New York Times
Columnist Charles Blow Again Caught Misleading Readers
by John Nolte 10 Nov 2015
In less than a year, on three separate occasions, left-wing New York
Times columnist Charles Blow has been caught red-handed
misleading readers. This happened again Sunday when Blow repeated a Politico
smear against Republican presidential frontrunner Ben Carson (caught on social media),
a smear that had been thoroughly debunked a full two days before the Blow
column published.
The Sunday column was directed at Carson’s credibility. In
the second paragraph, Blow writes:
After Politico checked into Carson’s claim that he had
received an offer of a “full scholarship” to West Point, his campaign was
forced to concede that he had never actually applied and been granted
admission, but the campaign “attempted to recast his previous claims of a full
scholarship to the military academy — despite numerous public and written
statements to the contrary over the last few decades,” the news outlet
reported.
(Politico came under scrutiny itself for the way it
initially characterized Carson’s concession.)
There are no less than three lies in that
paragraph, all of which were proven lies before the Blow column
published. The parenthetical note appears to prove that Blow was personally
aware of the fact that Politico’s story had imploded. Nevertheless, Blow and
the Times ran with it. Here are the lies:
- Carson never claimed he “received” a full scholarship.
- Carson did not “concede” that he never applied at West Point because he has never claimed to have applied. There was nothing to “concede.”
- Carson did not “concede” that he was never granted admission to West Point because he has never claimed he was granted admission. There was nothing to concede.
The New York Times has a real problem with Charles
Blow, who appears to believe he is above some level of accountability when it
comes to telling or revealing the truth.
Back in March, Blow attempted to savage Republican Governor
Bobby Jindal. By the time the Times was done issuing no fewer than three major corrections,
there was almost nothing left of the original Blow column.
Back in January, Blow attempted to mislead readers
with a story about his son, a black student at Yale, being detained by the
campus police. Blow savaged the Yale police, suggesting they had racially
profiled his son (who matched the description of a burglar). What Blow did not
tell his readers is that the police officer in question is black, as is the
Yale police chief.
Blow is an opinion columnist, not a journalist. That gives
him license to express an opinion, not willfully mislead.
It should be noted that since the publication of Blow’s
column, almost all of the DC Media attacks on Carson’s credibility have since been debunked.
Nevertheless, there have been no updates to the Blow column.
Charles Blow
Charles M. Blow
is a columnist for the New York Times,
and a trustee at the Riverdale Country
School.
Note: Linda Greenhouse
was a reporter for the New York Times,
and is a director at the American
Constitution Society.
Brad
S. Karp is a trustee at the Riverdale
Country School, and a director at the American
Constitution Society.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the American Constitution Society.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Robin Hood Foundation.
Atiim
Barber is a leadership council member for the Robin Hood Foundation, and was a trustee at the Riverdale Country School.
Jeff
Zucker is a director at the Robin
Hood Foundation, and was the president & CEO for NBCUniversal.
CNBC
is an NBCUniversal network.
John
Harwood is a correspondent for CNBC,
and a political writer for the New York
Times.
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Charles M. Blow
is a columnist for the New York Times,
and a trustee at the Riverdale Country
School.
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