Show me again where The New Yorker was wrong? let’s go through the facts one by one.

(1) Minjah said his date’s mother told him on her doorstep that she did not want extended family “in Nebraska” seeing photos of her daughter, who was white, beside him. The New Yorker reported that Minhaj’s so-called date turned him down days before the prom.

Minhaj says in his video that there was no encounter at the doorstep as he had described, but he maintained that the girl’s mother “did really say that” a few days before prom.

So the New Yorker was RIGHT

(2) The New Yorker story notes that the The King’s Jester features a segment alleging Craig Monteilh, a real-life FBI informant who spied on Muslim communities in Southern California, had infiltrated the mosque frequented by Minhaj’s family under the name “Brother Eric.” Monteilh said that he never visited that mosque or met Minhaj, which the comic acknowledged in The New Yorker story.

So, The New Yorker was RIGHT

(3) Minhaj says someone did send him an envelope containing white powder that he opened near his daughter. But contrary to the story he tells in The King’s Jester, he knew right away it was not anthrax, the contents did not spill onto her and she was not rushed to the hospital.

So, The New Yorker was RIGHT

(4) Minhaj says he met with officials at the Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C., as news broke that journalist Jamal Khashoggi had been murdered at the Saudi embassy in Istanbul. But The New Yorker quotes an unnamed producer who said the meeting took place at least a month earlier.

So, The New Yorker was RIGHT (Minhaj does not address this incident in his article)

(5) The New Yorker says Minhaj’s story about Jared Kushner sitting in a seat that was ceremonially kept vacant for imprisoned Saudi activists at a gala was not true

Again, The New Yorker was RIGHT. (Minhaj does not address this incident in his article)

  • scubastefon@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    I tend to think a lot of this may be the same thing that happened with Brian Williams. The story gets embellished slowly over time, to the point where his own grasp on what the reality was slips away, until he’s knocked out of it with a little bit of challenge to the story line. The commercial attractiveness of stretching for story prob didn’t help.

    In the end the reason this is messed up is because comedians can stretch the story to keep it interesting but you can’t mess with the facts and get an emotional payoff out of it.