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Candace Owens Goes Viral With Response To New York Times Reporter’s Email Citing, Yup, The New York Times
“I educated myself about both the neo-Nazi problem in Ukraine and the unyielding corruption by reading your newspaper, not Russian state media,” she continued. “Is there something specific I said that was different form what you guys have written in the past?”
Owens didn’t stop there; she followed up her email with another email which included five links to mainstream outlets reporting on the corruption in Ukraine. Two of the five links were from the Times.
“For more good measure, here are some more past articles written from reputable sources over the past few years about the corruption and neo-Nazi problem in Ukraine,” Owens wrote in the email.
“For clarity, are you now suggesting that what the western media covered extensively over the last few years is now just Russian propaganda?” she queried. “Are you suggesting all of these articles were sponsored by Russia state media?
Bari Weiss: New York Times editor wanted Schumer to OK op-ed by GOP Sen. Tim Scott
During the interview, Weiss recalled a discussion among senior Times editors surrounding an op-ed submitted by Scott in the aftermath of the May 2020 police-involved slaying of George Floyd, the 46-year-old black man, in Minneapolis.
According to Weiss, Scott’s office asked the Times to publish an op-ed about a piece of police reform legislation that the senator was working on called the Justice Act.
The proposed bill by Scott, who is the only black Republican in the US Senate, failed to pass due to Democratic opposition. Scott told Weiss that the “Democrats really wanted the issue more than the solution.”
“Well, here’s what happened,” Weiss told Scott. “And this is the part I’m not sure if you know. There was a discussion about the piece and whether or not we should run it.”
Weiss continued: “And one colleague, a more senior colleague said to a more junior colleague who was pushing for the piece, ‘Do you think the Republicans really care about minority rights?’”
“Wow,” Scott said.
“And the more junior colleagues said, ‘I think Tim Scott cares about minority rights’,” Weiss said.
“And then, and here’s the pretty shocking part. The more senior colleague said, ‘Let’s check with Sen. Schumer before we run it’,” Weiss said.
She added that the younger colleague refused to reach out to Schumer due to ethics concerns.
Scott’s op-ed was never published.
New York Times Made A Bunch Of Affirmative Action Hires, Then Rated Them Lower Than Their White Colleagues
In other words, top editors at the Times have made a concerted effort to pass over white job candidates for “people of color,” and there has nonetheless been resentment among staff. Who could have seen that coming?
“The New York Times’s performance review system has for years given significantly lower ratings to employees of color,” the union said in its report published Tuesday. It determined that “being Hispanic reduced the odds of receiving a high score by about 60 percent, and being Black cut the chances of high scores by nearly 50 percent. Asians were also less likely than white employees to get high scores.”
This comes after the paper’s leadership made a big show in 2020 — A.K.A. the year of “fiery but mostly peaceful” Black Lives Matter rioting — about how it planned “to develop an ambitious, long-term strategy for making The Times more diverse, equitable and inclusive.”
The number of non-white people on staff has steadily increased since 2016, according to the paper’s own numbers, but performance reviews for those people of color have apparently not been so hot. The union averaged the performance reviews by race from 2018 to 2021 and found that black staff members had the lowest scores on each one, except last year, when it was Latinos. (Interestingly, the union notes that in the year of Patron Saint George Floyd, not a single black person on staff received the highest performance rating possible, while white staff made up almost 100 percent of the 50 people who did.)
‘How Great You Are Hitler:’ NYT Freelancers Caught Making Antisemitic Posts Again
“How great you are, Hitler,” wrote NYT freelance filmmaker Soliman Hijjy in a 2012 Facebook post tracked by HonestReporting. In August, NYT also featured the work of freelance photographer Hosam Salem, who once celebrated a deadly bus bombing in Jerusalem, after they had just fired another freelancer who said he supports killing Jews, Fox News reported.
BREAKING NEWS
We have uncovered two more Palestinian “fixers” who lauded Adolf Hitler and Palestinian terrorism. A spokesperson @nytimes told @HonestReporting the paper is looking into the disturbing social media posts by Soliman Hijjy and Hosam Salem.https://t.co/ZdO2CYCB3t
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) August 24, 2022
NYT Sends Reporter to Herschel Walker’s Hometown to Argue He Is ‘Not Part of the Black Community’
Times reporter John Branch, who is based in California, used mostly anonymous sources and anecdotes from visiting Walker’s hometown of Wrightsville to generalize that feelings that Walker, a Georgia football legend, is not in touch with the black community are “flowering ahead of November’s election.”
“Herschel’s not getting the Black vote because Herschel forgot where he came from. … He’s not part of the Black community,” Branch quoted Curtis Dixon, a black former high school teacher and coach of Walker’s, as saying.
Branch added, “Such feelings toward Mr. Walker have been present for decades. They are flowering ahead of November’s elections.”
Ex-Trump Staffer Admits She ‘Worked Together’ With NYT Reporter Maggie Haberman During White House Years
“Maggie, I can speak from personal experience — we worked together when I was at the White House — and there was no reporter who got under Donald Trump’s skin the way you did, but he was also fixated on and almost seemed to want your approval,” Griffin began, referencing her time as the White House Communications Director.
“There were countless times you’ll remember that I would have to go grab you and say, ‘He wants to do an interview now,'” Griffin continued. “And in fact, a couple of times, if the terms weren’t right, you’d say no. Why do you think he’s so fixated on you — and it goes into the same question of afraid of you?”
“Alyssa, I really think it’s about The New York Times, which he is uniquely obsessed with, and this has gone back for decades,” Haberman replied. “His sense of being from the outer boroughs in New York City, the elites who he felt like looked down on him, even though he wanted their approval.”
Ghoulish NYT Suggests Florida Deserves Hurricanes for Not Supporting Climate Agenda
Typing up this propaganda article on behalf of their Democrat Party, “reporters” Christopher Flavelle and Jonathan Weisman ran with the title “Florida Leaders Rejected Major Climate Laws. Now They’re Seeking Storm Aid.”
The two ghoulish leftists added a subtitle that was just as vile: “Senior Republican politicians in the state have opposed federal action against global warming, which is making storms like Hurricane Ian more destructive.”
Flavelle and Weisman wasted no time in leveling as many cheap partisan attacks as they could in the first paragraph. “Hurricane Ian’s wrath made clear that Florida faces some of the most severe consequences of climate change anywhere in the country,” Flavelle and Weisman cried. Adding: “The state’s top elected leaders opposed the most significant climate legislation to pass Congress — laws to help fortify states against, and recover from, climate disasters, and confront their underlying cause: the burning of fossil fuels.”
Continuing to smear Florida Republicans, the two New York Times propagandists whined that “Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott voted against last year’s bipartisan infrastructure law, which devotes some $50 billion to help states better prepare for events like Ian because they said it was wasteful.”
Whining some more, they then bemoaned how “in August, they joined every fellow Republican in the Senate to oppose a new climate law that invests $369 billion in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the largest such effort in the country’s history.”
This two supposed journalists decided to omit what else was lerking in the infrastructure bill while cherry-picking the part that made the Republicans look bad. The two also failed to explain how their opposition last month created or strengthened Ian.
NY Times' Roose Sees 'Right-Wing Trolls...Extremism' if Musk Takes Twitter
New York Times technology reporter Kevin Roose, who shares a censorious streak with many of his tech colleagues, reacted with dismay on the news that space entrepreneur Elon Musk’s on-again, off-again courtship of social media platform Twitter is back on again, on Wednesday: “Elon Musk’s Twitter Will Be a Wild Ride.”
One of Roose’s main concerns: That free-speech advocate Musk might make conservative voices acceptable on Twitter again. He also got in yet another smear of the conservative humor site The Babylon Bee:
(In October 2020, Roose whined that the humor site had a nasty “habit of skirting the line between misinformation and satire.” Needless to say, the leftist satire of The Onion doesn’t receive the same lectures from Times reporters.)
Roose almost sounds like he’s rooting for Democrats in this paragraph.
There Are Two Americas Now: One With a B.A. and One Without
Case and Deaton write that the correlation between Republican voting and life expectancy “goes from plus-0.42 when Gerald Ford was the Republican candidate — healthier states voted for Ford and against Carter — to minus-0.69 in 2016 and –0.64 in 2020. States classified as the least healthy voted for Trump and against Biden.”
Case and Deaton contend that the ballots cast for Donald Trump by members of the white working class “are surely not for a president who will dismantle safety nets but against a Democratic Party that represents an alliance between minorities — whom working-class whites see as displacing them and challenging their once solid if unperceived privilege — and an educated elite that has benefited from globalization and from a soaring stock market, which was fueled by the rising profitability of those same firms that were increasingly denying jobs to the working class.”
Carol Graham, a senior fellow at Brookings, described the erosion of economic and social status for whites without college degrees in a 2021 paper:
Lack of hope, in Graham’s view, “is a central issue. The American dream is in tatters and, ironically, it is worse for whites.” America’s high levels of reported pain, she writes, “are largely driven by middle-aged whites. As there is no objective reason that whites should have more pain than minorities, who typically have significantly worse working conditions and access to health care, this suggests psychological pain as well as physical pain.”
NYT Urges Democrats to ‘Switch Tacks’ on Inflation They ‘Exacerbated’
The warning to Democrats comes as recent polling revealed 80 percent of voters say the Democrats’ inflation will be a “major” factor in how they vote. Inflation is the number one issue nationwide and among all eight Senate swing states.
An October Heritage Foundation study shows wages for American families are down $6,000 after adjusting for inflation, an increase from an earlier estimate that put the decline in real wages at $4,200.
Democrats have tried to reduce inflation by passing the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act,” which experts say will not reduce inflation but could further increase soaring costs.
“We’ll have to message it better in the next three weeks ahead,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told Punchbowl News last week. “Inflation is there, but it’s global and not as bad as it is in some countries.”
NYT reporter says quiet part out loud, Biden was ‘an emergency nominee’ and Dems didn’t plan ahead
Martin appeared on CNN’s “Inside Politics” Sunday as the leftist panel discussed former President Obama hitting the campaign trail for flailing Democrats over the weekend in Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin. First Lady Jill Biden was out stumping for leftist candidates as well but the president spent the weekend at his Delaware home and was ostensibly nowhere to be seen a week before midterm elections.
“I think Obama being out there in places that Biden cannot go, Georgia, Nevada, the two most obvious examples, it does say a lot about Democrats, sort of where the party is today, right?” Martin commented. “But Biden was essentially an emergency nominee in 2020 because the entire criteria of the party – who can beat Trump – and he was obviously the answer.”
“But there was not a lot of thought given to longer-term planning so they now have a near 80-year-old incumbent president and they’re relying on somebody who was last on the ballot a decade ago to come in as their closer in the midterms,” he added. “It tells you a lot about where things are and – there is a bench there, but it is just not quite there ready to go in the game just yet because Biden is still the president.”
Obama will also appear in Pennsylvania on November 5, a state that is crucial for Democrats in a last-ditch effort to get a stroke-impaired John Fetterman elected to the Senate according to Fox News. That is increasingly looking like it won’t happen as Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz has now closed the gap and RealClearPolitics is calling the race a tossup, with Oz projected to win the seat.
NY Times opinion: It's a shame liberal comedy is not as popular as it once was
The author of this opinion piece is an academic from the the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her basic argument is that ironic liberal comedy isn’t as popular as it once was and that’s bad news for reasons she never bothers to explain or justify. But as I hope to show in a moment, even this argument such as it is, seems to ignore a lot of relevant facts in order to reach what feels like a predetermined conclusion.
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Maybe I’m missing some nuance of how the author is dividing up the world of comedy and outrage, but it’s certainly news to me that liberal entertainment like the Daily Show didn’t rely on outrage or alternatively that conservative entertainment doesn’t rely on humor and satire. Here I have to give credit to a commenter who made the point.
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There’s some outrage on Gutfeld’s show but there’s also a lot of broad humor and satire. And more to the point, look at what he’s competing against. Again, some of the commenters made the point the author seems to have missed about what has happened to left-leaning comedy over the past several years.
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Hollywood is rethinking woke; NYT calls this "regression"
Weinstein was only taken out because female actresses have gained power and prestige, not because the average Hollywood miscreant suddenly became woke. Woke was the public marketing campaign, not some moral awakening. The Red Carpet crowd does not nor ever did care about morality, whatever they say. They just made the mistake of believing that the public would admire them for their moral preening, but now that it is costing real money they are going to toss the woke BS like a doggie doo bag after picking up turds.
Businesses worried about the collapsing bottom line? I am shocked to hear it. Who could have guessed that when something is killing a business, the powers-that-be decide to jettison it?
You mean the people running Hollywood–those people who briefly became paragons of moral virtue, still turn out to be the evil jerks they were 10 minutes before Weinstein went from hero to zero? OMG, the shock of discovering this! The problem isn’t women gaining power in Hollywood; it is that untalented screeching harpies have seized power, and that sucks.
Chris Hayes frets his ‘worst fears’ have been realized since Elon Musk acquired Twitter
Hayes began his guest essay by describing Musk’s handling of Twitter as a “near-death experience,” if not the end of it entirely. He wrote, “If Twitter survives — and I fervently hope it does — its near-death experience has revealed something fundamental about our online lives: the digital spaces of civic life, the ‘public town square’ as Mr. Musk deemed Twitter, have been privatized, to our collective detriment.”
He criticized the world’s richest man for taking the company private, contrary to the wishes of its previous owner, Jack Dorsey. He said, “Before Mr. Musk bought Twitter, its co-founder and former C.E.O. Jack Dorsey said of the platform that no one should own it, that it ‘wants to be a public good at a protocol level.’”
He continued by praising Twitter prior to Musk as “an arena where something akin to the global conversation was taking place.” He added, “it came closest to executing on the core vision of what the global town square could look like.”
He continued, “That’s why there was so much apprehension when Mr. Musk bought the site: No one man should have all that power.”
Twitter was run by the Board of Directors with approval of the Stock Holders
NYT Repelled by New ‘Deeply Conservative’ Congress ‘Bedevil[ing]’ Poor Biden
Already out of Thanksgiving cheer, The New York Times delivered a cold housewarming greeting to the incoming Republican-controlled House of Representatives in Saturday’s “Meet the House Republicans Who Will Wield Power in the New Congress.”
Reporters Catie Edmondson, Luke Broadwater, and Emily Cochrane made it clear what they thought of the incoming GOP, as an unwelcome disruptor of the poor put-upon Democratic President Biden:
The Times leaned hard on the identity card, at least when it makes Democrats look good.
Yesterday, I wrote about an open letter, now signed by upwards of 1,000 New York Times contributors, alleging that the Times had an excessively right-wing “editorial bias” when it came to transgender issues — a “fever dream,” I wrote, that “hails from an alternate universe lightyears away from the reality-based community.” As it so happens, Times executive editor Joe Kahn seemed to think so, too. In a letter to the paper’s staff today, Kahn wrote:
Kahn went on to defend his paper’s allegedly anti-trans reporting on the merits, arguing that “our coverage of transgender issues, including the specific pieces singled out for the attack, is important, deeply reported, and sensitively written.” In conclusion, he fired another warning shot: “We do not welcome, and will not tolerate, participation of Times journalists in protests organized by advocacy groups or attacks on colleagues on social media and other public forums.”
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Kahn went on to defend his paper’s allegedly anti-trans reporting on the merits, arguing that “our coverage of transgender issues, including the specific pieces singled out for the attack, is important, deeply reported, and sensitively written.” In conclusion, he fired another warning shot: “We do not welcome, and will not tolerate, participation of Times journalists in protests organized by advocacy groups or attacks on colleagues on social media and other public forums.”
Facing Attacks from Its Left, the New York Times Stands Its Ground | National Review
‘We do not welcome, and will not tolerate, participation of Times journalists in protests organized by advocacy groups or attacks on colleagues.’
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