The New York Times’ Hatchet Job On Devin Nunes Is Riddled With Errors

[GURPS]

Jason Zengerle publicly announced his profile of Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., in today’s New York Times Sunday Magazine with the snarky tweet, “My latest for the @NYTmag on Devin Nunes, who’s been propagating, not to mention falling for, conspiracy theories since before the Deep State was even in a gleam in Donald Trump’s eye.”

It’s an accurate summation of the hit he attempted to place on Nunes, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI). The only problem is the case he attempts to make is riddled with errors and full of embarrassing and deliberate material omissions.

For example, Zengerle writes that a “suspicious” Nunes was wrong to believe that “Obama administration officials were ignoring evidence in a cache of documents collected from Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, showing that Al Qaeda was much stronger than the administration publicly contended.” Zengerle says Nunes’ predecessor as chairman of the intel committee, Rep. Mike Rogers, agreed with Obama officials’ assessment and told Nunes the documents Defense Intelligence Agency officials were analyzing at Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Fla., showed nothing significant on that score.

“But Nunes wasn’t convinced. On a Saturday in May 2013, he flew from Washington to Tampa and paid a visit to Centcom headquarters himself, where he demanded to meet with the analysts reviewing the documents, in the hope of uncovering evidence of Al Qaeda’s strength—and an Obama administration cover-up,” Zengerle writes. “But after a meeting with the Army major general who headed Centcom’s intelligence wing, Nunes came back to Washington empty-handed.”


The New York Times’ Hatchet Job On Devin Nunes Is Riddled With Errors

According to a top polling forecaster Larry Sabato, House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes is no longer in a "safe" seat for re-election. He might just lose his seat to a Democrat named Andrew Janz.

According to The Hill:

Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics moved Nunes's seat to "likely Republican" as his Democratic challenger, Fresno County Deputy District Attorney Andrew Janz, continues to have fundraising success.

Nunes, a staunch defender of President Trump, is still considered a favorite in the race, but the Crystal Ball notes that he will likely face a stronger challenge than expected[.]
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Now, anything could happen, I suppose, and Sabato was right in forecasting Donald Trump's victory. But with the press drumbeat about the supposed "great blue wave" next November, I am suspicious that this might just be psychological warfare to boost Nunes's opponent.

Take a gander at the Democrat supposedly in line to oust Devin Nunes

 

[vraiblonde]

Nobody who reads the NYT is going to vote for Nunes anyway. #1, their target audience is Manhattan liberals and suburban wannabes who don't vote in CA. The only reason any Californian or conservative would even know about this article is because for some reason conservative news outlets feel the need to promote it.

"Oh, here's what this newspaper is saying..."

I don't give a crap. If I wanted to know what that newspaper was saying, I'd read it. Why are they all cross-promoting like this?

 

[Sapidus]

Nobody who reads the NYT is going to vote for Nunes anyway. #1, their target audience is Manhattan liberals and suburban wannabes who don't vote in CA. The only reason any Californian or conservative would even know about this article is because for some reason conservative news outlets feel the need to promote it.

"Oh, here's what this newspaper is saying..."

I don't give a crap. If I wanted to know what that newspaper was saying, I'd read it. Why are they all cross-promoting like this?

Maybe because its the 2nd most widely read paper in the US? Many Californians read it daily. When are you going to stop spewing lies?

 

[Kyle]

When am I going to stop spewing lies?

We ask you that all the time and you never answer and keep doing it.

 

[vraiblonde]

Many Californians read it daily.

How many? Got a number or did you just pull that out of your ass like usual?

Maybe because its the 2nd most widely read paper in the US?

Logic not being your strong suit, let me help:

Papers in a major metropolitan area are going to enjoy a bigger readership than, say, the Enterprise. They are also going to be more "widely" read than, say, the Calvert Recorder.

But you did make me look:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_States

It's somewhat shocking that WashPo is way down the list. Below the San Jose Mercury News - hello? You'd think the main newspaper for our nation's capital would be more popular.

 

[vraiblonde]

We ask you that all the time and you never answer and keep doing it.

He doesn't know what "lies" are. He thinks a "lie" means, "anything he disagrees with."

 

[GURPS]

Maybe because its the 2nd most widely read paper in the US? Many Californians read it daily. When are you going to stop spewing lies?

got some numbers this short bus or more Assumptions, Supposition and Innuendo



yeah 597,000 is a HUGE Number

 

[vraiblonde]

got some numbers this short bus or more Assumptions, Supposition and Innuendo



yeah 597,000 is a HUGE Number

I posted the Wiki link above. Sappy is correct that NYT has the second highest circulation, behind the WSJ.

As far as how many Californians read it, I'm still waiting for him to verify that. I'm guessing that celebrities who jetset back and forth between New York and LA read the NYT, but again they aren't going to vote for a Republican no matter who it is.

 

[GURPS]

I posted the Wiki link above. Sappy is correct that NYT has the second highest circulation, behind the WSJ.

fair enough, she wasn't talking out of her ass for a change .... -600k ain't a lot