Archives don't stop reporters from misreporting

It is so easy to become numb to the campaigning that the mainstream media do on a partisan basis.

Came across this.

People are so numb to broken norms that Trump’s de facto endorsement of a foreign leader days before an election — once considered diplomatic taboo — barely caused a stir. https://t.co/NXo250mAr2

— Michael Crowley (@michaelcrowley) June 25, 2020

Crowley is the New York Times's White House Correspondent on foreign affairs.

You would think he would be aware of his company's own reporting just five years ago.

From Former Obama Campaign Aide Now Works to Oust Netanyahu by Julie Hirschfeld Davis.

Jeremy Bird, the architect of the grass-roots and online organizing efforts that powered President Obama’s presidential campaigns from Chicago, is advising a similar operation in Tel Aviv. But this time it is focused on ousting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.

His consulting work for the group V15 — an independent Israeli organization that does not support specific candidates but is campaigning to replace Israel’s current government — has added yet another political layer to the diplomatic mess surrounding Mr. Netanyahu’s decision to address a joint meeting of Congress next week on Iran.

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Mr. Bird is the latest in a long line of Americans who have worked on foreign political campaigns, particularly in Israel. In December, Mr. Netanyahu hired John McLaughlin, a Republican pollster; Likud has brought on Vincent Harris, a campaign aide to Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky. Former aides to Mr. Obama have also worked for the prime minister, including Bill Knapp and Josh Isay.

Former campaign strategists to Bill Clinton, including his pollster Stanley B. Greenberg and strategist James Carville, went to Israel in 1999 to help Ehud Barak defeat Mr. Netanyahu.

Hmmm. Actively campaigning against foreign leaders passes but meeting with them does not.

Interesting take.