As Twitchy told you earlier, the New York Times’ newest board member, Sarah Jeong, was discovered to have had racist tweets in which she expressed an extreme dislike of “white people.” The Times defended the hiring of Jeong as well as her previous but now-deleted tweets with a truly eyeroll-worthy statement.
And now, the spin ramps up. Up next, HuffPost editor-in-chief and New York Times alum Lydia Polgreen explains why the Jeong situation has helped expose… well, read it for yourself:
https://twitter.com/lpolgreen/status/1025054041150242821
That’s ONE way to look at it, if you’re a liberal media hack that is:
https://twitter.com/colonel_potter/status/1025067018872135682
It’s the ultimate “Republicans pounce” spin.
No "pounce" or "seize" used.
I award you no points.
— Republicanvet (Hamberder Hill) (@Republicanvet91) August 2, 2018
not sure whether this is gaslighting, abject stupidity, or a monument to confirmation bias https://t.co/IXecqVKxlp
— Just Karl (@justkarl) August 2, 2018
I don't know who found Sarah's old tweets, but whoever did it was merely applying the same standards that have gotten conservative writers fired.
And no, I will not read your garbage article. https://t.co/PGEPotW1x3
— RBe (@RBPundit) August 2, 2018
Lydia got one thing right: fighting against racism IS a far right trend.
Sad that she calls it “deeply troubling” https://t.co/xvJVewYQGN— It’s Just Jenn (@JennJacques) August 2, 2018
https://twitter.com/kebejay/status/1025071018149199872
You're completely bonkers if:
a) You don't think Jeong's tweets are completely unacceptable
b) You think only right has mobs and not the left.— Howard Prime (@BluishCheckMark) August 2, 2018
Simply amazing. But the HuffPost editor tried explaining a little further to @RedSteeze, to no avail:
Kind of think labeling everyone who sees a problem in some of her tweets and views "far right" is a bigger issue tbh.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) August 2, 2018
https://twitter.com/lpolgreen/status/1025066749622931462
Not every time it doesn't. Larry O'Connor wrote about it for Washington Times and the first this came across radar this morning it was just picked up by those accounts. This wasn't some great grand scheme in the making.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) August 2, 2018
Those guys are griefers and clowns but for a professional cabal of journalists to say their aren't problems with her tweets and with her views in the first place, then the responsibility isn't on the clowns. The Times acknowledged as much.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) August 2, 2018
Yes they did.
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