We were going to leave this alone until Jonathan Chait decided to speak up. New York Magazine’s Intelligencer has issued a correction to its piece on Christopher Rufo, saying that he was misquoted.
Winning: New York Magazine's @jonathanchait fabricated a quotation in an attempt to smear me, but I caught him red-handed and his editors had to retract the false statement and issue a correction. Very embarrassing for him. pic.twitter.com/lNghWL6vyn
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 14, 2022
Funny how Chait "misquoted" my remarks using completely different words and changing the entire meaning of my sentences in a way that just so happened to turn me into the villain in his narrative.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 14, 2022
It's one of our country's greatest ironies that Jonathan Chait's columns appear under the header "Intelligencer."
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 14, 2022
Chait not only had no shame over the correction; he also took the opportunity to slam Rufo:
In fact, the misquote said virtually the same thing as the original. The misquote was minor (I will quote both in a follow-up) but we corrected because, unlike Rufo, we have standards. https://t.co/lcsVeMlTRM
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) July 14, 2022
Here's the original misquote: "In order to achieve universal school choice, it’s necessary to create an atmosphere of universal public-school distrust.” Here's what he said: pic.twitter.com/MWrHgquZx3
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) July 14, 2022
So what he said was, “You really need to operate from a premise of universal public school mistrust,” not “It’s necessary to create an atmosphere of universal public school mistrust.”
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It's important to get quotes right. But both lines are saying the same thing.
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) July 14, 2022
It’s important to get quotes right, but …
On the left is Chait's fabricated quote, which suggests that I "instructed" conservatives to "create an atmosphere" of school distrust. On the right is my real quote, which says that teachers unions and school bureaucracies have already created distrust.
These are not the same. pic.twitter.com/WYGs8nmGuN
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 14, 2022
The ratio has already begun. pic.twitter.com/gU2aX58gSH
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 14, 2022
It's incredible that Chait boasts about his "standards" in the same tweet in which he admits to fabricating a quotation to push a pre-conceived narrative. This is why the public has zero trust in regime media: lies, hubris, and hypocrisy all wrapped into one. https://t.co/jg3ZleuhCS
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 14, 2022
You know you've made it when they start making shit up about you.
— HTX guy (@htxphoto2019) July 14, 2022
Jonathan Chait is just a liar. And not even a good liar.
— Jack in the East (@talkradio200) July 14, 2022
We corrected it because we have standards, and getting quotes right is important. But Chait stands by the original misquote.
Those two quotations are not saying the same thing.
— stevemur (@stevemur) July 14, 2022
They aren’t, though
— Grant Addison (@jgrantaddison) July 14, 2022
You do realize why you had to correct this, right?
— Grant Addison (@jgrantaddison) July 14, 2022
If they said the same thing, you wouldn't have had to retract it. Clearly they are communicating two very different points.
— Leo Strauss III (@LeoStrauss3rd) July 14, 2022
Lmao, these are completely different.
This is like saying "create" and "assume" are the same word.
— Ethan Gregor (@ethangregor) July 14, 2022
Those aren’t remotely the same.
— AC's Dad (@RollTideJT) July 14, 2022
Your editors say no, so other than to get another dig in at Rufo, what is this for. Take the L and move on.
— Michael Butler 🇺🇸 (@MDButler81) July 14, 2022
So, fake but accurate?
— Dave Fobare (@davefobare) July 14, 2022
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Jonathan Chait notes how obsessed anti-anti-Trumpists are with his piece encouraging liberals to support Trump https://t.co/U9tsw0EFE5
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 11, 2022
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