The November 2 issue of Time magazine investigated the “dodgy claims” of a female presidential candidate. Of course, the subject was Republican Carly Fiorina and not Democrat Hillary Clinton. In a cover story entitled “Carly Fiorina’s Convenient Truths," writer Philip Elliott openly attacked, “Dodgy claims are becoming a Fiorina hallmark.”
Elliott complained, “In her telling, she started as a secretary in a nine-person real estate office and peaked as CEO. But like so much that is part of Fiorina’s bid, her only-in-America story has earned a second look.” He added, “Fiorina shares only what she thinks will help her cause.”
What politician doesn’t focus on things that will help his or her cause? As the Media Research Center’s Brent Bozell and Tim Graham noted, Time devoured the falsehoods in Barack Obama’s book:
Reporters loved this book. In an October 23, 2006, cover story in Time magazine, Joe Klein oozed about Obama's parentage: "He told the story in brilliant, painful detail in his first book, Dreams from My Father, which may be the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician."
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The warning was right there in the preface to his 1995 memoir, where Barack Obama admitted the chapters to come were taking liberties with the truth: "Although much of this book is based on contemporaneous journals or the oral histories of my family, the dialogue is necessarily an approximation of what was actually said or relayed to me." Even the people weren't entirely real: "For the sake of compression, some of the characters that appear are composites of people, I've known, and some events appear out of precise chronology."
However, in the current issue, Elliott insisted that liar Fiorina could get away with such untruths because “The Republicans who will pick their party’s nominee are not, at the moment, rewarding nuance or attention to detail.”
The journalist compared:
Wonky former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who prides himself on substance and has put out a thoughtful tax plan, is struggling to keep his campaign afloat while cutting aides’ pay.
According to The Atlantic, Time magazine once reached more than 20 million people a week. By 2013, that number was down to 3.2 million. In 2005, Time sold 150,000 issues at the newsstand. That number is down to 60,000. Perhaps becoming even more shrill and leftist is the magazine’s last, desperate play.
