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Chris Rufo REVELS in NY mag writer's humiliation after magazine issues 'very embarrassing' correction
July 15, 2022
'It's one of our country's greatest ironies that Jonathan Chait's columns appear under the header "Intelligencer"'
Manhattan Institute senior fellow Christopher Rufo celebrated a "win" on Twitter after New York magazine finally issued a correction on an Intelligencer article from April that misquoted him.
"Winning," Rufo wrote. "New York Magazine's @jonathanchait fabricated a quotation in an attempt to smear me, but I caught him red-handed and his editors had to retract the false statement and issue a correction. Very embarrassing for him.
\u201cWinning: New York Magazine's @jonathanchait fabricated a quotation in an attempt to smear me, but I caught him red-handed and his editors had to retract the false statement and issue a correction. Very embarrassing for him.\u201d— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f) 1657834203
"Funny how Chait 'misquoted' my remarks using completely different words and changing the entire meaning of my sentences in a way that just so happened to turn me into the villain in his narrative. It's one of our country's greatest ironies that Jonathan Chait's columns appear under the header 'Intelligencer,'" Rufo added.
\u201cIt's one of our country's greatest ironies that Jonathan Chait's columns appear under the header "Intelligencer."\u201d— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f) 1657834203
Jonathan Chait, the article's author, was incensed. Apparently, he doesn't consider misquoting a person and intentionally changing the meaning of his words to be all that big a deal. In fact, it was a "minor" mistake, not embarrassing at all, and by the way he has "standards."
"In fact, the misquote said virtually the same thing as the original. The misquote was minor (I will quote both in a follow-up) but we corrected because, unlike Rufo, we have standards.
\u201cIn fact, the misquote said virtually the same thing as the original. The misquote was minor (I will quote both in a follow-up) but we corrected because, unlike Rufo, we have standards.\u201d— Jonathan Chait (@Jonathan Chait) 1657838373
Rufo was happy to help Chait understand the error of his ways.
"Regime journalism 101: 'Yes, I absolutely fabricated the quotation to push a pre-conceived narrative, but it's not a big deal. Trust me,'" Rufo tweeted, before posting a side-by-side comparison of his actual quote and Chait's misleading version, complete with the explaination:
"On the left is Chait's fabricated quote, which suggests that I 'instructed' conservatives to 'create an atmosphere' of school distrust. On the right is my real quote, which says that teachers unions and school bureaucracies have already created distrust. These are not the same."
\u201cOn the left is Chait's fabricated quote, which suggests that I "instructed" conservatives to "create an atmosphere" of school distrust. On the right is my real quote, which says that teachers unions and school bureaucracies have already created distrust.\n\nThese are not the same.\u201d— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f) 1657840213
Nope, these are clearly not the same.
\u201c@morenlh @realchrisrufo "You need to scare people into believing that there could be potholes in every road they drive on."\n\nis not the same as:\n\n"When people notice that they're driving over potholes all the time, remind them that the public works dept. should have filled them."\u201d— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f) 1657840213
\u201c@jonathanchait If they said the same thing, you wouldn't have had to retract it. Clearly they are communicating two very different points.\u201d— Jonathan Chait (@Jonathan Chait) 1657838373
\u201c@jonathanchait Virtually the same thing? Sure. Then in which way(s) was the quote 'virtually' different?\u201d— Jonathan Chait (@Jonathan Chait) 1657838373
\u201c@jonathanchait Lmao, these are completely different.\n\nThis is like saying "create" and "assume" are the same word.\u201d— Jonathan Chait (@Jonathan Chait) 1657838373
\u201c@realchrisrufo No they are not the same or even close (if this quote on left, was only lifted from the text on the right). Where does the get the \u201che instructed his audience..? etc\u201d\u201d— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f) 1657840213
\u201c@jonathanchait \u201cOperate from a premise of\u201d vs. \u201ccreate an atmosphere of\u201d are quite different things. \n\nThe latter takes an active, primary role; the former simply assumes its presence, which may have arrived from multiple causes.\u201d— Jonathan Chait (@Jonathan Chait) 1657838373
\u201c@realchrisrufo You know you've made it when they start making shit up about you.\u201d— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f) 1657840213
\u201c@jonathanchait If you have standards then why'd you misquote the man in the first place?\u201d— Jonathan Chait (@Jonathan Chait) 1657838373
Why indeed.
\u201cIt's incredible that Chait boasts about his "standards" in the same tweet in which he admits to fabricating a quotation to push a pre-conceived narrative. This is why the public has zero trust in regime media: lies, hubris, and hypocrisy all wrapped into one.\u201d— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f) 1657842498
Rufo recently joined Dave Rubin, Spencer Klavan, and Josh Hammer on “The Rubin Report” to talk about the cost-of-living crisis most Americans are facing and why it’s important to stand up to people like Jonathan Chait or BNC News’ Marc Lamont Hill who try to smear anyone who doesn't share their leftist world view.
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