Posted on 10/29/2020 8:52:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
If The New York Times was willing to lie about its anonymous source for their high-profile information operation, imagine the lies they're willing to tell about all the other anonymous sources they use.
wo years after the New York Times published an op-ed from what they described as an anonymous, principled conservative “senior administration official,” it turned out to have been written by a low-level bureaucrat who later worked for tech giant Google and gave money to far-left Democrats.
Miles Taylor revealed he was the author of the highly hyped op-ed headlined “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.” He claimed to secretly work to thwart Trump’s policy goals as the elected president of the United States.
While constitutional scholars worried about implications of such unaccountable thwarting of the will of the people, most media focused instead on identifying who “Anonymous” was. The New York Times assured readers that when it said “senior administration official,” it meant someone “in the upper echelon of an administration.”
People took seriously the New York Times’ claim that the anonymous writer was in the upper echelon of an administration. In “13 people who might be the author of The New York Times op-ed,” CNN followed the New York Times’ lead by offering the names of actual senior administration officials, such as Don McGahn, Dan Coats, Kellyanne Conway, Kirstjen Nielsen, John Kelly, Jeff Sessions, James Mattis, Nikki Haley, Jared Kushner, and Ivanka Trump. Chris Cillizza also suggested it might be Fiona Hill or Melania Trump.
He also wrote of the Times, “They aren’t publishing an anonymous op-ed from just anyone in the Trump administration. They especially aren’t publishing one that alleges a near-coup … If some midlevel bureaucrat in the Trump administration comes to the Times — or has an intermediary reach out to the Times — asking to write a piece like this one without their name attached to it, the answer would be an immediate ‘no.'” He added:
Given all of that, it’s telling that the Times was willing to extend the cloak of anonymity to this author — especially, again, because of the stakes and the target. This is not a decision made lightly. That the decision was made to publish it should tell you that this isn’t some disgruntled mid-to-upper manager buried in the bureaucracy. This is a genuine high-ranking official. A name most people who follow politics — and maybe some who don’t — would recognize. The Times simply wouldn’t do what it did for anything short of a major figure in Trump world.
In fact, they were willing to do it for a very low-level political appointee. Taylor has been billed as “chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security,” but he didn’t have even that position that nobody knew existed when he wrote the op-ed and was described as a senior administration official.
Even if you take a very generous reading of the term “senior administration official,” a read so generous that you would include more than five dozen bureaucrats at the Department of Homeland Security below its secretary, that would have not included Taylor.
DHS actually listed 64 individuals it considered senior at the department on the day the op-ed was published. Taylor was not one of them. He was described as a policy advisor, not anything close to a senior administration official.
Taylor went on to write a book as Anonymous, and to “come out” as a Trump-hating Joe Biden supporter this past summer, with the help of CNN and the Washington Post. CNN even hired Taylor as a contributor, and still yesterday’s news landed with a dud.
While Taylor attempted to position himself as a principled conservative, he left the administration to work for Google and his former boss at DHS said that if Taylor ever opposed anything about the Trump administration, it was news to his colleagues.
“Having worked with Mr. Taylor on the President’s immigration and counter-terrorism policy agenda, I can attest that [Miles Taylor] never vocalized disagreement with the president’s policies — and in fact expressed strong support,” Acting Secretary Chad Wolf said in a statement.
That’s a problem for Taylor, since BuzzFeed recently noted that he was the chief of staff who sold the administration’s “child separation policy” — and never publicly or privately disagreed with it, as Wolf noted.
So Taylor was neither a senior administration official nor a principled conservative. The only thing that is really known about him is that he is capable and willing of lying, as he did on air when asked by Anderson Cooper if he was “anonymous.”
If The New York Times was willing to lie about how high-level its anonymous source was for their very high-profile September 2018 information operation, imagine the lies they’re willing to tell about all the other anonymous sources they use. If the New York Times is willing to deceive readers about how high this author’s perch was, imagine how much other papers and media outlets are willing to lie in support of their anti-Trump narratives.
Every time you read in an outlandish Big Media narrative that an anonymous source is “senior,” interpret it as “junior.” And if the reporters don’t even bother with that level of characterization, assume it’s someone they met on the street.
Anonymous sources have occasionally been necessary for journalists. Their overuse, mischaracterization, and lack of accountability in the age of Trump journalism is clearly out of control.
Washington DC is like a the worst hoarder’s house you’ve ever seen, and Taylor is like one of the millions of cockroaches which inhabit it.
The second term needs to move a bunch of these bureaucrats out of the DC area as well as lots of turnover hiring freezes and outsourcing to American firms
The Left seems to survive on “anonymous whistleblowers”. You simply cannot be allowed to question their veracitude.
We have Tony Bobulinksy who goes on camera with documents, audio recordings and his own eye-witness accounts. The Left considers this to be “unverified” and far from interesting.
Miles Taylor is a zero; a warmonger who never served. a “senior” official who was quite junior; a knowledgeable “insider” concerning Trump who probably met him once; a self-advancing phony reliant on the lies of the press; a self-important unimportant child of a man who seeks to cash in on his lies and self-misrepresentations.
The New York Times has lost whatever credibility and integrity it hasd left when it colluded with the Biden campaign to suppress the corruption and criminality of Joe Biden. Its editors and publisher knew full well who “ananymous” was.
HOW did he come out?? Did he tell on HI<SELF or did someone else out him?
HOW did he come out?? Did he tell on HI<SELF or did someone else out him?
He came out and said he was “anonymous.”
What a joke. This guy is like the equivalent of a Major in an Army division. Chief of Staff at DHS is hardly senior and he likely had no interaction at all with the President.
Mollie is a national treasure. I love her.
I am SHOCKED that it wasn’t MELANIA!! /s
The way I see it, it was released in an effort to Interfere and Influence the Congressional Election 6 weeks later, It should be considered Election interference and an Illegal In Kind Political Contribution,
If only we had a Federal Agency that Prosecuted CRIMES by CORPORATIONS
This guy is also the idiot who got a lotta pub for saying that the real problem in America was “White Supremacist violence”.
In the middle of massive riots and far Left violence.
He and the fat blonde FBI nobody live in a little East Coast Liberal university bubble where they think the Klan rides through Atlanta every night.
The truth is that in addition to Delusions of Grandeur, he’s guilty of outright comical hallucination.
Maybe he needs to knock off raiding the Fibbie psychtropic research division for fun.
UNless the sources are saying something negative about Trump, right?
The anonymous source is the not the issue, the willingness of the NYT’s to lie for political reasons in most everything it publishes is the problem.
They spelled "under the partition in the men's room at the back of a sleazy bar on K street" wrong, didn't they?
Mollie always takes care of the bad guys & gals.
Remarkable and rare today to anywhere read incisive, factual wordsmithing that asily strips and spanks the truly wicked haters out there, who would sell out America before allowing Trump to let her shine in her traditional glory under God.
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