In recent days, the far-left New York Times was exposed for lying about a child in Gaza purportedly being starved to death by Israel, when he was really suffering from cerebral palsy. During his eponymous show Wednesday night, NewsNation host Chris Cuomo called out how they “exaggerate reality” to push their anti-Israel agenda. He also pointed to the “proof of their perfidy” in how they hid their “lame correction” on their PR X account.
“More and more, everybody has to exaggerate reality for effect of their own agenda. Just look at The New York Times,” Cuomo declared in his opening monologue. “Last week, they ran a front page picture of this child, Muhammad. He became the face of suffering in Gaza. Proof positive Israel is committed to killing babies.”
Quickly following up with the fact that “Muhammad looks like that because he has cerebral palsy. Impacts his appearance.” He pointed out that the child’s mother “doesn't appear malnourished. Neither does the brother in another photo of the same kid, the same family.”
Cuomo opined that this was another example of “extreme positions” and the so-called paper of record “manipulating reality to advance an agenda or to appease one side.”
He went on to breakdown the evidence that deception was the motivation for The Times’ framing given how they tried to hid their walk back and their refusal to put it on the front page, where their lie was:
How do you know? I’ll give you a pro-tip about media literacy. You judge somebody’s intentions by their corrections. When you mean no harm, you correct the same way you made your initial report. It’s not what The New York Times did, with it’s very damaging and deceptive image that has become the face of the reality in Gaza.
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They framed the kid on the front page as someone who was exclusively damaged by Israel and it’s not true.
More proof of their perfidy. Did they post that lame correction on the front page? No. On their account with 55 million followers? No. They put it on a PR account which has fewer than a million followers. You think that was an accident?
“We have since learned new information, including from the hospital that treated him and his medical records and have updated our story to add context about his pre-existing health problems,” Cuomo read from their comment. “That is a hedge. Someone like me wrote that, a lawyer trying to protect a client.”
Earlier in his monologue, Cuomo also confronted how the Democratic Party was slipping further and further into an embrace with anti-Semitism and Islamist extremists. “I've been watching the change or the devolution of the party that my father once loved. I would say - I would argue that the party he loved is dead and buried and now zombified as a populist resistance,” he said.
“Now, among them on the left, these perceived opponents is Israel, if not Jews altogether. No small irony, the leader calling for this vote is senator Bernie Sanders; born to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York, but now someone who says he is not observant of the faith,” he chided.
Citing a Gallup poll, Cuomo drew attention to how support for Israel among Democrats was only at 36 percent AFTER October 7 and had only fallen since. Deducing: “What I tell you? This has been a slow, steady, stubborn move away from Israel, and I would argue towards Islamists.”
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NewsNation’s Cuomo
July 30, 2025
8:01:46 p.m. Eastern(…)
CHRIS CUOMO: … I've been watching the change or the devolution of the party that my father once loved. I would say - I would argue that the party he loved is dead and buried and now zombified as a populist resistance, not unlike how the GOP was consumed by MAGA. Both fringe movements, both motivated by outrage and a desire to punish perceived opponents.
Now, among them on the left, these perceived opponents is Israel, if not Jews altogether. No small irony, the leader calling for this vote is senator Bernie Sanders; born to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York, but now someone who says he is not observant of the faith. Manifesting that by leading a vote to stop Israel from getting 1,000-pound bombs and automatic rifles.
Now, where's this coming from? Well, if you look at the polls, I think this is only the beginning. A new Gallup poll found only eight percent of Democrats support Israel's war in Gaza. Don't be shocked. After October, 7, guess what the number was. It’s right there. It was only 36 percent, after October 7. What I tell you? This has been a slow, steady, stubborn move away from Israel, and I would argue towards Islamists.
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8:08:49 p.m. Eastern
CUOMO: More and more everybody has to exaggerate reality for effect of their own agenda. Just look at The New York Times. Last week, they ran a front page picture of this child, Muhammad. He became the face of suffering in Gaza. Proof positive Israel is committed to killing babies.
Look at that kid. Look at his mother.
Then reports came out. Muhammad looks like that because he has cerebral palsy. Impacts his appearance. You can see the mother. She doesn't appear malnourished. Neither does the brother in another photo of the same kid, the same family.
Extreme positions. Manipulating reality to advance an agenda or to appease one side. That seems obvious as The New York Times’s motivation here. How do you know? I’ll give you a pro-tip about media literacy. You judge somebody’s intentions by their corrections. When you mean no harm, you correct the same way you made your initial report. It’s not what The New York Times did, with it’s very damaging and deceptive image that has become the face of the reality in Gaza.
They “appended” their article in a Twitter post writing: “We have since learned new information, including from the hospital that treated him and his medical records and have updated our story to add context about his pre-existing health problems.” That is a hedge. Someone like me wrote that, a lawyer trying to protect a client.
They framed the kid on the front page as someone who was exclusively damaged by Israel and it’s not true.
More proof of their perfidy. Did they post that lame correction on the front page? No. On their account with 55 million followers? No. They put it on a PR account which has fewer than a million followers. You think that was an accident?
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