Posted on 04/26/2020 6:23:25 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Liberal journalist Hendrik Hertzberg courted controversy Sunday by bashing President Trump and openly questioning in a tweet: “Time for a military coup?” After a request for comment, the left-wing New Yorker magazine reporter weakly attempted to defend himself in a tweet, claiming he was being “sarcastic.”
Hertzberg, a longtime political commentator and staff writer at the New Yorker, was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War and later served as then-President Jimmy Carter’s chief White House speechwriter. Over three hours after his initial tweet made waves, Hertzberg followed up by tweeting: “As somebody or other once said, I was being ... sarcastic.” That was a reference to a Trump remark from last week; the president said he “was asking a question sarcastically” to coronavirus experts at the White House about using disinfectant “by injection inside or almost a cleaning.” Many of the president’s critics said they didn’t buy his explanation.
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Four years later and New Yorker Magazine is still sore about losing the 2016 election.
Can the Secret Service be pinged?
No one in the employ of The New Yorker voted for Trump. You can bank on it.
But, on the upside, the Left has given us the blueprint of how to treat their next candidate. And it’s incumbent on us to take them up on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Hertzberg
After Fallows departed in 1979, Hertzberg became Carter’s chief speechwriter. Hertzberg was an author of President Jimmy Carter’s July 15, 1979, speech on energy conservation, widely known as the “Malaise Speech”[13] and critiqued as one of the most ineffective pieces of political rhetoric in American history.[14][15]
Just a few hours ago I re-viewed the Trey Gowdy v Peter Stzrok House hearing about the timing of his texts and his investigation of Donald Trump.
He plead “sarcasm” as his excuse as well
But I “pity the fool” who says a ‘sarcastic’ syllable about King O’Bungler and his Court of Fools
Time for a “journalist IKEA” demonstration model, starring Hendrik Hertzberg...
A Vietnam draft dodger who gets very macho about the military he never served in overthrowing the President. Sad and wholly unlikely..
Hertzberg. Thought he was dead, physically and politically. Just goes to show you that even Dead Democrats can arise like Zombies to pollute and hurt the world for a long time.
I seriously doubt that anyone who is sane reads the New Yorkers anymore. Once did for great cartoons and an occasionally decent feature article. Gave that up for Lent many decades ago because it became a sin against America (and I’m Jewish). /sarc
Insurrection?
I’m very sick of the free passes given to Leftists.
I’ve never been more disconcerted that when Obama was
president, but I would NEVER back him being taken out by
a coup.
You go down that road, and then everyone tries it, as if
it is the way to go.
NO!
Go after these people and put them in prison.
The participants of the Kenyanesian Usurpation should all be rounded up and tried for their crimes.
No, I am not being sarcastic.
Arrest fifth-column leftist media scum Hendrik Hertzberg for for conspiracy and sedition.
OF course, we’ll need to wait until AG Barr finiishes his bagpipe concert.
So he thinks the US military is going to stage a coup to protect Democrat party policies like open borders, the “green new deal”, medicare for all and SJW policies.
Sure dude.
“Oh it was only in jest ha ha ha” However when they accuse Trump of saying something he didn’t they go all nuts.
Sarcastic? Did he use the tag?
Didn’t he used to be on the McLaughlin Group back when? Or was it another talking head show like that?
The Left could have executed a military coup, we would currently be subjects of Emperor Barack.
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