NYT Reporter Thinks It's Crazy That Nobody Believes White Woman Who Claimed To Be Native American
NYT Reporter Thinks We Should Just Believe This Known Liar
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By C. Douglas Golden
Published January 17, 2020 at 8:47am
The general assumption regarding Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s claim that Sen. Bernie Sanders told her a woman couldn’t win the presidency in 2020 is that it was a coordinated leak by her campaign.
If that’s the case, I’m kind of at a loss as to why anyone thought now was a good time to play another round of “Who Believes Pocahontas?”
Plenty of people don’t, which seemed to confuse The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman.
In fact, she’s even curious as to why a fellow New York Times writer would say that perhaps it was a Rashomon-like situation where the 2020 Democratic candidates simply misremembered what happened during a 2018 meeting and both came away with dramatically different impressions which were mutually untrue.
The discussion happened during a thread started by Mother Jones Editorial Director Ben Dreyfuss in which he asked, “[I]sn’t Occam’s razor here that they’re both just having a very human misunderstanding about a year old conversation?”
Here’s was what Times TV critic James Poniewozik had to say about it: