Thank you for rounding up this sad compendium of bigotry. I remember vividly when Steve King was sanctioned with loss of his committee assignments for one of his many white supremacist statements. That seems like a dream now.
And double thanks for continuing to shed light on The NY Times' continuing abdication of journalism to benefit Trump. Every once in a while, they actually "commit a journalism" as Jeff Tiedrich puts it, but then they negate it with this type of sanewashing. Trump is "free styling" and "improvising"? He's spewing incoherent nonsense about even more incoherent and inconsistent policies. And I'm still seething about The NY Times' weird decision about two months ago to quote a piece of speech by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, leaving in all the "ums" and pauses, something I've never done in my 40 years as a journalist interviewing tons of incoherent rock musicians, because that's just not what you do for the benefit of readers. But they have virtually never reported a Trump quote verbatim, leaving in his mid-sentence digressions, his odd word insertions, his misnomers and gaffes, and his flights of completely impenetrable nonsense. Their sanewashing constitutes journalistic malpractice.
Mike Johnson has a point. Let me revise his quote a bit:
"There’s a lot of energy in the country...and a lot of popular sentiment that the... law in America is a serious problem. That’s what animates this. it’s about those who seek to impose a different belief system that is in direct conflict with the Constitution."
Unfortunately, the news media in general has become numb to Republican bigotry, spoken loudly and enabled by Trump. What's just as bad is that many of our citizens have also become numb or oblivious to it as well. Too many members of the very minorities that Trump vilifies have kept voting for him in numbers that boggle the mind.
Thank you for rounding up this sad compendium of bigotry. I remember vividly when Steve King was sanctioned with loss of his committee assignments for one of his many white supremacist statements. That seems like a dream now.
And double thanks for continuing to shed light on The NY Times' continuing abdication of journalism to benefit Trump. Every once in a while, they actually "commit a journalism" as Jeff Tiedrich puts it, but then they negate it with this type of sanewashing. Trump is "free styling" and "improvising"? He's spewing incoherent nonsense about even more incoherent and inconsistent policies. And I'm still seething about The NY Times' weird decision about two months ago to quote a piece of speech by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, leaving in all the "ums" and pauses, something I've never done in my 40 years as a journalist interviewing tons of incoherent rock musicians, because that's just not what you do for the benefit of readers. But they have virtually never reported a Trump quote verbatim, leaving in his mid-sentence digressions, his odd word insertions, his misnomers and gaffes, and his flights of completely impenetrable nonsense. Their sanewashing constitutes journalistic malpractice.
Mike Johnson has a point. Let me revise his quote a bit:
"There’s a lot of energy in the country...and a lot of popular sentiment that the... law in America is a serious problem. That’s what animates this. it’s about those who seek to impose a different belief system that is in direct conflict with the Constitution."
YUP!
"Improvisational approach" is the kind of sanewashing that has led us to this abyss.
Thank you, Mr. Jacob, for seeing and writing with such clarity. Your perspective is so valuable.
Unfortunately, the news media in general has become numb to Republican bigotry, spoken loudly and enabled by Trump. What's just as bad is that many of our citizens have also become numb or oblivious to it as well. Too many members of the very minorities that Trump vilifies have kept voting for him in numbers that boggle the mind.
Didn't we already know this?