David M. Perry: CNN fact checked whether I in fact caught walleye while wearing a specific hat more thoroughly than the NYT checked whether the “I dont vote” guy actually voted.

CNN fact checked whether I in fact caught walleye while wearing a specific hat more thoroughly than the NYT checked whether the “I dont vote” guy actually voted.

I did. It’s not a great picture because I took it myself and I’m a little sundrenched. Glad CNN used the bass pic instead. www.instagram.com/p/C7VBAYcPPV...

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The don’t vote guy in fact seems to have voted in the last two elections.

I have published hundreds of opinion essays (as well as reported features and other kinds of pieces). But just for opinion essays – and they have always required a certain minimum level of evidence, and sometimes a ton of evidence.

That includes the one piece I wrote for the New York Times. They checked it very carefully. They did a good job. I appreciated the labor.

I don’t fucking get it.

Maybe There will be some explanation that people have the wrong guy when they’ve looked up his voting record. I don’t know. I’ll go back to my general statement That opinion pages should not be printing falsifiable bullshit. That should not be the job.

There's a whole wing of New York Status Quo Elites there.

NYT staff must leak the names of everyone involved in the publication of that piece. Their own credibility is at stake

I bet we could come up with a theory that fits other similar instances.

Feel like you're really boxing yourself in to having to wear a hat forever

So you're... 🎵All about that bass, that bass (no walleye)

nice fish!

not logging in to meta sorry, is it fish fear me etc?

No, it’s a tractor supply hat. I threw it away. But that’s a bass pic www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/o...

Opinion: My Tractor Supply hat was a symbol. Now it’s in the garbage | CNNwww.cnn.com Tractor Supply Co. cut DEI and climate change commitments following conservative criticism. David M. Perry says the company’s actions show short-sighted assumptions about their customers, including hi...

Ahhh, thanks for your service

Imagine writing the "I don't wear that hat anymore" piece in a world where your choice of hat was recorded in a public register every day, and just deciding to brazen through it while wearing the hat.

Right. I mean, people write that kind of boycott thing all the time when they’re not actually boycotting. But that hat went in the garbage and later or threw away some cat litter and some fish guts so …

similar energy

David, the guy lives in my hometown and whew, I have feelings about it

NYT didn't vote guy just wants a theocratic monarch so killing women who get abortions is on someone else's conscious

Ideally the lord

This seems like it ought to be a scandal, although I have a hunch that the NYT will say they didn't have time to verify the claims because Biden is old. 🙄

Assuming that it is correct that he voted, then someone should lose their job. I don’t say that lightly.

Here's the evidence: bsky.app/profile/donm...

Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason) Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

They will take cover under the distinction between it being published in the opinion section rather than the news section.

Sure. But when I have been published in their opinion section, my work was checked very closely. This is a failure of their own procedures in particular for guest essays, which they generally check more rigorously than staff columnists (a problem too, but a diff one).

Totally agree! And same experience with opinion sections. Just noting that they have a lot of variability in that section. Some fact-checked rigorously; others, just vibes.

I guess he’s a contributing writer and so has immunity from facts?

They ran an op-ed on the lab leak “theory” a few weeks back that most certainly wasn’t fact-checked. I wonder why they do it for some (you) and not others.

why its almost if any RW propaganda gets a free editorial pass... what is sad is that they deal in such bad faith that they've turned anyone with an ounce of curiosity into keeping receipts and its outed them as having no journalistic integrity.

I believe you wore the hat. I don’t believe you caught the fish.

Honey, I ate the fish! :)

You saw his *previous* "don't vote" piece in The week, yes? Greg Pak found it.

Yep

There’s one set of problems to publish the same piece twice. There’s a second set to have the core claim be dishonest. And easily checked.

But it's not the same, it's more detailed. So they put out a dishonest new piece that hides his beliefs. It's no different than putting out an anti-climate change OpEd without mentioning the writer works for the oil industry.

You had photographic evidence!

I am delighting in the commentary of this story. It is re-affirming my faith in the Voting Publick.

NY Times did fact check whether the guy voted... they just decided to lie to the public as long as it helps Trump win.

I grew up on the Maumee river and I can confirm that’s a goddamn Walleye and I WOULD KNOW

walleye is an elite fish

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