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How the Seattle Times Is Trying to Take Out Darcy Burner
Open Left - Front Page —
Emily Heffter at the Seattle Times just published a story Darcy Burner's claims of a Harvard degree in economics aren't true. The story is literally made up out of whole cloth. Burner has a degree in computer science and economics from Harvard, as ...
Smooth: Darcy Burner fibbed about her college degree
Sound Politics —
Smooth: Darcy Burner fibbed about her college degree The Seattle Times breaks the news : In recent weeks, congressional candidate Darcy Burner has touted her Harvard degree in economics when talking about the nation's financial crisis and her opposition to the bailout package passed by Congress. At two debates this month, she brought up her academic background in her opening statement. "I loved economics so much that I got a degree in it from Harvard," she said at an Oct. 10 debate at KCTS-TV. "Now everywhere I go in this district, the only thing people want to talk to me ...
WA-08: Seattle Times Ignores Illegal Reichert Loan, Smears Burner
Daily Kos —
... The blaring headline at the Seattle Time's, what passes as Seattle's "leading" paper, Darcy Burner's claims of a Harvard degree in economics aren't true" and the subsequent story would lead one to think Darcy Burner was a serial liar. ...
Seattle Times Runs Misleading Piece On Darcy Burner
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The Seattle Times is running what amounts to a hatchet job on Democratic Congressional contender Darcy Burner, seizing on a quip she made at a recent debate and manipulating the facts to make it appear as if Burner has been lying about her academic degree. ...
Seattle Times Runs Misleading Piece On Darcy Burner
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... The Seattle Times is running what amounts to a hatchet job on Democratic Congressional contender Darcy Burner, seizing on a quip she made at a recent debate and manipulating the facts to make it appear as if Burner has been lying about her academic degree. ...
Darcy Burner (Challenger, WA-08) caught lying about educational qualifications.
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
This is the funny bit: "Kaushik said Burner claimed to have a
degree in economics at the debates because saying she had an
emphasis within her computer science degree 'doesn't exactly flow
off the tongue.'"
Translation: "What? People were paying
attention?"
Even the Seattle Times can't spin this past an "exaggeration"
by Dave
Reichert's challenger:
In recent weeks, Democratic congressional candidate Darcy Burner
has touted her Harvard degree in economics when talking about the
nation's financial crisis and ...
Times misrepresents Harvard dean’s words
HorsesAss.Org —
... After interviewing former Harvard Dean Harry Lewis, here is what reporter Emily Heffter chose to print in the Seattle Times: ...
Dave Reichert: Another lying Republican hypocrite exposed -- no thanks to the media
Crooks and Liars —
... You see, Reichert has been spreading the story that Burner fluffed up her resume by claiming to have a degree in economics from Harvard. And sure enough, the Seattle Times -- which has a long track record of explicit animus toward Burner -- bit on the story. ...
Newspaper crisis summit closed to reporters
HorsesAss.Org —
... Maybe reporters should try publishing false accounts of their owners’ educational backgrounds, that might shake things up a bit. We’ll call it the Heffter-Pickler Reporting Method. ...
