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In case you were under the impression that the staff at The New York Times should be held in higher regard than any average American newspaper, this story should make you think again.
And they are not simply filled with left-leaning intellectuals. According to this report by former editor Adam Rubinstein, they seem to be full of new crazies out of college.
Rubinstein wrote a column in The Atlantic that he began by recalling one of his first days working for the “Gray Lady,” and it's very funny.
At orientation, he had to tell the group about his favorite sandwich. Not wanting to sound arrogant, he opted against the expensive fare and instead “said out loud: Chick-fil-A's spicy chicken sandwich.”
That's when hilarity ensued.
The HR representative who led the orientation scolded me, saying, “We don't do that here. They hate gays.” People started snapping their fingers in approval. I wasn't thinking about the fact that Chick-fil-A was being outed in liberal circles because of its president's opposition to gay marriage. “It's not the politics, it's the chicken,” I said quickly, but it was too late. I sat down, feeling ashamed.
– Adam Rubinstein, The Atlantic
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The New York Times hates Chick-Fil-A
The fact that the New York Times trend is basically a scene out of West Side Story is something to behold. Snapping their fingers in praise?
Not real. Funny, if not really, then really sad and pathetic.
Elon Musk, CEO of X, couldn't help but laugh at the story, just like all of us who saw Rubinstein's report.
“They snap their finger to show disapproval?” he wrote, adding a laughing crying emoji.
The absurdity of the whole thing is almost as far removed as a more serious allegation made by Rubinstein against the New York Times.
The newspaper allegedly did not want to lend credibility to the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election for fear it would hurt Democrats.
Was it really “unfounded” as the newspaper kept saying? “At the time, this was demonstrated, however extraordinarily, by Rudy Giuliani,” Rubinstein wrote.
“It was clear that many of my colleagues were concerned that lending credibility to the laptop story might hurt the electoral prospects of Joe Biden and Democrats,” he added. “But starting from a place of partisan politics and assessing how a particular story affects the election is not journalism.”
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The Times interfered in the election
The New York Times spent months pushing a conspiracy theory that the Hunter Biden story was “disinformation,” only directly admitting that the laptop was real in March 2022.
Here you have a former editor admitting that the newspaper influenced its coverage to influence the presidential election. Intervention.
Rubinstein's name may stand out to readers. He and opinion editor James Bennett were forced to resign from The New York Times for daring to publish an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) arguing that big cities need National Guard activity to quell out-of-control matters. Racial unrest.
Cotton (R-AR) wrote at the time that an “overwhelming display of force” was necessary to “disperse, detain, and ultimately deter lawbreakers” who were using the killing of George Floyd as a pretext for violence.
Democrats were angry that their supporters were being targeted.
It's hard to pinpoint the most embarrassing aspect of the New York Times staff after Rubinstein's column. Fire editors for allowing opposing viewpoints? Are you helping to rig elections with misleading information?
Or snapping fingers in disgust at people enjoying a sandwich at Chick-fil-a?
It's a close call.
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