The New York Times had an article up on Thursday afternoon asking why Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hasn’t “ordered the authorities to quash the demonstrators” on the Ambassador Bridge linking the U.S. to Canada:
As protests stretch on in Canada and truckers block supply chains with the U.S., some Canadians are asking: Why hasn’t Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered the authorities to quash the demonstrations? https://t.co/OZ72MKY8wE
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 10, 2022
Weird. This is the same thing Sen. Tom Cotton suggested in a NYT op-ed during the BLM riots that journos at the NYT FLIPPED OUT OVER:
Did Tom Cotton write this? https://t.co/lvBPzEHWOD
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) February 11, 2022
There’s a big difference, however. Sen. Cotton wrote an op-ed and this was from the “news side” of the paper:
The NYT in the news side, not the opinion desk, asks why the Canadian gov is not calling in police “or the army to quash the demonstrations?” https://t.co/ZWT3I2CC6l
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) February 12, 2022
Boy, it’s funny how this works:
Anyone remember when the NYT editorial board had a meltdown over Tom Cotton’s suggestion to send in troops to stop BLM from burning down Minneapolis? https://t.co/oTtLMdxCqK
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 11, 2022
Will the New York Times apologize now as they did then?
Remember when @nytimes apologized for running @SenTomCotton’s piece calling to ‘Send in the Troops’ when rioters were literally burning buildings down for weeks? https://t.co/CXRrBbFxww
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 11, 2022
Anyway, this brings us to our headline and this *perfect” one-emoji response from the Arkansas Republican:
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) February 11, 2022
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