Correcting the record after a desperate slam job on the Twitter Files, published just before oral arguments in a historic First Amendment case in the Supreme Court
Having followed your reporting on this story since the beginning, I found the NYT story a disgraceful hit job, even by their low standards. It is an obvious attempt to influence the Supremes, who I predict will uphold the Circuit (mostly). Not once do they say, for example, that the Biden laptop story was true. Not once do they look at what the district judge and the Circuit actually said, and say one word about the First Amendment. No, it's just disinfo all the way down, sez the NYT, and we are all too fucking stupid to sort it out for ourselves, so just let us tell you what to believe.
I once had a defamation case with Floyd Abrams against me. And I told him that I would always consider him a First Amendment hero for defending the NYT's right to publish what the government did not want us to know. How times have changed......
I’ve signed up the NYT headlines and breaking news to keep track of Democratic Party messaging. The headline for this piece was what the NYT lead with today. It was actually a little more cryptic than their normal messaging and I now realize it was because they were talking about the Twitter files where they don’t have a legitimate viewpoint to defend. I truly don’t understand how the NYT can convince themselves that they on the right side of history on government censorship. It’s disgusting.
"Let’s hope the Supreme Court doesn’t get distracted by these hysterics. Is there any doubt that’s what this story is designed to accomplish?"
In part, certainly true. Also need to look at the bigger project. The ongoing effort by progressives/left to delegitimize SCOTUS. They no longer control it, so therefore it must be destroyed. Enough "bad" decisions, and the pressure to "unpack" the court may come to fruition.
We've said it before in this forum and others, but it bears repeating:
The great story of our time is the Dem Party and its Left clerisy's existential nervous breakdown and psychotic break upon the election of Trump, their predictions of all the social destruction his election would cause, and then their desperate blind Ahab quest to fulfill all their most dire predictions, that is: to transform into all the things they most claim to hate.
In this case their hysterical fantasy was about Trump destroying freedom of the press, freedom of expression, attacking specific reporters while shitting on the First Amendment—but I don't think even their worst fever dreams of the Orange Monster have come close to equalling how they've attacked and attempted to destroy all these things.
The New York Times and WaPo have reached the point where if someone passed them the Pentagon Papers now they would call the FBI and CIA, campaign to give that person a life sentence, then campaign to allow the government even stronger power to curtail speech!
Our journalistic and intellectual classes have destroyed their own credibility and brought great shame upon themselves all because of the enormous social, career and financial pressure put on them to oppose the enemy and support their tribe and its party. They are craven apparatchiks and completely unprincipled liars and hacks.
Our thinking classes have become the enemies of free thought and expression. Welcome to Soviet America!
NYT will give you space on the Op-Ed page to set the record straight, won't it? I'm being facetious but hold a 1% hope that they do.
Anyways, Who tf ARE THESE PEOPLE??????? I subscribed for 20 years to the NYT. I started going days without reading it because I found it increasingly bizarre, starting circa 2017, that the news was editorial/opinion-laden writings, and the opinion page was no different in content from the news. 2019/2020, I finally started fact-checking the "news" they "reported" and had surprise after shock after surprise after shock. WTF. wtf. Took me a week of calling to finally cancel the subscription.
Massive respect and appreciation to you, and all your Twitter Files colleagues!
I'm glad Taibbi mentioned the NYT article where Rutenberg said reporters had to abandon professional standards to cover Trump.
As a former journalist I found the article to be one of the most offensive things I'd ever read.
The NYT, New York Toilet, is where Deep State takes its dumps.
Having followed your reporting on this story since the beginning, I found the NYT story a disgraceful hit job, even by their low standards. It is an obvious attempt to influence the Supremes, who I predict will uphold the Circuit (mostly). Not once do they say, for example, that the Biden laptop story was true. Not once do they look at what the district judge and the Circuit actually said, and say one word about the First Amendment. No, it's just disinfo all the way down, sez the NYT, and we are all too fucking stupid to sort it out for ourselves, so just let us tell you what to believe.
I once had a defamation case with Floyd Abrams against me. And I told him that I would always consider him a First Amendment hero for defending the NYT's right to publish what the government did not want us to know. How times have changed......
Best to you Matt, for your courage.
You deserve a Pulitzer. The Times deserves to become toilet paper
Stay strong Matt. Stay strong. You’re hitting the nail so they’re getting even more nervous with the state sponsored NYT
What else is new? Matt is taking flak from the house organ of the Democrat Party. He's always over the target.
Matt:
“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:”
Time to reread Kipling’s “If”
I’ve signed up the NYT headlines and breaking news to keep track of Democratic Party messaging. The headline for this piece was what the NYT lead with today. It was actually a little more cryptic than their normal messaging and I now realize it was because they were talking about the Twitter files where they don’t have a legitimate viewpoint to defend. I truly don’t understand how the NYT can convince themselves that they on the right side of history on government censorship. It’s disgusting.
"could curtail the government’s latitude in monitoring content online."
Which is consistent with the First Amendment... how? Exactly?
I can only imagine the NYT lawyers who argued the Pentagon Papers, and Sullivan must be spinning in their graves.
They are evil. You know it’s been a real bloodbath lately in journalism, too bad the times look to be the last man standing
"Let’s hope the Supreme Court doesn’t get distracted by these hysterics. Is there any doubt that’s what this story is designed to accomplish?"
In part, certainly true. Also need to look at the bigger project. The ongoing effort by progressives/left to delegitimize SCOTUS. They no longer control it, so therefore it must be destroyed. Enough "bad" decisions, and the pressure to "unpack" the court may come to fruition.
We've said it before in this forum and others, but it bears repeating:
The great story of our time is the Dem Party and its Left clerisy's existential nervous breakdown and psychotic break upon the election of Trump, their predictions of all the social destruction his election would cause, and then their desperate blind Ahab quest to fulfill all their most dire predictions, that is: to transform into all the things they most claim to hate.
In this case their hysterical fantasy was about Trump destroying freedom of the press, freedom of expression, attacking specific reporters while shitting on the First Amendment—but I don't think even their worst fever dreams of the Orange Monster have come close to equalling how they've attacked and attempted to destroy all these things.
The New York Times and WaPo have reached the point where if someone passed them the Pentagon Papers now they would call the FBI and CIA, campaign to give that person a life sentence, then campaign to allow the government even stronger power to curtail speech!
Our journalistic and intellectual classes have destroyed their own credibility and brought great shame upon themselves all because of the enormous social, career and financial pressure put on them to oppose the enemy and support their tribe and its party. They are craven apparatchiks and completely unprincipled liars and hacks.
Our thinking classes have become the enemies of free thought and expression. Welcome to Soviet America!
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell
We the People are the Heirs of the American Experiment and We are Squandering Our American Inheritance!
https://lizlasorte.substack.com/
The only good thing the NYT makes is the crossword
NYT will give you space on the Op-Ed page to set the record straight, won't it? I'm being facetious but hold a 1% hope that they do.
Anyways, Who tf ARE THESE PEOPLE??????? I subscribed for 20 years to the NYT. I started going days without reading it because I found it increasingly bizarre, starting circa 2017, that the news was editorial/opinion-laden writings, and the opinion page was no different in content from the news. 2019/2020, I finally started fact-checking the "news" they "reported" and had surprise after shock after surprise after shock. WTF. wtf. Took me a week of calling to finally cancel the subscription.
Massive respect and appreciation to you, and all your Twitter Files colleagues!
Projection. It’s what they do. It’s all they have.