The New York Times, once the “newspaper of record” in the United States, achieved fish-wrapper status long ago. But, like most of the rest of the legacy media, they insist on daily proving that we should no longer take them seriously; the latest such effort involved a “fact check” (yes, the use of scare quotes is intentional) of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim about ingredients in Canadian vs. American Froot Loops.
In an interview on MSNBC after Trump’s victory earlier this month, Kennedy suggested the second Trump administration could eliminate entire departments within the FDA: “In some categories, their entire departments, like the nutrition department in the FDA, they have to go. They’re not doing their job. They’re not protecting our kids. Why do we have Froot Loops in this country that have 18 or 19 ingredients, and you go to Canada, and it’s got…
