O'Reilly Demands New York Times Correct Fabrication (ICE RAID)

NewsMax ^ | Thursday, March 15, | NewsMax.com Staff

[VU4G10]

Gotcha!

That's what Bill O'Reilly told his viewers Thursday night as he nabbed the New York Times in publishing a phony story.

On Thursday, the paper ran an editorial claiming that "a screaming baby girl has been forcibly weaned from breast milk and taken, dehydrated, to an emergency room, so that the nation’s borders will be secure."

But on his Fox News show Thursday night, O'Reilly said the the Times report was made up out of whole cloth

[cripplecreek]

Phoney stories are nothing new for the times and many more.

[darkwing104]

The Slimes make up stories? I am shocked!!!!

[prophetic]

The Great Old Lady of newspapers has turned into a Ugly Democrat Media Whore.

[TexasCajun]

"I have no problem Fake but Accurate journalism "

[Joe 6-pack]

Is that a picture of the baby who was forcibly weaned?

[padre35]

Sadly, no one is surprised that the NYT would make up a story so poorly that even O'Reily could detect it.

What is even worse, when the NYT does try and report in a fair manner, everyone is simply (and truly) shocked like Al Gore's film being derided in the pages of the NYT.

Anyone else remember the NYT revealing not one but two governmental surveillance programs involving intl banking and overseas phone calls?

These folks have a credibility problem on a grand scale.

[pabianice]

[magslinger]

You are not the only one!

[sheana]

These people were all arrested at work. Unless this factory lets mothers take their babies to work this article was bogus.
Pretty simple.

[TexasCajun]

Is that a picture of the baby who was forcibly weaned?

Your thinking of this big baby.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

As an aside, how, exactly, did either news organization get hold of the confidential patient records which would either confirm or deny the story? Unless the medical professionals and institutions involved had prior written permission to release the information, they are likely in violation of HIPAA regulations.

[Cicero]

"Unless the New York Times has other verifiable information, honesty dictates it correct its editorial."

When pigs fly, eh?

"Honesty" is not a word that Pinch Sulzberger understands.

[caseinpoint]

I suspect HIPAA doesn't cover releasing bare statistics without personal identification information as to the patients themselves. Note they said two babies, accompanied by guardians. There were no names involved.

[Dante3]

New York Times keeps printing phony stories. What a farce the once respected paper has become.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

Nobody knows what actually happened to these kids without reviewing their medical records - everything else is speculation or hearsay.

[caseinpoint]

The only thing they can say with confidence is that two babies were brought into the hospital, both treated for pneumonia and dehydration. And I think that's all the article stated. Of course, it appears the NYT left a wide open window for speculation and that it intended to do so. You can lie with the truth if you lead the reader to draw certain implications from the facts as you stated them.