NY Times: Jewish voters drifting right; Facts: Jewish votes drifting Left'

Here is an article from the New York Times by Jodi Kantor that makes the startling allegation "...in recent presidential elections, Jews have drifted somewhat to the right." Although this assertion is the key idea on which the entire article is based, the assertion is supported by no facts at all.

Here is a discussion of that assertion based on easily obtainable facts at the Monkey Cage. Those facts clearly show that that obtains real facts that show the exact opposite it true.

What can we learn from this article and the Monkey Cages' fact-based analysis?

First, the New York Times has totally failed in its editorial functions. A writer can easily get so involved in the personalities she writes about that she fails to get the facts that allow the story to be generalized to multiple individuals. (Some writers. Of course, I would never fall into such a trap!) But an editor has the specific job of not letting such stories get published without revision - unless the bias is intended by the news organization as a hit job.

Second, the writer's name, Jody Kantor, is clearly Jewish. From this and Ms. Kantor's failure to check easily checkable facts to support her key assertion, it is very likely that Ms. Kantor considers her personal opinions to be "the facts." There is a well-known viral set of emails - a meme - running among American Jews making Barack Obama out to be a great threat to Israel. Is Ms. Kantor a victim and carrier of that meme? It looks like it.

Third. We can't trust the New York Times. Period. Everything that rag publishes has to be checked and double-checked.