Liberals furiously lash out at the New York Times over article documenting Biden's verbal 'fumbles'



Many on the left excoriated the New York Times on Tuesday over an article documenting two "verbal fumbles" that President Joe Biden made the same day.

The article reported how Biden confused the Russian war in Ukraine with the U.S. war in Iraq and then immediately tried to explain it away by falsely claiming his son died in the Iraq War.

“Inflation is a worldwide problem right now because of a war in Iraq and the impact on oil and what Russia is doing,” said Biden at a campaign stop in Miami Gardens, Florida.

"Excuse me, the war in Ukraine," he corrected. “I think of Iraq because that’s where my son died.”

His son, Beau Biden, served in Iraq but returned to the U.S. in 2009 and died of cancer in 2015.

The article was tweeted out by NYT journalist Maggie Haberman, who posted it while shutting off direct comments to the tweet. Many on the left responded angrily while falsely assuming that she wrote the piece.

"The cowardly Trumphuffer turned off her comments," read one response.

"How many times did Trump verbally fumble and/or spew word salad that she never once felt compelled to write an entire article on? Maggie Haberman is a thoroughly dishonest, untrustworthy, completely biased propagandist. She is not a journalist, and she has zero credibility," replied another critic.

"As a Speech Language Pathologist who works with kids who stutter, I'd just like to take this moment to tell @maggieNYT to F*** Right Off," read another tweet.

"Meanwhile you are Trump's 'psychiatrist' per him. Go p*** up a rope," said a critic who identified herself as a feminist.

"Completely chickens**t cowardly move by MaggieButHerEmails Haberman to not allow comments on her little hate piece. I expect nothing less," read another response.

"Magpie limited who could respond to this swill scooped up from her toilet," another tweet said.

Others predicted it was just the beginning for Biden's health troubles.

"This is only the beginning. After the bloodbath that is coming, the Times is going to do a full story with White House sources on Biden’s decline," said commentator Erick Erickson.

Peter Baker, the author of the article, did not tweet out the story.

Here's more about Biden's gaffes:

Biden Straight-Up LIES About Son Dying at War in Iraq... Even Libs Are Embarrassedwww.youtube.com

Liberals lash out at New York Times journalist over timing of Trump report



Liberals lashed out a New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman over the timing of a report claiming former President Donald Trump improperly destroyed documents from his White House tenure.

Haberman said staff at the White House on more than one occasion found the toilets clogged with wads of clumped up printed papers, suggesting that Trump was destroying documents.

"It was not toilet paper, this was either notes, or some other piece of paper, they believe that he had thrown down the toilet," Haberman said on CNN. "It could be post-its, it could be notes he wrote to himself, it could be other things, we don't know."

While her colleagues praised her for the scoop, Haberman was excoriated by many on social media who accused her of withholding the tidbit until she could make money off of it in a book.

Among those criticizing Haberman was Hollywood actress Ellen Barkin.

"Do you think @maggieNYT can get a spot on Dancing With The Felons?" she tweeted to her 244k followers.

Do you think @maggieNYT can get a spot on Dancing With The Felons?
— Ellen Barkin (@Ellen Barkin) 1644520630

"It’s not a 'scoop;' if you sat on it for years so you could make money off your book. Maggie Haberman has failed as a journalist and put her own profits above the interests of the American people," read another angry tweet.

"What else is @maggieNYT holding back about the Trump menace until her book comes out in October. I am calling on her to reveal any facts which implicate crimes & danger to our country," replied activist Richard Signorelli.

"Oh yay more 'she withheld reporting at the time so it could go in her book' scoops. What a shameful practice," responded writer Anita Creamer.

Others angrily accused Haberman of hypocrisy based on a perceived animus against failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

"How many front page stories did Maggie Haberman write about Hillary Clinton’s emails? Yet she concealed information about Trump flushing documents down the White House toilets," read another tweet.

Trump denied the report that he had flushed documents down the toilet during his time at the White House, and said "some reporter" had made it up "in order to get publicity for a mostly fictitious book."

Here's more about the report from Haberman's book:

Book reveals Trump staff found flushed papers in White House toiletwww.youtube.com

'We were not allowed to collaborate with our peers in the local health departments,' former NY health department official testifies in Cuomo sexual harassment probe



Months after departing from office, disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is still facing scrutiny for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic as new materials are released from a sexual harassment investigation of the former governor.

Cuomo resigned from his post earlier this year in the wake of a report that concluded he had sexually harassed multiple women, an allegation which he denied.

"There is a lot that has now been put on the record as a result of the AG investigation that doesn't relate to allegations of sexual harassment but does relate to spiteful pandemic mismanagement," New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman tweeted.

There is a lot that has now been put on the record as a result of the AG investigation that doesn\u2019t relate to allegations of sexual harassment but does relate to spiteful pandemic mismanagementhttps://twitter.com/nyhammond/status/1458923887702511619\u00a0\u2026

— Maggie Haberman (@maggienyt) 1636669857

The testimony of a former New York State Department of Health employee who served as the medical director in the division of epidemiology is drawing attention.

"We were not allowed to collaborate with our peers in the local health departments and New York City Department of Mental Health and Hygiene which is a critical component in an outbreak response to collaborate with different facets of public health. They actually implemented it and we do not. So generally, so not being able to collaborate with them in the way we normally would really hindered our ability to perform our jobs we felt," the former employee said.

When asked who barred the state health department from engaging in collaboration with the other entities, the person could not say specifically who was responsible, but said that the implication was that the direction was coming from the Executive Chamber.

Here's more from the testimony:

Q. Who blocked the Department of Health of New York State from collaborating with peers and local departments and New York City?

A. We were advised that we couldn't really have our routine unofficial meeting, the official meeting everything had to be approved in advance. So it took so long to get things approved it made them very challenging to even logistically organize.

And so but I can't say exactly who I know who relayed the message to me because I don't know who it ultimately came from. They implied it came from the Chamber. It was sort of the implication. I can't say that they — it was them exactly. We had to stop doing webinars with them. We couldn't collaborate with them on evaluations of different problems and projects.

Our informal discussions had to cease and formal ones, everything that to be approved first which was very, very challenging to even accomplish. So its basically made it — indirectly made it so that the formal discussions were almost either impossible to have or you couldn't really share any valuable information. So it was a pretty uninformative discussion.

Q. Who implied that this direction came from the Executive Chamber?

A. I just remember my boss mentioning, I think it came from her boss, [redacted], I think [redacted] at some point said it, [redacted]. I think it was repeated by multiple people. I can't remember specifics of any of those conversations of when or where, but I knew it didn't come from them per se.

Prior to announcing his plan to step down from office, the Democratic governor had faced a barrage of calls to resign, including from many members of his own party.

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul became the first female governor in the Empire State's history when she filled the vacancy created by Cuomo's departure.