Friday, February 06, 2015
"NYT Admits Obama Deliberately Manufactured Netanyahu Spat"
Nowadays, they seem to get a lot of things wrong, which reinforces those that suggest they are biased...
On the TimesOfIsrael blog, Rob Miller calls attention to a New York Times correction, and the fuss the original (incorrect) article caused:
"The resulting fracas was simply kabuki outrage manufactured to create a negative impression that Israel had somehow ‘disrespected’ an American president. And of course, to assist Netanyahu’s political enemies in the coming election…where the Obama Administration has already sent a crack campaign team and millions in campaign funds for the same purpose. The shotgun wedding of Labor’s Yitzhak Herzog and Tzipi Livni lost no time in trying to spin this to show that ‘Netanyahu was destroying Israel’s relationship with the U.S.’"