This week, Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill went on Twitter to do what Democrats do best: snarkily condemn Republicans for just about everything with precisely zero amount of self-reflection.  Her recent tweet attacked the new Attorney General Jeff Sessions for meeting with the Russian ambassador.

"I've been on the Armed Services Com for 10 years," she tweeted.  "No call or meeting w/Russian ambassador. Ever. Ambassadors call members of Foreign Rel Com."

McCaskill was referring to the Washington Post report that put Sessions and the ambassador together:

The Washington Post reported Wednesday night that Sessions met twice with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. last year. During his confirmation hearing to become President Trump's top law enforcement official, Sessions said he had no contact with Russian officials and did not know anything about reported contacts between Trump's campaign advisers and allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“I’m not aware of any of those activities,” Sessions told the Senate Judiciary Committee during his January confirmation hearing. "I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and I did not have communications with the Russians.”

McCaskill's harsh words were some of the leading criticism of Sessions and garnered a great deal of attention for the Democrat... but maybe not the kind she wanted though. Immediately, Charles C. W. Cooke pointed these older tweets from McCaskill's own Twitter account: 

Cooke tweeted, "Claire McCaskill says she’s had 'no call or meeting w/Russian ambassador. Ever.' But she tweeted about two. It’s easy to forget."

Of course, the internet was abuzz with this complete and utter rebuttal OF Claire McCaskill BY Claire McCaskill, but apparently the New York Times didn't get the memo.

After they printed McCaskill's lie, they deleted it without any sort of editorial note. This, of course, is the same New York Times that bought a condescending ad during the Oscars decrying fake news and put up billboards all over Manhattan:

“The truth is hard to know," the ad said. “The truth is more important now than ever.” 

Well, only half of that is right. In this case, the truth was right out there for the whole world to see....  if only the New York Times would report on the news as it happens and not as they wish it happened.