Mediaite's Lindsey Ellefson reported Wednesday that Vanity Fair posted an article about a short video interview with Donald Trump in which the candidate criticized Kim Kardashian for looking "a little bit large" as a result of her pregnancy. Vanity Fair ran with this as further evidence of Trump's habitual body shaming. "Maybe not the best political strategy 40 days before the election!" VF crowed.

But Ellefson noticed some anachronistic details about the video, such as the fact that the interviewer was from a show that had been canceled in 2014 -- not to mention the fact that Kardashian is not currently pregnant. Ellefson realized that the video was actually from 2013, when Kardashian was pregnant with her first child.

VF realized its error and later updated the article with a new title -- "Revisit the Time Donald Trump Said Kim Kardashian Had 'Gotten a Bit Large' [Updated]" -- to spin their mistake into arguing that Trump "has a history of body shaming women."

As Mediaite concluded,

Had the magazine not been so eager to push the gaffe and make Trump look bad for doing such a thing as the [Alicia] Machado story still dominates the news cycle, the real point about his misogyny being a years-old characteristic would have stood a better chance. Now, however, it just strengthens the narrative that the press is so rabidly anti-Trump that due diligence and lack of bias have flown out the window.

Yep.