Getting the Wonkette story wrong was bad enough, but now the New York Times has inadvertently mistaken a Colorado political candidate for a member of the Klan.
The Times earlier this week accompanied a story about Klan-affiliated murderer Ernest Avants with a photo of Pete Coors, who had announced his candidacy for the Republican Senate nomination in Colorado; the candidate was accidentally identified as Avants. Coors is not, to the best of anyone’s knowledge, a Klansman; he is merely a Republican politician and purveyor of shitty beer.
Coming eight months before the election, the story isn’t likely to hurt Coors’ bid in any way. That’s more than I can say for former Minneapolis City Council Chairman John Derus, who ran for the State Senate in the early ‘90s and lost after the Star Tribune, on the day of the election, mistakenly ran Derus’ photo with a story about a fraudulent charity.
Posted by Stephen Silver at April 25, 2004 01:17 AM