{"id":103942,"date":"2018-09-15T17:14:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T21:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=103942"},"modified":"2018-09-15T17:14:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T21:14:32","slug":"drapegate-fake-news-cnn-and-fake-news-wapo-calling-out-fake-news-nyt-zerohedge-commenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=103942","title":{"rendered":"<b>DRAPEGATE<\/b>: &#8220;Fake news CNN and fake news WaPo calling out fake news NYT&#8221; &#8212; ZeroHedge Commenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>WaPo Slams NYT Over Embarrassing Nikki Haley &#8220;Drape-Gate&#8221; Retraction<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0on Thursday wrote an incredibly\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/13\/us\/politics\/state-department-curtains.html\">ham-handed hit-piece<\/a>\u00a0on UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, suggesting that she had spent over $52,000 on curtains at the official ambassador&#8217;s residence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/harr1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-103943\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/harr1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/harr1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/harr1-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Except,\u00a0<strong>she didn&#8217;t<\/strong>. The curtains were installed during the Obama administration, while Susan Rice stayed there at a cost of approximately $135,000\u00a0<strong>per month &#8211; over twice what Haley&#8217;s rent costs,<\/strong>\u00a0according to the\u00a0<em>Daily Caller<\/em>&#8216;s Kyle Becker.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/kylenabecker\/status\/1040573055012102146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1040573055012102146&#038;ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fnews%2F2018-09-15%2Fwapo-slams-nyt-over-embarrassing-nikki-haley-drape-gate-retraction<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NYT changes its \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NikkiHaley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nikkihaley<\/a>\u2069 story in a pretty significant way. Her predecessor actually authorized the $52,000 curtains in her UN residence.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iPNAH4PB5o\">https:\/\/t.co\/iPNAH4PB5o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdawsey1\/status\/1040671037740920837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The hit-piece was so egregious that the\u00a0<em>New York Times\u00a0<\/em>issued a\u00a0<strong>paragraph-long retraction<\/strong>\u00a0at the top of the article, which reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An earlier version of this article and headline\u00a0<strong>created an unfair impression about who was responsible for the purchase in question<\/strong>. While Nikki R. Haley is the current ambassador to the United Nations,\u00a0<strong>the decision on leasing the ambassador\u2019s residence and purchasing the curtains was made during the Obama administration<\/strong>, according to current and former officials. The article should not have focused on Ms. Haley, nor should a picture of her have been used.\u00a0<strong>The article and headline have now been edited to reflect those concerns, and the picture has been removed<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even liberal pundits jumped on the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>\u00a0for their hit piece, with CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper taking them to town in a six-part tweetstorm:<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-09-15\/wapo-slams-nyt-over-embarrassing-nikki-haley-drape-gate-retraction\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-09-15\/wapo-slams-nyt-over-embarrassing-nikki-haley-drape-gate-retraction<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"2\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--edge js-clickToOpenTarget tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jaketapper\/status\/1040601011247882240\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"8\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo Slams NYT Over Embarrassing Nikki Haley &#8220;Drape-Gate&#8221; Retraction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}