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Originally Posted by Guest
I was just on the Politico web site, perhaps you could direct me to where it says " the story has been walked back."
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Let us begin by quoting a piece from the Washington Post...
"Let’s hope that the site’s advertisers asked for a discount after learning that Politico readers aren’t that smart, after all.
Such unwillingness to admit fault plagues Politico’s big story of the day, which premiered just before noon and alleged that Republican presidential candidate had admitted to fabricating a scholarship offer from West Point. As all of Twitter — not to mention the Carson campaign — has pointed out, Carson admitted no such thing. At issue was a passage in Carson’s 1990 autobiography “Gifted Hands,” in which he described being “offered a full scholarship to West Point.” He never applied to West Point, however, and Politico reported that he had.
Faced with these factual challenges, Politico has changed its story. Whereas the headline once read:
Ben Carson admits fabricating West Point scholarship
It now reads:
Exclusive: Carson claimed West Point ‘scholarship’ but never applied
And whereas the original lede once read:
Ben Carson’s campaign on Friday admitted, in a response to an inquiry from POLITICO, that a central point in his inspirational personal story was fabricated: his application and acceptance into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
It now reads:
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Friday conceded that he never applied nor was granted admission to West Point and attempted to recast his previous claims of a full scholarship to the military academy — despite numerous public and written statements to the contrary over the last few decades."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-carson-story/
You can find other mentions of the walk back but of course, not except this from the MSM.