10/11/2009

Media Matters just makes things up

For their note: "Washington Times backtrack: Regardless of age, conversation "should have raised alarm""

Media Matters keeps on repeating that Fox News and the Washington Times lied about Brewster's age, the age of the boy who talked to Kevin Jennings about the man that he met in a bus station bathroom and had sex with. The media had reported that the boy was 15 years old, but Fox News and the Washington Times didn't make up this number. They got it from Kevin Jenning's own statement. For some reason Media Matters in all their attacks on Fox News and the Washington Times seem to have missed mentioning that one fact. Kevin Jennings believed that Webster was 15 years of age and thus he believed that statutory rape had occurred and he hadn't responded appropriately. The question is what Media Matters thinks Jennings should have done if he believed Webster was 15. Obviously they don't think that he should have done anything if the sophomore was 16 years old.

UPDATE: By the way, Media Matters won't post comments that I have offered on their website.

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