NYT dragged for hilariously botched ‘fact check’ of RFK Jr.’s war on artificial ingredients

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Posted on 11/23/2024 5:27:17 PM PST by DoodleBob

This New York Times “gotcha” is about as sharp as a soggy bowl of breakfast cereal.

The Times was relentlessly mocked over the weekend for appearing to unintentionally make Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s case in a recent article that tried to poke holes in his anti-processed-food crusade.

Kennedy, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has long pushed for purging artificial ingredients from the food supply, routinely calling such additives “poison.”

The Times on Friday ran a story positing that the Kennedy scion’s stance while potentially leading the agency could put him on a collision course with Big Food, which the outlet warned could jeopardize Republicans’ longstanding friendly relationship with the multibillion-dollar industry.

“Mr. Kennedy has singled out Froot Loops as an example of a product with too many artificial ingredients, questioning why the Canadian version has fewer than the U.S. version,” Gray Lady scribes wrote of the colorful Kellogg’s cereal often criticized by RFK Jr.

“But he was wrong,” the article continued authoritatively — before delivering what was meant to be the death blow certain to tear Kennedy’s incorrect beliefs to smithereens.

“The ingredient list is roughly the same, although Canada’s has natural colorings made from blueberries and carrots while the U.S. product contains red dye 40, yellow 5 and blue 1 as well as Butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a lab-made chemical that is used ‘for freshness,’ according to the ingredient label,” the report said. (emphasis added)

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An X writer, referring to Trump’s decisive election victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, said, “This. This is exactly why they lost. Everything about this particular part of this specific article is why we won and they lost.”

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1 posted on 11/23/2024 5:27:17 PM PST by DoodleBob

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