LAYERS OF EDITORS AND FACTCHECKERS AND WHATEVER: New York Times Gets Key Aleppo Fact Wrong in Story About Gary Johnson’s Gaffe.

To be fair, Johnson committed no gaffe — he had never heard of Aleppo, and admitted it. But Johnson’s ignorance doesn’t say much for how seriously he’s prepared himself for the White House, not that he ever had a chance of winning it.

So I suspect the media overreaction to the tiny affair is a tacit admission that Johnson is taking a lot more votes from Clinton than he is from Trump.