KC Star Caught Pushing Griffin's "Splitsville" Whopper

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McClatchy Watch catches The Kansas City Star promoting Jesse Griffin's discredited Big Lies:

"Reporter Lisa Gutierrez, who authored this piece, writes for 'Star Gazing' which is some kind of celebrity gossip section in the Star. But Gutierrez is a journalist (award-winning?!) and has a professional obligation to not to print smears like this."

This wouldn't be the first time that a McClatchy newspaper helped to elevate a made-up smear of Sarah Palin from the nutroots left to the msm:

ADN editor Pat Dougherty published an email exchange between him and the governor on his blog after the "There you go again" release was issued. In the exchange, he explains “I finally decided, after watching this go on unabated for months, to let a reporter try to do a story about the ‘conspiracy theory that would not die’ and, possibly, report the facts of Trig's birth once and for all.” Dougherty calls the rumor "nutty nonsense," and says that he wanted his reporter, Lisa Demer, to "report the facts of Trig's birth thoroughly enough to kill the nonsense once and for all."

"That’s a disingenuous response," Palin tells the Press. "I've said from day one, no, you guys are off-base in chasing this lie. Of course Trig's my son. My doctor's said the same thing. My medical summary that was released was the same information. We stated the truth, and Pat knows that."

McClatchy newspapers smell of stink even before the fish are wrapped.

- JP