Since October, New York Times Conservative affirmative action hire Bret "Bug" Stephens has written fifteen op-ed columns for his employer, all on the same subject.
Why I Can’t Stop Writing About Oct. 7.
Other than his icky, stilted "Conversation" thing with Gail Collins once a week or so, this is now all Stephens writes about, and during those icky, stilted "Conversations" with Ms. Collins, it is almost all he talks about. When she tries to steer him into talking about, say, climate change, he shrugs and quotes some poem he claims his father made him memorize, then they're done. When Collins brings up domestic politics, he automatically dismisses Liberals as idiots. When the subject of the elections of 2024 is raised, here's Stephens' opinion.:
How about putting in a good word for Dean Phillips, the Minnesota representative challenging Biden? Or at least urging the Biden team to lose Kamala Harris in favor of a veep pick more Americans would feel confident about as a potential president, like Lloyd Austin, the defense secretary?
Then, back to Israel.
Or, to change things up just a little, Israel with a lot of Liberal Colleges Are All Neo-Fascist Cesspools top-spin:
Colleges have discovered the virtues of free speech only now, when the speech in question hurts Jews.
If Archie Bunker and Benjamin Netanyahu had a baby, and then sent that baby to the University of Chicago so it could learn to express the crabbed thoughts of its small mind using Big Words, that baby would be Bret Stephens. And against that kind of sneering contempt for anyone who does not share his opinions, Gail Collins is a poor match. Should Stephens opine that, say, it was Liberal swine that ruined Murrica and drove Real Murrica into the arms of Donald Trump, Collins would likely riposte with something like, "Ha ha ha! Agree to disagree, Bret! Let's move on to...what do you think of the lovely fall foliage!"
This whole "Conversation" conceit is useless, pundit padding in a paper already overstuffed with stupid, bad opinions. It should have been retired decades ago, back when it was David Brooks blaming the Left for whatever wild hair he had up his ass that week, and Collins coming back with ,"Ha ha ha! Agree to disagree, David! Let's move on to...what do you think of the Cubs chances this year!"
But...
But...since goofs like Stephens never risk putting themselves in any venue where anyone will ask them any questions on any topic that he had not already agreed to, I sometimes allow myself to dream that, just for one day, a little journalism might slip into this puppet show.
That Gail Collins might dare to Remember Stuff Bret Stephens Actually Wrote.
And. y'know, ask him about it.
Like, say, three years ago when (from "Today In "Liberals Are The Real Hitlers": Bret Bug Stephens")...
...Bret Stephens quickly and airily dismisses Donald Trump and the entire Republican Party as an irritating but transient inconvenience -- much like, say, an infestation of bedbugs --
Reading Orwell for the Fourth of July
As we celebrate freedom, speaking freely is in danger.
...
We also have our own problems with freedom.
For once, the main problem isn’t Donald Trump. The president may be an instinctual fascist, a wannabe autocrat. But, after nearly four years in power, he’s been unmasked as an incompetent one.
Trump may have privately praised Xi Jinping for building concentration camps for Uighurs. Congress still passed legislation to impose sanctions on China for them. He may want to bring Russia back to the G7. The other six won’t let him. He may have sought to abolish DACA for the Dreamers. John Roberts decided otherwise. He may call the press an “enemy of the American people.” That enemy still operates without restraint when it comes to slamming him.
To adapt the Lloyd Bentsen line, Donald John Trump, you’re no Recep Tayyip Erdogan.-- before taking on the real fascists who are, even as we speak, sneaking sneaking up on Murrica through the tall grass of the Oberlin college quad:
The more serious problem today comes from the left: from liberal elites who, when tested, lack the courage of their liberal convictions; from so-called progressives whose core convictions were never liberal to begin with; from administrative types at nonprofits and corporations who, with only vague convictions of their own, don’t want to be on the wrong side of a P.R. headache...
Press him.
Ask him if he still thinks Trump isn't the main problem?
Ask him whether "the more serious problem today comes from the left"?
And keep asking until, "Ha ha ha! Agree to disagree, Gail! Let's move on to...what do you think of the chocolate chip ice cream!"
3 comments:
How does anyone ask a quarrion of any republican Dung Beetle brain and expect a reasonable answer as if they had human consciousness combined with leared facts and conduct rational critical thought into an honest factual answer?
Take the latest "Li'l Niki " response to a simple 7th grade question of, "Why was the Civil War fought" ????
State Rights? The state right to enslave people and own them as if they were a cow or an intimate object?
Rephrasing the question's to, What was the legislative outcome and the Civil Wars victory accomplished?
It did not end the rights of states. It ended ownership of people (slaves).
They are incapable of answering .
As Niki responds with, "what do you want me to say" to the person whom asked the question. Only later to dismiss and degrade the citizen at her campaign function as a liberal democrat plant to cause her to flounder in her non answer.
It is more honest and clear as a response for her to simply say, I hold the untrue belief of those southern Rebels who to this day hold on to the old south's tradition of owning people.
To be clear, Niki is second immigrant generation. Her parents came to America to have their daughter join and embrace slavery that was dealt with and put down. This is embrace to America after immigrating here? Al to lure voters so she can hope to make a personal gain in her life. When does she go to the prisons and support and praise the murderers and rapists for donations of her cause.. Although she has no cause of her own, she has the GOP's causes.
In their newsletter this morning, the goddamn New York Times was bragging about all of their opinion columnists, DFB and Bretbug very much included.
In their linked examples of their op-ed stellar journalism, the Krugman column they linked to was about the national debt being a problem.
Mostly, they're just kinda dumb, but very annoying all the while.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
the paper of record likes the decks stacked, the cards marked and the edges shaved for cheating. the goals of the NYT and the GOP are identical. making rich people richer...
it is not by accident that david brooks (bret stephens w rounded corners..) has had a gig for so long...it is the ideal that became 'compassionate conservatism' that was derivative of edmund burke, brooksy's hero..
it is about the slight (no slighter..) feelings of empathy and responsibility that the rich feel when viewing the sufferings of the desperate. 'sucks to be you' is the goal of the emotional states along with 'what can i do??'
the FIX is to make the oppressor feel better until they don't feel SOOO bad. ask the oppressor what is the least action that will sooth a shrunken conscience? 'never ask the oppressed as they always want more those ungrateful selfish others,,,'
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