[ May 6, 2024 ]
It’s actually a bit of an insult to women, is it not? As in, one is not enough. You need at least two women to beat a man. But that’s not the worst of it – the motives of the New York Times are completely transparent. It has nothing to do with the person, character, intelligence, integrity, skill, etc. It has only to do with identity politics. The Times believes a woman is the identity card to play. In 2008, it was the black card. They have nothing else and they think so little of women, that they expect the cattle will herd automatically. Like sheep.
The Times Backs Two Democrats, Benefitting Trump
Editorial of The New York Sun | January 20, 2020
We’ve seen a lot of newspaper dodges over the years, but the idea of endorsing two sharply opposed candidates for the same nomination is a new one on us. It turns out to be the latest innovation of the New York Times, which, in the Democratic presidential primary, just endorsed both Senators Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren.
Story continues below advertisementGood for the Times, we say, though just what the Gray Lady is thinking is hard to decipher from the two full broadsheet pages she devoted to this brainstorm. Had the Times picked one of the two women as the better candidate, it might have delivered the full complement of readers who vote according to the Times endorsements. Now that treasure is going to be split.
If we were either Mss. Klobuchar or Warren, we’d be furious. When the dust clears, after all, it’s likely that the candidate who’ll be actually helped by this will be Mayors Bloomberg or Buttigieg, say, or even Senator Sanders or Vice President Biden. After all, they don’t have to worry about the Times giving a leg up to one candidate in particular.
Then again also, too, the Times seems to have little but condescension for Democrats other than Mss. Klobuchar and Warren. Vice President Biden ought to “pass the torch” even though he’s leading in the polls. The editors “look forward” to Mayor Buttigieg “working his way up.” It hopes Andrew Yang “decides to get involved in New York politics.”
Yet the Times frames all this in the idea that American voters “must choose between three sharply divergent visions of the future.” It sees Mr. Trump as offering “white nativism at home and America First unilateralism abroad.” No mention of record employment, the lowest minority unemployment in decades, or prison reform.
So the other two of the three divergent visions, the Times reckons, are on the Democratic side. “Some in the party view President Trump as an aberration and believe that a return to a more sensible America is possible,” it says. The others figure that President Trump is “the product of political and economic systems so rotten that they must be replaced.”
Lest one might try to speculate that Ms. Klobuchar is the former and Mrs. Warren the latter, the Times says it spent “significant time” with the leading candidates and is struck not by their differences but by “the similarity of their platforms on fundamental issues,” which it calls “striking.” What they differ on, the Times says, “not the what but the how.”
It beats us how that leads to an endorsement of the two opposing candidates. The Times acknowledges that the history of its editorial endorsements would suggest “we would side squarely with the candidate with a more traditional approach to pushing the nation forward, within the realities of a constitutional framework and a multiparty country.”
We’ve long since lost the thread of the Times editorial endorsements. In 1908, it backed the Republican William Howard Taft against the Democrat William Jennings Bryan, but in 1924 it backed the Democrat John W. Davis against the Progressive Robert La Follette and the Republican incumbent, Calvin Coolidge, who trounced the two of them.
Yet in 1940, the Times backed the Republican, Wendell Wilkie, against FDR, saying that Mr. Wilkie was better equipped than the incumbent to deal with national defense (FDR became a towering wartime commander). The Times in 1948 backed the Republican Thomas Dewey against the Democratic president, Harry, Truman, and Dixiecrat Strom Thurman.
The Times insists that its latest endorsement is “not veering away from the values we espouse” but that it is merely “rattled by the weakness of the institutions that we trusted to undergird those values.” The truth is that the trail of Times endorsements suggests that it’s current inability to make up its mind is less an anomaly than a symptom of its own institutional failure. May the GOP make the most of it.
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26 Comments
4 years ago
4 years ago
Like sheep the GOP does the same thing. They promote women just because they are women. Next it will probably be someone from the LBGTQ+ group. Buttboy is a head of his time. We already see MUSLIM women being politically pushed and occassionally a Muslim male. The “stupid party” doesn’t want to be accused of anything negative and it works every time! Merit doesn’t matter.
So what does the GOP do in Texas? I forgot to mention Islam is the fastest growing “religion” in Texas and the second most popular “religion” in Texas. Obama dumped allot of Muslims there to turn the state blue.
RNC defends Muslim official in Texas from rogue effort to strip him of leadership post
by David M. Drucker
| December 05, 2018 03:30 PM
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In July, Tarrant County Republican Party Chairman Darl Easton appointed Shahid Shafi, a trauma surgeon, to serve as vice chairman. The move sparked opposition from precinct chairwoman Dorrie O’Brien and a few allies. O’Brien has been urging his removal, making allegations that Shafi has links to Islamic terrorists and is beholden to Sharia law.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/rnc-defends-muslim-official-in-texas-from-rogue-effort-to-strip-him-of-leadership-post
4 years ago
The New York Times also endorsed Hilliary Rotten-Clinton for President in 2016,…… Warren and Klobuchar, just given the political ‘Kiss of Death’ !! Buh bye ladies !!
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/opinion/sunday/hillary-clinton-for-president.html
4 years ago
Though I grew up reading The Times, I have determined that their opinion and editorial pages are clearly so prejudiced by what I refer to as the “Trump Syndrome” that I give no weight to their commentary anymore, and I propose that the electorate do so as well. When they finally come around to reporting the real news without being adversely influenced by the “Trump Syndrome” maybe, then, I will come around to respecting their opinion.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
Their typesetting has become as monolithic as their political bent and biased coverage. Until about 2003, they had all sorts of different typefaces for their headlines. Since that time, it was basically all Cheltenham, all the time.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
I grew up on the LA times… then stopped reading the news paper for a few decades… now that I’m taking care of my parents, who subscribe to the LA Times, I find almost all of the articles quite frustrating because they are less about reporting the news and patently about promoting the Leftist agenda. Just today, there was an article about Schiff and how detractors at one of his town hall type meetings had a bunch of people calling him a liar and what not… but naturally the LA Times never mentioned that for all those years that Schiff claimed he had proof of Trump’s collusion with Russia, that he had been lying thus those aren’t false accusations but they are the truth. Naturally after ignoring the fact that Schiff isn’t being called a liar for no reason, it went on to gush about his education and his parents… I quit reading before I got to the end because… well… it was pathetic. And that wasn’t even in the editorial or opinion section… that was the front page article. And it doesn’t matter what the topic is, if it can be twisted to support the Leftist position, it does so.
4 years ago
Reply to
created4el
The L.A. Times is a paid political propaganda machine owned by the ChiComs. Their sole purpose is to promote the ChiComs and undermine any effort to resist Chinese aggression.
4 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
That’s for sure! And they seem to be a good job at it… my dad seems to believe everything they print!
4 years ago
Reply to
created4el
The LA Times was purchased by a Chinese agent about two years ago. They are essentially a propaganda organ of he Chicoms. This was all set forth in the Epoch Times a while back.
4 years ago
Reply to
John Acord
It seems to me that because our press is part of ensuring a free society, it shouldn’t be owned by a foreign entity nor should it be run by anti-Americans (communists/socialists/etc) because then anything written may be compromised. Similarly our education establishments shouldn’t be led by anti-Americans and influenced by foreign nationals like Saudi Arabia because then their education turns into anti-American propaganda.
4 years ago
THESE 2 women should make good women everywhere CRINGE in disgust.
IF THIS IS ALL THE DEM PARTY CAN COME UP WITH, then TRUMP IS GOOD AS ELECTED!
4 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
2 Democrat women on the same ticket?
Lashing two dead horses together for greater speed works?
4 years ago
Reply to
CharlieSeattle
If these two clowns are the best candidates they can offer, then women should be insulted.
But In fairness – I should amend this statement: Democrat women – and all members of that foul and decaying organ, AKA the late, great Democrat party – should be insulted.
4 years ago
If there is any proof that, to the Left, a “strong woman” is someone who is: a) mean-faced, clipped-haired and/or fat-hipped, b) bossy, c) pushy, d) shrewish, e) shrill, f) strident, g) overbearing and h) domineering, we are seeing it now. Actually, we saw this four years ago with the pimping of Hillary onto America.
4 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
Aren’t these the kinds of women most suited for the Obama “pajama boys?”
It makes sense, sort of…
4 years ago
It is entirely possible for a woman to be elected president, just not some counterfeit leftist hag like these two or Shrillary.
4 years ago
They are the only two women left in the race, prompting on TV talking head to say it was an indication the Times was “broad-minded”, a masterpiece of understatement.
4 years ago
I thought they would be backing 2 walking black letterboxes just back from the Caliphate screaming Death to America.
4 years ago
Cases in point look at the adulation in regards to M.O. or tricky hilly – just because they were women –
4 years ago
Of course, I could be reading this all wrong, but it smacks of Democratic Desperation to me. They seem to be flooding the field with candidates hoping one will click. Why not find just one decent candidate and back him? Oh yeah, right. We’re talking about democrats. My bad.
4 years ago
Reply to
Murielle
It’s not clear what triggers someone to run. It seems the party leaders ought to nudge good people. They certainly do seem biased when the promote one over another like Hillary over Bernie. But my guess is ego is what drove most of this batch of clowns to enter the clown car.
4 years ago
Whatever the New York Times has to say on this subject, the truth remains as Steve Bannon enunciated in a recent TV interview. What Trump has done is stop the {former} policy of “managed American decline” , {followed by most of the post war American administrations}. For this achievement he deserves a statue.
{ By the way, only one newspaper can be called “The Times” and that’s the one printed in London because it was the first}. All others around the world have to have a prefix as to their location.
4 years ago
So, basically this article states that the NYT Preisential endorsements have been ludicrous for decades, not just recently!
