The story about what Michelle Obama ordered from room service at the Waldorf-Astoria seemed like a total waste of ink and pixels. Can you just imagine the reporter paying off the room service guy to find out what would be traveling through the Obama family GI tracks? Hopefully the hot scoop on the lobster and caviar was a new personal low for that reporter.
That being said, the story is gone. Did it take a trip down the memory hole? Did the Obama campaign have it removed? Whatever the reason, it is no more!
What Jim Hoft would never dream of telling his readers is that the report was utterly false.
“The source who told us last week about Michelle Obama getting lobster and caviar delivered to her room at the Waldorf-Astoria must have been under the influence of a mind-altering drug. She was not even staying at the Waldorf. We regret the mistake, and our former source is going to regret it, too.”
Nice bit of smear-mongering there, Jim. Credulous much?
Meat- Thanks for commenting. You’ll notice that the above post mocks the lobster story. Regardless of its accuracy (and your comment is the first I’ve heard it isn’t true, which doesn’t surprise me) the story was worthless as a “news item”, which we state explicitly above.
I don’t much care what you “mock”, Jimmy. What I notice is that you refuse to publish a correction or apologize to your readers for misleading them. And if this is the first time you’ve heard that the story was incorrect, that tells us that you didn’t bother to follow up on the story in the New York Post, the original source.
You’re not interested in the facts, Jimmy. You’re interested in finding smears — any smears at all — against Barack Obama, and spreading them. Truth doesn’t interest you. It never has.
Keep lying to your readers, Jimmy. I’ll keep reminding them just what kind of cockroach you are. The only one here worthy of mockery is you.
Meaty- If you provide me with the link to the Post retraction, I will gladly put it up.
And please, let’s refrain from the name calling.
As always, thanks for commenting Meat.
I provided the link in the first comment in this thread. I appreciate your willingness to post it.
And I’ll continue to call you exactly what you are, Jim Hoft: a nice man, a handsome man, and I am fool.
Jimmy Hoft continues to prove just what kind of Funny Dude he is. The comment above is a correct. Jimmy the man has kept the text as it originally appeared. Although I am a name calling troll who deserves to have his comments edited, so if you wish, please feel free.
Jimmy Hoft continues to prove just what kind of cool guy he is. The comments above are accurate. Jimmy the man has not changed the text.
I am a troll, who despite all my claims of a love of accuracy, has no idea that I am not speaking with Jim Hoft at all. It doesn’t matter though, because I am just a flame throwing, name calling troll.
“I provided the link in the first comment in this thread, Jimmy. The fact that you never deleted that comment, and let it stand so that others could read it and decide for themselves, show that you are a fair man. I salute you!
“And I’ll continue to call you exactly what you are, Jim Hoft: a liar, a smear merchant, and a fool.”
I take the precaution of taking mirrors of every page I post a comment on, every time I post a comment, because I like looking in the mirror
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep blogging, Jimmy. I couldn’t possibly do a better job of blogging if I tried.
I am a troll.
I am a troll.
I am a troll. And I set up a mirror site because I think anyone cares. And I think that I am arguing with Jim Hoft, when really I am a fool who has no idea who I am even flaming with my juvenile spews.
I am a troll. I have nothing better to do with my time.
Jimmy Hoft is not the person I am flaming. That makes me seem slow. Will I issue a correction?
Here’s the original 10/24/08 4:28 pm comment:
Jimmy Hoft is not the person I am flaming. That makes me seem slow. Will I issue a correction?
Oh, and I have been banned from commenting at this site, because I am a child that cannot refrain from name calling.
I am the first person to be banned from commenting on this site, which should really tell you something about me.