{"id":201,"date":"2016-09-29T13:36:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T20:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/?p=201"},"modified":"2016-09-29T13:36:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T20:36:07","slug":"misleading-headlines-gary-johnson-foreign-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/2016\/09\/29\/misleading-headlines-gary-johnson-foreign-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Misleading Headlines About Gary Johnson and Foreign Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since yesterday&#8217;s Hardball interview with Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, there have been a lot of people on social media posting\u00a0that he could not name a single foreign leader. Headlines from sites like NBC News, The New York Times, and USA Today seem to confirm that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/29\/us\/politics\/gary-johnson-aleppo-moment.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-202 \" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/nytimes-gary-johnson-1024x899.png\" alt=\"nytimes-gary-johnson\" width=\"667\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/nytimes-gary-johnson-1024x899.png 1024w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/nytimes-gary-johnson-300x263.png 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/nytimes-gary-johnson-768x674.png 768w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/nytimes-gary-johnson.png 1502w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/card\/gary-johnson-has-aleppo-moment-struggles-name-single-foreign-leader-n656526\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-203 \" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/nbc-gary-johnson-1024x312.png\" alt=\"nbc-gary-johnson\" width=\"683\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/nbc-gary-johnson-1024x312.png 1024w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/nbc-gary-johnson-300x91.png 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/nbc-gary-johnson-768x234.png 768w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/nbc-gary-johnson.png 1444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/onpolitics\/2016\/09\/28\/gary-johnson-another-aleppo-moment\/91249582\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-207\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/USA-Today-gary-johnson-1024x250.png\" alt=\"usa-today-gary-johnson\" width=\"701\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/USA-Today-gary-johnson-1024x250.png 1024w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/USA-Today-gary-johnson-300x73.png 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/USA-Today-gary-johnson-768x187.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even NPR is guilty of a misleading headline, but it seems to have been updated now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/09\/29\/495896880\/watch-unable-to-name-a-foreign-leader-gary-johnson-has-another-aleppo-moment\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-208\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/NPR-gary-johnson-1024x192.png\" alt=\"npr-gary-johnson\" width=\"574\" height=\"108\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/NPR-gary-johnson-1024x192.png 1024w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/NPR-gary-johnson-300x56.png 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/NPR-gary-johnson-768x144.png 768w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/NPR-gary-johnson.png 1206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But is that what really happened? Let&#8217;s take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uXFb0eSYjEA\" target=\"_blank\">the interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gary Johnson: &quot;I\u2019m Having An Aleppo Moment&quot; | Hardball | MSNBC\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uXFb0eSYjEA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What actually happened is that he was asked who his favorite current foreign leader is and he couldn&#8217;t think of anyone. He poked fun at himself and said he had an &#8220;Aleppo moment.&#8221; That&#8217;s hardly the same thing as being unable to name a current leader period. Some will then\u00a0say, &#8220;Okay, you&#8217;re right. But he&#8217;s still an idiot for not being able to name a favorite leader.&#8221; But that doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean he&#8217;s uneducated about other leaders, just that there&#8217;s none that he currently admires. From his point of view, that makes sense. He\u00a0has a libertarian viewpoint, which means few, if any, current leaders would be great in his mind. A liberal\u00a0might respond, &#8220;But I like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada! How can he not know about him?&#8221; Okay, that&#8217;s fine if you like Trudeau. Johnson\u00a0may know who he\u00a0is, but that doesn&#8217;t mean he admires him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beingalibertarian\/photos\/a.256552551217454.1073741829.246976735508369\/549823358557037\/?type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-204\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/gary-johnson-meme-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"gary-johnson-meme\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/gary-johnson-meme-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/gary-johnson-meme.jpg 746w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Johnson tweeted today that he still can&#8217;t name one he admires, affirming that there simply aren&#8217;t any that fit his views.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovGaryJohnson\/status\/781559655839522817\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-206 \" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/gary-johnson-tweet-9-29-16-1024x480.png\" alt=\"gary-johnson-tweet-9-29-16\" width=\"508\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/gary-johnson-tweet-9-29-16-1024x480.png 1024w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/gary-johnson-tweet-9-29-16-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/gary-johnson-tweet-9-29-16-768x360.png 768w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/files\/2016\/09\/gary-johnson-tweet-9-29-16.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My point here isn&#8217;t to convince you to support Gary Johnson or agree with his answer. One can argue something else he actually said that they disagree with, but that isn&#8217;t what this is about. It&#8217;s about\u00a0spreading false information and how we can prevent ourselves from doing this. I&#8217;ve seen skeptics &#8211; who&#8217;ve scolded others for\u00a0believing things based on misleading headlines &#8211; do it themselves with this Johnson interview. Just because you dislike a candidate doesn&#8217;t mean the methods of fact checking and reading before you share suddenly don&#8217;t apply. I\u00a0am not a Trump supporter, but I will correct people who make inaccurate claims about him. I wish people who dislike libertarian ideals would do the same.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also disappointing that\u00a0multiple news sites did this: News sources that many people would consider to be legitimate. It&#8217;s\u00a0bad enough when BuzzFeed, InfoWars, or The Free Thought Project have misleading headlines, but most people\u00a0expect more from NPR and The New York Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since yesterday&#8217;s Hardball interview with Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, there have been a lot of people on social&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[137,138,136],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-skepticism","tag-gary-johnson","tag-libertarian","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/verycherry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}