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Attilatheblond

(4,814 posts)
1. Thank you for the link to bypass the paywall. Good to see the Times fact check the delusional liar
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 05:45 PM
Aug 2024

FakeNoose

(36,184 posts)
7. NYT missed a big one - right in the beginning
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 06:43 PM
Aug 2024

Disclaimer: I haven't read the entire article yet. But something jumped out at me in the first couple of paragraphs.

Chump's speech on January 6, 2021 wasn't given at the Washington Monument or the National Mall, he spoke on the grounds in front of the White House. Only relatively small numbers were allowed into the grounds because they had to pass through the metal detectors.

When Martin Luther King gave his "I have a dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Monument, there were no metal detectors, no barriers to keep people away. They all kept coming and coming and coming. The official number in attendance was 250,000 ... well OK, that's a good guess. But there's no way to know the real number.

On Jan. 6th all the crazy MAGAs who were not allowed into the White House grounds, turned around and started walking to the US Capitol. That's where the real trouble happened, and it was planned to happen there all along. Crazy MAGAs who were carrying weapons (barred from the White House grounds) walked right on the Capitol grounds with whatever they were carrying. Those tiny barriers that the Capitol Police had were really nothing more than bike racks. MAGAs jumped over those things in no time.

The estimates for the attempted coup at the US Capitol on 1/6/21 are something like 53,000 people, but it's a guess. The ones who broke in and entered the building have been counted, and most are now identified. But many more stood outside on the grass and I don't know if we have an accurate number for them. It's easily 5 TIMES SMALLER than the peaceful crowd who came to hear and support Dr. King.

The 53,000 estimate is for the US Capitol, not the White House. Again, a much smaller number heard him speak at the White House. New York Times, this is a terrible miss on fact checking.

Lulu KC

(5,327 posts)
18. If you can enter that as a comment in the article
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 08:24 PM
Aug 2024

I bet you'd find people who would also find this interesting. (The last time I looked at this it didn't have comments open, but maybe they open them later?)

onetexan

(13,913 posts)
11. NYT just now realized with the tide turning blue they're turning their backs from the Con to stay relevant
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 07:25 PM
Aug 2024

Aloha Cha

I'm having to work late tonight

Cha

(306,134 posts)
13. Aloha ontexan!
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 07:35 PM
Aug 2024

In danger of their readership going Down even further If they continue carrying water for the Crazy Sick Fuck?

at work

NNadir

(34,930 posts)
10. Still, the New York Times is a right wing rag that has yet to report that Trump is a senile old man.
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 07:20 PM
Aug 2024

They were all over President Biden claiming this, although President Biden was and is quite coherent.

Jarqui

(10,521 posts)
17. Thanks. Cancelled my subscription with them over
Thu Aug 8, 2024, 08:10 PM
Aug 2024

the poor coverage of Biden's campaign

I dumped Washington Post for the same reason.

I wasn't alone

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