Thursday, June 09, 2016

What Makes This Art...



...is the fact that the guy who wrote this in the New York Times yesterday:
Why Republicans Won’t Renounce Trump
Andrew Rosenthal JUNE 8, 2016

When Donald Trump attacked a federal judge whose parents were born in Mexico, Hispanic Americans were outraged. Other minority groups saw a pattern of bigotry. Democrats had a hard time concealing their glee. Republican leaders pretended they disapproved.

Well, to be fair, they did disapprove in a way — not because Trump believes the things he says, but because he says them so directly.

Far too many Republicans share this kind of racism and have for a long time. Trump has just dispensed with dog whistles and revels in his bigotry instead. But this is the party the Republicans have been deliberately and assiduously building for many decades, the party of division and intolerance...
...is the very same guy who has for years given David Brooks and Ross Douthat mountains of money and carte blanche to commit multiple and ongoing Conservative felonies against historical fact, objective reality and journalist on his paper's op-ed page and who hired Bill Fucking Kristol (remember?) as an op-ed columnist for one glorious year (which, I would remind you, is one full year longer than any of you non-lying, non-sociopath,  non-blood-drunk war mongers have ever been -- or will ever be -- hired by the New York Times.)

From Wikipedia:
Andrew Mark Rosenthal (born February 25, 1956) is an American journalist and editorial page editor of The New York Times. He is the son of A.M. "Abe" Rosenthal, a long time New York Times senior executive and executive editor. Andrew Rosenthal is in charge of the paper's opinion pages, both in the newspaper and online. He oversees the editorial board, the Letters and Op-Ed departments, as well as the Editorial and Op-Ed sections of NYTimes.com. The New York Times maintains a separation between the editorial department of the paper and the news department. Rosenthal answers directly to the publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr...
You know, one thing holds true of every place I have ever worked, regardless of the business, whether public, private or education sector, and good boss or bad.  If the person to whom I reported had made it abundantly clear that, say, shitting in the office fish tank was a really, really bad thing to do -- an existentially unforgivable thing to do -- and the centerpiece of my genius plan for career success involved hanging my ass right over that tank, twice a week, every week, in full view of his or her office and taking a massive dump right on the head of his or her favorite peppermint angelfish, it would never occur to me that the consequences of my action would be that I would be rewarded with a a job-for-life and a mountain of money...in a business where hundreds of really smart, qualified people are sacked every month and for good reason.

Obviously do not understand the journalism game at all.  

7 comments:

Jimbo said...

OpEd pundits, i.e. regular OpEd page contributors are rarely practicing journalists (Nick Krystof would be an exception that proves the rule) and this is certainly the case for conservative OpEd contributors since they are openly reality and fact free, which actual journalists can't be. That's why the news room (journalists) and OpEd pages are separate operations. DFB, Kristol, Fournier, Will, etc. have never done any actual news reporting in their lives.

Chan Kobun said...

Despite what some might think, I am NOT a war monger, DG.

bowtiejack said...

". . .He is the son of A.M. "Abe" Rosenthal . . "
Ah nepotism, thy name is New York Times [See Sulzberger, Punch, Pinch or whatever].

Funny story.
Old Abe used to do an occasional Op-Ed column called "On My Mind", but referred to by the cognoscenti as "Out of My Mind".
So yeah, it didn't start with little Andy.

RUKidding said...

Now that Trump has forced his way into the room, he's the one taking a giant stinking dump in the most public of fishbowls and saying: hey waddaya gonna do aboudit? Ya think yours don't stink just as bad as mine does?

Of course, Trump is right. His shit's no worse than anyone else's in the GOP; he's just cruder and ruder and more public about it.

Rosenthal is whining probably because his high brow patrons are suddenly upset at how declasse it's all become. Of course, that's ignoring the fact that all those wealthy Park Ave types have always felt and believed exactly how Trump does... but they like to pretend that they don't. Oh what to do?

dinthebeast said...

So is Mr. Rosenthal asserting that Trump is repudiating Lee Atwater's infamous screed? Or that he's just moving past it, thinking it no longer necessary in today's Republican party?

-Doug in Oakland

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Well. After Senator Professor Warrens hiding of Trump at the ACS this week, in my humble zombie opinion, you need to be hired to write speeches for her and Biden.

Unknown said...

"If the person to whom I reported had made it abundantly clear that, say, shitting in the office fish tank was a really, really bad thing to do -- an existentially unforgivable thing to do -- and the centerpiece of my genius plan for career success involved hanging my ass right over that tank, twice a week, every week, in full view of his or her office and taking a massive dump right on the head of his or her favorite peppermint angelfish, it would never occur to me that the consequences of my action would be that I would be rewarded with a a job-for-life and a mountain of money...in a business where hundreds of really smart, qualified people are sacked every month and for good reason."

You are mistaking the relationship.

If the person had told me dumping in the fish tank was bad, I went and did it anyway, and then got praised and a raise and a new top-center column location on the page because of the giant lump of advertising cash I pushed into the boss's hand when he came out to scream about his precious fish, I would replace his fish and tank every week, and every week I would publicly squeeze a new giant turd into that new tank, while delivering the giant lump of advertising cash, until it stopped becoming an embarrassment and became an occasion of celebration. Which is exactly what is happening.

"HOORAY!!! BROOKSIE IS HERE TO DUMP IN THE FISH TANK AGAIN!! EVERYONE GATHER AROUND!!"