Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has a right to be a tad confused. The senator noted the matter-of-fact coverage by The New York Times of Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to send troops to New York City to crack down on crime. Cotton posted a “hmmm” note that simply read: “Sending in the troops to help restore law and order…” His point was that, roughly four years ago, the newspaper publicly denounced him after running his opinion piece calling for the use of national guard troops to quell violent riots in Washington.
The Cotton column led to editors being forced out after public confessions and recriminations. Now, after Democratic politicians actually ordered such a deployment, the Times has offered little more than a journalistic shrug.
Hochul announced she will be deploying 750 members of the National Guard to New York City’s subway system to assist the New York Police Department (NYPD) in the crackdown on crime, including bag searches at the entrances of busy train stations.
Mara Gay of the New York Times then ran a story titled “The National Guard May Make Riders Feel Safer.” This is the same Mara Gay who was part of the campaign against Cotton and posted a tweet saying “Running this puts black people in danger. And other Americans standing up for our humanity and democracy.”
I have previously written on the hypocrisy of the Times in how it has handled the Cotton affair. The column itself was historically accurate. Indeed, critics never explained what was historically false (or outside the range of permissible interpretation) in the column. Moreover, writers Taylor Lorenz, Caity Weaver, Sheera Frankel, Jacey Fortin, and others said that such columns put black reporters in danger and condemned publishing Cotton’s viewpoint.
In a breathtaking surrender, the newspaper apologized and not only promised an investigation in how such an opposing view could find itself on its pages but promised to reduce the number of editorials in the future:
“We’ve examined the piece and the process leading up to its publication. This review made clear that a rushed editorial process led to the publication of an Op-Ed that did not meet our standards. As a result, we’re planning to examine both short term and long term changes, to include expanding our fact-checking operation and reduction the number of op-eds we publish.”
The sacking of Bennet had its intended effect. Writers and columnists with opposing or critical views were soon forced off newspapers around the country, including at the New York Times.
Editor Adam Rubenstein was also forced out at the paper and recently wrote a scathing account of the bizarre environment within the paper.
The writers have condemned the “both sideism” of allowing conservative viewpoints in the newspaper and insisted that Cotton and others must be banned as favoring potential violent actions against protesters. Yet, the newspaper has published people with anti-free speech and violent viewpoints in the last year. While the New York Times stands by its declaration that Cotton should never have been published, it had no problem in publishing “Beijing’s enforcer” in Hong Kong as Regina Ip mocked freedom protesters who were being beaten and arrested by the government.
Indeed, just before the anniversary of the Cotton controversy, the New York Times published a column by University of Rhode Island professor Erik Loomis, who brushed off the murder of a conservative protester and said that he saw “nothing wrong” with such acts of violence. Loomis’ article on “Why The Amazon Workers Never Stood A Chance” did not include his earlier violent rationalization. It was in my view a worthy and interesting column for publication. So was Cotton’s column.
While many today still claim that the protests around the White House were “entirely peaceful” and there was no “attack on the White House,” that claim is demonstrably false. As I discussed in my testimony to Congress, there was in fact an exceptionally high number of officers injured over the course of days of protests around the White House. In addition to a reported 150 officers injured (including at least 49 Park Police officers around the White House), protesters caused extensive property damage including the torching of a historic structure and the attempted arson of St. John’s. The threat was so great that Trump had to be moved into the bunker because the Secret Service feared a breach of security around the White House.
Notably, later during the January 6th riot, there were no recriminations for the use of the same fencing and national guard troops to protect the Capitol, albeit too late to have prevented the initial riot.
So now it is a Democratic leader who is not just calling for the use of troops but actually deploying them in New York City. It is part of an effort by many Democrats to change course on crime and immigration before the 2024 election after years of criminal law reforms and sanctuary city policies.
What is clear from the Times coverage is that there is still no sense of compulsion at the newsroom to be consistent or even self-aware. Outrage remains entirely selective and political. There is no hashtag campaign by writers or repeating the same line that “running this put Black @nytimes staff in danger.”
Nothing new as this is just what Horace Greeley has left as his ink stain on our Nation .
A corrupt media, supporting a corrupt administration raised to high office by an inept electorate.
I think the National Guard images should be the opening image in all future ” I Love NY” tourism campaign material” I’m sure all tourists world wide will take comfort in knowing that their bags will be inspected and privacy invaded as they walk through subway stairs and platforms dodging puddles of urine while avoiding eye contact with mentally ill, violent, drug addicted people sleeping on every surface in the transit system. Making the traveling public happy with the laws and policies implemented in Albany must be very satisfying to the lawmakers knowing that the people voted them into office because they truly know what is best for the citizens in the Big Apple.
Great Job to all the law makers ! I’m sure you’ll be reelected with even greater margins of victory.
The Rotting Apple empathizes with the District of [Progressive] Corruption.
If NY had any real concern for the New Yorkers riding those filth-ridden subways, they would send in Hazmat teams and trained medical personnel.
They’re not going to ‘crack down on crime’ down there – it’s the crime-scene.
*” … the difference between our urinal-caked subways and Russia’s candelabra beautiful subways is literally the price of freedom.” ~ Jon Stewart
I buy the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper every Saturday for the only thing the NYT is good for: Wil Shortz’s crossword puzzle.
More importantly, I don’t have the patience to read news sources that are nothing more than scavenger hunts for the truth. I prefer sources that begin with a reputation for the truth. And with so many available that are free, there is no logical reason to pay for propaganda.
Olly, I buy my local Sunday Newspaper for the same reason, the Sunday Times crossword puzzle. Unfortunately my local paper is all AP stories and it drives me nuts. I canceled the daily delivery as a protest but they don’t seem to care.
hullbobby, I don’t even read the paper I bought. I pull out the section with the puzzle and just toss it.
Hey, I just printed mine off! Two clues today about rappers, and something Tafari??? Oh well, I just ordered a new clipboard and a box of no. 2 pencils, although I usually do them in pen. But Joe Bob Briggs said something about Pencil-Fu, and that got me to thinking about self-defense, should I be home-invaded by oppressed peoples or something.
😀 Pencil-Fu? That’s a thing?
Oh yes! There are all sorts of FU in the Joe Bob Briggs Universe! Him, and Darcy, the Mail Girl, had a great show this weekend with Freeway as one of the movies, and Vamp, a stripper vampire movie! Freeway was by far the best! A great movie about dysfunctional white people in L.A, and a fantastic cast! Based around the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale.
Anyway:
John Irving Bloom (born January 27, 1953), known by the stage name Joe Bob Briggs, is an American syndicated film critic, writer, actor, comic performer, and horror host. He is known for having hosted Joe Bob’s Drive-in Theater on The Movie Channel from 1986 to 1996, the TNT television series MonsterVision from 1996 to 2000, and The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs on Shudder beginning in 2018. In 2019, he was named the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards’ Monster Kid of the Year,[1] and in 2023 was inducted into the Rondo Hatton Awards’ Monster Kid Hall of Fame.[2]
The reviews typically end with a brief rating of the movie in question’s “high points”, including the types of action (represented by nouns naming objects used in fight scenes suffixed with “-Fu”), the number of bodies, number of female breasts bared, the notional number of total pints of blood spilled, and for appropriately untoward movies, a “vomit meter”.[citation needed]
A typical review summary might read:
“No dead bodies. One hundred seventeen breasts. Multiple aardvarking.[a] Lap dancing. Cage dancing. Convenience-store dancing. Blindfold aardvarking. Blind-MAN aardvarking. Lesbo Fu. Pool cue-Fu. Drive-In Academy Award nominations for Tané McClure. Joe Bob says check it out.”[9]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Bob_Briggs
Thanks Floyd. My day is now complete.
Olly, I prefer cryptograms, so I don’t face your problem. I gave up on the NYSlimes half a century ago and should have given up earlier.
I understand the Seattle Times has it and might be accessible on the net for free. I won’t offer financial support to any newspaper linked with the NYSlimes.
I think The NY Times made their bed back in the 1930’s when they served as an apologist to Stalinist Russia and never corrected their mis-statements and mis-information and it has been nothing but a descent in to meaningless blather ever since. Actually it is a surprise when The NY Times wakes up and actually published something sentient and logical . I just can’t remember that happening for decades.
Maybe The NY Times should take note of the fact that their readership is suffering and declining and 310 million plus Americans live their lives every day, generally successfully without ever reading The NY Times.
If the movement to Florida, Texas and the Southeast continues then eventually the canyons of New York may stand empty of anything meaningfull and the Times will be known as a minor weekly news rag which no one but the denizens of a dead city read or use as TP.
Walter Duranty couldn’t be reached for comment.
GEB — I checked and TNYT subscriptions are up 3.7 million since 2020.
I think every adult should read TNYT, daily, but I know that assumes the counterrfactual that all adults in the USA can read.
An opinion piece calling for troops to deal with protesters and a news report of an actual deployment plan for the subway are two very different things. Denouncing a borderline fascist opinion piece is legitimate. A factual news piece of a real borderline fascist policy is what the NYT should be publishing.
Sammy, try to think for a minute, for a change. The Times didn’t just “report” on the story, they failed to be critical of the deployment and hence the hypocrisy.
But it was not a “borderline fascist opinion piece.”
Us normal people call it common sense.
The hypocrisy of leftist Democrats is on full display for all to see.
And yet another Democrat policy and narrative that fails. For those who cannot name what those failed policies are, they are no cash bail is a fail, soft on crime DAs is a fail, illegal immigration is a fail.
But it was not a “borderline fascist opinion piece.”
Upstate, that simply translates as not fascist, but I felt scared reading it. Mattias Desmet would call that guy hopelessly hypnotized.
Upstate Farmer,
Three simple questions:
1) Was the Cotton piece news or opinion?
2) Was the Hochul piece news or opinion?
3) Is it “hypocrisy” for a newspaper to report an action as news but refrain from allowing its Opinion department from publishing opinions advocating for a similar action?
“An opinion piece calling for troops to deal with” rioters, looters, arsonists, and aggravated assault.
Now the statement is accurate.
Gosh, you lie easily. Almost as if it’s a habit.
“A factual news piece of a real borderline fascist policy is what the NYT should be publishing.”
In other words, in Sammy’s world, there is no freedom of speech. Only one opinion is permissible.
Dear Prof Turley,
Not sure how sending Nat. Guard to NYC urinal-caked subways is going to ‘crack down on crime’? Gag a maggot on a gut wagon – the crime is not down there.
*”.. . the difference between our urinal-caked subways and Russia’s candelabra beautiful subways is literally the price of freedom” ~ Jon Stewart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nIOsWHyUVI
Dsg – have you ever been to Switzerland? It is a free country where people are safe and the streets are clean. Filth and disease are not the price of freedom; they are the price of voting for Democrats.
I have been to Switzerland, and many other European countries. Years ago, it was clean, orderly and a lovely country, imo. Don’t think the ‘Garden’ spot of western Europe is quite as lovely, or prosperous, as it was back then
Jon Stewart, who is quite popular among the so-called ‘progressive left’ is the one who said our ‘urinal-caked subways’ is the price of freedom (when compared to Russia’s beautiful subways.). Not me.
I look forward to the upcoming Debates!
*to be clear: there have been two (2) ‘Republican’ presidents in the 21st century, G.W. and Trump .. . and I didn’t notice any improvements in the NYC subways.
ps. @ Edwardmahl
Clearly, Jon Stewart, and he is not alone, believes Russia’s ‘candelabra beautiful’ subways must be the result of tyranny and oppression.
This is all by design.
Barrack Obama said when running for President in 2008 said that he wanted a national security force with the budget of the US military. It seems everyone forgot that he said that. District attorneys not prosecuting violent criminals, 15 million illegals in the country with no visible means of support, and law-abiding US citizens are afraid for their family’s safety and future. The movement to defund the local police is laying the groundwork for the U.S. government to step in and provide a national police force. Sending in the national guard is just step in the process.
If Kathy Hochul really wanted NYC subways to be safe, she would have fired Alvin Bragg years ago.
I really like how you tied that togeather.
Obama did advocate for a national police force.
10 million illegals in 4 years
Defund police
Cashless bail
Soros DA’s refusing to prosecute
Legalizing drugs
Its just the Reichstag Fire excuse needed.
Defund and demoralize the police, sanctuary cities and states, a revolving door for criminals — then send in the NG.
This is, yet again, the Left’s fraud of appearance over reality.
Sam said: “…send in the NG…This is, yet again, the Left’s fraud of appearance over reality.”
Could this be a trial balloon for the Left to discover if they can get away with inflicting this on us as a new, actual, reality? Federal military forces permanently deployed on the streets to imnpose the Left’s opinion of what the law SHOULD be? In that scenario, jack-boooted thugs in the employ of a defacto Central Committee may soon be coming to a neighborhood near you.
“Could this be a trial balloon for the Left to discover if they can get away with inflicting this on us as a new, actual, reality?”
If by “trial balloon” you mean usurping 4A, then no. It’s merely further inflating the trial balloon that was floated after 9/11, and that became — now some 20 years later — the TSA.
And the rationalization for such deprivation of rights is always the same: The mini tyrants declare an “emergency.”
Who is “Bennet”? The name appears only once in the article. I scanned several times and then used the “Find” feature on my computer.
James Bennet was the NYT opinion editor who “allowed” Tom Cotton’s editorial piece to be published. He was then fired from the NYT but wrote a scathing rebuttal exposing the Times.
One thing is for sure: the blatant dishonesty of the NYT is the fault of Donald Trump. This is in line with paper’s position that everything is the fault of Donald Trump.
I thought everything bad – past, present, and future – was already “Bush’s fault”.
OT: I would like to add a new bit of MISINFORMATION that has been making the rounds as a way to assist Joe Biden and it is as big a lie as the “CLIMATE CRISES”. The new MISINFORMATION is that illegals commit less crime than citizens commit. The lie is promulgated by using the slight of hand of not pointing out that this “stat” is about immigrants and not ILLEGAL immigrants. The second major factor is WHO CARES, one crime, one murder, one rape, one assault is too many to be coming from an illegal male immigrant that broke the law to be here, was probably already caught committing another crime in a blue SANCTUARY city/state and was not charged/let go.
Add to that, sanctuary cities don’t charge illegals for crimes. We have a packing plant in town, a big magnate for illegals. One elementary school teaches in Spanish. If you would normally send your child to that school, they must pass a Spanish competency test.
Auto accidents or other crimes here involving Spanish speakers are ignored by police. Because the city refuses to prosecute.
Iowan, they also will eschew charging the illegal simply because it may trigger a deportation. The citizen would get charged, but the illegal skates.
Is that the town who’s name is based on the one where Mr. Bonaparte lost a famous battle?
NYC-CRE = OVERVALUED! OVERVALUED! OVERVALUED!
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I HAVE NO INTEREST IN THE NYC -AND- NO INTEREST IN BAILING OUT THE NYC CASINO
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🇺🇸 GOD BLESS THE REAL AMERICA – NOT NYC
Its election time and the Chameleon party and its toadies will change colors, deflect and project the damage they are responsible for to whatever target they can hit.
Why expect sanity and rationality when you are not necessarily dealing with a sane and rational group of people? Why expect any self-reflection at all? Because avoiding rational, introspective thought is how far too many, or maybe even most, of the Democrat Left deals with their cognitive dissonance. The problem is beyond just them doing what is moral, right or consistent – because they have severe mental issues going on. They are in a cult now, many or most of them, and their core values as human beings, have been superseded by their devotion to the party. They did not just drink a glass of Kool-Aid, they chased down the Kool-Aid Pitcher Man, and knocked him over the head, and chug-a-lugged the whole 55 gallon barrel of Kool-Aid.
In an abstract way, they know that they have double-standards, and they know that they are hypocrites – and they know that those are bad things, but they will not confront that in their own heads anymore than someone in a Doomsday Cult, for whom the world was supposed to end last December 21st, and didn’t, confronts the disconfirmation. They will either ignore it, or make up some excuse which allows them to continue in their delusion. And plus, no one who they respect is going to confront them. Its not like Rachel Maddow is going to say, “Look at those hypocritical clowns over at the New York Times!”
Floyd said: “they chased down the Kool-Aid Pitcher Man, and knocked him over the head, and chug-a-lugged the whole 55 gallon barrel of Kool-Aid. ”
If only that was the real thing – James Jones KoolAid, we might be better off in short order.
“Jim” Jones of “People’s Temple” infame, for those who may have missed the reference. Twas early when I wrote that….
Floyd,
Well said.
Sane and rational are not traits they possess.
Take the murder of nursing student Laken Riley. There were some people trying to suggest she should of never gone jogging on the college campus in the morning by her self.
UpstateFarmer said: “people trying to suggest she should of never gone jogging on the college campus in the morning by her self.”
Victim-blaming is hardly recent or novel behavior for wannabe thugs.
NYC has 40,000 police. Hochul sent 750 additional people into help. I’ll bet they are being placed in the high rent district. I hope the extra help is searching as many white persons bags as black, as many female as male. We wouldn’t want to violate any anti Stop, Question and Frisk laws.
That racial thing is going to be a problem for them. Remember back when Covid lockdowns were in place, and you could not go to church and sing All Things Bright and Beautiful? And then, they made an exception for protesters, and mostly for black protesters. Remember the “but protesting is so important and vital, that we must allow it!”? Hogwash. It was a logistical and public relations thing. You can tell black people that they can not protest, but black people pretty much do what they want to do, period. So what are you going to do? Keep the lockdown on them, and arrest a lot of black people, and risk a looting rioting situation, or just lie and say, “But protests are important!” While secretly hoping that they all get COVID and die.
So, that is why NYC is facing when they call in the troops. Ought to be interesting.
In order for it to even have a hope of passing the 4A, their can be no officer discretion on who gets searched.
Sammy, look up “their” vs “there”.
hullbobby, he’s still busy trying to figure out where he went wrong with ‘scathing’ As Barbie says. ‘vocabulary is hard’ 🙁
Yes Iowan, he is the famous author of “scathing concurrance”.
Look out elderly grandmothers.
Edward Mahl,
Elderly white grandmothers.
I am sure Houchle will require a quota of them to be strip searched by the NG.
“I’ll bet they are being placed in the high rent district.”
Timh, I don’t know where they are being placed, but NYC’s tax revenue comes from the high earners and businessmen. They are leaving the city. Who will make up the lost tax revenue? When rich people are unhappy, prices surrounding the real estate industry fall. Who will make up that revenue? We are talking about numbers in the billions.
“I hope the extra help is searching as many white persons bags as black, as many female as male.”
If group A represents crime and group B doesn’t (all else being equal), it takes twice as many police officers to end crime if A is searched equally to B.
S. Meyer,
I have visions of John Carpenter’s 1981 classic, Escape From New York when it comes to the possible future of NYC.
“If group A represents crime and group B doesn’t (all else being equal), it takes twice as many police officers to end crime if A is searched equally to B.”
An awesome display of common sense.
I wonder if Sammy could understand it?
To be surprised at hypocrisy coming out of the nyt is like being surprised that water is wet. I believe journalists must take a hypocritic oath before employment.
The bigger question is, why the NG? Why not just let the cops do their job? Forget about defunding which is not helping anything. But if the cops do manage to apprehend a criminal, Alvin Bragg puts them back on the street before you can say Jack Robinson. Why not simply demand that the AG do his job and allow the cops to do theirs?
Since presumably the NG won’t have power to arrest or really do anything, this seems more like a move to get people used to martial law than any real attempt to control crime. The situation is completely different now than it was when America was burning. This isn’t crowd control. This is individual malefactors.
But rest easy, New York. Alvin Bragg is still going to do his best to GET TRUMP.
Anonymous said: “The bigger question is, why the NG? Why not just let the cops do their job? ”
That should be obvious. If the NYC cops were allowed to detain and arrest illegal immigrant criminals for now, they would expect and attempt to continue that mandate into the future. Kathy Choke-Ill can send in the NG, be rewarded with some “trying to do the right thing” points and press from her supporters and the media, get a very short-term boost in arrest statistics to hurl at her detractors, then send the troops home, and claim victory, without dealing a permanent set-back to any of the woke priorities.
We see it in comments here, everyday. People that have no knowledge of history, and a warped or non existent understanding of Civics. What ever information they take in, comes from places like the NYT. Sometime in the past, it was just narrative setting, but those lies have morphed into pure propaganda.
Iowan, it is not bad enough that many get their “news” from the NY Times through the network echo chamber, but around the country most small newspapers use the AP for “news”, and if possible AP is even worse than the Times.
The AP needs to go. Stop reading any paper that uses the AP.
People that care to get the facts know how.
Read a story and look for facts and named sources. If the outcome is the source of the event, just assume lies are littered through out the piece.
It is a learned process, but it is easy to learn
Iowan2,
Exactly.
That is why the MSM, the Democrats are screaming for censorship.
Independent media, like Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Sharyl Attkisson, The Free Press, all debunk or expose their narrative.
That is why the credibility of MSM, like the NYT, is in the toilet.
The motto of the NY Times should be changed to “All the News (We Say) That’s Fit to Print”
Sorry, I do not want to post as Anonymous.
EconEasy said: ” …motto… should be changed to ‘All the News (We Say) That’s Fit to Print'”
Close enough for grenades, but no marksmanship cigar 😉 How about: “All the News (We Are Told) That’s Fit to Print”? Or, if you want reduce it to the essence: “All the News We Are Told to Print”?
New York Times? Surprised that anyone reads it anymore. It is irrelevant.
Good point!
The Tom Cotton incident was a “blessing” in that it shined a light on NYT’s bias; some people were finally convinced.