The New York Times' capacity for self-parody exceeds your capacity for mockery. I wrote that tweet (my first one to go viral) in response to the NYT burying the latest story of Trump leaking some of our most closely guarded defense secrets.
Far be it for me to suggest @nytimes is biased, but wallpapering A1 w/Hillary email stories but burying a story about Trump sharing highly classified secrets re: nuclear subs below the fold on A13 might suggest the Paper of Record is not quite as liberal as people think 🙃 pic.twitter.com/hx16hkil2M
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) October 6, 2023
Trump leaking highly classified military data is getting less coverage than a literal dog-bites-man story. https://t.co/TIn5BBx98s
— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) October 7, 2023
This has not been a slow news week, but the NYT still found time for this.
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) October 12, 2023
The piece itself was, if anything, worse than you'd expect. Pretentious, bland, filled with amateur psychoanalysis, and lacking even that small amount of self-awareness to realize that he is, at the risk of repeating myself, writing a literal dog-bites-man story, the very definition of unnewsworthy.
There was only one interesting part, and that was entirely unintentional. It turns out the whole thing started with news releases from Judicial Watch, a right wing trolling operation...
... also known for race-baiting, conspiracy theories...seriously you have to be a degenerate and have several personality disorders to run judicial watch. It’s in the job description.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 15, 2022
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton: “CRT is the pandemic we need to worry about in our schools, not covid. It’s all over .. it targets teachers, it targets students of all ages. We had one document suggest that babies be targeted with CRT training.” pic.twitter.com/4sevKf2XzF
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) December 4, 2021
Straight out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Just moments ago, Lou Dobbs guest Chris Farrell (head of Judicial Watch) says Caravan is being funded/directed by the "Soros-occupied State Department". pic.twitter.com/QBSong7uk1
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 27, 2018
... and up to their pale white necks in the attempt to overthrow the election.
“Trump time and again rejected the advice from lawyers and advisers who urged him to cooperate and instead took the advice of Tom Fitton, the head of the conservative group Judicial Watch” https://t.co/yI1wqRao0D
— Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) (@froomkin) June 15, 2023
Judicial Watch Tom Fitton drafted a statement on Oct 31, 2020, for Trump to read declaring victory on Election Day. Fitton said he spoke to Trump about it urging him to use it.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 13, 2022
Note that Ginni Thomas says her secret Groundswell group has "the help of Judicial Watch." Here's a link to a recent amicus brief filed in the Supreme Court by Judicial Watch against Harvard's affirmative action program - Any conflict of interest?https://t.co/CWUQTC0toE
— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) February 4, 2022
In a sane world, trivial stories from right-wing propaganda outs would, at best, merit a few column inches in the back of the paper, but in this world, far too many journalists are more concerned with avoiding the appearance of liberal bias than they are with doing their job.
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