Today Atlanta Journal-Constitution Editor Cynthia Tucker issued a response to claims of hypocrisy and censorship made by Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue’s office. In her to make a defense, she does not realize that she is again exposing her bias!

You can read her response here.

In her response, she claims that:

Now given she felt that Mr. McLagan made inaccurate statements, one would obviously think that she would want to check every statement he made in the letter. But she says nothing about attempting to check the facts regarding any other statement that he made! Below is a full copy of the uncensored letter from Mr. McLagan, that he wanted the AJC to publish. I will put each statement that should require a fact check in bold print.

Also let me point out that Ms. Tucker says the deleted statement was a little different:

Whether his letter said Cox Communications or Cox Enterprises really does not matter much. Given Ms. Tucker knows who she works for and could have easily corrected that. But in the letter above I’ve pointed out 7 statements made by Mr. McLagan. Any editor that wants to fact check a letter would certainly have checked more than just the statement made about the parent company of the AJC. Especially if that editor feels the person who wrote the letter has made inaccurate statements in the past! I don’t believe that a reasonable newspaper editor would say (what I feel she is saying): well he’s made false statements about this company in the past, so we’ll only fact check statements he makes about this company. No, I think any editor that feels they should check facts would want to check all of the facts! But Ms. Tucker says nothing about a need to fact check any other statement made by Mr. McLagan! And when it comes to fact checking, one would think that Ms. Tucker would have the easiest time checking statements made about her own company! But Ms. Tucker ordered the statement to be deleted and said nothing about having a need to fact check anything else in the letter. Are we to assume that she had time to check every other fact except that one? When the letter arrived after the normal deadline! I don’t think so!

This exposes the true hypocrisy and bias of Cynthia Tucker!!! Her best attempt to cover her hypocrisy, only exposed just how hypocritical she really is!!! She claims she wanted to check facts, but ironically only mentions the need to check one statement! And that one removed statement was key to the overall point of his letter!

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update (11/20/2005 5:19PM ET): Dan McLagan has issued this response to the statement from Cynthia Tucker.

I thought Ms. Tucker would easily correct the name of her parent company, but it turns out I was wrong. That is what the previous error she mentioned was all about! He also mentions that tax records show that the tax breaks received by her employer totaled $6.7 million!