NYT - Actions and Hot Takes
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With the Democrats solemnly marking the third anniversary of the January 6 Capitol riot, we could swear we remember President Joe Biden telling us that there was never an excuse for political violence (with the exception of the Black Lives Matter riots, of course). Biden even claimed that he and his wife had attended the funerals of all of the police officers who were killed that day by insurrectionists.
The New York Times thinks that political violence is a gray area and over the weekend published the thoughts of a climate "activist" on how political violence was justified in pursuit of his cause.
David Marchese sat down for an interview with eco-terrorist Andreas Malm. To his credit, Malm actually pushed back on the more militant aspects of Marchese's moral code.
The New York Times thinks that political violence is a gray area and over the weekend published the thoughts of a climate "activist" on how political violence was justified in pursuit of his cause.
David Marchese sat down for an interview with eco-terrorist Andreas Malm. To his credit, Malm actually pushed back on the more militant aspects of Marchese's moral code.
NY Times: Migrants Keep Coming Because They Know They Can Stay
I find myself a bit surprised to see some of what follows in print, not because any of it is new but instead because things that have been obvious for a long time are now being published as true by the NY Times. The piece, which is labeled analysis, opens by noting that people are streaming across the border and turning themselves in to authorities to claim asylum for one clear reason.
But here’s the really killer line which comes next: “And by and large, they are not wrong.” And because the system is what it is, word gets around. People who’ve made it in report back to those still trying to get here. And the word on the street is that no one ever has to leave.
Carolina Ortiz is a migrant from Columbia who plans to claim asylum based on the violence back home. But as the Times correctly points out, generalized violence is not grounds for asylum under US asylum law. There’s almost no chance Ortiz will be granted asylum but that’s a long way off. Her first court date is set for Feb. 2026.
The NYT finally admits it: Schools are teaching our kids divisive critical race theory
Schools are just teaching honest history.
That’s been the lie educators, teachers unions and the mainstream media have parroted for three years in response to the growing chorus of parents of all political stripes asserting schools are indoctrinating the nation’s children in critical race theory and leftist politics.
Now the paper of record concedes we parents were right.
In a front-page article in Friday’s New York Times, “Ethnic Studies Collides With Israel-Hamas War,” education reporter Dana Goldstein exposes the truth about K-12 education.
The article is ostensibly about the blatant antisemitism embedded in California’s ethnic-studies curriculum, which must be in all public high schools by 2025 and a graduation requirement by 2030.
The legislation was pushed, of course, by the 310,000-member-strong California Teachers Association, the largest affiliate of our country’s largest teachers union, the National Education Association.
REPORT: Biden White House Furious With New York Times for Reporting on Issue of Biden’s Age
Politico reported:
Republicans are used to dealing with a hostile media.
Former NYT Editor: It's a Cult, and I'm Its Heretic
In a sane world, this would be satire. Instead, Adam Rubenstein's lengthy essay at The Atlantic attempts to inject sanity into a journalism industry that has turned into a partisan cult.
And when we say cult, we mean it -- all the way to the finger-snapping struggle session Rubenstein, a former Opinion editor at the New York Times, experienced in his orientation meeting at the paper. Charles C.W. Cooke immediately grasped just how ridiculous this introduction to the Gray Lady turned out to be, and how revealing:
Rubenstein's dilemma may provoke laughter, especially with the immediate and cultish response from his fellow new-hires, who sound as though they got recruited from an Occupy Wall Street encampment. But consider what this episode demonstrates about the cult at the NYT. This rebuke about Chik-Fil-A came from its human resources department -- the organization that ostensibly works to treat all employees equitably. The corruption of cult-think didn't just exist in the Times' editorial functions, which Rubinstein later attests, but it also permeated its corporate functions as well.
When Human Resources acts as an enforcer for the partisan and ideological orthodoxy, especially with new recruits, it reflects the cultish nature of the entire organization.
Rubinstein relates plenty of experience with the cult-think in this piece. As an opinion-section editor, Rubinstein took part in the publication of Tom Cotton's op-ed that infamously prompted a staff rebellion. Ultimately, the Times made Rubinstein and his boss James Bennet the scapegoats, but Rubinstein argues that both of them followed the normal process for publishing outside opinion pieces. However, Rubinstein also describes how the NYT processed op-eds that contradict the progressive viewpoint with much more review and top-down control, even before the issue came to a head with Cotton, which should be read whole rather than excerpted.
The New York Times presents "late night therapy for libs" except in print and the next day. They also share gems like this:
It's almost as if Karine Jean-Pierre has taken a crack at writing "comedy."
The police force has shown unwavering courtesy to Trump, a stark supporter of law enforcement, making “law and order” a major theme of his 2020 presidential campaign with more than 900,000 officers endorsing him during the cycle.
The NYT critically highlighted the “favorable” treatment Trump has gotten from the NYPD.
The left-leaning outlet claimed that Trump has a “complicated relationship” with law enforcement. However, they couldn’t help but point out how well-received and loved the former president is despite his “alleged crimes and condemnations of law enforcement.”
“[This is the] first time in modern American history in which police unions have backed a suspected criminal for national elected office,” the outlet noted.
The NYT critically highlighted the “favorable” treatment Trump has gotten from the NYPD.
The left-leaning outlet claimed that Trump has a “complicated relationship” with law enforcement. However, they couldn’t help but point out how well-received and loved the former president is despite his “alleged crimes and condemnations of law enforcement.”
“[This is the] first time in modern American history in which police unions have backed a suspected criminal for national elected office,” the outlet noted.
Everyone Point and Laugh at Team Biden Hating the NYT for Not Being Liberal Enough
The comical tale of liberal eating themselves began with a seemingly innocuous mix-up between a Times reporter not on the White House beat being unaware with how to attribute quotes from a junior White House press aide becoming a hissy fit that resulted in the Times temporarily being kicked off the administration’s “‘tier one’ email list for background information about various briefings and other materials”.
“Biden’s closest aides had come to see the Times as arrogant, intent on setting its own rules and unwilling to give Biden his due. Inside the paper’s D.C. bureau, the punitive response seemed to typify a press operation that was overly sensitive and determined to control coverage of the president,” Stokols explained.
Stokols further summarized his tome as based on “interviews with two dozen people on both sides” about “the relationship between the Democratic president and the country’s newspaper of record — for years the epitome of a liberal press in the eyes of conservatives” that’s become “remarkably tense, beset by misunderstandings, grudges and a general lack of trust.”
Here came the first of many laughers as Stokols proclaimed that “the Times is unique, reflecting the resentment of a president with a working-class sense of himself and his team toward a news organization catering to an elite audience — and a deep desire for its affirmation of their work.”
Biden? “[W]orking-class sense of himself”? Please.
Reporter for 'The New York Times' Caught on Hot Mic Demanding Colleagues NOT Interview Iranian Dissident
Earlier today, we told you about the alleged death of the Iranian President. Today, a rather interesting recording leaked. On this recording, a top The New York Times reporter is caught telling people not to interview a top Iranian dissent.
The host of the panel seems to realize how damaging this comment might be and begins to talk over Farnaz Fassihi and reminds her the mic is still on. Yikes!
NY Times still can’t admit Hunter Biden’s laptop is real! What’s it going to take?
Facts are stubborn things, John Adams said, but not as stubborn as the New York Times.
Despite federal prosecutors, investigative journalists and forensics analysts all confirming that Hunter Biden’s laptop is the genuine article, the Gray Lady remains desperate to tear it down.
The latest broadside is an article published Wednesday, “Hunter Biden’s Laptop, Revealed by New York Post, Comes Back to Haunt Him.”
New York Times Columnist Says What Other Leftists Are Thinking but Don't Dare Say
New York Times columnist John McWhorter has shown us this again recently by wishing someone would assassinate Donald Trump. Has he been arrested? Lost his job? Been publicly repudiated by his friends? Come on, man!
The Daily Fetched reported Thursday that McWhorter recently appeared on leftist Brown University Glenn Loury’s podcast, The Glenn Show, which has 123,000 YouTube subscribers. McWhorter was contrite — or at least as contrite as hardline leftist ideologues can get. He announced (at 17:49 here): “I have taken a great deal of heat for saying, or implying, that I wish somebody would kill Donald Trump. And that is exactly what I was implying. It was irresponsible —”
Loury jumped in to emphasize the point: “That is what you were implying.”
McWhorter agreed: “Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I said it. And it was irresponsible of me to say that in a public space. I really shouldn’t have said it here. Now I already did, and so, you know, I have to own it, I did say it. Somebody has asked, you know, ‘Do you say that in private?’ And, yes, I have said it often, and I have only halfway been kidding, and I’m gonna say it again, yes. And it is a smaller side of me. I should not wish for another person to suffer, even if it’s a hideous pig of a man like him.”
McWhorter went on to compare his statement to that of Cal State economist Julianne Malveaux, who wished that Clarence Thomas’ wife would feed him fatty foods that would clog his arteries and lead to his death. McWhorter also tried to exonerate himself by saying, “I fear for my country.”
Surprisingly, however, Loury was not convinced. He told McWhorter that he had known Malvaux since they were students together and called her a “firebrand.” Then he added, laughing awkwardly: “What you have said, I think is much worse.” McWhorter stood his ground, joining in the laugh but insisting: “No, it isn’t.” Loury explained, “Uh, do you realize what hell will have been unleashed upon the country if people start and continue to talk like that? You — This is not something that you can just casually throw around: killing politicians whom you don’t like.”
NYT: Harris About to Double Down On Failed Strategy
The NYT headline and subhead provide a good crystallization of their shallow approach:
A game of inches, eh? Did her team come prepared to play? Do these two teams really not like each other, too? I bet they think Kamala is peaking at the right time too, and that they have to remember what got them into the playoffs.
Actually, Kamala defaulted into the playoffs after missing the entire pre-season. One reason she got the start was that the old veteran ran a terrible playbook and nearly cratered with it, even before his home office fired him after his first game. Joe Biden and Democrats spent all year trying to make this race about Trump's fitness for office, and it didn't work then, and polling since the conventions shows that it's still not working now.
Even the NYT's own focus group told them that much, but they clearly aren't listening. What they and other focus groups (especially Reuters) expect is a case for why they should trust Harris with the presidency, especially after the last-minute benching of Biden and her complete lack of transparency on policy or outcomes. Or, for that matter, her refusal to answer questions, and not just in the "debate success" that the NYT highlights but also from reporters.
To give the Clichéd Lady some credit, they almost make that point:
Almost ....
Not just vanishingly tight, but also trending back a bit toward Trump. The only poll taken since the debate in a battleground state, a Michigan survey by Insider Advantage, shows Trump up a point since Harris' attempts to disqualify Trump with voters. Harris got a burst of momentum from her appointment as nominee and from the convention, but it has dissipated as she has attempted to play the DQ strategy and hide from the media to win the general election as a "default" choice, too.
Even the NY Times is Trashing Kamala’s MSNBC Interview
"In her discussion with a friendly interviewer, the vice president again presented herself as a champion of the middle class and hit many of the same themes from her pro-business economic speech earlier in the day," wrote Reid Epstein of the New York Times. "She largely avoided direct questions about how she would govern and why some voters remain fond of former President Donald J. Trump’s stewardship of the economy."
According to Epstein, there were three takeaways from the interview:
- Harris had roundabout answers to open-ended questions.
- She avoided a looming scenario: What if Democrats lose the Senate?
- A hard-hitting Harris interview is still yet to come.
When the New York Times is calling out Kamala for basically avoiding answering questions, you know it was really, really bad. Epstein was not particularly impressed by the way she avoided the question about why voters feel Trump is better suited for the economy. He also was not impressed that when Harris was asked how she would respond to people who feel her policies aren’t for them, she simply claimed her plan is for anyone with “dreams and aspirations.”
But, perhaps the biggest of these is number three, with Epstein acknowledging what has been obvious to those of us on the right: Kamala has yet to do a real, hard-hitting interview.
"Nothing about that changed during her interview with Ms. Ruhle before her audience on MSNBC, the liberal cable channel whose viewers overwhelmingly favor Democratic candidates."