Checkbook Journalism? National Enquirer Editor Challenged Over Tiger Woods Report
Cable News has been fairly obsessed with the Tiger Woods story since it broke on Friday, and last night was no exception. Subbing for Geraldo Rivera last night, Kim Guilfoyle interviewed Barry Levine, Executive Editor of the National Enquirer. The notorious tabloid is now at the center of the Tiger Woods scandal for its exclusive report of the “other woman” Rachel Uchitel as the reason behind the Woods’ car accident. Guilfoyle challenged Levine for paying for their exclusive source, and Levine admitted that Uchitel’s story has changed since its first report.
Levine was a guest on Geraldo At Large since his publication has exclusively reported on the woman accused to have been having an affair with the world famous golfer — a story that has been reported by TMZ as well.
Guifoyle: So, you stand by your sources because she has accused you essentialnof checkbook journalism, that paid your sources $25,000 to contribute to the story. Whether you paid or not, Isn’t what matters whether or not it is true?
Levine: The bottom line is we pay, you know, the National Enquirer we pay exclusive information that we can verify and check out. This is a story that took us several weeks, took us halfway around the world. We had reporters in Australia, we followed this woman from New York to Australia for her last meeting with Tiger Woods. There are multiple sources, some of which are used in the current story, polygraphs were administered to several of the sources, all of the sources passed with flying colors. I can point out, there is an exclusive on the record interview with one of Rachel’s friends who is named in the article. Obviously Rachel has gone into a damage control mode certainly it has been ramped up because the accident. I can certainly see from where I hear this is a woman who is scared who has been caught up in a scandal now of global proportion and in the past 24 hours she has given several interviews to media outlets. However, there have been several contradictions and outright lies that she as told.
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Isn’t this entire episode so funny. Like obama the lamestream media will do anything to protect the minority in question. This is just more evidence of liberal zombie’s taking over the lamestream media. Had the golfer been White, he would have been bashed up one side and down the other. But because Tiger is half-black the elites in the media go after his White wife with a vengeance rarely seen except if it’s Sarah Palin. TMZ has blistered Tiger’s wife and made her out to be the devil incarnate. And there has been rumors for months that he was cheating on his wife and apparently he either fessed up to his wife last night or finally got caught with his hand in the cookie jar hence the reason he told a friend he was going out to buy his wife a Kobe ring. A Kobe ring is a house on a woman’s finger. Kobe bought the massive ring for his wife when he got cheating on her numerous times. I won’t beat up on the NE simply because they were the only paper that told the truth about John “Boy” Edwards while he was cheating on his dying wife. For that I’ll be eternally grateful for that because John “Boy” was getting close to the White House, too close for my comfort. I would have rather have seen the Manchurian Muslim elected like he was simply because it wake up America to how evil obama is and how much his faith in islam as well as his hatred for White America would play a huge role. Everything is working out the way I thought it would with obama. Having said that Tiger is getting off very easy.
roxsteady says: First of all, how is it that you would drag Obama into this? Second, Tiger’s wife likely assulted him. He was smart enough not to take one of those clubs and know her head off. See, she told the police that she heard the crash and called the cops but, it wasn’t Elin who called the cops. It was a neighbor. And finally, your Obama derangement syndrome is showing. You really think anyone give a damn what you think? You’re likely one of the toothless banjo players who think Palin is qualified. This bimbo couldn’t even keep herself from a dangerous pregnancy let alone that skank daughter of hers. Finally, as an agnostic I find all religion to be nothing more than a scam. Pedophiles flooding the Catholic church and bible thumping fake christians who cheat on their wives at C-Street:
John Ensign
Mark Sanford
Why are these 2 still in office? Oh, and get ready to cry again because Obama will wipe the floor with any of the wingnuts waiting to challenge him. You should move to Europe because this will be a 2 term President!
roxsteady says: By the way, that’s knock her head off!
roxsteady says: Oh, and stop with the Obama hates white people! It sounded equally stupid when Beck said it. Try having an original thought!
ImNotBlue says: roxsteady says:
November 29, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Reminds me of something Kayne once said… oh yeah, but that was “different,” right?
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