Ep. 405 - Journalists Against Journalism
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Summary
The New York Times is furious that conservatives are reporting the news. They are demanding that the Conservatives stop reporting the News. And there will be no journalism here. We examine the latest controversy and why the latest Times temper tantrum has gone too far, even for fellow left-wing outlets like the Washington Post and Politico. Then, Joe Biden s support collapses in a new Monmouth University poll. Young people are abandoning traditional values. And the PC Left is furious over Dave Chappelle s excellent new comedy special.
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The New York Times is furious that conservatives are reporting the news.
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They are demanding that the conservatives stop reporting the news.
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This is the New York Times newsroom and there will be no journalism here.
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We examine the latest controversy and why the latest Times temper tantrum
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has gone too far, even for fellow left-wing outlets like the Washington Post and Politico.
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Then Joe Biden's support collapses in a new Monmouth University poll.
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Young people are abandoning traditional values and the PC left is furious
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over Dave Chappelle's excellent new comedy special.
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The New York Times has officially come out against journalism.
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It is a temper tantrum going through the entire newsroom of The New York Times.
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It exposes, for once and for all, the hypocrisy of the mainstream media and of the left and
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of specifically The New York Times, which is the iconic newspaper in this country.
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We already knew they were hypocrites, but this, they really just throw their cards on the table.
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So, the New York Times officially comes out against journalism.
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They are so furious at President Trump right now that they are formally objecting to
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The New York Times reports on conservative figures, conservative politicians, conservative
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media figures, sometimes on private conservatives and private citizens.
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Really good when the New York Times reports on conservatives.
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Now, there are conservatives who are reporting on leftist New York Times reporters.
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It's good when we do journalism to conservatives.
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Because the New York Times says so, so we have to believe it.
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Washington, a loose network of conservative operatives allied with the White House, is
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pursuing what they say will be an aggressive operation to discredit news organizations deemed
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hostile to President Trump by publicizing damaging information about journalists.
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It's the latest step in a long-running effort by Mr. Trump and his allies to undercut the influence
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Not that illegitimate news reporting that all those conservatives are doing, but the legitimate
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How can you tell what's a legitimate news reporting?
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When conservatives report the news, that is illegitimate.
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Because they're conservative and only leftists are supposed to report on the news.
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Because when I read that, I thought, you know, it's a little, it's a little tricky.
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They're probably digging through these reporters' trash cans, right?
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They're probably going in, calling up their ex-girlfriends and their ex-wives, ex-boyfriends.
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I don't want to be discriminatory or exclusive here.
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They're probably going into their personal lives because that might be a little bit too
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But look, I think that's, there should be a separation between public and private.
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Maybe that is a little bit too far, except that's not what they're doing at all.
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The shadowy group allied with the White House, discrediting real journalists.
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All they're doing is reading through the journalists' tweets.
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They are lit, they're just combing the journalists' public social media profiles.
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The Times goes on, quote, four people familiar with the operation described how it works, asserting
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that it has compiled dossier of potentially embarrassing social media posts and other public
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statements by hundreds of people who work at some of the country's most prominent news
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So they're reading the journalists' public statements.
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And journalists, you will recall, for their job, for a living, make public statements.
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So they're, so what the shadowy group is doing is reading the news.
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The New York Times is furious because people are reading the news.
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Reading the journalists' public pages, public statements.
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Then they are posting about the journalists' public statements.
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Now, how could the New York Times, I mean, this is, this is so absurd, I'm surprised even
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the New York Times could do this with a straight face.
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It's bad that conservatives read and post about the news.
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That's more or less what the thesis of this story is.
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The Times writes, operatives have closely examined more than a decade's worth of public posts and
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statements by journalists, the people familiar with the operation said.
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You see, it's not just people reading the news and posting about it.
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Only a fraction of what the network claims to have uncovered has been made public.
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In order for something to be uncovered, it has to be covered in the first place.
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This is journalists whose job it is to write things in public for a living,
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writing things in public, and then these people reading it and reposting it.
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Only a fraction of what the network claims to have been uncovered has been made public,
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the people said, with more to be disclosed as the 2020 election heats up.
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The research is said to extend to members of journalists' families.
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I don't want people's families to get dragged into this.
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I would really be upset if somebody started digging through my wife's stuff.
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I wouldn't do it to somebody else or someone's kids or something.
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We got to finish that sentence because the sentence in the New York Times,
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It says, the research is to, said to extend to members of journalists' families
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who are active in politics as well as liberal activists
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and other political opponents of the president.
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So it, the work of these shadowy right-wing operatives
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It's only covering the family members who are politicians,
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By the way, the fact that these journalists' families are active in politics
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I guess, I mean, I guess it's like, if it's a commentator or somebody,
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somebody who has an obvious political point of view that they own up to,
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you know, let's say it's somebody on, Sean Hannity or so.
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Let's say, if Sean Hannity's wife were a congressman or a governor or something,
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that wouldn't be a scandal because Hannity has a political point of view.
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Or if it was Ben or if it were Tucker or if it were Drew or if it were me.
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you wouldn't say, oh my gosh, I'm shocked to find out
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that this person holds a conservative point of view
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But for journalists who are purportedly objective reporters
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to then we find out their whole families are in politics,
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Reporters are not supposed to be literally sleeping with their subjects.
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I mean, this has been something that we've criticized the left for for so long.
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George Stephanopoulos spends his whole career as a Democrat political operative.
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He is actually the communications director for the Clinton White House.
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And then one day he puts on a different colored tie
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and he pretends to be an objective reporter on network news.
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And now he's their main political reporter at ABC.
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This was the guy who masterminded the Clinton propaganda strategy.
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Now the New York Times is upset that more people are going to be exposed about that.
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And the only people that this shadowy group is going after
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are the family members who are already public figures in and of themselves.
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The New York Times whining about this was so outrageous.
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It was actually too much, even for the Washington Post and for Politico,
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Here's what the Washington Post wrote about it.
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There is an incompatibility in the Times story in the Salzberger memo.
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On one hand, there is an attempt to tar the motivations of the
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loose network of conservative operatives, quote.
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On the other hand, there is a stubborn admission
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that they have brought actionable information to public attention.
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For decades now, representatives of the mainstream media
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have answered conservative critiques by imploring,
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not by the fact that more than 90% of us are liberal democratic.
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Cut the idle and unverifiable talk about motivations.
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If the tweets presented by a loose network of conservative operatives
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are racist or anti-Semitic or otherwise problematic,
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If they're nonsensical distractions, ignore them.
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At least this guy in the Washington Post is holding his side,
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the left-leaning, in some cases, hard-left so-called journalists
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Politico has an article out, quote, the headline,
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Why journalists sold tweets are fair game for Trump.
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New York Times editors don't deserve special immunity from scrutiny
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The New York Times wants one set of rules to apply to them
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and then an entirely different set of rules to apply to the right.
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And the thin skin at the New York Times is not just on the hard left.
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It's even on what you would call formerly the center right.
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Now, in this case, you'd call it the never-Trump right.
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Politico started its piece about the New York Times.
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He was portrayed by George Clooney in that movie,
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And the line, though, is journalists don't have thin skins.
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And the person exemplifying this over at the New York Times
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is Bret Stephens, who used to be a right-winger.
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He's kind of a Hillary Clinton guy, very anti-Trump.
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But, so, Bret Stephens, yesterday there was a story
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Everyone gets bedbugs at some point in New York.
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So I guess some of these bedbugs got into the New York Times.
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And I don't know, the professor could be right-wing or left-wing.
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The left-wingers who read the Times don't like Stephens
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He makes a joke about how Stephens is the bedbug.
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I'm often amazed about the things supposedly decent people are prepared to say about other people,
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I would welcome the opportunity for you to come to my home,
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That would take some genuine courage and intellectual integrity on your part.
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not only are you inviting the guy to your house,
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to get him in any kind of professional trouble,
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