Newsweek is a total rag just trying to survive now.
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This is like exhibit number 10 billion in “conservative types have no self awareness”.
THE WOKE MOB IS TERRIBLE BECAUSE THEY ARE SILENCING CONSERVATIVE VOICES! NOW LISTEN TO MY OBJECTIVELY TERRIBLE OPINIONS (TRY NOT TO FORGET THAT I AM BEING UNFAIRLY SILENCED WHILE YOU ARE LISTENING TO ME EXPRESS MYSELF FREELY). OH NO PEOPLE ARE POINTING OUT THAT MY DUMB IDEAS ARE STUPID AND WRONG! THEY SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED TO DO THAT, SOMEONE SILENCE THEM!
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FWIW there has been a lot of shake ups at Newsweek lately. It is currently owned by a homeless guy who lives on my corner. So not as high profile as it may seem.
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According to the lawsuits filed by Ms. Grossberg, Fox superiors called Ms. Bartiromo a “crazy bitch” who was “menopausal” and asked Ms. Grossberg to cut the host out of coverage discussions.
Last year, she began working as a senior booking producer at “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” On her first full day, according to the lawsuit, Ms. Grossberg discovered that the show’s Manhattan work space was decorated with large pictures of Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, then the House speaker, wearing a plunging swimsuit.
The next day, Justin Wells, Mr. Carlson’s top producer, called Ms. Grossberg into his office, she said, to ask whether Ms. Bartiromo was having a sexual relationship with the House Republican leader, Kevin McCarthy
Mr. Carlson’s staff joked about Jews and freely deployed a vulgar term for women, according to the complaint.
Later that fall, it said, before an appearance on the show by Tudor Dixon, the Republican candidate for Michigan governor, Mr. Carlson’s staff held a mock debate about whether they would prefer to have sex with Ms. Dixon or her Democratic opponent, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
During her deposition, Ms. Grossberg was asked if she cared whether claims made on Ms. Bartiromo’s show were true or false. According to the transcript, Ms. Grossberg answered: “No. Because we didn’t know if they were true or false at that time.” When asked if she felt it was important to correct a false claim made on the air, Ms. Grossberg answered: “No.”
In her lawsuits, Ms. Grossberg said she would have answered those questions differently but had been “coached by and intimidated by” Fox’s lawyers.
Ms. Grossberg claimed that Fox lawyers pressured her to downplay a text exchange between her and David Clark, then the senior vice president of weekend news, regarding a segment with Rudolph W. Giuliani, a lawyer for Mr. Trump. Mr. Clark texted: “There will be no ‘fact checking’ today.”
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It’s kinda true though, in some ways at least?
Newsweek died many years ago. It got bought by a clickbait outfit and it’s been pure trash since.
This is actually a worse piece than the headline suggests. Utter trash.
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We may have committed some war crimes but the real crime is that people pointed that out.
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While stealing $70 billion wrecked Bernie’s credibility, no less damaging were cries of “thief”
“But if there was one indisputably real W.M.D. in Iraq, it was Hussein himself.”
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“The strongest case against invasion, other than the inevitable and tragic toll in lives, is that it would merely empower Iran.”
Just an amazing sentence.
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To be clear, because your post is almost certainly going to be interpreted as an absurdist summary of the column, this is an actual quote.
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I think people forget that a war with Iran was generally seen as the real goal of the Iraq project for many conservatives, and they weren’t terribly subtle about it. Literally within a month of 9/11 I remember Chris Mathews talking about how we were going to mop up Iraq first and then zip over to Iran to deal with them, just absolute madness.
My son’s school district is instituting policy based off a project veritas video because, sure, why shouldnt every facet of everyday life just be obscenely shitty.
“yes we completely torched our credibility by lying, but really it’s the fault of people who figured out that we lied to them.”
tbf he is just SAYING what we all are THINKING
You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs, that’s just common sense.
You can’t justify a bloated military budget without the occasional inevitable and tragic toll in lives, that’s just common sense.