Mort FINALLY hits the delete button

http://thornography.weei.com/sports/boston/2015/08/04/espns-chris-mortensen-finally-deletes-deflate-gate-tweet/

BTW WEEI's radio signal 103.7 in RI comes out of Westerly, right on the Connecticut line in the southwestern corner of the state.
They can hear the BOSTON VOICE loud and clear at ESPN in Bristol, Ct.

Yeah? Now he needs to come out and verbally retract it.

KontradictioN said:

Yeah? Now he needs to come out and verbally retract it.

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How lame of an excuse was that, anyway? He has almost 20k tweets. We were supposed to believe he never had to delete one before?

Mort is stuck between admitting that he was deceived by credible league officials and admitting that he's just an irresponsible journalist. He will admit to neither.

the Patriot said:

Mort is stuck between admitting that he was deceived by credible league officials and admitting that he's just an irresponsible journalist. He will admit to neither.

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And it truly is now one or the other.

Koma said:

How lame of an excuse was that, anyway? He has almost 20k tweets. We were supposed to believe he never had to delete one before?

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And even if he didn't know, there wasn't anyone at ESPN who could help him?

It's a little to late. ....he helped literally shape the general publics opinion of Brady and it don't appear to be changing much. Just heard them on the radio use the phrase "Brady cheated " he needs to own up and he probably lied because he was worried about not playing in superbowl, etc.
When will it ever end? I hope he wins of course but hope he does sue after too because they did damage his reputation!

Not sure why anyone cares about this tbh. It's not like people are reading tweets from January as news. Verbal retraction is what matters like what Kontra said.

To little too late!

Froob said:

Not sure why anyone cares about this tbh. It's not like people are reading tweets from January as news. Verbal retraction is what matters like what Kontra said.

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He doesn't know how to do that

ESPN could do around the clock reports we were wrong about the Patriots Brady and deflategate make it every ticker on the bottom of the screen they could shout apologies and plead with the viewers to understand Brady is innocent and do a real report about the corruption poisoning the NFL and the predjustice against the Patriots and it wouldn't be close to enough.

SuperStang83 said:

To little too late!

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True story.....I hope Brady don't accept any suspension, just what everyone here has been saying they just said...if Brady accepts a suspension he's guilty of something. I just wish this would end so I can enjoy football season without all this BS!

The only thing I agree with Mort on is that I do not think at the time, Kensil outright lied to him.

However when he kept going back an asking for validation from other sources afterwards, he was being lied to.

Mort is a tool of the NFL even though he is employed by ESPN.. much rather get along, than report on this situation..

He is part of the inner circle who will receive more information when needed...

robertweathers said:

The only thing I agree with Mort on is that I do not think at the time, Kensil outright lied to him.

However when he kept going back an asking for validation from other sources afterwards, he was being lied to.

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What would a legit journalist be doing right now?

eom said:

What would a legit journalist be doing right now?

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Something unrelated to PSIgate, because he would have confessed and cleared up his error long ago, and moved on to other subjects subsequently.

eom said:

What would a legit journalist be doing right now?

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Delete Tweets

Is there something going on? I got a alert on my phone from bleacher report that said "patriots won't accept deflate....and that's where it cut off...so I clicked on it and don't see anything on there like that...
Maybe someone posted some false information and thought better to delete. Lol