Gotcha! Reporter busts politician who claims NFL experience

A Washington City Paper reporter has busted a local politician who claimed he played for the Dallas Cowboys for three years.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Politician-in-Redskins-country-lied-about-playin;_ylt=Av8MKdIuZxvbA0hgA8tw4fzSrYZ4?urn=nfl-261541


Nice job Dave McKenna.
When will they learn.

 

Does it really require an "investigation" to figure out if a guy played for the Dallas Cowboys or not?

It's like newspapers citing an "investigation" to "discover" how much public officials are paid. It's public record.

 

So stupid. I don't know why politicians do this kind of thing.

It's so easy to prove true or false, and there's nowhere to go when you're proven a liar.

BTW, I noticed that the article does not mention his party affiliation.

So, I can only assume he's a Democrat.

Yep, a Democrat: http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/06hse/html/msa13965.html

If he were a Republican, it would have been in the lede.

Maybe Bill Richardson can give him some pointers on how to minimize this & other ethical problems and still have a successful political career.

 

Simple case of a reporter doing his homework. Good job. Should be standard operating procedure.

 

It's funny because it is true.

 

Technically Moddy, he was a member of the Skins. If he stepped out on the field and trained with them, at that time, he was a member of the Skins. I know, I know, he didn't make the final roster, but still....

 

C'mon. It's not that hard to say, "the Maryland Democrat," or, "the Maryland Republican."

It's standard to identify any elected official by his party affiliation, isn't it?

I don't think it matters that an area might be predominantly represented by one party or the other. Not every reader is going to know that -- certainly not every reader who reads it on Yahoo! Sports.

The official should be identified by party affiliation regardless of whether it's a positive news story, a negative one, or somewhere in between.

To not do so indicates laziness, or bias. You choose which one it is. Neither is good.

 

The politician was an idiot but let's not make this reporter out to be the next Carl Bernstein. You can find out whether someone played in the NFL in 2 minutes on the computer or one phone call to that team's media relations department.

 

neener neener

it's all part of the plan