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NEW YORK – MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the network said Wednesday.
David Shuster, an anchor for the cable news network, said on air Monday that Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, had come forth and identified himself as the source of a Fox News Channel story saying Palin had mistakenly believed Africa was a country instead of a continent.
Eisenstadt identifies himself on a blog as a senior fellow at the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy. Yet neither he nor the institute exist; each is part of a hoax dreamed up by a filmmaker named Eitan Gorlin and his partner, Dan Mirvish, the New York Times reported Wednesday.
The Eisenstadt claim had mistakenly been delivered to Shuster by a producer and was used in a political discussion Monday afternoon, MSNBC said.
"The story was not properly vetted and should not have made air," said Jeremy Gaines, network spokesman. "We recognized the error almost immediately and ran a correction on air within minutes."
Gaines told the Times that someone in the network's newsroom had presumed the information solid because it was passed along in an e-mail from a colleague.
The hoax was limited to the identity of the source in the story about Palin — not the Fox News story itself. While Palin has denied that she mistook Africa for a country, the veracity of that report was not put in question by the revelation that Eisenstadt is a phony.
Eisenstadt's "work" had been quoted and debunked before. The Huffington Post said it had cited Eisenstadt in July on a story regarding the Hilton family and McCain.
Among the other victims were political blogs for the Los Angeles Times and The New Republic, each of which referenced false material from Eisenstadt's blog.
And in July, Jonathan Stein of Mother Jones magazine blogged an item about Eisenstadt speaking on Iraqi television about a casino in Baghdad's "Green Zone."
Stein later realized he'd been had.
"Kudos to the inventor of this whole thing," Stein wrote. "My only consolation is that if I had as much time on my hands as he clearly does, I probably would have figured this out and saved myself a fair amount of embarrassment."
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hahahahahaa... told ya, 240.
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OBAMA WON
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hahahahahaa... told ya, 240.
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2008 will be remembered as the year journalism died.
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To larry king - even Palin admitted in interviews that there IS an extreme right-wing media as well.
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The media sucks. Drop the agendas and start reporting the real news, not bullshit stories!
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To larry king - even Palin admitted in interviews that there IS an extreme right-wing media as well.
Will you point me to the direction of the extreme right media please?
What channel is it on?
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OBAMA WON
No one is claiming otherwise.
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Stories like this are just the tip of the iceberg as far as the smearing and yellow journalism going on during this election. I mean for anyone with a brain to really believe that a college-educated woman thought Africa was a country, just because it was reported as such on the news... come on. I was skeptical (to say the least) that that was being reported accurately. But the damage is done and now it doesn't matter anymore as far as the election is concerned.
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Will you point me to the direction of the extreme right media please?
What channel is it on?
King asked Palin if it exists, since the extreme L wing media exists.
She said yes, it happens on both sides, and it's something we should work to address.
You'd have to ask Palin. Her next press conference will be, um, 2013?
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lol jus marked 2013 on my calender.
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King asked Palin if it exists, since the extreme L wing media exists.
She said yes, it happens on both sides, and it's something we should work to address.
You'd have to ask Palin. Her next press conference will be, um, 2013?
So what?? They're not mainstream. Can you say the same for CNN, MSNBC, etc?