I agree with you. IF this is in fact true. Given that it is the NY Slimes I have my suspicions that this could just as well be a ploy.
That said, in the end even if true it doesn’t really matter.
The Slimes reputation for extreme bias goes all the way back to WWII. Where they were a mouth organ for the NAZI’s. Publishing numerous articles denying the atrocities of the Nazi’s.
Those people he describes IF they exist obviously do not know any of the history of that NYC fish wrap.
The NY Times embrace of socialism and Marxism goes back before WW2 to The Russian Communists and Stalin’s American cheerleader , Times journalist Walter Duranty.
“The Slimes reputation for extreme bias goes all the way back to WWII. “
Far further than that. Water Duranty was covering up man-made mass starvation in the Ukraine, and Stalin’s purges in the 1930s.
He “won” a Pulitzer prize for his USSR coverage.