NYT Dragged for Failed ‘Fact-Checking’ of RFK Jr.’s War on artificial ingredients.

This New York Times “glass” is about as sharp as a soggy bowl of breakfast cereal.

The Times was mercilessly mocked over the weekend for its inadvertent coverage of the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. case. in a recent article that tried to poke holes in his crusade against processed foods.

Kennedy, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has long called for purging artificial ingredients from the food supply, routinely calling such additives “poison.”

The Times on Friday published a story claiming that Kennedy’s successor’s stance while potentially leading the agency could put him on a collision course with Big Food, which the outlet warned could jeopardize Republicans’ long-friendly relationship with the industry. billions of dollars.

“Mr. Kennedy has singled out Froot Loops as an example of a product with too many artificial ingredients, questioning why the Canadian version has less than the American version,” Gray Lady scribes wrote about the colorful Kellogg cereal often criticized by RFK Jr.

“But he was wrong,” the article continued authoritatively—before delivering what was supposed to be the sure death blow that would destroy Kennedy’s misguided beliefs.

“The ingredient list is roughly the same, although the Canadian one has natural colors made from blueberries and carrots, while the American product contains 40 red, 5 yellow and 1 blue, as well as butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a chemical produced in the laboratory used. “for freshness,” according to the ingredients label, the report said.

Ingredients such as artificial food coloring are among those that RFK Jr. has often criticized, especially in products marketed to children.

The unfortunate juxtaposition of Canada’s naturally-sourced ingredients with the US’s call for artificial chemical colors — complete with a hard-to-pronounce, scientific-sounding additive — was brutally mocked in an X-post by the Turning Point founder USA, Charlie Kirk, which was viewed more than half a million times.

“Wait, so RFK Jr. was completely correct, but they didn’t like the way he said it?” wrote an incredible X user.

Another person said: “They’re the same, just different, right? that’s logical… Of course it is.”

An X writer, referring to Trump’s decisive election victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, said: “This. That’s exactly why they lost. Everything about this particular part of this particular article is why we won and they lost.”

Red 40, Yellow 5 and Blue 1 are all on the chopping block in California, which has mandated food manufacturers replace artificial ingredients with naturally-derived alternatives by 2027 or face expulsion from public school vending machines and cafeterias in schools across the country.

Supporters of the ban say the colors have been linked to developmental and behavioral problems in children.