The Washington Post yesterday inadvertently published a premature, pre-written story announcing Vice President Joe Biden's run for president.
Boasting the headline "Biden to launch a presidential campaign," the apocryphal report claimed the news "ends months of speculation, sets up a high stakes battle for the Democratic nomination." The piece, written by WAPO reporter Paul Kane, was riddled with placeholders — marked “XXX” — to denote forthcoming dates and source names.
The piece was quickly pulled and soon replaced with an editor's note claiming that the "file was inadvertently published,” but not before it was snatched up and quickly redistributed over the Internet. Conservative news and opinion website breitbart.com reposted the entire article on its site.
WAPO reporter Paul Kane went to Twitter to explain the error, writing that a "technical glitch” that occurred while editors were in the process of embedding a video file caused the premature posting. Kane referred to the piece as a "just-in-case/when-we-kno” story regarding the VP’s potential run.
“I regret that it was published accidentally. Deep apologies,” continued Kane.
The Washington Post wasn't the only party to jump the gun yesterday regarding Biden’s possible Presidential bid. Congressman Brendan Boyle (D-PA) posted on Twitter yesterday that, "I have a very good source close to Joe that tells me VP Biden will run for Prez."
NBC News, meanwhile, remained slightly more cautious, offering a headline yesterday that claimed, "Biden could announce decision within 48 hours." Fox News today is reporting that Biden may announce his 2016 decision "within the next 24 hours."
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