Coach Finstock: I mean. But what I feel we're getting away from is that the paper just went with it. Maybe I'm crazy, but I feel like they should verify what they print? And these are Politico reporters. Not exactly in the tank for Biden.

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I hadn't seen this reported anywhere else and Lieu just tweeted that it's not true, just fyi,

pulling out a Polaroid of Yashar with "don't believe his lies" sharpied on the back

The Post had this

Yeah - I don't know what to make of it. It doesn't seem like the Post would fabricate it, or that someone would just make it up and tell them with the credibility to get it published?

I'm sure someone has a recording of the zoom call so it seems insane to lie about it's contents, either if you're the post or you're lieu

I mean. But what I feel we're getting away from is that the paper just went with it. Maybe I'm crazy, but I feel like they should verify what they print? And these are Politico reporters. Not exactly in the tank for Biden.

WaPo confused Mark Takano with Ted Lieu. Oy. "The House Democrats who said Biden should drop out of the race were Adam Smith of Washington, Jerry Nadler of New York, Mark Takano of California and Joe Morelle of New York." www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Four more Democrats in Congress call for Biden to step aside in the 2024 racewww.nbcnews.com The new calls come from lawmakers who hold top Democratic positions on key congressional committees.

OH MY GOD

OMG! Huge mistake! I saw Lieu and was quite surprised so this is a relief

They all look alike to the WaPo.

And Leigh effing Ann dumbass Caldwell

😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵

Jerry nadler is 77. Dude needs to look in the mirror and resign before he tells anyone else to.

4 out if 213 is not a big story. These are not big names either, except possibly for Nadler who should have retired years ago.

The journalists reporting on the Beyer piece stuck with it after his denial. Let’s see what happens with Lieu.

I'd like to believe the WaPo wouldn't straight up lie, but it's not like their changing of the guard at the Editor level and recent coverage of Biden gives me much confidence.

I believe it was a phone call rather than a video call, so a reporter may have simply misidentified a voice (though I agree that they should have verified his identity before posting)

(Or a staffer might have? Not sure whether the reporter is meant to have heard a recording or if this was relayed to them)

I'd assume it was whoever told the reporter that got it wrong, not that the reporter was on the call or interpreting facts on their own.

Update: the reporter made a mistake.

Yeah, I'm a reporter and I would never write something I didn't confirm. Seems wild. And considering I cover shit that is not nearly as important as this, it's even more troubling. Forever ago boss told me 'triple check anything nice you write about someone and do that ten times for any criticism'

Remember when WaPo did their homework and was able to very publicly expose a project veritas op? Seems like those days may be over.

If your mother says she loves you, get a second source.

Unless I read it wrong the reporter didn’t hear anything. Her source may have misidentified the voice but running with one source seems not awesome.

I'd assume the source here was a member of Congress himself, fwiw

Possibly Morrelle.

Well they wouldn’t possibly have any sort of agenda.

plot twist, somebody's planning to knife the 'softs' as soon as Biden's re-elected and wanted to make sure they were all on the record. (maybe. who even knows.)

Hill reporters know the big members' voices.

bsky.app/profile/smik...

They retracted and corrected this.

So they're pretty convinced it's wrong, which does make me believe it was Mark Takano.

I guess we'll never know, because other outlets are still running on it... Media is broken. They copy paste from each other and retractions like these are always tiny or nonexistent or they don't matter, because no one reads them and the "damage" of the falsehood has been done. I

Like telling a jury "Disregard the last statement"

alt4me

Their politics coverage has been gossipy trash for multiple years now, basically starting when Buzbee was hired. It was a key reason I cancelled my subscription a couple years ago.

yeah though this seems kind of like a speech act situation. you're either publicly calling for it our you're not.

It sounds like someone mixed him up with Takano which…not great.

Lmao and yikes and also yes this seems right

Yup. WaPo issued a correction and seems like that's exactly what happened.

Good that they just ran with it. Nothing ominous there with the new editors in charge.

just a little whoopsie doopsie!

Do the WaPo reporters have….(whispers) dementia?

I'm not sure about that... the original story cited 5 members and the revised story cites 4. That seems like a full removal of Lieu, not a replacement?

I believe the expression here is too far out over their skis.

this is increasingly my theory

This is literally what happened. bsky.app/profile/goji...

WaPo confused Mark Takano with Ted Lieu. Oy. "The House Democrats who said Biden should drop out of the race were Adam Smith of Washington, Jerry Nadler of New York, Mark Takano of California and Joe Morelle of New York." www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Four more Democrats in Congress call for Biden to step aside in the 2024 racewww.nbcnews.com The new calls come from lawmakers who hold top Democratic positions on key congressional committees.

Goddammit if they run something before they’ve confirmed it, they. Are. Not. Journalists. Fucking rule number one!!!

Or maybe this WaPo writer got it wrong? Can confirm that Ted Lieu is ethical and courageous—also, very *media savvy.*

Points to @washingtonpost.com for issuing a Correction, I guess? 🙄 Maybe the “Biden-Must-Go” feeding frenzy at WaPo (and tangentially at the NYT) should pump the brakes a bit 😬

I’m becoming more and more convinced that most of the political journo class wants Biden gone and they’re gonna try to make it happen any way they can, including sloppy reporting that can’t be put back into the bottle or just outright fabrication. I’m extremely frustrated.

Isn’t more than one source usually kinda a thing?

Sources are for journalism, not whatever this is.

Yeah, I guess that’s fair

The real crafty version would be if Biden's supporters on the call knew he didn't say anything, then leaked it to try to get him to go on the record supporting Biden?