Time Gets Caught in a Purposeful, Evil Mischaracterization of Charles Koch

Last updated on: August 8, 2017 at 12:43 pm by Mark Meckler

Time Gets Caught in a Purposeful, Evil Mischaracterization of Charles Koch 2017-08-08T12:43:04-06:00 Mark Meckler

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Sometimes the left-wing mainstream media (oh-but-I-repeat-myself) accidentally reveals its hand. This happened in an article about Charles Koch, a very rich libertarian. His wealth, of course, make him public enemy #1, since liberals like their rich people one or two ideological notches to the left of Hillary Clinton.

Recently, Time wrote about Koch and seriously and purposefully misrepresented his statement, but pulling out a quote from what was apparently a joke and making it seem like his actual belief. The original headline was: Charles Koch Says US Can Bomb Its Way to $100,000 Salaries:

Ugly misrepresentation of Charles Koch’s point – left picture is @TIME‘s pull quote, right picture is Koch’s quote in context. pic.twitter.com/7ABdrzobuS

— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) August 6, 2017

When I went to find the original article, however, it had significantly changed since that Twitter user had taken the screen shot. The article began by explaining Koch’s belief that Americans can have a higher annual salary if regulations are scaled back:

One way to get there? Building and using more bombs, he jokingly told about 450 donors to the political network he backs.

“I think we can have growth rates in excess of 4%. When I’m talking about growth rates, I’m not talking about that GDP, which counts poison gas the same as it counts penicillin,” the 79-year-old industrialist said, veering off his prepared remarks. “What a monstrous measure this is. If we make more bombs, the GDP goes up — particularly if we explode them.”

His audience laughed, clearly getting the joke.

“Maybe we make more bombs,” he said, trailing off. “I’m just kidding. I won’t go there.”

Wow. That’s quite a difference. At the bottom of this piece, it had this disclaimer:

Note: The headline on this story has been updated to more accurately reflect the content of the article.

I’d say so. In moments like these, it’s great that we have citizen activists who don’t let the media get away with their lies.

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