Aaron Rupar Stunned What Donald Trump Said About Lifelong Devout Catholic Joe Biden
NBC News Reports That President Biden Has Grown Angry About Re-Election Effort
The New Yorker Describes the 'Repressive, Authoritarian Soul' of 'Thomas the Tank Engine'...
Washington Post Writer Back With Another Hot Take on Whiteness and Country Radio
Color Us COMPLETELY Unsurprised: LAPD Task Force Created to Deal with Gangs of...
Media Matters Ari Drennen Plays Stupid, Claims You Need A DNA Test to...
New York Times Reports That 'Raunchy Christians' Are Turning Toward the Risqué
Best Economy Ever, Jack! More Americans Dip Into Retirement Savings to Make Ends...
Democrats Again Defending Dignity of MS-13 Gang Members
WATCH: Video of Nashville PD Physical Fitness Test Is MAJOR Cringe
Sen. Brian Schatz Tells Headline Writers How to Take Donald Trump Quote Out...
SHOCKING NEWS: New Study Reports Woke People Are Likely to Be Depressed and...
It's a Bloodbath (Hoax) Out There!
CNN Obviously Has No Problem With 'Bloodbath' When THEY Use the Word
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Concerned First Amendment Hamstrings Government

NYT editor tells Mollie Hemingway to 'Go watch Fox' in response to criticism of Perry article

Patrick LaForge, an editor with the New York Times New York Times editor, deleted a tweet on Thursday where he told The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway to “go watch Fox” after Hemingway and fellow Federalist editor Mary Katharine Ham criticized the Times’ hit-piece on Gov. Rick Perry, Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Energy:

Advertisement

https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/822120943162101760

It looks like LaForge deleted the snarky response after Hemingway called the tweet “one of the worst comebacks I’ve ever read”:

Hemingway had earlier bashed the Times’ reporting on Perry, calling their piece alleging that the nominee to head the DOE had no idea what the DOE really did as “the very definition of fake news”:

Keep in mind it’s not just righty media folks who bashed the Times’ single-source nonsense. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes:

Daily Show writer Daniel Radosh:

And the single-source the article, former transition official Michael McKenna, told The Daily Caller that the Times misquoted him:

Advertisement

McKenna, though, told TheDC that the “headline” and lede of the story “don’t really reflect what I said.” He added that “of course” Perry understood the role of the Department of Energy when he was offered the job. Two-thirds of the DOE’s budget is devoted to maintaining the nation’s nuclear stockpiles. The nation’s primary site for the assembly and disassembly of nuclear weapons is located in Amarillo, Texas, a state Perry was governor of for 15 years.

LaForge’s answer to McKenna saying he was misquoted was to claim that others backed up what McKenna had to say, but the Times doesn’t need to list them in the article:

https://twitter.com/WatsonDanielLLC/status/822110278913576960

https://twitter.com/palafo/status/822116866588086272

Um, that’s not how it works:

Pathetic is right.

***

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Twitchy Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement