Leavey Attempts To Smear Lipscomb ... Misses, Shoots Self In Foot

People should take a breath to realize what they are talking about before they start hurling allegations which amount to lies about people, even if the individuals are public figures. Perhaps especially so in the sense that they are entitled to their well-deserved reputations.

Pamela Leavey posted this nonsense at the Democratic Daily and the lib commenters are applauding her and howling over it.

The Right-wing Blogosphere’s (and Lipscomb’s own) Wildly Exaggerated Claim that Lipscomb Was Nominated for a Pulitzer for his “Kerry” Reporting…

Thomas Lipscomb is an independent investigative reporter who was nominated for a Pulitzer for his reporting on Kerry during the 2004 elections. He is a senior fellow at the Annenberg Center for the Digital Future (USC).

Funny thing about that claim that Lipscomb was nominated for a Pulitzer — Pulitzer.org provides lists of all nominees and winners on their website - Lipscomb’s name is NO WHERE TO BE FOUND in 2004 or 2005.

If Thomas Lipscomb would lie about being nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, ask yourself this question… “What else would he lie about?” Here’s the answer - John Kerry’s military service.

If Leavey had enough insight or intelligence to know what she was talking about, she'd realize the lists Pulitzer maintains on line at the links above are nominated finalists - not comprehensive lists of all nominees.

Of course, reading the site would tell you that, but perhaps that's a bit much to ask in this case.

Terminology

When searching the database it's important to understand the following Pulitzer Prize terminology:

A Pulitzer Prize Winner may be an individual, a group of individuals, or a newspaper's staff.
Nominated Finalists are selected by the Nominating Juries for each category as finalists in the competition. The Pulitzer Prize Board generally selects the Pulitzer Prize Winners from the three nominated finalists in each category. The names of nominated finalists have been announced only since 1980. Work that has been submitted for Prize consideration but not chosen as either a nominated finalist or a winner is termed an entry or submission. No information on entrants is provided.

Comments

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Of course, reading the site with comprehension would tell you that:

"Work that has been submitted for Prize consideration but not chosen as either a nominated finalist or a winner is termed an entry or submission."

Oh, that's right, you actually posted it. I guess you just didn't apply the necessary intelligence and insight when you did so.

And just in case that flew past you, a little more from that same website:

"The three finalists in each category are the only entries in the competition that are recognized by the Pulitzer office as nominees."

By the way, also according to the website, over 1400 journalism entries were received in 2004...care to extrapolate how many were received in 2005?