NY Times Stands by New Editorial Board Hire Despite ‘Not Acceptable’ Tweets About ‘White People’
. . . "In a litany of tweets dating from around 2014, some of which have been deleted, Jeong made a number of comments that critics said were racist and disparaging. “Oh man it’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men,” she said in one tweet — now deleted — but archived here.
“ 'Dumbass f–ing white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants,” she in another." . . .Paul Mirengoff at Power Line "Steve has written about how the New York Times hired Sarah Jeong to be part of its editorial board, even though it knew Jeong has written a series of vicious, foul-mouthed attacks on white people, collectively. The Times excuses Jeong ravings on the theory that she was merely “imitating the rhetoric of her harassers” on the internet.
"Rubbish. As John Sexton counters:
First, the tweets aren’t all replying to other people. Second, the tweets are spread over a span of several years. Third and most importantly, other people behaving like racist trolls is not an excuse for behaving like a racist troll. Someone who makes a living writing about social media probably ought to know that. You are responsible for what you say, regardless of what someone else said. Maybe, once or twice, you get carried away by anger but not for 3 years at random intervals.
"Kevin Williamson, the conservative sacked by the New York Times for expressing an opinion far less offensive than Jeong’s serial racist invective, takes the high road. He says the Times should “resist the social-media mob campaign to have [Jeong] dismissed.”
"The Times can resist or not resist, as it chooses, but no one should buy its preposterous defense of Jeong. If the Times is fine with hiring an anti-white racist, then we’re entitled to conclude that the Times condones her racism and is, if not “the enemy of the American people,” at least the enemy of American white people."
The president tried to close the chapter as he left for a Pennsylvania political rally, saying that a mere 'large percentage' of the media are Americans' enemies . . . "Sanders seemed to back up that sentiment on Thursday.
"She told the CNN reporter, Jim Acosta, that it was 'ironic' to see 'you and the media attack the president for his rhetoric when they frequently lower the level of conversation in this country.'
"Acosta is among the network's most vocal and consistent Trump skeptics.
" 'Complaining about her own treatment that she sees as a consequence of media bias, she said some of the president's adversaries have 'said I should be harassed as a life sentence. That I should be choked.'
" 'The was a reference to CNN anchor Nicole Wallace, who apologized in May for asking White House correspondent Kristen Welker: 'How do you resist the temptation to run up and wring her neck?' "
Watch how the press enjoyed Michelle Wolf's ear-splitting attack on Sarah Sanders
"She told the CNN reporter, Jim Acosta, that it was 'ironic' to see 'you and the media attack the president for his rhetoric when they frequently lower the level of conversation in this country.'
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" 'Complaining about her own treatment that she sees as a consequence of media bias, she said some of the president's adversaries have 'said I should be harassed as a life sentence. That I should be choked.'
" 'The was a reference to CNN anchor Nicole Wallace, who apologized in May for asking White House correspondent Kristen Welker: 'How do you resist the temptation to run up and wring her neck?' "
Watch how the press enjoyed Michelle Wolf's ear-splitting attack on Sarah Sanders
