'F'ing nuts'! 'Goldwater rule' Fake News strikes the blue-checkmark brigade. WHERE ARE THE CORRECTIONS?

There was a story out yesterday that the “Goldwater Rule” had been lifted so that psychiatrists could comment on President Donald Trump’s mental state. That story, it turns out, was wrong:

News today that psychiatrists may now comment on Trump’s mental health is…wrong. https://t.co/ySiXs41b0r @APAPsychiatric @psychoanalysis_

— Psychology Today (@PsychToday) July 25, 2017

Here’s the statement from the American Psychoanalytic Association:

It was a misleading article in @statnews. Here is our statement: https://t.co/ybkkwRF66z https://t.co/hrz0ltw56W

— APsaA (@psychoanalysis_) July 25, 2017

Time for the corrections!

"Go ahead, psychiatrists: Diagnose Donald Trump" https://t.co/wOjpYY4F4b

— TIME (@TIME) July 26, 2017

2200+ RTs from NBC’s Bradd Jaffy:

American Psychoanalytic Association tells members they can defy ‘Goldwater rule’ & comment on Trump’s mental health https://t.co/RdvgjZj8yl

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) July 25, 2017

Go Ahead, Psychiatrists: Diagnose Donald Trump The lives of millions are risked if indeed he is mentally challenged https://t.co/UuZihb0b59

— Deepak Chopra (@DeepakChopra) July 25, 2017

Almost 5000 RTs here:

Truly amazing am psych assoc says Trump so f'ing nuts they're lifting Goldwater Rule https://t.co/wKQRVtS7qx

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 25, 2017

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Marshall then got into an argument with the Washington Post’s Gene Park on why it’s not his fault that he helped spread bad info:

Here's what @joshtpm mislead you all on. The Goldwater Rule is still in placehttps://t.co/ZXrsIhxiot (h/t @stevemullis)

— Gene Park (@GenePark) July 25, 2017

Gene, I don't want to say you're being a douche. But it was actually a statnews piece which they got wrong. https://t.co/GecMy9AXHl

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 25, 2017

Yes, but why is his tweet still live? And we will note that Park didn’t tweet about his colleague Phil Rucker tweeting the same article:

American Psychoanalytic Association tells members it's OK to publicly discuss Trump's mental health, via @statnews https://t.co/gmpoznbcGs

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) July 25, 2017

Full list of verified twerps who shared the misleading Stat News article here.

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