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Thursday, September 19, 2019

So who's the real reporter here, in NYT Kavanaugh flub?

September 18, 2019 By Monica Showalter

The New York Times has beclowned itself. Again.

Its claimed scoop about having a new witness who could prove that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was some kind of college pervert who stuck his privates into some unwilling college girl's hand, was a phony story if there ever was one because the woman in question could not remember the incident.

That was a key detail spotted by the Federalist's Mollie Hemingway, who wrote a book about the matter, yet the story-changing detail just somehow got left off from the Times' raddled scoop.

The two reporters reporters claimed they knew and one said she 'thinks' it was in the original story filing, but somehow their incompetent editor, James Dao, an editorial page guy (did he also hire Sarah Jeong?) took it out. Really? One of them also put out a bizarre and creepy Bulwer-Lytton level tweet, which they later deleted and then apologized for. Hemingway practices something called journalism. The Times seems to just digging its hole deeper. And to top it off, Instapundit has an excellent curation of all the ways they now claim to be victims.

It all leaves the conclusion that the Times was one heck of a shoddy reporting outfit. And when that's your core competency, you've got to wonder about the paper.........To Read More....



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