Not unlike the leaders of one of our two major political parties.
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Trump has a credibility gap the size of the Grand Canyon. He painted a target on El Paso. It’s going to take more than reading a few words of the TelePrompTer in a monotone to convince anyone that he had any good intentions whatsoever.
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Dean Baquet really, really doesn’t want to fuck up Maggie Haberman’s book deal, does he?
And - heaven forbid! - if he printed an honest headline he might upset righteous and reasonable pundits David Brooks and Bret Stephens!
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Good point. Better answer.
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I suspect the original headline was picked just for Donnie two scoops, so I am not surprised he liked it.
When you suck up to power like the NYT does to have insider access, you have to pay dues from time to time.
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The other shoe drops. He dilutes the truth with a gross exaggeration, indicating that what is really important is not the dead people and gun proliferation, but making sure at the very least both sides are to blame.
Trump needs to resign.
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Except if you’re Hillary Clinton. Then all bets are off.
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And I’m sure that Maureen Dowd will use her column on Sunday to gin up some intellectually dishonest bullshit defending her boss.
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But he doesn’t know how to read.
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tRumpy Dumpty sat on a wall.
tRumpty Dumpty had a big fall;
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men,
Couldn’t put tRumpty together again*.
*Except the NYT.
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He has no sense of the meaning of what he is saying when he is attempting to read. That’s how we first learned of George Washington’s airports.
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Not so much an idiot, but a man who is shot through with hubris and arrogance.
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Do you suppose that the original headline was written well before the actual speech? That is what you would expect from an actual President.
That said, is anyone surprised that he liked the original headline? It’s a non-story. If he does something not despicable, or if a man bites a dog, let’s hear about it.
The NYT only changed the headline when it became grossly obvious to most people (not just the Left) that it had no bearing to reality whatsoever. Norah O’Donnell got a pretty good smackdown on Twitter after her fawning over Rump’s sniffling and ridiculous televised speech. After 2+ years of this horror, a lot of people are seeing what the regime is doing; it’s becoming undeniable to anyone who isn’t in the cult of Rump that all of it just spreading hate.
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'“And some may think newsrooms like the New York Times and the Washington Post are supposed to be Donald Trump’s adversaries or the leaders of the adversarial movement to take down Donald Trump.”…no…we just ask that you actually REPORT. WHat you DO is hide behind ‘fake’ headlines and opinion pieces and then INSIST that you’re journalists…which you were called to account for.
“Donald Trump has (carelessly, intentionally, cavalierly) stirred up (provoked, promoted, incited) very powerful (destructive, contemptuous, irrational) feelings (hatred, prejudice, intolerance) among Americans (his ignorant base, bitter bigots, disenfranchised losers).”
Pick one, they all work interchangeably.
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it’s not the Times’ or the Washington Post’s role to “be the leaders of the opposition party.”
No it’s your role to report the truth and quit trying to drag the Washington Post in to share in your shame for distorting it. It isn’t about partisanship to point out obvious insincerity and contradiction in a politician’s words or to point out obvious prevarication concerning a key subject they do not want to address. The fourth estate was never intended to simply be an echo chamber for whatever nonsense a politician wants to shout. It has a duty to critically analyze their words and lay bare what they are actually doing.
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Attention @NicoleLafond
It’s = it is.
Its = belonging to it.
Memorize these two meanings before you write another word.
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excellent, 7
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