There was just a pretty funny back-and-forth between Daily Beast reporter Betsy Woodruff and Hillary Clinton press secretary Brian Fallon that left the Democratic operative with a pretty sizable helping of egg on his face.
At issue was this new story from Woodruff on Tim Kaine’s call for Bill Clinton to resign over his affair with Monica Lewinsky:
https://twitter.com/woodruffbets/status/765871663858626561
Fallon accused Woodruff of doing the story without any quotes, which would indeed be bad, if true:
Except there is no quote contained in your story where he actually said that
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) August 17, 2016
Except it wasn’t true and she did quote from multiple new outlets who had reported the quote back in 2002:
https://twitter.com/woodruffbets/status/765876110210891776
https://twitter.com/woodruffbets/status/765885397721284608
Here’s the exact quote:
https://twitter.com/woodruffbets/status/765877054336229376
Fallon doubled-down on his stupidity:
You exaggerated what even the Post said. You relied on a paraphrase from only Richmond T-D. AP gave actual quote; you ignored
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) August 17, 2016
Lousy piece of oppo. You shd ask whoever pitched it if they knew about AP and just misled you, or if they missed it entirely
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) August 17, 2016
Maybe he didn’t read her entire piece, because that AP quote is in there, too:
https://twitter.com/woodruffbets/status/765887096859070464
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