This was priceless. As a former journalist (during 60s and 70s) it is the antithesis of my job description. My job was to tell the truth and leave my opinion out unless asked. What a concept by comparison!
I am amazed that anyone cares what the NYTimes and their clones say anymore? Liberals will read each word thinking it is Chaucer, while conservatives will treat each story like Pravda in the 70’s. Just like your many articles about how conservatives should ignore DJT and not give him publicity, maybe we could extend that rule to these once relevant newspapers.
The NYT is like CNN & MSDNC in that their readers-viewers are always very late to the game on the rare occasion a liberal scandal avoids being strangled in the crib and makes it into the open. While the rest of America is used to hearing about it, libtards are wondering how NPR, Rachel Maddow, etc. forgot to mention that Biden traded our nuclear codes for some ice cream or something.
Soon, when the drip of incriminating evidence on Biden corruption turns into a flood (providing the Dems an excuse to change horses but that's another story), millions of NYT zombies will be introduced to the whole thing for the first time when there's no choice but to reluctantly run a story on page 84D about how Biden "allegedly" filmed himself with child prostitutes while smoking crack with Hunter on a bed of cash provided by Somali pirates, next to a still from the video ("Is the Biden tape the work of a deep fake? Experts disagree", "Somali-Americans say references to infamous tape are 'dog whistles'").
Ok, so the NYT and other left wing rags suck and just create (yes create) narratives that are most expedient to the radical Democrats at any given time. But you lost me on DeSantis good. You've been rightfully railing against the GOP stupidly pushing abortion bans but DeSantis just signed one of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in the nation. How will he win moderates with that one and how will be defend that position with abortion zealots who seem to be more numerous than I thought?
DeSantis also signed HB 269 which punishes freedom of speech and is the nation's first hate speech bill in America. So he's now alienated both the moderates and the solid right wing and free speech advocates. But sure, somehow he's capable of beating Biden when he's losing ground in the GOP primary.
I go with Reagan's 80:20 yardstick. I like -- LOVE -- 80% of what DeSantis has done and promises to do, and dislike 20%. That's a much better ratio than anyone else running for president, especially on the single most important issue in a century: IMMIGRATION.
Or as readers may have noticed in Ginia Bellafante's column this past Sunday, dutifully entitled: "Why Our Fears Exceed the Crime Statistics," Ginia did her duty as an agent of the now perverted Old Gray Lady by making the case that, well, it's just not as bad as we see it. As we experience it. And thus she harkened back to the mid-1980s and just how safe the subways actually were then, as they really are now—violently chaotic freak shows aside.
"This is one of several resonant lessons from Leon Neyfakh's excellent new podcast, 'Fiasco: Vigilante,' which revisits the 1984 case of Bernhard Goetz," Bellafante writes. "Who shot and wounded four Black teenagers (leaving one paralyzed) on the subway after one of them demanded money from him and he concluded that he was about to be mugged."
And so there it is: Bernie was getting sport-jacked on the subway by the fellas, as God knows how many thousands of other riders had been during those glorious 'wilding' years when thugs roamed free and fearless as they worked up their knockout game on the rails, and yet courtesy of the NYT and Bellafante today that grim past-meets-present has been sanded down to: "...one of them demanded money from him and he concluded that he was about to be mugged."
He "concluded" that he was about to be mugged. Wow.
And there it is.
I arrived in Manhattan just months after Bernie did what needed to be done and a couple years later during my studies at SUNY Stony Brook my black dorm mates in Toscanini Hall were as clear-eyed and remorseless about it as I was: "They were gonna jack him. And they got what they got."
Damn straight.
And I still say 'Amen!' to that, but it's a shame yet sadly no surprise what has happened to The New York Times, along with the rest of the newspapers I once admired and some of which I would go on to write for as a reporter covering crime, just not in such as a disingenuous way as Ms. Bellafante does today.
You should read "Mugged" for my full and complete description of the Bernie Goetz case. It's inspiring. Subway crime plummeted after he struck and the black public housing neighbors of the muggers were brutal on them. It was the black foreman of the jury, a bus driver, who held out and refused to convict Goetz of even the crime he was clearly guilty of (unlawful possession of a gun, as I recall.).
I bought and read Mugged when it was first published in 2012. Just looked back over the Goetz-related passages and once again found myself nodding along as I revisited the laundry list of criminal activity that the choir boys Bernie encountered on the train had already been either arrested for or convicted of prior to their mistaking him for 'easy bait.' (I had forgotten about the belated confession to Breslin) Grand total of 21 arrests and convictions—amid what undoubtedly was a four man walking crime wave that were subsequently recast as wayward children merely speaking aggressively and carrying screwdrivers as a handy utility someone may need. My favorite line is probably: "Within sixteen months of the subway shooting, the only Goetz victim who was not in prison or under court supervision for committing other crimes, was the one who was paralyzed by the shooting, Darrell Cabey." I think that puts a rather fine factual point on the stark reality to which bleeding hearts remain impervious. Mugged was a good read and one I will undertake again down the road, just cracked Lee Israel's 'Kilgallen' and it looks promising.
If they would have asked politely and not as the pos bellafonte says herself that they ‘demanded’ money Bernie might have just given them a buck or two or just told them to fuck off and that should have been the end of it. But no they’ demanded ‘money. Bang.
Thank you for the organized and clear cut bullet points Ann. Helpful. Thank you for the links to articles. Will study them. First impressions The state wars are in full swing, if the price of gas does not kill us, the lack of “shots” may or will. Yes. The Covid-19 information was censored for us “peons” to grapple with and get down on our knees to grovel for the jab—limiting of freedom to “move about the cabin”. Yes. Preposterous and in some cases “death paneling”……Hmmmm. Thank you again..
Thomas Paine, Jun 15, 2022: "Respectfully, it’s one thing to say “He’s a loser. Who cares?“. It’s another thing to insult my intelligence and insist that there was no fraud. It played out right smack in our faces. I had never felt so powerless and furious before in my entire life. I was fuming. I’m getting fed up with public voices looking the other way."
What happened to this comment? Why does it even show up as a reply to an August article, with an alleged reply to it by Ann Coulter that disappears if you try to see it? I agree with Thomas Paine's comment except for the "who cares" part. Yes, Trump's an arrogant narcissistic douche who F'd himself & all of us, but that election was *clearly* stolen. Ann, you either don't know what you're talking about, or you're willing to agree with any position to make Trump look bad, which makes you look nearly as bad.
Great article. One quibble, though. #5 The Imaginary Causation, where you state: " Your thesis: COVID deaths soared in Florida during the Delta wave because Gov. Death-Santis did not encourage young people to get vaccinated.
You counter this by making an unrelated pronouncement when you stated: "In fact, it was the Delta variant that couldn’t be stopped by vaccination, finally forcing the CDC to admit that vaccination would not prevent either infection or transmission."
You are correct in stating that the CDC stated in June, 2021 that the vaccines did not prevent transmission. The CDC also stated, however, that the vaccines continue to provide strong protection against severe disease and death. That was the point of the statement about increased deaths. People who were vaccinated were much less likely to die, so the statement you quoted is true. It had nothing to do with whether those who were vaccinated were less likely to get or transmit the disease.
In short, vaccination would not prevent either infection or transmission, as you state. It would, however protect against death.
I did not want to die from Covid, so I got the vaccination.
True, but vaccinated or not, more ppl were going to die of covid in the southern states in the summer. And for young ppl, the calculus is very different. Despite a lot of scare stories like this that BLANKETED the airwaves in early 2020, see the correction appended later:
HEADLINE: <<Teenager’s Death in California Is Linked to Coronavirus
The victim would be one of the youngest in the United States. “Covid-19 does not discriminate by age, race or income level,” the Los Angeles County health department said.>>
CORRECTION: Update: The teenager has been dropped from the list of deaths from Covid-19 in Los Angeles County, Barbara Ferrer, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, said on Thursday. She said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would be completing the investigation of the teenager’s death.
You state that the calculus for young people is different. Is this because younger people are generally healthier, and less immunocompromised, than older people? That may be true, but younger people still died of covid. In Florida, the deaths of many young people could have been prevented if they had received the vaccine.
Quote from article below: "The vaccines have actually been doing an incredible job in shifting the age distribution of both hospitalizations and deaths to younger people. You might ask, why is it shifting the age distribution? Well, the most heavily vaccinated subgroup in our population are seniors. So proportionately they are realizing the advantages of vaccination more so than younger age groups."
Apparently lying to people for profit and power [subscriptions money and more subscribers].....is illegal and the the NY Times should be indicted. You know like the Pentagon Papers style indictments.
I'm serious....we need this obvious obfuscation for political power stopped. What is the plan. Are we all waiting for an armed revolution? If we get that crazy....it is over.
They are "lies" per se, it's all the relevant information that's left out or buried that leaves readers walking away from an article believing the opposite of the truth. (DeSantis did a bad job on covid, when in fact, he did a KICK-ASS job on covid.)
Liberal's certainly have perfected the proverbial strawman argument tactic. It is the main platform upon which they 'must' base their argument because they assert that all truth is subjective and never objective. And liberals hate everything which doesn't support their ideology.
.
So when anyone opposes or simply remains neutral in response to their thinking, they have no choice but to........build a strawman which they insist accurately represents their opposition. They use the six tactics of straw-construction as presented perfectly in this article. And I would assert there is a seventh tactic; Lie, Lie, and Keep Lying then use these layered lies out the original relevant order presented by the opposition. In short, go full Convolute and Chaotic and voice everything from the position of the victim.
.
After all, all the points of the story can't be a lie, some of them must be true. It's only human nature, both sides have truth in them. Right? The leftist knows this is the state of most of the people who read their content. So they throw a psychological bomb into the mix, knowing that he who lies the best....wins. More often than they lose.
The Times’ coverage of the WNBA is top-notch, however.
and USA women's soccer too, lol
This was priceless. As a former journalist (during 60s and 70s) it is the antithesis of my job description. My job was to tell the truth and leave my opinion out unless asked. What a concept by comparison!
I am amazed that anyone cares what the NYTimes and their clones say anymore? Liberals will read each word thinking it is Chaucer, while conservatives will treat each story like Pravda in the 70’s. Just like your many articles about how conservatives should ignore DJT and not give him publicity, maybe we could extend that rule to these once relevant newspapers.
Because the New York Times is to the media what Vogue is to fashion, as described by Meryl Streep in "The Devil Wears Prada" here -
https://artdepartmental.com/blog/devil-wears-prada-cerulean-monologue/
I am the Vogue magazine of conservative commentary! READ IT HERE FIRST.
1.NYT talking points are regurgitated by other propaganda outlets.
2. As long as people think the NYT, matters, the NYT will matter.
The people who care about what is written in the NYTimes are from the Liberal Singularity. Therefore their opinions are irrelevant to me.
Democrats and their minions at NYT are waging full out propaganda war with no respect for truth.
The NYT is like CNN & MSDNC in that their readers-viewers are always very late to the game on the rare occasion a liberal scandal avoids being strangled in the crib and makes it into the open. While the rest of America is used to hearing about it, libtards are wondering how NPR, Rachel Maddow, etc. forgot to mention that Biden traded our nuclear codes for some ice cream or something.
Soon, when the drip of incriminating evidence on Biden corruption turns into a flood (providing the Dems an excuse to change horses but that's another story), millions of NYT zombies will be introduced to the whole thing for the first time when there's no choice but to reluctantly run a story on page 84D about how Biden "allegedly" filmed himself with child prostitutes while smoking crack with Hunter on a bed of cash provided by Somali pirates, next to a still from the video ("Is the Biden tape the work of a deep fake? Experts disagree", "Somali-Americans say references to infamous tape are 'dog whistles'").
Bring on the national divorce.
Read a Times news or current events article. Count the number of times either “Experts say” or “Studies show” is in it.
Great fun!
Or "sources close to ..."
Ok, so the NYT and other left wing rags suck and just create (yes create) narratives that are most expedient to the radical Democrats at any given time. But you lost me on DeSantis good. You've been rightfully railing against the GOP stupidly pushing abortion bans but DeSantis just signed one of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in the nation. How will he win moderates with that one and how will be defend that position with abortion zealots who seem to be more numerous than I thought?
DeSantis also signed HB 269 which punishes freedom of speech and is the nation's first hate speech bill in America. So he's now alienated both the moderates and the solid right wing and free speech advocates. But sure, somehow he's capable of beating Biden when he's losing ground in the GOP primary.
I go with Reagan's 80:20 yardstick. I like -- LOVE -- 80% of what DeSantis has done and promises to do, and dislike 20%. That's a much better ratio than anyone else running for president, especially on the single most important issue in a century: IMMIGRATION.
Or as readers may have noticed in Ginia Bellafante's column this past Sunday, dutifully entitled: "Why Our Fears Exceed the Crime Statistics," Ginia did her duty as an agent of the now perverted Old Gray Lady by making the case that, well, it's just not as bad as we see it. As we experience it. And thus she harkened back to the mid-1980s and just how safe the subways actually were then, as they really are now—violently chaotic freak shows aside.
"This is one of several resonant lessons from Leon Neyfakh's excellent new podcast, 'Fiasco: Vigilante,' which revisits the 1984 case of Bernhard Goetz," Bellafante writes. "Who shot and wounded four Black teenagers (leaving one paralyzed) on the subway after one of them demanded money from him and he concluded that he was about to be mugged."
And so there it is: Bernie was getting sport-jacked on the subway by the fellas, as God knows how many thousands of other riders had been during those glorious 'wilding' years when thugs roamed free and fearless as they worked up their knockout game on the rails, and yet courtesy of the NYT and Bellafante today that grim past-meets-present has been sanded down to: "...one of them demanded money from him and he concluded that he was about to be mugged."
He "concluded" that he was about to be mugged. Wow.
And there it is.
I arrived in Manhattan just months after Bernie did what needed to be done and a couple years later during my studies at SUNY Stony Brook my black dorm mates in Toscanini Hall were as clear-eyed and remorseless about it as I was: "They were gonna jack him. And they got what they got."
Damn straight.
And I still say 'Amen!' to that, but it's a shame yet sadly no surprise what has happened to The New York Times, along with the rest of the newspapers I once admired and some of which I would go on to write for as a reporter covering crime, just not in such as a disingenuous way as Ms. Bellafante does today.
You should read "Mugged" for my full and complete description of the Bernie Goetz case. It's inspiring. Subway crime plummeted after he struck and the black public housing neighbors of the muggers were brutal on them. It was the black foreman of the jury, a bus driver, who held out and refused to convict Goetz of even the crime he was clearly guilty of (unlawful possession of a gun, as I recall.).
I bought and read Mugged when it was first published in 2012. Just looked back over the Goetz-related passages and once again found myself nodding along as I revisited the laundry list of criminal activity that the choir boys Bernie encountered on the train had already been either arrested for or convicted of prior to their mistaking him for 'easy bait.' (I had forgotten about the belated confession to Breslin) Grand total of 21 arrests and convictions—amid what undoubtedly was a four man walking crime wave that were subsequently recast as wayward children merely speaking aggressively and carrying screwdrivers as a handy utility someone may need. My favorite line is probably: "Within sixteen months of the subway shooting, the only Goetz victim who was not in prison or under court supervision for committing other crimes, was the one who was paralyzed by the shooting, Darrell Cabey." I think that puts a rather fine factual point on the stark reality to which bleeding hearts remain impervious. Mugged was a good read and one I will undertake again down the road, just cracked Lee Israel's 'Kilgallen' and it looks promising.
If they would have asked politely and not as the pos bellafonte says herself that they ‘demanded’ money Bernie might have just given them a buck or two or just told them to fuck off and that should have been the end of it. But no they’ demanded ‘money. Bang.
‘Sanded down to…’. Now that is priceless.
Thank you for the organized and clear cut bullet points Ann. Helpful. Thank you for the links to articles. Will study them. First impressions The state wars are in full swing, if the price of gas does not kill us, the lack of “shots” may or will. Yes. The Covid-19 information was censored for us “peons” to grapple with and get down on our knees to grovel for the jab—limiting of freedom to “move about the cabin”. Yes. Preposterous and in some cases “death paneling”……Hmmmm. Thank you again..
Thomas Paine, Jun 15, 2022: "Respectfully, it’s one thing to say “He’s a loser. Who cares?“. It’s another thing to insult my intelligence and insist that there was no fraud. It played out right smack in our faces. I had never felt so powerless and furious before in my entire life. I was fuming. I’m getting fed up with public voices looking the other way."
What happened to this comment? Why does it even show up as a reply to an August article, with an alleged reply to it by Ann Coulter that disappears if you try to see it? I agree with Thomas Paine's comment except for the "who cares" part. Yes, Trump's an arrogant narcissistic douche who F'd himself & all of us, but that election was *clearly* stolen. Ann, you either don't know what you're talking about, or you're willing to agree with any position to make Trump look bad, which makes you look nearly as bad.
Great article. One quibble, though. #5 The Imaginary Causation, where you state: " Your thesis: COVID deaths soared in Florida during the Delta wave because Gov. Death-Santis did not encourage young people to get vaccinated.
You counter this by making an unrelated pronouncement when you stated: "In fact, it was the Delta variant that couldn’t be stopped by vaccination, finally forcing the CDC to admit that vaccination would not prevent either infection or transmission."
You are correct in stating that the CDC stated in June, 2021 that the vaccines did not prevent transmission. The CDC also stated, however, that the vaccines continue to provide strong protection against severe disease and death. That was the point of the statement about increased deaths. People who were vaccinated were much less likely to die, so the statement you quoted is true. It had nothing to do with whether those who were vaccinated were less likely to get or transmit the disease.
In short, vaccination would not prevent either infection or transmission, as you state. It would, however protect against death.
I did not want to die from Covid, so I got the vaccination.
True, but vaccinated or not, more ppl were going to die of covid in the southern states in the summer. And for young ppl, the calculus is very different. Despite a lot of scare stories like this that BLANKETED the airwaves in early 2020, see the correction appended later:
HEADLINE: <<Teenager’s Death in California Is Linked to Coronavirus
The victim would be one of the youngest in the United States. “Covid-19 does not discriminate by age, race or income level,” the Los Angeles County health department said.>>
CORRECTION: Update: The teenager has been dropped from the list of deaths from Covid-19 in Los Angeles County, Barbara Ferrer, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, said on Thursday. She said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would be completing the investigation of the teenager’s death.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/us/california-coronavirus-death-child.html
Hi Ann,
You state that the calculus for young people is different. Is this because younger people are generally healthier, and less immunocompromised, than older people? That may be true, but younger people still died of covid. In Florida, the deaths of many young people could have been prevented if they had received the vaccine.
Quote from article below: "The vaccines have actually been doing an incredible job in shifting the age distribution of both hospitalizations and deaths to younger people. You might ask, why is it shifting the age distribution? Well, the most heavily vaccinated subgroup in our population are seniors. So proportionately they are realizing the advantages of vaccination more so than younger age groups."
https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2021-09-23/usf-health-expert-breaks-down-floridas-deadly-delta-surge
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/florida-delta-wave-cases-plunge-leaving-record-deaths-in-its-wake/2598705/
"It would, however protect against death.
I did not want to die from Covid, so I got the vaccination."
Did you get your climate change vaccination, too?
Very well thought out, intelligent, mature, response.
yeah, it is. Anyone dumb enough to believe the covid hoax probably thinks mankind can have an impact on the climate. So..... you.
Apparently lying to people for profit and power [subscriptions money and more subscribers].....is illegal and the the NY Times should be indicted. You know like the Pentagon Papers style indictments.
I'm serious....we need this obvious obfuscation for political power stopped. What is the plan. Are we all waiting for an armed revolution? If we get that crazy....it is over.
They are "lies" per se, it's all the relevant information that's left out or buried that leaves readers walking away from an article believing the opposite of the truth. (DeSantis did a bad job on covid, when in fact, he did a KICK-ASS job on covid.)
Brilliant - thanks, Ann. Your stuff educates, entertains, and really cheers me up - please keep it coming.
Liberal's certainly have perfected the proverbial strawman argument tactic. It is the main platform upon which they 'must' base their argument because they assert that all truth is subjective and never objective. And liberals hate everything which doesn't support their ideology.
.
So when anyone opposes or simply remains neutral in response to their thinking, they have no choice but to........build a strawman which they insist accurately represents their opposition. They use the six tactics of straw-construction as presented perfectly in this article. And I would assert there is a seventh tactic; Lie, Lie, and Keep Lying then use these layered lies out the original relevant order presented by the opposition. In short, go full Convolute and Chaotic and voice everything from the position of the victim.
.
After all, all the points of the story can't be a lie, some of them must be true. It's only human nature, both sides have truth in them. Right? The leftist knows this is the state of most of the people who read their content. So they throw a psychological bomb into the mix, knowing that he who lies the best....wins. More often than they lose.
You nailed it, Ann!
Excellent article Ann, but why do you avoid writing about Biden Crime Family?