HOWLER OF THE YEAR FROM THE NY TIMES

[Geee]

Powerline:

 

We and others have great fun tracking the duplicitous corrections at the New York Times, but the correction of Nick Kristof’s column last Saturday, “Is Hillary Clinton Dishonest?“, sets a new Olympic record.

 

Kristof’s column, as it reads online right now, relies on an evaluation by PolitiFact in the following way:

 

PolitiFact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking site, calculates that of the Clinton statements it has examined, 50 percent are either true or mostly true.

That compares to 49 percent for Bernie Sanders’s, 9 percent for Trump’s, 22 percent for Ted Cruz’s and 52 percent for John Kasich’s. Here we have a rare metric of integrity among candidates, and it suggests that contrary to popular impressions, Clinton is relatively honest — by politician standards.

 

And at the bottom of the column is this short correction:

 

Correction: April 23, 2016: An earlier version of this column misstated some of the percentages of true statements as judged by PolitiFact.

[SrWoodchuck]

Sweet @Geee!

 

Just following Alinsky Journalism 101. Repeating the lie until it establishes itself as "fact."

 

Bold statement on Editorial Page #1-----small correction at the bottom of the obituaries.