NYT Sports Editor After Blunder over Pats' WH Visit: 'I'm an Idiot'

April 21st, 2017 10:47 PM

 

Wanna get away, Jason Stallman, New York Times sports editor? If you’re lucky, you could get a flight out of town after your colossal blunder ... without getting bumped. And hopefully they’ll serve you some humble pie!

After the New England Patriots’ visit to the White House a couple days ago, the Democrats’ best friend – the New York Times -- tweeted out photos comparing the Pats’ 2015 delegation to the Obama White House to the team’s 2017 visit to the Trump White House. There were noticeably more men in the earlier photo, with the implication that fewer players attended because they were boycotting the Republican prez.

 

New York Times

Patriots' turnout for President Obama in 2015 vs. Patriots' turnout for President Trump today: http://nyti.ms/2o4Kwj7 

1:25 PM - 19 Apr 2017

 

Just one little itty-bitty problem with that. The Times hadn’t done its homework and the Patriots’ organization responded that the Times was misleading:

New England Patriots

✔ @Patriots

These photos lack context. Facts: In 2015, over 40 football staff were on the stairs. In 2017, they were seated on the South Lawn. https://twitter.com/NYTSports/status/854793140125020160 …

5:45 PM - 19 Apr 2017

 

Whoops! Never mind! But the damage was already done and then President Trump jumped in, too, tweeting: “Failing @nytimes, which has been calling me wrong for two years, just got caught in a big lie concerning the New England Patriots’ visit to the W.H.”

Stallman scraped some egg off his sorry face, then issued a Tweet that shall live in conservative infamy, to Yahoo’s Political Editor Colin Campbell:

 

Colin Campbell

✔ @colincampbell

NYT Sports editor gave me a pretty effusive statement on that Trump/Patriots-crowd-size-comparison tweet:

6:29 AM - 20 Apr 2017

 

Now the real kicker. At the top of the NYT Twitter message appear these incredibly ironic words.

“Experience. Persistence. Boldness. We do what it takes to get things right.”

“The New York Times. Journalists are our greatest strength.”

This ranks right up there with this classic headline from the Columbia School of Journalism’s blunder book: “Rare Giraffes Fly in from Kenya”!

You can’t make this stuff up! Oh the irony! ROFL!!