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January 14, 2009
Misleading sub-headline
On the front page of the NY Times website, there is an article, Geithner Hearing Scheduled for Jan. 21. The sub-headline is "Some senators objected to holding the hearing on Friday after disclosures of Timothy F. Geithner’s late payment of some taxes in past years." Which pretty clearly suggests that the late tax payments caused the delay of the hearing scheduled for Friday.
However, if you open the article up, you see the following:
The Senate Finance Committee’s hearing on Mr. Geithner’s nomination was postponed to next week after Senator Jon Kyl, a Republican from Arizona, objected to holding it on Friday, according to committee aides. A spokesman for Mr. Kyl, Ryan Patmintra, said on Wednesday that Mr. Kyl did not object because of the news of the controversy over Mr. Geithner’s late payment of taxes for 2001 to 2004 when he worked at the International Monetary Fund, but because of unrelated scheduling issues.
So I guess it is still narrowly true that a Republican senator objected to holding the hearing on Friday after disclosures the late tax payments. After the late tax payment a Republican delayed the hearing, but the late tax payment didn't cause the delay. Beware of post hoc ergo propter hoc.
Posted by OneEyedMan at January 14, 2009 10:31 AM
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