DEVASTATING PROOF OF MEDIA BIAS: New York Times Airbrushes Away Democrat’s Embarrassing False Claim

Red State ^ | 3/2/2017 | by Patterico

[Lazamataz]

Jay Caruso noted that Senator Claire McCaskill had claimed early today never to have met with a Russian ambassador:

Follow Claire McCaskill ✔ @clairecmc I've been on the Armed Services Com for 10 years.No call or meeting w/Russian ambassador. Ever. Ambassadors call members of Foreign Rel Com. 7:06 AM - 2 Mar 2017 13,293 13,293 Retweets 20,929 20,929 likes Then undeniable documentary and photographic evidence emerged that she had.

I bet she wishes she could just airbrush that initial tweet from history — like it never happened.

Kinda like the New York Times did today with her claim.

They reported it — and then, when they figured out it was wrong, they simply vanished it. Whoosh. Presto-change-o! It was never there. Did you hear me? It was never there.

Earlier today, The Times — and yes, I will name the reporters; they are Eric Lichtblau, Michael D. Shear, and Charlie Savage — published an article titled Democrats Call for Sessions to Recuse Himself From Russia Inquiry. (It now reads Jeff Sessions Recuses Himself from Russia Inquiry.) As the day went on, The Times revised the article in various ways, using the same URL, never noting their edits.

But my favorite edit came to the following paragraph, which was in the original story:

[hopespringseternal]

Trump needs people who fight back when attacked, not start an apology tour for something they had every right to do.

You can't give these people an inch. Sessions shot himself in the foot.

[samtheman]

But Juan Williams said Sessions did the right thing recusing himself.

/s