The New York Times published an editorial this weekend arguing that attempts to fix that state's fiscal problems will require “a sober examination of the high costs of wages and benefits, and some serious proposals to rein them in while remaining fair to hard-working government employees.”

Today on Fox News' America's Newsroom, Bill Hemmer spoke with The Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore, who, after snarking about Times' editorial, misrepresented the editorial and the issues at hand.

From Fox News' America's Newsroom:

MOORE: This was an amazing story, Bill. The New York Times -- this wasn't The Wall Street Journal saying the pensions are out of control, it's The New York Times. This would be like Hustler magazine editorializing against smut. I mean, it was really kind of amazing that they had come out with these numbers saying that the pensions are out of control.

They basically endorsed a lot of the things that Scott Walker has endorsed in Wisconsin, Bill. They said we've got to do a freeze on salaries, we've got to make the public employees contribute way more to the pensions and health care benefits.

And you make an important point, Bill. This isn't just about Wisconsin, it's not just about Ohio. It's about 40 states and whether they're going to regain control of their state budgets.

Moore's claim that the Times “basically endorsed a lot of the things Scott Walker has endorsed” is deeply misleading. The editorial explicitly states that “in recent weeks, Republican politicians in the Midwest have distorted what should be a serious discussion about state employees' benefits, cynically using it as a pretext to crush unions. New York does not need that sort of destructive game playing.” It goes on to say that "[u]nlike Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, Governor Cuomo is not trying to break the unions. He is pressing them to accept a salary freeze and a reduction in benefits for new workers."

The Times' editorial wasn't an endorsement of Walker's proposal. It was a repudiation of it.