It will be interesting to see what those paintings she received as part of the settlement sell for now that Hunter's not getting the money.
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She probably won't be able to give them away.
New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman, who has a history of sketching conservatives as racist and/or bigoted extremists, gleefully went after the newly influential Moms for Liberty, founded to oppose school closings and mask-vaccine mandates in schools and which now targets the teaching of Critical Race Theory principles in schools.
In the first paragraph of his story “Moms for Liberty’s School Board Antagonism Draws G.O.P. Heavyweights,” Weisman swerved right toward Hitler references. You have to dwell on the opposition research and find the embarrassing detail:
Neither did some U.S. public schools for over a year. Carmella Sparrow's LinkedIn profile notes her belonging to a "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Student Advocacy Group," so of course she's on the other side.
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In the first paragraph of his story “Moms for Liberty’s School Board Antagonism Draws G.O.P. Heavyweights,” Weisman swerved right toward Hitler references. You have to dwell on the opposition research and find the embarrassing detail:
Neither did some U.S. public schools for over a year. Carmella Sparrow's LinkedIn profile notes her belonging to a "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Student Advocacy Group," so of course she's on the other side.
New York Times Reporter Smears Moms for Liberty: 'Demagogy, Violent Threats'
New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman, who has a history of sketching conservatives as
Affirmative action mattered a lot for very few and very little for most
As the left went into full freak-out most last week denouncing the Supreme Court for ending affirmative action, I argued that they were really overstating their case. One of the points I made in passing was that most colleges aren’t competitive. Today a pair of academics have written an opinion piece for the NY Times highlighting this even further.
We’ll get to the text of the argument in a moment but the article itself opens with a graphic highlighting all of America’s major four-year colleges ranked by admittance rate. So, for instance, Harvard and Stanford have the lowest admittance rate in the country of just 4 percent. But only a small handful of schools have admittance rates under 25%. All together those schools educated about 6% of the entire total. If you include schools with an admittance rate up to 50% you’re still talking about just 16% of total enrolled students. The vast majority of schools have an admittance rate around 70% and that’s where the majority of students are attending. Here’s what the graphic looks like with the two schools who were part of the SCOTUS decision highlighted.
But first, let’s deal with the unpatriotic elephant in the room. We’re all sensing it. The New York Times featured this cheerful 4th-of-July story on its home page yesterday:
First, what’s most odd about that headline is that a democrat Administration has been installed and corporate media isn’t allowed to criticize the culture right now. So I wondered where the story was going, but it turned out to be a false alarm; if you drill down into the article, all you will find is a lot of meaningless, woke jibber jabber, expressed from the lips of interviewees who sound like they were made up by ChatGPT.
For example, Malaya Tapp, 18, is skipping the celebrations today because Grifters United, I mean Black Lives Matter, taught the young lady to feel unpatriotic. Plus firecrackers make her nervous. Malaya wanted to visit an indian reservation instead, but the trip got canceled after a ‘covid outbreak.’ Or at least that’s what they told her.
Marissa Vivori, 29, won’t join in because she feels bad for animals that get nervous during the fireworks, plus it’s just too darned hot. She doesn’t sweat well. She also remembers how last summer Roe v. Wade was overturned, and that makes her really mad, so she’s punishing the country by refusing to be happy today. Marissa made admittedly ironic alternative plans to visit London, from whom her native country is celebrating gaining its independence.
Allison Bartella, 30, is sitting it out because Fourth of July food is always lukewarm and not very tasty, and climate change has made it painfully hot outside, not to mention people always toss random fireworks around, which jangles her nerves. To tell the truth, the whole thing never lives up to Allison’s high expectations anyway. This year, explained the Times, you will find Allison drowning her holiday sorrows at a bar on the Lower East Side.
It’s not so much that these rootless folks are so profoundly disconnected from their own culture that they consider celebrating its founding as just another optional federal holiday, with fireworks. The article recites a depressing list of shallow, vapid reasons expressed by a bunch of shallow, vapid people allegedly interviewed by a shallow, vapid New York Times reporter.
Ever wonder how reporters find these “random” people to interview for these kinds of articles? Don’t ask. You don’t want to know. Whatever you think, it’s worse than that.
Nobody wants to imitate these drifting, shiftless, cultureless interviewees who’ve allowed themselves to be robbed of any history or meaning and unplugged from anyplace they can call home. They don’t love the country they live in, and they have no plans of moving anywhere else either. They live in a foggy, ambiguous, uncommitting in-between dimension, not belonging to their culture but also not not-belonging, either.
I’m not setting up a straw man. The truth is, even some conservatives are probably feeling very ambivalent about the holiday, except for more legitimate and profound reasons. Those reasons might have been well expressed by former President Ronald Reagan:
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Don't be like the New York Times! Be patriotic and enjoy your heritage today. An optimistic (but realistic) Independence Day message for everyone.
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NYT swoops in to rescue Joe Biden from people noticing that he's become 'a 'flaming woke warrior''
BREAKING NEWS: Our media blow.
We're lying, of course. Because it's not breaking news that our media blow. Or, if you prefer, suck. Either one works, because our media evidently decided at some point that their job was no longer to inform the public but rather bombard the public with increasingly shoddy excuses for journalism and expect us to worship them for it.
Earlier today, we talked about how the New York Times went all in on government censorship on behalf of the Biden administration.
New York Times Columnist: It’s A ‘Problem’ For U.S. If ‘Elites’ Censor Speech
Brooks made the remarks during a segment on Friday during “PBS NewsHour” when asked about a federal judge ruling this week that the Biden administration cannot communicate with social media companies about removing posts that contain misinformation.
“I do think we need — obviously, they need to pull stuff down,” he said. “There are 40,000 people at Google and Meta pulling stuff down. They’ve pulled over a billion things down. I don’t really trust Big Tech to be in charge of this, and I don’t, frankly, trust government in cahoots with Big Tech in private to be in charge of this.”
“There is a law in the Senate — or a bill in the Senate that would make the process more transparent, so outside sources can see if they’re being honest and fair in what they pull down,” he continued. “And that seems, to me, the best way forward. But it is a problem for democracy to have elites in Washington and elites in Silicon Valley making decisions about what’s out there. And so, that’s just something we just have to wrestle with.”
Another New York Times Columnist Nudges Dems to Get Real About Biden Scandals
Veterans of the New York Times opinion section are stepping out from the leftist media pack and suggesting that Democrats should be a little more honest about the flaws of Joe and Hunter Biden. First, Maureen Dowd harped on Hunter’s four-year-old daughter being dismissed as no Biden.
Now, columnist Frank Bruni is lamenting how Democrats can’t tolerate criticism of the Bidens – you’ll be accused of being a Fox news anchor! "Many of your liberal acquaintances will shush and shame you: Speak no ill of Joe Biden! That’s an unaffordable luxury. You’re playing into his MAGA adversaries’ hands."
"You’ll be asked: What do Hunter Biden and diminished vim matter next to the menace of Donald Trump and a Republican Party in his lawless, nihilistic thrall? That’s a fair question — to a point. But past that point, it’s dishonest and dangerous," he wrote. "Dishonest because the question is often leveled at essentially Biden-friendly observers who have lavished, oh, 100 times as many words on Trump’s epic moral corruption as on Biden’s blind spots and missteps, creating zero impression of any equivalence."
Bruni is taking what partisan journalists would consider a "centrist" position -- or, in their dismissive lingo, "both-sidesism."
He says it's possible and even necessary to have "nuanced conversations about Biden’s and his administration’s mix of virtues and vices. If a big part of the horror of Trump is his estrangement from and perversion of truth, how is the proper or even strategic response to gild or cloak truth and declare it subservient to a desired political end?"
Most liberals won't go near a "truth" about how the Bidens have behaved. Anyone who "goes there" is an outcast.
New York Times Misleads On Florida’s Results During Delta
The Times made their intentions clear with a tweet posted on Saturday afternoon, attempting to label Ron DeSantis as an “anti-vaxxer” whose lack of “enthusiasm” for the shot cost Floridians their lives.The tweet was accompanied by a graphic meant to “prove” their case, comparing Florida’s death rate to the rest of the United States for most of 2021.
Except, of course, this tweet buries the lede.
The Times knew that few would actually read the article, instead focusing on the misleading graphic and unsupported accusation towards DeSantis.
Reading the article though, reveals that the main criticism levied on DeSantis, that his lack of “enthusiasm” for COVID vaccines led to poor outcomes, is completely inaccurate. According to the New York Times own presentation of the data, Florida's vaccination rate among the elderly in summer 2021 was exactly at the national average.
And early on, DeSantis’ decision to ignore the CDC’s recommendations to prioritize teachers because of “equity” ensured that more seniors were vaccinated early on compared to other states.
Vaccination rates for those under 65 were slightly below the national average, but given the extremely low risk for most younger Floridians, those numbers are almost entirely irrelevant to COVID deaths.
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But there are other, more significant problems with their data presentation.
For one, it ignores that states that share the New York Times’ political orientation have fared worse than Florida. California, for example, has a higher cumulative age adjusted COVID mortality rate. Despite its authoritarian COVID mandates, business closures, masks, lockdowns and school shutdowns.
They cherry picked a specific time period to try and hurt DeSantis and Florida, while ignoring the easily available conclusions on the failure of masks, lockdowns and COVID mandates. As well as ignoring that the Delta wave significantly impacted the Southern states because it coincided with the region’s period of peak respiratory virus transmission.
Every single state in the entire area had essentially its highest period of COVID mortality during the third quarter of 2021.
- Alabama 254.1
- Arkansas 216.6
- Florida 253.6
- Georgia 214.5
- Kentucky 193.7
- Louisiana 232.1
- Mississippi 266.6
- Oklahoma 220.2
- South Carolina 198.2
- Tennessee 216.6
- Texas 220
Even the New York Times is now skeptical of the White House's Hunter Biden defense
- White House Correspondent Peter Baker said the administration can no longer use the 'wayward son' defense
- Added that the narrative about Joe not being involved in the deals is becoming harder to hold up
- READ MORE: How Hunter's sneaky lawyers tried to hide clause giving him 'blanket immunity' in 'crazy, unprecedented' tactic
NY Times claims it's 'long been known' Biden interacted with Hunter's associates, stunning social media
Conservative commentators and journalists are calling out The New York Times after it claimed that President Joe Biden's interactions with his son Hunter Biden’s business partners is a well known fact.
"It has long been known that the elder Mr. Biden at times interacted with his son’s business partners," the Times wrote in a story published Monday.
The Times’ reporting completely contradicts Biden’s claim in 2019 that he never once discussed business with his son or brother and comes amidst a highly publicized investigation into Hunter's business dealings.
"I have never discussed, with my son or my brother or with anyone else, anything having to do with their businesses. Period," Biden said in 2019, responding to accusations of his family members using the Biden name for financial gain.
"There will be an absolute wall between personal and private [business interests] and the government. There wasn’t any hint of scandal at all when we were there. And I’m going to propose the same kind of strict, strict rules. That’s why I never talked with my son or my brother or anyone else — even distant family — about their business interests. Period," Biden also said on the campaign trail in 2019.
NYT Columnist Asks 'What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?' The Answer: Yes, You Are.
In an op-ed piece for the New York Times on Wednesday, David Brooks had the headline, “What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?” In it, Brooks struggles with the question of why Trump has a commanding lead over the other GOP hopefuls and why he seems essentially tied with Joe Biden on a national basis. All of this despite the fact that Trump continues to rack up indictments like a grandma on a winning bingo streak at The Villages.
To his credit, Brooks does conduct a fairly exhaustive self-examination. In the piece, he enumerates the ways and provides examples of how America’s elites have lost touch with, well, everyone else. He reflects on how elitism extends to the workplace:
He also observes:
Brooks rightly notes that the elites have manipulated the economy and the culture for their own purposes. He concludes:
But scrolling up for a moment, one of Brooks’ more interesting comments was:
This reminds me of an incident in high school. It was the last few months of my senior year. I was never in the cool kids’ clique and, to be honest, I never thought to try to join. In perfect sync with a scene straight out of the yet-to-be-made “The Breakfast Club,” a popular girl commented to me that everyone in the school looked up to her clique and wanted to hang out with them and be like them. I commented, “No, we don’t.” One of my friends piped up “We’ve pretty much just been putting up with you all this time.” The stunned silence that followed was delicious.