NYT f*cked up bigly.

[MelissaB]

On Friday, the NYT did a piece about a podcast Secretary Clinton did with David Plouffe. They incorrectly quoted her saying that the “Russians” were “grooming” a candidate running in the Democratic primary. They rightfully fixed it to reflect that she was taking about the GOP.

In yesterday’s paper, @superwusterwrote an opinion piece accusing Secretary Clinton of trading in conspiracy theories, based off of comments that she didn’t make.

I too am tired of talking about this, but let’s again set the record straight. HRC speculated that the only way the GOP is going to win in states where Trump can’t hit a 50% majority is to 1) Suppress the vote, as they do widely and routinely, & 2) Bank on the 3rd party spoiler.

And yes, she said that certain fringe members of the Democratic and Green parties are assets to the Russians. Well guess what folks? That’s true. She didn’t call anyone a spy, as some are wrongly asserting for their own political gain.

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But on the same day that the NYT buries the end of the email saga on A16 after years of breathless coverage, & 2 days after they correct their own story about Secretary Clinton’s comments, this warrants some pushback.

Link to tweet

More at the twitter link.

[Dem4Life1102]

1. No surprise

NYT has hated the Clintons for over 25 years.

[unblock]

2. oh, so there's a material difference between the russian government and republicans?

[UniteFightBack]

5. That's why they are called 'Russiapublicans'. nt

[Iggo]

11. The latter works for the former.

[zaj]

3. Wait, that whole story was bogus?

That's actually shocking.

[Demonaut]

17. it's huge...they should not be a text version of fox news

[empedocles]

4. NYT is the national paper of record, - with a national constituency.

NYT does not want to beknown as the voice of _______, [name your left constituency].

[uponit7771]

6. There have been more than one KGOP person taking Russian money from Rudy's goons and the NYT

... is blasting that to high heaven like they did Clinton's emails.

The NYT doesn't like the Clinton's we get it, but that shit has got us Trump and they continue to this day.

This is some shit here, NYT needs to straighten up and fly right.

[Iliyah]

7. Yeah, but Tulsi's response was brutal and telling . . .

[UpInArms]

8. I have blocked the NYTs from my news sources

[mcar]

9. NYT will stop at nothing to smear HRC

Nothing.

[dalton99a]

12. +1. And they will go to extraordinary lengths to normalize Trump

[Hortensis]

15. Steady drip, drip, drip of lightly poisoned pens 24/7/365

has been going on for I don't know how long. I haven't been studying it that long. For years, though.

But it seems to me that sometimes, especially starting autumn 2016, their insidiously negative slant that matches the MSM usual becomes dangerously blatant misreporting, and I wonder what is triggering it. Approaching the 2016 election as a reason for the Halloween article claiming the FBI found nothing in Trump-Russia was obvious. But how about all the events since that have become almost usual, like these recent attempts at everything from normalizing Trump's economic problems to this?

It's like protecting Trump/Repubs (and/or themselves?) is more important to people in power than protecting the NYT's reputation.

[Iggo]

10. How many times did that lie go around the world?

[warrior1]

13. Yeah

HRC never mentions her by name, but TG responded.

[tenderfoot]

14. The media's objective is to protect the status quo

their non-stop attempts to undermine every justice movement in my lifetime (anti-war movement, Women's rights, Civil rights, Occupy Wall St) to normalize Trump's Fascism is proof. We're talking television network news and major newspapers like the NY Times.

[dmr]

16. I am so sick of people demonizing Hillary.

How many more decades of this shit does she have to endure?