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'New York Times Faces Backlash After Source Repudiates Anti-Rick Perry Story
by Alex Griswold | 10:23 am, January 19th, 2017
The New York Times faced a backlash Thursday after its only source for a negative story on former Texas governor Rick Perry accused them of taking his remarks out of context.
The Times reported Wednesday evening that when Perry accepted Donald Trump‘s nomination for the Secretary of Energy position, he “initially misunderstood” what the job even was.
“Mr. Perry gladly accepted, believing he was taking on a role as a global ambassador for the American oil and gas industry that he had long championed in his home state,” they wrote. “In the days after, Mr. Perry… discovered that he would be no such thing — that in fact, if confirmed by the Senate, he would become the steward of a vast national security complex he knew almost nothing about, caring for the most fearsome weapons on the planet, the United States’ nuclear arsenal.”
That revelation lead to much mockery of Perry from journalists and his political opponents on Twitter. But others noticed that the sole source for that assertion was a quote from a former Trump transition official that wasn’t quite as strong as the Times‘ claim. “If you asked him on that first day he said yes, he would have said, ‘I want to be an advocate for energy,’” Michael McKenna told them. “If you asked him now, he’d say, ‘I’m serious about the challenges facing the nuclear complex.’ It’s been a learning curve.”
McKenna later told The Daily Caller that his remarks were taken out of context and “of course” Perry knew what the job entailed when he took it. Washington Examiner media critic T. Becket Adams noted that McKenna wasn’t even part of the transition team when Perry was named, and that Perry’s original statement specifically mentioned that he’d oversee the nuclear arsenal.
T. Becket Adams
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@BecketAdams
Also, it’s worth noting NYT’s source was booted from the Trump transition team in Nov. Perry was picked in December: https://twitter.com/scoejarborough/status/821911360518975489 …
7:51 PM - 18 Jan 2017
T. Becket Adams @BecketAdams 14h14 hours ago
Anyway, I’ll leave you this morning with this Dec. 14, 2016, quote from Perry. Issued the day he was asked to head DoE. Note the highlight.
The backlash was swift, mostly from conservatives but also from some liberals who spread the initial story.
Mary Katharine Ham Verified account
@mkhammer
Thin, thin gruel. A guy who wasn't there thinks Rick Perry might have thought a thing and might answer a question this way. FIT TO PRINT!
Stephen Miller
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@redsteeze
It took two writers to make up that Perry story. Two.
5:41 AM - 19 Jan 2017
Jeff B/DDHQ
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@EsotericCD
So while I was gone NYT essentially fabricated an entire story about how Rick Perry didn't understand DoE. And the Left happily spread it
5:24 AM - 19 Jan 2017
T. Becket Adams
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@BecketAdams
To be clear, the NYT report offers exactly zero support for its assertion Gov. Perry didn't know what the Dept. of Energy did. But whatever. pic.twitter.com/WB8tKRGwVg
http://www.mediaite.com/online/new-...sole-source-repudiates-anti-rick-perry-story/
The NEW YORK TIMES pulls Fake News out of its collective ass and foists it about as real news.
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'New York Times Faces Backlash After Source Repudiates Anti-Rick Perry Story
by Alex Griswold | 10:23 am, January 19th, 2017
The New York Times faced a backlash Thursday after its only source for a negative story on former Texas governor Rick Perry accused them of taking his remarks out of context.
The Times reported Wednesday evening that when Perry accepted Donald Trump‘s nomination for the Secretary of Energy position, he “initially misunderstood” what the job even was.
“Mr. Perry gladly accepted, believing he was taking on a role as a global ambassador for the American oil and gas industry that he had long championed in his home state,” they wrote. “In the days after, Mr. Perry… discovered that he would be no such thing — that in fact, if confirmed by the Senate, he would become the steward of a vast national security complex he knew almost nothing about, caring for the most fearsome weapons on the planet, the United States’ nuclear arsenal.”
That revelation lead to much mockery of Perry from journalists and his political opponents on Twitter. But others noticed that the sole source for that assertion was a quote from a former Trump transition official that wasn’t quite as strong as the Times‘ claim. “If you asked him on that first day he said yes, he would have said, ‘I want to be an advocate for energy,’” Michael McKenna told them. “If you asked him now, he’d say, ‘I’m serious about the challenges facing the nuclear complex.’ It’s been a learning curve.”
McKenna later told The Daily Caller that his remarks were taken out of context and “of course” Perry knew what the job entailed when he took it. Washington Examiner media critic T. Becket Adams noted that McKenna wasn’t even part of the transition team when Perry was named, and that Perry’s original statement specifically mentioned that he’d oversee the nuclear arsenal.
T. Becket Adams
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@BecketAdams
Also, it’s worth noting NYT’s source was booted from the Trump transition team in Nov. Perry was picked in December: https://twitter.com/scoejarborough/status/821911360518975489 …
7:51 PM - 18 Jan 2017
T. Becket Adams @BecketAdams 14h14 hours ago
Anyway, I’ll leave you this morning with this Dec. 14, 2016, quote from Perry. Issued the day he was asked to head DoE. Note the highlight.
The backlash was swift, mostly from conservatives but also from some liberals who spread the initial story.
Mary Katharine Ham Verified account
@mkhammer
Thin, thin gruel. A guy who wasn't there thinks Rick Perry might have thought a thing and might answer a question this way. FIT TO PRINT!
Stephen Miller
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@redsteeze
It took two writers to make up that Perry story. Two.
5:41 AM - 19 Jan 2017
Jeff B/DDHQ
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@EsotericCD
So while I was gone NYT essentially fabricated an entire story about how Rick Perry didn't understand DoE. And the Left happily spread it
5:24 AM - 19 Jan 2017
T. Becket Adams
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@BecketAdams
To be clear, the NYT report offers exactly zero support for its assertion Gov. Perry didn't know what the Dept. of Energy did. But whatever. pic.twitter.com/WB8tKRGwVg
http://www.mediaite.com/online/new-...sole-source-repudiates-anti-rick-perry-story/