Should we expect accuracy from front page posters?

It's really a rhetorical question, because, indeed, we should expect accuracy from the front page crew. After all, they're being compensated to post here, and it is in kos' best interest as a business owner and as the leader of the most active political site on the web to protect the site's reputation.

So when we get a front page piece like this from Clinton partisan, Laura Clawson:

Bernie Sanders calls investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails 'valid'

... readers here should have an expectation of journalistic clarity in her writing.

Such was not the case with Laura's piece.

In a sin of omission, Laura selectively quoted from the cited Wall Street Journal interview with Sanders.

Laura opened her piece with this statement:

In what the media is casting as a major shift, Bernie Sanders said on Wednesday that he supports ongoing investigation into Hillary Clinton's email practices as secretary of state:

Note that her link does not provide full access to the article unless one is a subscriber to the Wall Street Journal (unlike my link above it which is taken from Google, and, thus, provides the full text of the article -- see explanation in UPDATE, below).

She then offers this snippet from the article (that only subscribers can read in its entirety):

If her email practices foiled public-records requests or compromised classified information, those are “valid questions,” Mr. Sanders said. [...

On the issue of Mrs. Clinton’s emails, Mr. Sanders didn’t say he regretted his debate remarks. “You get 12 seconds to say these things,” he said of the debate setting. “There’s an investigation going on right now. I did not say, ‘End the investigation.’ That’s silly.…Let the investigation proceed unimpeded.”

What Laura omitted was an earlier paragraph which made clear that Sanders was referring specifically to the FBI investigation of the email server which was requested by Obama's Justice Department:

Sen. Sanders of Vermont, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, also said the federal investigation of the security surrounding Mrs. Clinton’s private email account is appropriate.

Note that Laura's omission could leave the impression that Sanders was encouraging Trey Gowdy's witch hunt. In fact, there were many Clinton partisans in the comments section of Laura's piece claiming just such a thing.

It was no surprise that former front-pager and noted shit-stirrer, brooklynbadboy, exploited the same omission to pen this gem this morning:

Sanders wants Benghazi Committee to continue witch hunt

No, Sanders does not want the "Benghazi Committee to continue witch hunt." In fact, Sanders has denounced Gowdy's witch hunt committee on numerous occasions.

brooklynbadboy was either lying or was misinformed. I'll leave it up to you to decide.

While brooklynbadboy has a reputation for throwing these kinds of bombs, Laura should know better. She sourced the original story, so one would assume she read the story in its entirety. If she did, she had an obligation to make it clear that Sanders was referencing the FBI investigation requested by Obama's Justice Department, and not the "investigation" by Gowdy's committee.

Many Clinton partisans in the comments of both diaries continued from the false premise that Sanders was encouraging Gowdy and company. He was not, and the WSJ piece makes that clear.

Likewise, a later diary from Clinton backer, LiberalCanuck, opened with this false statement:

I have read two diaries on Sanders reply on whether the Eghazi committee should continue the witch-hunt of Hillary Clinton.

Sanders never suggested any such thing. But one wouldn't know it from reading Laura's front page piece, brooklynbadboy's floater, or LiberalCanuck's bogus tale.

kos, in the interest of accuracy and the reputation of your site, you and your front pagers can do better.

[UPDATE: For those who want to read the full article, copy and paste the article's full title into Google and click the resulting WSJ link. Here is the full title: Bernie Sanders Takes Gloves Off Against Hillary Clinton in Interview. Note that the mention of Sanders referencing the federal investigation is in the second paragraph of the story.]