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)
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Does anyone know who OP is? He seems to hold some sort of grudge against Hasan for whatever reason and been posting about him everywhere. I wonder if there’s any underlying hate for either Hasan’s ethnic identity or commentary
What is this drivel…sounds like you weren’t listening very hard to Hasan’s video
I think it’s absolutely ridiculous you are giving the New Yorker credit for calling out the DATE AND TIME of what was said by the parent was a lie.
Isn’t it more relevant that it was actually said or something along those lines? And the New Yorker had an agenda to make it seem like the entire story was a lie which we can see as Hasan shows were not.
I say this and I’m not even a fan of the guy
You must be one dedicated hater lol
Sorry tldr
It’s WILD that you took the time to post your little essay to a dozen different subs.
You are an insane person
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.
Didn’t realize we held comedians to a higher standard of truth than we do politicians. We had a president for 4 years that never told the truth and incited violence.
I think you gotta let Hassan comedic embellishments slide here my guy.
I’m so sick of this response. At best it’s obtuse at worst it’s totally disingenuous. Hasan is not Jerry Seinfeld or Anthony Jeselnick. He is not changing details to an innocuous story for the sake of a bigger punchline. The audience believing the story is integral to its impact. Hasan himself clearly believes this or he would have been more upfront from the beginning of his shows about the sources of his stories. If you were watching the Daily Show, you’d expect a few one-liners and sarcastic jokes, but you’d also fully expect the substance of the pieces to be accurate and truthful. The audience seeing Hasan knows him from that type of media so they’d reasonably expect the same. Some of the exaggerations aren’t a big deal IMO and Maybe Hasan sincerely felt like the audience understood these were not fully true stories, but he at least made a mistake in not being upfront about that in his live shows.
the next thing we are going to see is an article from The New Yorker bashing Robin Williams because they never actually found that his home was broken in by gay burglars. or he got a refund from a prostitute because he was so bad at sex.
Wait was he really from the planet Ork??? Surely he wouldn’t lie about that.
This just in, Larry the Cable Guy not actual cable guy!
OP is peddling this post in a half a dozen subs.
The issues of how he treated staff at his Netflix show—sidelining women who questioned his perspectives and removing fact checkers from the writing room—have been erased from the discussion by HM putting his video out. PR manipulation to the max.