August 11, 2008 11:37 PM UTC

Grand Junction Sentinel Ignores Own Reporting

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• by: Colorado Pols

Sentinel reporter Mike Saccone wrote a week ago Friday, seemingly planting the headstone on three days’ worth of freshly-discredited fingerpointing regarding Democratic Senate candidate Mark Udall’s (not really) “missed vote”:

…Udall did, in fact, vote against adjourning without an energy solution in place.

We’ll leave it to others to discuss the implications of Udall’s vote and speech, but this probably leaves the Schaffer campaign with one fewer criticism in the near-term. [Pols emphasis]

Apparently, it was too much to expect the Sentinel’s editorial board to, you know, read their reporter’s…reporting. From the editorial section Sunday:

As it turns out, he didn’t keep that promise. He missed the vote. He was in Colorado fundraising and didn’t get back to Washington in time to cast his promised “Yes” vote.

There are two possible answers:

1. Sunday’s editorial was created in a parallel universe, strikingly like our own except that Udall wasn’t present for the vote to adjourn Congress on August 1 like he was in our universe, or,

2. A battery of phone calls from Schaffer campaign manager Dick Wadhams to the Sentinel persuaded them to ignore their own reporter–not to mention the Congressional record–and print a demonstrably false hit piece.

Actually, there’s only one possible answer.