Thread by @jamisonfoser

This is an extraordinarily misleading thread from a @NYTimes reporter. In fact, the application was for Johns Hopkins *night courses for technical workers.*

President Biden's statement is accurate and this thread is a deeply dishonest suggestion to the contrary.

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Many people have pointed this out to the author of the thread. Example:

https://twitter.com/jamisonfoser/status/1562544984548528128

And the author of the thread has seen the requests for retraction or clarification, but he refuses.

This just extremely irresponsible behavior, and misleading to the point of dishonesty. Congratulations, @NYTimes. You've done it again.

"Joe Biden says his dad didn't go to college but ACTUALLY his dad took some night school classes" is some world-class bullshit.

you'll not soon find a better example of the corporate media holding Democrats to a much higher, often completely nonsensical, standard than Republicans. This is literally a NY Times reporter posting 80-year-old documents to establish that Joe Biden's dad took night classes.

A REPUBLICAN: The moon is made out of green cheese. Also I own the moon.

A DEMOCRAT: I'm proud to be the first in my family to go to college.

NEW YORK TIMES: Actually this Democrat's great-uncle Larry attended a 1938 basketball game played at the City College of New York.

New York Times reporters will put more effort into investigating Biden’s dad’s night school attendance than into investigating whether Iraq had WMD.

GEORGE W BUSH: Iraq has nukes so we’re gonna start a war.

NEW YORK TIMES: *fist-pump* Fuck yeah!

JOE BIDEN: My dad didn’t go to college.

NEW YORK TIMES: After exhaustive research we have uncovered an 80+ year-old-document that doesn’t disprove this but c’mon Biden’s lying.

If you have enjoyed this thread you might also enjoy this other thread in which a New York Times editor tells me it is OK for Bret Stephens to blame conditions depicted in a video on progressive policies and politicians not in place prior to the filming of the video.

https://twitter.com/jamisonfoser/status/1509266589060767746

On one hand we have Biden's dad's application for non-degree night school classes at Johns Hopkins. On the other, a wedding announcement that refers to him having gone to JH. Pretending the latter is more precise or reliable than the former is a lie.

https://twitter.com/adamentous/status/1562612936077557761

I use the word "lie" quite deliberately here. It's wildly implausible that a professional investigative reporter actually believes the wedding announcement is more precise or reliable than the actual formal application for non-degree night classes.

Usually when a journalist at a publication like the New York Times steps on a rake, you see other journalists leap to his defense. It's a club, after all. Telling that you don't see anyone defending his bullshit about Biden's dad & Johns Hopkins.