Media Blows It Again — Dede Scozzafava Has NOT Endorsed Owens

UPDATE: We were wrong!

Once again the on-the-ground team of Steve Foley and Ali Akbar from 73wire.com has rooted out the truth, while the Oldstream Media bought into a political lie. It has been reported, and the media has run with the story, that Dede Scozzafava has "quietly" thrown her support behind the Democrat Bill Owens in New York District-23, causing the internet and the right in general to explode in outrage.

But, 73wire.com and Robert Stacy McCain have uncovered the fact that the story originates entirely from a piece in the Watertown Daily Times — a newspaper closely tied to the Owens campaign. In the WDT piece, it claims “During the day Saturday, she began to quietly and thoughtfully encourage her supporters to vote for Democrat William L. Owens.”

The Washington Times ran with the story, and it has subsequently ravaged through the internet, without any verification whatsoever.

Steve Foley writes at 73wire.com:

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Our offical postition is to call this story bogus… the fact is, the Watertown Daily Times has officially endorsed Bill Owens and 73wire believes the following quote from the piece, “During the day Saturday, she began to quietly and thoughtfully encourage her supporters to vote for Democrat William L. Owens”, is a strategically placed piece of fiction designed to deliberately confuse Ms. Scozzafava’s supporters and move the nartive off of Bill Owens and back onto splitting opinion between Hoffman and Scozzafava.

In addition, 73wire.com quotes The Other McCain as reporting:

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Former Scozzafava campaign spokesman Matt Burns seems to distance himself from Ms. Scozzafava’s latest reported actions. He sent the Washington Times Water Coooler the following statement: “As of yesterday, I am no longer affiliated with the campaign. Dede knows the most about the district and would have represented it well in Congress, but I am not familiar with her current thinking or decision-making.” . . .
Ms. Scozzafava has yet to release a statement on the Watertown report.

This could be nothing more than a political operation dedicated to splitting the Scozzafava vote and confusing the voters.

Nothing is new in politics.

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