You left out his crowning achievement:
Posted on 09/06/2018 7:00:49 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Make no mistake. Publishing such an anonymous essay was an unusual, though not unprecedented decision by the newspaper of record.
And people who agree with President Trump that the anonymous assault was “cowardly” have a point when they argue that its author should have resigned, or accept being fired rather than continue working for a president he or she believes is “impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective.”
Imagine what Democrats would have said had if someone in President Obama’s inner circle had publicly denounced his missteps or character flaws with similar disdain.
The New York Times has been struggling, as have other newspapers, with how to cover Donald Trump since the early days of his candidacy.
“If you’re a working journalist and you believe that Donald J. Trump is a demagogue playing to the nation’s worst racist and nationalistic tendencies, that he cozies up to anti-American dictators and that he would be dangerous with control of the United States nuclear codes, how the heck are you supposed to cover him?” Jim Rutenberg, now the paper’s media columnist, wrote in August 2016. It seemed inevitable, he wrote, that such journalists would become more “oppositional.”
Because so many reporters and editors see the president as ignorant, erratic, and hence, dangerous, their reporting has often reflected that view. So do the swipes and sneering at him that slip, almost unconsciously at times, into news stories that according to the paper’s tradition are supposed to contain facts, not opinion.
But opposition has also led Times reporters to uncover important facts about the president’s cozy relationships with dictators, his family’s and senior staff members’ conflicts of interest and self-dealing, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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The same Judith Miller who claimed in her front-page stories in the New York Times that Iraq was building weapons of mass destruction?
Who wrote other NYT stories about those mysterious mobile weapons labs in Iraq?
Who got her fake news from people like Ahmed Chalabi?
Who helped put Scooter Libby in the slammer in the Valerie Plame affair?
And now she's an anti-Trumper?
It figures.
Proving that cold, evil, hard way of life can still make you a buck.
I did not know her background, all I see is a calculating person posing as some kind of pundit.
I could never figure out exactly what her expertise included.
Thanks for the info.
There’s at the very least an 80% chance this anonymous editorial was written by the NY slimes. This was an attempt to pile on after Woodward’s book was published earlier this week.
This editorial was published and designed to sow discord, mistrust & dissension in the Trump WH ... total crap.
The country is thriving under Trump... and the New York Times is slowly going under.
I’m going to assume the people running the Times are fools. And NO it was never ‘the internet’ - in the early years it was only DRUDGE... and his success came from presenting both sides. Something the Times is incapable of doing.
Hillary deserved to lose because she was horrible and the New York Times deserves to go under for the same reason.
My humble opinion too. Sure, she comes across all sweet and smart, but what my ears hear is pure evil propaganda. Not fooled at all.
I put nothing past the left. No low is too low. No vile despicable deed is off limits to them. Only the results matter. In their mind the means are justified by the end result they are working toward.
Basically all leftists are criminals and sleaze bags.
Judith. Go back to jail. You’ll still full of liberal crap.
I have an idea. How about fairly and accurately?
Oh, sorry. I had a moment there.
No children? Thanks God, for that!
Her mouth drips poison.
She’s a #NeverTrumper who lies with abandon.
I've watched many of her appearances on Fox and I consider her still very liberal and protective of the NYT. Her Pulitzer was a partisan "prize" and her jail time has made her into a phony liberal martyr. Can't stand her.
Publishing anonymously in the NYT was utterly chickensh*t.
Thank goodness you are able to see the hypocrite’s phoniness.
PS. I went to bed right after posting that, and that delayed my answer.
Thanks, Boomer
I agree and yesterday someone posted his/her idea that is probably Bob Woodward. I laughed, but now it’s not so funny.
Wild goose chase.
Bruce Ohr was associate deputy attorney general until a few months ago.
He still works at the FBI and qualifies as a high offical, could have been him or any number of Trump haters in the Justice Dept.
The New York Slimes?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahah!!!
Why would anyone believe that pack of pathological liars?
I think they wrote it. The author is some hack in the back of the newsroom at the Slimes.
You left out his crowning achievement:
I think a lot of us figured that out as soon as we saw the New York Slimes falling all over itself "explaining" how unusual it was to publish an anonymous op-ed in their esteemed newspaper. Unfortunately, it served its purpose to get the "sophisticated" chattering class tongues clucking and fingers wagging. Of course, these are the idiots who actually believe the New York Slimes, the Washington Putz and the San Francisco Comical are still great newspapers.
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