The New York Times Retracts the Sicknick Story

[Utilit99 4,099]

So dude was never even hit. His "murder" was at the center of the liberal's impeachment case.

Like so many fake news stories about Donald Trump and his supporters, millions of Americans believe the Sicknick story as truth; even a correction won’t change their minds.

In a quiet but stunning correction, the New York Times backed away from its original report that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was killed by a Trump supporter wielding a fire extinguisher during the January 6 melee at the Capitol building. Shortly after American Greatness published my column Friday that showed how the Times gradually was backpedaling on its January 8 bombshell, the paper posted this caveat:

UPDATE: New information has emerged regarding the death of the Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick that questions the initial cause of his death provided by officials close to the Capitol Police.

The paper continued to revise its story within the body of the original January 8 story: “Law enforcement officials initially said Mr. Sicknick was struck with a fire extinguisher, but weeks later, police sources and investigators were at odds over whether he was hit. Medical experts have said he did not die of blunt force trauma, according to one law enforcement official.”

What’s missing, however, is how the Times first described what happened to Sicknick. “Mr. Sicknick, 42, an officer for the Capitol Police, died on Thursday from brain injuries he sustained after Trump loyalists who overtook the complex struck him in the head with a fire extinguisher, according to two law enforcement officials.”

The account of Sicknick’s death was reported as fact, not speculation or rumor. Further, it appears that the anonymous sources were not law enforcement officials but people “close” to the police department—which means they could have been anyone from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to inveterate liar U.S. Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) to the Democratic mayor of Washington, D.C., Muriel Bowser.

Not only was the Times’ untrue story about Sicknick’s death accepted as fact by every news media organization from the Wall Street Journal to the Washington Post, political pundits on the NeverTrump Right also regurgitated the narrative that Sicknick was “murdered” as did lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

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https://amgreatness.com/2021/02/14/the-new-york-times-retracts-the-sicknick-story/

 

[lod001 1,344]

outside the nyt rag taking back the story, you wont hear about this from any of the fake news rags.

[fandandy 3,313]

The enemy of the people.

[BeenHereBefore 1,534]

So what did he die of ? Still alive ?

[KSB2424 3,148]

3 minutes ago, BeenHereBefore said:

So what did he die of ? Still alive ?

It's a mystery.  The autopsy has been done but nobody knows. 

:tinfoilhat:

[Hardcore troubadour 15,482]

4 minutes ago, BeenHereBefore said:

So what did he die of ? Still alive ?

Yeah, he’s still alive. 

[BeenHereBefore 1,534]

1 minute ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Yeah, he’s still alive. 

Thanks!

[KSB2424 3,148]

Meanwhile a year from now, Liberals will say "Do y'all remember when those racists killed that white dude with a fire extinguisher during the capitol riot?"

 

[BeenHereBefore 1,534]

2 minutes ago, KSB2424 said:

It's a mystery.  The autopsy has been done but nobody knows. 

:tinfoilhat:

Crazy but not surprised.

[blick 39]

20 minutes ago, BeenHereBefore said:

So what did he die of ? Still alive ?

Covid

[Utilit99 4,099]

1 hour ago, KSB2424 said:

Meanwhile a year from now, Liberals will say "Do y'all remember when those racists killed that white dude with a fire extinguisher during the capitol riot?"

 

Yep. And all the indoctrinated mindless retard kids of liberals will burn cities down over it. Without knowing the truth. 

[RLLD 4,239]

1) Of course they lied, that is the new mantra of the media today

2) The dood STILL DIED though......
   a) It was wrong when the people died because of the Democrats foot soldiers in Seattle and Minnesota
   b) It is also wrong when people die because of right wing nut jobs
   c) We cannot allow ourselves to become that which we hate, Democrat/leftist/liberal hypocrites = its wrong regardless of ideology

3) Why is it OK for Democrat politicians to wield the National Guard, but when the people they pretend to serve needed it, it was somehow wrong?

4) I note that fences (sic walls) are perfectly fine when THEY want them......

[Hardcore troubadour 15,482]

Maybe the troops are staying in DC because they really are afraid? Who knows what lies will be exposed in the coming months? Maybe they know something. 

[KSB2424 3,148]

I am not a tin foil hat kinda guy.  However I read they did an autopsy on Brian Sicknick, however we the people still don't "officially" know. That is some weird stuff it is not being made public.

Was it blunt force trauma?  Was it a heart attack?  Spill the beans.... 

 

[BeenHereBefore 1,534]

3 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Yeah, he’s still alive. 

So is Elvis.

[Gepetto 1,370]

Well in their defense, there was a fire extinguisher in the Capitol and Sicknick was in the Capitol on that fateful day.  :heavy_sarcasm:

[Gepetto 1,370]

27 minutes ago, BeenHereBefore said:

So is Elvis.

He's a poster on this bored.

[BeenHereBefore 1,534]

1 hour ago, Gepetto said:

He's a poster on this bored.

Elvis's fake death life must really suck then.

[Utilit99 4,099]

3 hours ago, RLLD said:

1) Of course they lied, that is the new mantra of the media today

2) The dood STILL DIED though......
   a) It was wrong when the people died because of the Democrats foot soldiers in Seattle and Minnesota
   b) It is also wrong when people die because of right wing nut jobs
   c) We cannot allow ourselves to become that which we hate, Democrat/leftist/liberal hypocrites = its wrong regardless of ideology

3) Why is it OK for Democrat politicians to wield the National Guard, but when the people they pretend to serve needed it, it was somehow wrong?

4) I note that fences (sic walls) are perfectly fine when THEY want them......

yep...

[BeenHereBefore 1,534]

1 hour ago, Gepetto said:

He's a poster on this bored. Elvis is probably Better of Dead!

 

[listen2me 23 1,873]

NYT publishes this and gets to quietly retract it a month later.  Meanwhile right leaners who post actual facts get suspended or fact checked on Twitter.    

This stuff should anger those on both sides but Liberals arent about getting it right.  They would trade freedoms in and read propaganda as long as it meant the right wasnt "winning".  

[TimmySmith 2,782]

Considering that the impeachment was based on "reports", can't we sue the NYT for sedition?

[Cloaca du jour 2,150]

He get Clinton'd?