NewsMax.com is now reporting that the New York Times has wrongly accused them of misrepresenting Rick Santorum's fundraiser at Sunday night's U2 concert in Philadelphia as a U2 concert in support of Rick Santorum. Here's how NewsMax puts it:
...the Times reported that the NewsMax story was "incorrect” and U2 was, indeed, not holding a fundraiser for Santorum.
But here's the rub: NewsMax had never claimed that U2 or Bono were holding their concert for Santorum – though several liberal blogs claimed as much. Apparently, the New York Times has bought into the NewsMax-Santorum-Bono conspiracy theory.
Several liberal blogs, huh? How about
Kathryn Jean Lopez and
John Podhoretz of the anything-but-liberal
Corner at the
National Review Online? Does NewsMax.com consider them to be part of the conspiracy too?
So what did NewsMax.com originally report, before they edited their story without issuing a correction? As we told you on Tuesday, here's how the story read:
Teaming up with the legendary rock group U2 for a one-night only appearance will be Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.).
The thousand-dollar-a-seat concert has been put together by Sean and Ana Wolfington and will take place at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia in support of Santorum’s re-election, reports NewsMax's James Hirsen. (emphasis ours)
Um, that last paragraph says that a $1,000-a-seat U2 concert in support of Rick Santorum's re-election will take place at the Wachovia Center. Perhaps the folks at NewsMax.com think that there is a major difference between "in support of" and "for." That would seem to be the only way they could honestly claim that they, "...never claimed that U2 or Bono were holding their concert
for Santorum."
