{"id":4358,"date":"2018-08-07T05:10:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T05:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/07\/once-great-newspaper-becomes-radicals-rag-of-record\/"},"modified":"2018-08-07T05:10:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T05:10:59","slug":"once-great-newspaper-becomes-radicals-rag-of-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/07\/once-great-newspaper-becomes-radicals-rag-of-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Great Newspaper Becomes Radicals&#8217; Rag of Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Of course, the Grey Lady has been slouching left for a long time now. Her Op-Ed pages have gone from being piss-poor to being positively feculent. David Brooks, who I once respected, is increasingly in the grip of Trump Derangement Syndrome. And he was one of the sane ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Sarah Jeong is a miserable twerp of no significance. Her hiring, however, is a major event signaling an institutional legitimation of deviant and destructive behavior. Things should prove interesting in the months and years to come. You are well-advised to keep your powder dry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">What we have here is&#0160; a struggle for the soul of America. Or is that too dramatic a way of putting it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/08\/06\/the-new-york-times-embraces-bigoted-identity-politics-in-jeong-hire\/\">The <em>New York Times<\/em> has embraced the bigotry of identity politics.&#0160;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/g-file\/sarah-jeong-racism-anti-white-still-bad\/\">Why Racism Begets More Racism<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#0160; <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c022ad3a6b8b8200b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jeong\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c022ad3a6b8b8200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c022ad3a6b8b8200b-500wi\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Jeong\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, the Grey Lady has been slouching left for a long time now. Her Op-Ed pages have gone from being piss-poor to being positively feculent. David Brooks, who I once respected, is increasingly in the grip of Trump Derangement Syndrome. And he was one of the sane ones. Sarah Jeong is a miserable twerp &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/07\/once-great-newspaper-becomes-radicals-rag-of-record\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Once Great Newspaper Becomes Radicals&#8217; Rag of Record&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}