Breitbart Removes Article That Attacked Wrong Loretta Lynch For Whitewater Ties

US Attorney Loretta Lynch pauses as she speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014, where President Barack Obama announced that he will nominate her to replace Eric Holder a... US Attorney Loretta Lynch pauses as she speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014, where President Barack Obama announced that he will nominate her to replace Eric Holder as attorney general. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) MORE LESS
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Breitbart has removed an article that incorrectly identified Loretta Lynch, President Barack Obama’s nominee for attorney general, as a member of the team defending President Bill Clinton during the Whitewater investigation.

The article, which was published Sunday, carried the headline “Obama’s Attorney General Nominee Loretta Lynch Represented Clintons During Whitewater.” The problem was that the Loretta Lynch who’s been tapped to head the Justice Department is not the same Loretta Lynch (pictured below) who represented Clinton and also served as California Public Utilities Commissioner.


California Public Utilities Commissioner Loretta Lynch speaks with reporters following a hearing at the San Francisco Federal Courthouse on Friday, April 9, 2004.

After recognizing its mistake, Breitbart first appended “(Corrected)” to its headline on the piece and and added a correction at the very bottom of the article. The body of the piece, which referred to the attorney general nominee as a member of Clinton’s defense team, was left intact.

“Correction: The Loretta Lynch identified earlier as the Whitewater attorney was, in fact, a different attorney,” the correction read.

But as of Monday morning, the article had been removed from the website entirely.

A second Breitbart article published Sunday, titled “Loretta Lynch: A Qualified–But Political–Choice,” also referred to the attorney general nominee’s purported ties to the Whitewater investigation and was corrected.

As of Monday morning, that second piece is still live on the news site. The correction at the bottom of the piece has been updated to read “An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified Loretta Lynch as having represented the Clintons during the Whitewater scandal. That portion of the article has been removed.”

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  1. Bless their ratfkin’ hearts. They would rather destroy an individual and call it ‘winning’ than actually look at the candidate. Is there any WONDER that such morons get elected to Congress? Mediocre BS.

  2. Avatar for enon enon says:

    no worries… the revered national political media is willing to pick up the meme… like bob schieffer asking the republican senator if the senate will allow obama to ‘jam thru’ this nomination in the remaining time before the republicans take over majority…

  3. Breitbart is akin to plastic dog shit. We Americans still buy lots of plastic dog shit. It’s a billion dollar business, don’t 'cha know?

  4. Let’s give the T’bagger Press a break. They do have an uncanny resemblance.

  5. So many Loretta Lynches, so little time.

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