The New York Times has a history of fabricating these things. Here’s a refresher course [1] for you…
A few years back they were caught red-handed deceiving their readers in such a way.
In a lengthy anti-fracking article they claimed that senior industry experts and insiders believed the industry to be little more than a “Ponzi scheme” … “set up for failure”.
They even had the emails from a series of senior insiders where these doubts were expressed.
According to the New York Times, one “energy analyst” wrote, “Am I just totally crazy, or does it seem like everyone and their mothers are endorsing shale gas without getting a really good understanding of the economics at the business level?”
Another “federal analyst” said in an industry email, “It seems that science is pointing in one direction and industry PR is pointing in another.”
Well unfortunately for the New York Times, the emails were from the Energy Information Agency – a government organization – so this meant Senate investigators were able to find the original emails and work out the identity of all these different senior experts. It turns out the federal analyst, the energy analyst and the officer turned out to be the same person who was actually an intern when he wrote the first email and in an entry level position when he wrote the other comments. Yes, that’s right, the “Paper of Record” misrepresented an intern/junior employee as a senior official to push an agenda.
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We have all seen in recent days just how low the the left will go, for example in Brett Kavanaugh hearings. They’ve been caught in lie after lie after lie.
And remember that the paper of record itself is the paper of Walter Duranty… Who would have been proud at this latest effort to push the leftist agenda.