July 06, 2004
NY Post Surpasses The Onion as NYC's Most Popular Parody Newspaper
filed under: Stuff to laugh atYes, the New York Post got Kerry's Veep pick totally, flagrantly, publicly and humiliatingly wrong, as they went this morning with a full-page spread about how Gephardt got the nod. As of 9:15 this morning, as Kerry's speech in Pittsburgh announcing Edwards was wrapping up, the Post's website still had the Gep headline on the first page.
The upside: the Post has now publicly sacrificed whatever shreds of credibility they may have had, hopefully for the duration of Election 04. I suspect a great many New Yorkers will be taking Post cover headlines with a pretzel-full of salt for a while. Let's all resolve to treat the NYP as what it is: entertainment masquerading as news.
Proving, however, that the Post will remain the Post, here are some clips from their (belated) Edwards coverage:
Obsessed with secrecy, Kerry kept his decision to himself until the last possible minute, giving Edwards no time to get to Pittsburgh in time.
Oh Kerry, you eccentric paranoid.
Pouring millions of his own dollars into North Carolina's 1998 Senate campaign, he challenged Republican Sen. Lauch Faircloth. The incumbent failed to persuade people that Edwards was no more than a lawsuit-happy lawyer, losing his seat to the upstart politician by 4 percentage points.
Hmmm... he failed to persuade people of that, did he? Odd.