ms. Kelly "erratic"?

Yes, she did. The report contains no such word

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No, she didn't. In the report, Kelly is called "erratic"

10 votes

Daily Kos should stop hiring pollsters

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Wednesday March 12, 2014 · 3:26 PM PDT

2014/03/12 · 15:26

No matter how good a polling firm is, it will begin to suck once a partisan webiste hires it. Take PPP. Nate Silver called PPP out for disappearing a poll they conducted because they didn't like the results.

Nate Cohn has called PPP's methodology flawed.

In the Florida election yesterday, PPP predicted a Democratic victory. The Republican won. This would be no problem if the proportion of wrong-winners PPP had picked in the past had not been Democrats.

They are Democrats.

In Presidential elections, PPP is awesome. But some elections are not Presidential.

It could be that Congressional elections are given little attention, and PPP feels as if it can suck at predicting Congressional elections without anyone noticing.

It is clear that Markos does not want a pollster who simply tells Kossacks what they want to hear. That's why Research 2000 was fired. PPP tells Kossacks what they want to hear, intentionally or not. It's time to fire PPP.

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