Los Angeles Times gives Chelsea Manning a promotion

Via Mark Hemingway, can you spot the error in this Los Angeles Times article on Chelsea Manning running for the U.S. Senate in Maryland?

https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/953279298357612545

That’s right. She’s no officer … nor a gentleman any longer:

I can't ever recall Manning being an officer. Where did they even get that from?

I suppose the mistake's a given, considering they routinely confuse AR-15s with AK-47s.

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) January 16, 2018

Do they even check Wikipedia over at the Times?

Jeez, Wikipedia is free @latimes pic.twitter.com/2loCJUhavm

— Harry Khachatrian (@Harry1T6) January 16, 2018

Or maybe this was a secret part of President Obama’s commutation of Manning’s sentence?

https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/953281033557958657

As of the publication of this post, the Times hasn’t corrected its error.

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