As Twitchy has reported, “Fire and Fury” author Michael Wolff is making the rounds of the media today, and some of the interviews have been outright clown shows, with MSNBC’s Katy Tur congratulating Wolff on the book and also “on the president hating it.”
Not many journalists seem to be spending time fact-checking Wolff — after all, if it rings true, it probably is true, right? — but the Washington Post’s Mark Berman was surprised to see he had a cameo appearance, at the Four Seasons no less.
Spotted in the new Michael Wolff book about Trump: A Four Seasons breakfast featuring "Washington Post national reporter Mark Berman"
(I have never had breakfast at the Four Seasons, never actually been there) (but now I wonder if I can use this to go eat there and expense it?) pic.twitter.com/bWgVAwrEfj
— Mark Berman (@markberman) January 5, 2018
Huh.
Thank you to @PostKranish for pointing this out to me and reminding me I gotta up my breakfast game
— Mark Berman (@markberman) January 5, 2018
Oh, and a HuffPost reporter pointed out that there’s another error in the same paragraph:
Wilbur Ross was nominated to lead Department of Commerce, not Department of Labor
— Sam Levine (@srl) January 5, 2018
beginning to wonder if there might be a thing or two here that slipped through the fact checking process
— Mark Berman (@markberman) January 5, 2018
Oh, and besides misspelling “public” as pubic” not once but twice …
We're up to a third thing: Hilary Rosen's name is misspelled https://t.co/wIQ4lrLRwq
— Mark Berman (@markberman) January 5, 2018
And this is just one paragraph.
To close out this thread with two things:
1) The person at the Four Seasons having breakfast that morning was Mike Berman, the lobbyist (no relation), who confirmed it just now
— Mark Berman (@markberman) January 6, 2018
And it turns out I can also say with 100% certainty again I wasn't at the Four Seasons that morning because it turns out this breakfast was the same morning my kid was being born, per this story.
So! Here ends the thread, it was quite a journeyhttps://t.co/qm7xTMNamP
— Mark Berman (@markberman) January 6, 2018
One more thing:
Since a couple of people are asking me if this is a "gorilla channel" joke thing: No, this is a real thing in the book, not a joke tweet people took too seriouslyhttps://t.co/RvssZZ7M4X
— Mark Berman (@markberman) January 5, 2018
But as long as it rings true …
I'm starting to get the feeling this book was rushed out to sell a narrative about a crazy, demented Trump & they never figured HONEST PEOPLE would, like, speak up and call out the blatant factual errors.
— Horowitz Had It All In 2018 & Didn't Leak It (@drawandstrike) January 5, 2018
“Forget it, Jake. It’s the Gorilla Channel.”
— Andrew S. (@shoutingboy) January 5, 2018
https://twitter.com/jfdulac/status/949612194278363136
this is *extremely* true
— Mark Berman (@markberman) January 6, 2018
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D’OH! Remaining wheels fall off ‘Fire and Fury’ in AWKWARD Michael Wolff interview
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