The New York Times Blatantly Lies Again

For those of you who aren't aware of the liberal radio network Air America and the recent scandal that has plagued it you are not alone. The only attempt to cover it by the Times was true to the New York paper's idea of "print what we want you to think" and then "print the truth in the corrections page the next day." Here you go, from Michelle Malkin:

First, a summary of the financial fiasco that the liberal media won't touch: The New York City Department of Investigation has been probing allegations that officials of the nonprofit Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club and one of its affiliates, Pathways for Youth, approved "significant inappropriate transactions and falsified documents that were submitted to various city agencies." The charities receive large portions of their budgets from local, state and federal government grants. At the center of the controversy is Evan Montvel Cohen, the disgraced former chairman of Air America, who was in charge of the liberal radio network at the same time he was serving as Gloria Wise's director of development.

The New York Sun's David Lombino reported this week that Cohen received more than $800,000 in loans for himself and Air America during his tenure, according to Gloria Wise executive committee President Jeannette Graves. Graves alleges that Cohen funneled $613,000 to himself and Air America without her authorization or knowledge. Other loans were approved by the Gloria Wise executive committee when Cohen claimed he needed money to cover medical expenses for himself and his father. As a result of an ongoing investigation, the city canceled its contracts with both Gloria Wise and Pathways in June -- causing a near-shutdown of services to poor minority kids, Alzheimer's patients, and other underprivileged clients until other nonprofit agencies were brought in to take over the old management.

Fantastic: So you get the jist of it. Air America's chairman siphoned $800,000 off of two state-sponsored charities in New York, the investigation into which caused the state to pull their funding from both charities. The only article about this in a major paper included this quote from Air America's Al Franken:

"I don't know why he did it," Mr. Franken said, according to a transcript of the broadcast made by the Department of Investigation. "I don't know where the money went. I don't know if it was used for operations. I think he was borrowing from Peter to pay Paul."

However, the real quote was printed in the corrections section the next day:

An article yesterday about state and city investigations of a loan made by a Bronx social service agency to the liberal radio network Air America quoted incorrectly from comments made on the air by Al Franken, the host of an Air America program. Referring to Evan M. Cohen, a former official of the network whom Mr. Franken accused of having engineered the loan, from the Gloria Wise Boys and Girls Club, Mr. Franken said: "I don't know why they did it, and I don't know where the money went. I don't know if it was used for operations, which I imagine it was. I think he was robbing Peter to pay Paul." (He did not say: "I don't know why he did it. I don't know where the money went. I don't know if it was used for operations. I think he was borrowing from Peter to pay Paul."

You could say that was an honest mistake, if it weren't for the fact that the quote Franken gave is quite public and is usually given by way of an audio file. Is this not a blatant example of liberal media bias, or is it at least an example of the New York Times manipulating a story into what they want to report? I'm disgusted.

UPDATE:
Here is the link to an in-depth evaluation of the New York Times quoting ability, and here is the link to the audio file of Franken explaining the whole thing on the air. Listen closely to how terrible you would have to be to misquote Franken. Also listen to Franken mocking the charities which are now closed, mocking the newspapers that covered the story, and laughing at the quantity of money that was stolen. Who listens to this garbage?