{"id":2359127,"date":"2024-10-24T16:24:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T20:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-media-are-lying-now-john-kelly-and-the-nyt-edition\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T16:25:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T20:25:30","slug":"how-the-media-are-lying-now-john-kelly-and-the-nyt-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-media-are-lying-now-john-kelly-and-the-nyt-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Media Are Lying Now: John Kelly And The NYT Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-the-media-are-lying-now-john-kelly-and-the-nyt-edition%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2359127&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-most-dangerous-part-of-the-nyt-alito-flag-meltdown-is-the-politicization-of-patriotism\/\" title=\"The NYT&#039;s Alito Flag Controversy: Politicizing Patriotism\">article critiques<\/a> a recent New York Times interview with John Kelly, the former Chief of Staff to Donald Trump, \u2062suggesting\u200c that the portrayal \u200cof the conversation was \u200cmisleading and staged. It highlights an audio clip\u2062 from the interview that was released after the original article, indicating the interaction between Kelly and the reporter, Michael Schmidt, felt\u2063 less like an\u2064 investigative interview and more like a collaboration to produce a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-times-hit-piece-on-john-durham-unravels-instantly\/\" title=\"NY Times&#039; Hit Piece on John Durham Unravels Instantly\">politically charged narrative<\/a> against\u200d Trump, just before \u2063an upcoming election. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-thanks-to-unity\/\" title=\"No thanks to unity\">author expresses skepticism<\/a> \u2062about the\u2063 integrity of the interview, arguing \u200bit was constructed to serve a particular agenda rather than to inform voters genuinely. The underlying implication \u200dis that media outlets, such as the New York Times, may\u2063 manipulate narratives for political \u2062gains.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=At1hOCEIwE8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global News\/YouTube <\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/24\/heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-john-kelly-and-the-new-york-times-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Here%E2%80%99s%20How%20The%20Media%20Are%20Lying%20Right%20Now:%20John%20Kelly%20And%20The%20New%20York%20Times%20Edition&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/24\/heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-john-kelly-and-the-new-york-times-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=Here%E2%80%99s%20How%20The%20Media%20Are%20Lying%20Right%20Now:%20John%20Kelly%20And%20The%20New%20York%20Times%20Edition&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/24\/heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-john-kelly-and-the-new-york-times-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/24\/heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-john-kelly-and-the-new-york-times-edition\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Here%E2%80%99s%20How%20The%20Media%20Are%20Lying%20Right%20Now:%20John%20Kelly%20And%20The%20New%20York%20Times%20Edition&amp;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/24\/heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-john-kelly-and-the-new-york-times-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>Everything about that highly promoted New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/22\/us\/politics\/john-kelly-trump-fitness-character.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;interview&rdquo;<\/a> with former Trump White House Chief of Staff John Kelly &mdash;&nbsp;a <em>general<\/em>, if you haven&rsquo;t heard! &mdash;&nbsp;reeked of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/24\/here-are-all-the-people-on-record-debunking-the-atlantics-latest-trump-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fakery<\/a>. But a piece of audio from the recorded phone conversations between Kelly and the Times reporter that wasn&rsquo;t released until two days after the article proves just how artificial it truly was.<\/p>\n<p>The original article was published on Tuesday and included a mix of audio snippets and text quotes of Kelly, presumably offering his answers to questions that the reporter, Michael Schmidt, was asking. At the very bottom was a sound clip labeled, &ldquo;Kelly on the Importance of Character Over Policy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1af8b8aa9a96a4ab426266a443b20205 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1af8b8aa9a96a4ab426266a443b20205\"><\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not recommending anything to anybody,&rdquo; Kelly is heard telling Schmidt. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m just saying &mdash;&nbsp;other than, that when you&rsquo;re looking to vote for someone, regardless, you&rsquo;ve got to, you&rsquo;ve got  to look at the character and all those kinds of things and then start looking at the individual&rsquo;s policies.&rdquo; (Must be nice to live so comfortably that you can afford to vote first and foremost based on whether someone seems pleasant enough rather than how that person&rsquo;s decisions would literally change your life and your loved ones&rsquo; lives.)<\/p>\n<p>In Thursday&rsquo;s edition of the Times&rsquo; &ldquo;The Daily&rdquo; podcast, however, there&rsquo;s a more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/24\/podcasts\/the-daily\/election-round-table.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">extended version<\/a> of that recording that precedes Kelly&rsquo;s remarks. In that version, Schmidt says something first. &ldquo;Is there anything else that we need to talk about or is this enough?&rdquo; he says to Kelly. &ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s plenty,&rdquo; Kelly replies. &ldquo;But like I said, Mike &mdash;&nbsp;I&rsquo;m not&mdash;&nbsp;just to make it clear, I&rsquo;m not recommending anything to anybody, I&rsquo;m just saying &mdash; other than &hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For the interviewer to ask the subject whether there&rsquo;s anything else &ldquo;we need to talk about&rdquo; or &ldquo;is this enough?&rdquo; sounds a lot less like a probing interview that Schmidt had been trying to secure for four years (as he said on the podcast) and more like the seeking of a mutual understanding that their shared goal was achieved &mdash; the goal being a well-timed piece full of politically harmful accusations about the front-runner for president, Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>I reached out to Schmidt by email to see if he had any additional comments about that exchange between him and Kelly but received no response.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f004716a86d1978dcdb9894308d27db5 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-f004716a86d1978dcdb9894308d27db5\"><\/div>\n<p>At the top of the podcast episode, Schmidt said he had &ldquo;been trying to get John Kelly to talk and allow me to record it&rdquo; for a number of years. &ldquo;And I tried really, really hard to do this because I believe that his story is central to the Trump story.&rdquo; It created the impression that Schmidt was merely journalistically curious as to what Kelly, as Trump&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jpmorgan-chase-ceo-kowtows-to-chinas-communist-party-after-joking-bank-would-outlast-party\/\" title=\"JPMorgan Chase CEO Kowtows to China&#039;s Communist Party After Joking Bank Would Outlast Party\">longest-serving chief<\/a> of staff, might have to say. But the piece of the recording mentioned above suggests there was something more specific that the pair had in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Voters certainly ended up with something more specific &mdash; a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">predetermined hit piece crammed<\/a> with unverifiable accusations exactly two weeks before Election Day. The New York Times and Michael Schmidt were willing and ready to be a part of the effort.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-71165a357242ae467adb4ac2ecb38614 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-71165a357242ae467adb4ac2ecb38614\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Eddie Scarry<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author-twitter label-sm d-flex align-items-center mt-10\">             <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter me-5\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>             <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Visit on Twitter<\/span>            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eScarry\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-decoration-none\" rel=\"noopener\">@eScarry<\/a>           <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 d-flex justify-content-center justify-content-md-end mt-15 mt-md-0\">        <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/author\/eddiescarry\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">More Articles<\/a>     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/2024\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">2024<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/john-kelly\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">John Kelly<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/new-york-times\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">New York Times<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times&#8217; &#8220;interview&#8221; with ex-Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly felt insincere, especially after audio from their conversation revealed its artificiality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2359128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/John-Kelly.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7380,38568,5157,4188,33263],"class_list":["post-2359127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-misinformation","tag-john-kelly","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-new-york-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/John-Kelly.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2359128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}