this part of the story.Pain and simple.

Tiptons a bit jealous… Even if PP has a new truck, so what… You telling me a bank will not finance a loan for PP knowing he will be lottery pick next spring..???

when I read the link this morning. Jerry even has a quote from PPat in the article, saying his father just gave in. This is really bad, and I hope we can know what is a link to Jerry pixels before we actually click on it. Reporters cannot make stuff up. Maybe there is a perfectly explainable reason, who knows at this point.

Yeah, but in this case what Jerry allegedly made up didn’t even make his story better.

My goodness, talking about Patrick’s new pickup truck? If he is going to make something up, surely he could have come up with something a whole heck of a lot more interesting than that. It’s silly. Who really cares that Patrick has a new pickup? Is this really newsworthy anyway?

There is no such a thing as a “new” Lincoln Mark LT Truck.Production for this vehicle was 2005-2008.

Did he mistake some other black truck and some other 6’8" guy for Patrick Patterson,….

Now that is pretty funny….

Please let that be his explanation tomorrow… :-)

this story will get little traction.But that a reporter can go and make-up events that did not occur,and more or less lie,is really sad.The LHL has some crediability issues,endorsing an employee that makes up stories out of pure fabrication.

Making Jerry Springer look good since 1980………

I am a Tipton detractor.

More fuel for the fire, I suppose.

i believe a reporter should act in a way to keep uk athletics honest, but – for some reason – he appears to have lost any unbias nature he ever had…

Mr. Tipton’s hit count has just skyrocketed. A controversy has been created and all blogs and websites are linking the H-L.

You poor advertisers have just seen your rates go up.

As Mr. Tipton and his editors are now saying, “It’s good to be king!”

Tru, I respectfully second the request of an earlier poster, please identify all links to the Herald-Leader site (www.kentucky.com or www.kentuckysports.com) so that I can avoid adding to Mr. Tipton’s revenue-enhancing Ponzi-scheme.

His “clarification” proves that he made the whole thing up. But I can find nothing in LHL or LCJ this morning on the fabrication. Where is the outrage from other journalists? Their profession is being besmirched by the tactics of a hack. And don’t tell me that this is merely some little exaggeration to color up a story. Tipton clearly intended for readers to wonder about how Patterson could have obtained such a nice car… especially after the articles highlighting the problems of his other vehicle. My first thought was, “I sure hope that was a legitimate purchase of a vehicle.” My guess is that the “industry” will circle the wagons and defend this as “poetic license” or some other such bovine excrement, but this is precisely why professional journalism grows less believable every day. They are only slightly more believable than politicians.

Mr. Tipton, do your homework; think; write the truth; or walk away from the profession.

…you know they make stuff up all the time. They call what they write “stories” for a reason. They are more than willing to distort or misrepresent the facts and quotes in order to tell the story they want to tell. Clearly, Tipton thought the bit about Patterson’s truck added some color to the piece so he put it in.

But what’s more sinister is, how did this story even come about? If I were the Pattersons, there would be an absolute blackout on Tipton interviews. I speculate that Tipton did some digging and discovered the Pattersons had a new black truck and called to get a comment on it. I’m guessing that the Pattersons decided it would be less of a fiasco to tell the truth about the truck (that they had bought it for Patrick) than just not comment. Can’t you see the Tipton headling: “Pattersons Refuse to Acknowledge Source of New Truck”. So Tipton has to write a some kind of piece about it, so that’s what we got. Of course, that’s all speculation, but it seems reasonable.

and completely fabricating a story.Since Tipton is now a proven liar,I wonder how many of his stories are “cooked”?Patterson did not drive the truck to Rupp,matter of fact,the truck is not even in this state at the moment.

Tipton had zero first hand knowledge of this event because it never happened.Therefore,he is a liar.

“You sir are one sorry son of a bitch.”

Maybe Jerry wants to go to work for the New York Times (Slogan: All the news that’s fit to make up).

the reaction to Jerry’s complete fabrication has been blown way out of proportion.

So it is “out of proportion” for the public to want the things they read “in the paper” written by paid professionals to have actually happened ??

Geez. No wonder those guys at the H-L (Tipton, Clay, Story) have never been able to move on to bigger and better things.

… I have posted an update to this. Fair warning: It will not satisfy most of you.

I am totally and completely SHOCKED. =)