Ezra Klein on MSNBC just said Romney once cancelled a corporate retreat where Abba was hired to play because their music was “too angry.”
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P.E. Thomas (@ScaryKlown) September 14, 2012Everyone on the planet understood that this piece by David Brooks is satire.
Everyone realized that this line — “He once canceled a corporate retreat at which Abba had been hired to play, saying he found the band’s music ‘too angry.’ ” — is a joke.
Everyone, that is, except MSNBC’s fact-challenged fact checker, Ezra Klein. On Thursday,while guest-hosting for hyper-partisan liberal Ed Schultz, Klein reported the ABBA cancellation as fact.
A few Twitter users (the entire universe of Ed Show viewers?) noticed:
Romney's laughable, but @ezraklein saying Mitt cancelled an ABBA gig was Brooks satire reported as fact. #edshow nytimes.com/2012/08/28/opi…—
Tim Ellis (@iamtimellis) September 14, 2012
Ezra Klein on Ed Show: Mitt Romney once cancelled an ABBA concert because he found their music too angry. WTF? #MammaMia—
Dale Moss (@DaleMoss2) September 14, 2012
@ezraklein We Swedes need a retraction on the ABBA comment. Abba would never perform for Bain. It never happened. nytimes.com/2012/08/28/opi…—
(@iswede) September 14, 2012
(My Twitter's back UP) Did I hear @ezraklein right? Mitt objected to ABBA once bc their music is "too angry"?! LOL #cantevenbetrustedwmusic—
Noelma Colon (@Noe_Colon) September 14, 2012
Mitt Romney thinks #ABBA is too angry?!?! #DiscoDisorder @EzraKlein @edshow #edshow—
Leah Yarnes (@Leah1069) September 14, 2012
Klein (to his credit) admitted that an error was made, although it’s telling that he says “our” rather than “my”:
@iamtimellis Yeah, this was an idiotic mistake on our part, and we're correcting tonight—
Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) September 14, 2012
Do you think maybe he learned a lesson? Not likely. Just two days later, Klein went right back to smearing Romney.
Update: Look at this:
Since when is the highest virtue to go in front of people and wing it? I'd never host a show without researching and writing a script first—
Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) September 07, 2012
Previously:
Desperate journo-tool Ezra Klein manufactures another Romney smear
Ezra Klein’s lie: Now you see it, now you don’t!
‘Fact checker’ Ezra Klein doubles down on Janesville GM auto plant lie