Monday, August 26, 2019

takimag: Week That Perished - NYT switches from Russia collusion to white supremacy, Proud Boys show trial, Booker Mandingo, electroshock for Trump supporters, etc.


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We’re not even going to check his Wikipedia page to verify ethnicity, but from what we can tell, The New York Times’executive editor Dean Baquet—pronounced like “bouquet” but with a “buh” instead of a “boo”—appears to be about seven or eight percent black. We’re also going to assume it’s that magical voodoo seven percent of pure chocolatey blackness that landed him such a formerly prestigious position, because he is neither attractive nor talented, nor does he appear to be very intelligent. We’re not saying that because he’s black, because nerdy black guys who look like he does tend to skew more intelligent, but once this guy opens his mouth, it’s immediately apparent that he goes against this stereotype, which may be part of his brilliance.
So what you have here is a partially black man—let’s go “extremely” partially black as well as partially manly—making decisions about what stories to cover and which ones to bury. As we all know but are secretly afraid to articulate, black people have a chip on their shoulder and it’s best not to upset them.
In leaked transcripts from an “internal town hall” between and other Times staffers, this only slightly black man congratulates his presumably much less black cohorts for a job well done in stretching out the ridiculous conspiracy theory that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to steal the presidency for TWO SHAMELESS YEARS.
But since, you know, Robert Mueller failed to lead Trump and his entire family off to prison in handcuffs, Baquet says it’s time to regroup, recharge, and hell, even renege—but let’s get rid of “Russia” scare and go straight for a “white supremacy” scare. ...