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COMMENTS:
* I blame Hatch for doing a write up on a meeting that hadn't occurred yet.
* Rather lame excuse. Hatch has been a professional career politician long enough to have a staff that knows how best to cover his butt at all times. If this -oopsie! - slipped out ahead of time there's still no excuse for creating a statement/letter on the meeting before the meeting. Canned letters are very easy to crank out after the fact. And blaming the newspaper for not editing? You probably expect all news to present all sides for you.
* Hatch doesn't admit making mistakes. Apparently Republicans consider that a weakness.
* Horrin was just demonstrating the integrity of our republican elected public servants: NONE. but because he is a mormon and a republican, he's allowed such transgressions. how can anyone find this OK?
* Yes, it would be embarrassing for your average person. But for Hatch and the likes, it's called "business as usual".
* Why would you ever trust a GOP senator? There are a slim few worth crap. Flake, one of the Nebraska guys, and that's about it. Long gone are the days of Bob Dole and Howard Baker.
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Letter: A fabricated story from a U.S. senator
By Jason Tiscione, May 30, 2016
On May 26, the Deseret News published an op-ed by Sen. Orrin Hatch: "My Meeting With Supreme Court Nominee Eric Garland." He described meeting with Garland, and how it hadn't changed his stance on blocking nomination hearings.
Strangely, his op-ed appeared on the newspaper's website at midnight, at least six hours before this supposed meeting could have happened.
Perhaps it remains to be seen whether Sen. Hatch is a time traveler, or simply a mendacious liar with a seat in the Senate Judiciary Committee, but any newspaper with journalistic integrity would have noted such a laughable inconsistency.
Instead, the Deseret News quietly scrubbed the article — but not before screenshots were obtained and reported on by national news outlets. Its URL displayed, "Oops, the page you are looking for cannot be found," until the column suddenly reappeared, with the time of publication altered from midnight to 5:10 p.m. along with an editor's note: "A draft of this op-ed was erroneously published on DeseretNews.com prior to final revisions and edits from Sen. Hatch. We apologize to Sen. Hatch and our readers for this error."
Conveniently left out of this half-hearted apology was any acknowledgment that the Deseret News published a fabricated story written by a sitting U.S. senator.
Jason Tiscione
Salt Lake City
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