As Trump calls for resignations, NYT finger-pointing begins on deceptive Kavanaugh hit piece

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.”

- Sir Walter Scott

President Trump, an enthusiast for hitting back harder when attacked, is not about to let his arch-enemies at the New York Times off the hook for their disgraceful hit piece on Justice Kavanaugh, and is now calling for the resignations of all involved in covering up the exculpatory evidence that was omitted from the Sunday op-ed piece.

...She can never recover, and will never return to Greatness, under current Management. The Times is DEAD, long live The New York Times! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 16, 2019

The omission of the exculpatory evidence is inexcusable by any legitimate journalistic standard, and while the activist fanatics want to press onward, journalists know that the stink is going to permanently attach itself to someone.

The authors of the book and op-ed, NYT reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, took to MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell’s show to point fingers at their editor, claiming that their submission to the editor included the exculpatory evidence. Chuck Ross of The Daily Caller News Foundation:

The co-authors of a new book about Brett Kavanaugh blamed New York Times editors Monday for removing a key passage from an essay they published over the weekend that laid out a new, but uncorroborated, sexual misconduct allegation against the Supreme Court justice.

In an interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly addressed the controversy over a New York Times Review essay they published Saturday that previewed their book, “The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation.” (snip)

The NYTimes knows which side its bread is buttered on.

At the first sign of any objectivity in its reporting on anything connected to Trump (or his nominee Kavanaugh), its readers go berserk and start cancelling subscriptions.

So - yeah, this incident might be malpractice from a journalistic point of view - but who gives a rap about that, at the NYTimes? Middle finger to all these journalistic puritans. The bottom line is where it’s at. Give our readers what they want.

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