Check out my NYT piece on the right-wing media’s tendentious takes on accused bomb-threatener Juan Thompson. Here’s the lede:
Fate seems to have dropped a giant gift on the doorsteps of right-wing pundits and Twitter activists. Last Friday, the F.B.I. announced the arrest of a suspect in a series of bomb threats aimed at Jewish Community Centers and other Jewish organizations across the country, and he wasn’t some Trump-loving white supremacist with a history of violence and a racist manifesto in tow. No, he was a man of the left, a reporter fired from the left-leaning website The Intercept for fabricating quotes and sources.
Read the rest at the NYT.
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That’s nice, congratulations!
New York Times? Fancy!
Seriously though, good (and important) article.
Nice job getting an article on the NYT David!
Congrats on shining in the Big Leagues, David.
*applause* 🙂
Nice one David. Interesting article too. It is annoying that most people will just hear about this in 140 characters saying the threats were some sort of lefty false flag; so I hope your article propagates a bit.
Thanks, folks!
So this was less about political extremism or antisemitism but a attempt to frame a ex-girlfriend?
Well done on the article!
So, yet again, violence against a woman is overshadowed by the current political lunacy. I’m shocked, shocked!, to find gambling in this establishment.
(Note for literal-minded people: it’s a Casablanca reference and implies that I’m not surprised at all.)
Congratulations!
This is wonderful! An opinion piece in the (failing, ha!) New York Times! Splendid! (And you’re spot on!)
Tell me why an entitled harasser of women coming from the Intercept ain’t even kinda surprising. Glenn Greenwald is still batting for wikileaks ffs…
“Check out my NYT piece…”
NYT PIECE! WTG David!
I really hate the way this is being spun and this has a local component for me, which means lots of people flapping their gums in ignorant ways around and about me.
I’d love to make them all read your piece, but, you know, that NYT is all fake news.
But you’ve distilled the problem so well in such a short piece. And once again the harassment of women and the fact that he alone is not responsible for the threats being issued to Jewish centers (against children, no less) is getting lost in a gotcha game.
Thanks for sharing!
Fantastic piece, David!
This asshat has apparently been linked to eight threats, leaving only ninety-two to investigate.
Greenwald, bleah. When he wrote for Salon (many years ago) he decided to praise a fringe political candidate as a champion of liberty. Melissa McEwan at Shakesville pointed out that people who want to restrict abortion rights are not “champions of liberty.” Greenwald spent the rest of the day trolling Shakesville in a distinctly “how dare a mere woman challenge ME!!!?!” petulant tone.
@Hippodameia
And who could forget the epic gaslightery of ‘Berniebros aren’t real’?
To be fair, he does that to men too. To be factual, when he does it to men, it’s usually cos they stood up for a woman he’s got a hate boner for…
@Hippo
I checked his latest articles. One was about Trump and more war crimes in yemen. The other was “blame Obama for dems Demonizing Trump, ignore how multiple core staff members have ties to Russia and got burned because of it.” Yep this is the two faced assholism you’d expect.
@Axe
“1) Trump presidency is dangerous.
2) CIA/DeepState abuse of spy powers to subvert elected Govt is dangerous.
One can cogently believe both.”
Deep State is a dogwhistle of shadow gov’ts i.e. Jewish people. Holding a dislike of Trump yet also believing in a shadow conspiracy in the face of a more damning conspiracy, all I can say is “fuck off.”
@OoglyBoggles
And I am officially reminded of Joel of Vinesauce playing Shadow President and subsequently dropping the entire US nuclear stockpile on Norway.
Do not elect Joel Johannson to office.
David, the article is well-written and carefully argued. Fine work.
That was great. Thank you.
congratulations
Nice article and congrats on appearing in NYT! It’s almost like you’re a real journalist, I say, teasingly.
The New York Times?! Damn. It’s a well-written article, David. Congrats!
Wow. That’s kind of a big deal. Congrats!
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