Ross Gregory Douthat is an author, blogger and New York Times columnist.
Has the New York Times fired Mr. Douthat yet? Or do they too think political assassinations are cute and funny?
Posted on 02/25/2016 10:53:01 AM PST by MarvinStinson
'Good news guys I've figured out how [his] campaign ends'
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat joked about an assassination ending Donald Trump's run for president.
The New York Times columnist caused a social media stir with a tweet that joked of billionaire businessman and GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump's assassination.
"Good news guys," wrote Ross Douthat in his tweet.
"I've figure out how the Trump campaign ends."
He then included a link to a YouTube video of the 1983 movie, "The Dead Zone," a movie that features Christopher Walken as a character who tries to shoot to death a politician played by Martin Sheen. Sheen's character uses a human baby to shield himself from the assassination attempt.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
I wonder how easy it would be to obtain Ms. Chumley’s home address?
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim basically ‘owns’ the NY TIMES.
To stay afloat financially they took a loan from Slim at very high rates, a loan they will never be able to repay.
Carlos Slim Reaping Big Rewards From NY Times Loan
Paul Ebeling January 22, 2014
http://www.livetradingnews.com/nyt-carlos-slim-reaping-big-rewards-from-ny-times-loan-28093.htm
Billionaire Carlos Slim is set to double his money after investing $250-M in a 2009 lending agreement with the New York Times, showing how dearly the newspaper’s owners paid for his assist.
Slim, who controls mobile-phone carrier America Movil and is the world’s 2nd richest man according to the data, already has earned $122-M from his loan to the Times, based on an annual interest rate of 14% and a 12% premium charged to the company when its debt to Slim was redeemed in Y 2011.
Under the terms of the loan, the Times still owes Slim additional shares worth as much as $141-M based on the 17 January stock price, at 15.22/shr thanks to options he received to buy shares at what is now a deep discount.
Mr. Slim’s loan to the Times gave the publisher time to sell some assets and boost a digital-subscription strategy to offset slumping ad sales.
The agreement with Mr. Slim required the parent New York Times Co. to accept terms that effectively reduced a stock market windfall 5 yrs later. By selling 15.9-M/shares at a fraction of their market value, the company risked giving up more than $100-M it could raise through an offering to the public.
“The Times had financial issues when they borrowed money from Carlos Slim,” said Thomas Graham Kahn, president of Kahn Brothers Advisors, a Times Co. investor.
The 14 percent interest rate charged to the NY-T Company. on Mr. Slim’s loan, which was announced 19 January 2009, compared with the average bond yield of 13.41% that day for similarly rated borrowers on the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 1-to-10-Year BB U.S. High Yield Index. Standard & Poor’s rated Times Co. BB- at the time, three steps below investment grade. The publisher’s ranking is now one step lower at B+.
The interest on Mr. Slim’s loan was the highest rate Times Co. paid on debt dating back to Y 1995, according to the data.
I had my doubts about this guy but now they’ve been confirmed way beyond what they were.
Donald Trump on NY Times: ‘Very Rich Mexican’ Carlos Slim ‘Owns a Big Chunk of the Paper,’ ‘Has a Lot of Power Over the Paper’
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/donad-trump-new-york-times-owned-mexico/2016/02/23/id/715758/
STEVE GUEST 02/25/2016 http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/25/ny-times-columnist-apologizes-for-trump-assassination-attempt-joke/
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat apologized for joking about Donald Trump's presidential campaign ending in an assassination attempt.
Wednesday, Douthat tweeted, "Good news guys I've figured out how the Trump campaign ends." Then he linked a clip from the 1983 movie "The Dead Zone," starring Christopher Walken and Martin Sheen. In the film, there is an assassination attempt on a politician. He has since deleted the tweet.
"A lot readers were offended by my Trump/"Dead Zone" joke from yesterday," Douthat wrote Thursday. "I can see why, and I've deleted the tweet. Apologies."
Whoops...Looks like it was one Ross Doutha who thinks assignations of presidential candidates are somehow cute and funny.
His home address would probably be easy to obtain. I’d like to send him something nice and humorous.
MeganC already summed this up perfectly.
See her post 26 here.
Aren’t liberals so cute. They can plan to assisinate republicans all day long and the SS won’t lift a finger.
Ross Gregory Douthat is an author, blogger and New York Times columnist.
Has the New York Times fired Mr. Douthat yet? Or do they too think political assassinations are cute and funny?
| Even Trump would have trouble shutting down the NY Times. There are huge unfunded liabilities -- pensions and the like that he would be obligated to pay for a long time. When NYT sold the Boston Globe (which it bought earlier for $1 billion) to the Boston Red Sox, the Red Sox owner paid $90 million. But NYT was still obligated to pay long term liabilities to Boston Globe employees. In other words, the Boston Globe was sold at a loss. The editors also have awesome power so the publisher is stuck. Bezos, the Amazon owner of Washington Post took that into account, but figured it was worth it to help his company from having to pay taxes on on-line purchases. He didn't count on a Trump being elected. |
This guy felt comfortable enough to send his thoughts out to his friends.
You do realize, all of his friends approve of the meme. They have been chatting about this sort of scenario for months
bmp
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