Noel Sheppard uses a Jan. 16 NewsBusters post to highlight Newt Gingrich’s attack on Mitt Romney in which Gingrich claimed that “Mitt Romney’s inability to control what a Super PAC supporting him says ‘makes you wonder how much influence he’d have if he were President.'”
It’s a strange thing for Sheppard to highlight, given that it would be illegal for a candidate to have any control over the super PAC supporting him. It’s doubly strange because Gingrich has no control over his super PAC either — to the point where he has to beg his super PAC to fix inaccurate claims in an anti-Romney video it released.
Why did Sheppard highlight this exchange without bothering to report all the relevant facts? Um, because he’s incompetent?