NYT reporter seen on camera admitting his January 6 reporting was incorrect and that there were FBI informants amongst those who invaded the Capitol Building.
QUICK FACTS:
- New York Times National Security Correspondent Matthew Rosenberg was caught on camera by Project Veritas saying the media coverage of Jan. 6 was an overaction.
- The reporter said he and two of his colleagues at the Capitol Hill riots “were just having fun,” but they later claimed to have been “traumatized.”
- Rosenberg also said that despite the coverage from the mainstream media, there wasn’t an organized effort at the protest.
- This is in sharp juxtaposition to the recounting of events in Rosenberg’s article published by the Times on Jan. 6, 2022 about the attack, titled “The Next Big Lies: Jan 6 was No Big Deal, or A Left-Wing Plot.”
ROSENBERG’S COMMENTS:
- “There were a ton of FBI informants amongst the people who attacked the Capitol,” Rosenberg could be seen saying in the video posted by Project Veritas.
- “It was like, me and two other colleagues who were there [January 6] outside and we were just having fun!I know I’m supposed to be traumatized, but like, all these colleagues who were in the [Capitol] building and are like ‘Oh my God it was so scary!’ I’m like, ‘f*ck off!’”
- “I’m like come on, it’s not the kind place I can tell someone to man up but I kind of want to be like, ‘dude come on, you were not in any danger. These f*cking little dweebs who keep going on about their trauma. Shut the f*ck up. They’re f*cking b*tches,” he added.
- “They were making too big a deal. They were making this an organized thing that it wasn’t.”
- When asked if he would be likely to change his mind about his sentiments, Rosenberg said, “Will I stand by those comments? Absolutely.”
BACKGROUND:
- Footage of Rosenberg’s comments were gathered by Project Veritas who published the video on Tuesday, March 8, 2022, following a conversation Rosenberg had with an undercover reporter.
- According to their website, Project Veritas was started in 2010 as a non-profit journalism enterprise working to investigate “and exposes corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions to achieve a more ethical and transparent society and to engage in litigation to “protect, defend and expand human and civil rights secured by law, specifically First Amendment rights including promoting the free exchange of ideas in a digital world; combat and defeat censorship of any ideology; promote truthful reporting; and defend freedom of speech and association issues including the right to anonymity.”
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