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'Her words were taken out of context': New York Times DEFENDS board member who sparked fury by claiming she was 'disturbed' to see 'dozens of American flags' on pickup trucks during a recent trip to Long Island
UK Daily Mail ^ | June 09 2021 | ADAM SCHRADER and PETER BELFIORE

Posted on 06/08/2021 10:59:46 PM PDT by knighthawk

New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay has been defended by her bosses after saying she was 'disturbed' by the number of stars and stripes flags on display during a trip to Long Island.

The paper's official PR Twitter account backed Gay on Tuesday night, tweeting: 'New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay's comments on MSNBC have been irresponsibly taken out of context.'

'Her argument was that Trump and many of his supporters have politicized the American flag. The attacks on her today are ill-informed and grounded in bad-faith.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: americanflag; maragay; nytimes
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1 posted on 06/08/2021 10:59:46 PM PDT by knighthawk
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Welcome to Long Island, bitch!


2 posted on 06/08/2021 11:01:31 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: knighthawk

Hating America as much as the left does why should they get any claim upon the flag at all?


3 posted on 06/08/2021 11:10:40 PM PDT by Nateman (If the Left Is not screaming , you are doing it wrong..)
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To: knighthawk

These people must be destroyed. There’s no other way.


4 posted on 06/08/2021 11:16:01 PM PDT by Az Joe (FREE CHAUVIN!)
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To: knighthawk

funny how the left accuse others of always taking them out of context (When the right doesn’t actually do so), but when the left criticize the right for anything, why words always matter then-


5 posted on 06/08/2021 11:28:55 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: knighthawk

Must be a universal excuse by these maggots. That witch that said she dreams about shooting all whites said she was taken out of context too.


6 posted on 06/08/2021 11:42:26 PM PDT by LibertyWoman ("Where there is no law, there is no liberty." Benjamin Rush)
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To: knighthawk

Explain how one politicizes the american flag. By actually flying it? By not wearing it as a bathing suit or unitard?

Further her being disturbed is not a valid argument for anything.


7 posted on 06/08/2021 11:59:09 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: knighthawk
'Her argument was that Trump and many of his supporters have politicized the American flag.

Nonsense.

The first people to burn the American flag, call it free speech, and take it the the Supreme Court were the ones who "politicized the American Flag."

Now we all have to live with the consequences.

-PJ

8 posted on 06/09/2021 12:01:36 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (* LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: knighthawk

I read her ENTIRE ARTICLE. There was nothing “out of context” about it.

She was disturbed by the display of the American flag.


9 posted on 06/09/2021 12:30:30 AM PDT by I still care (The left's goal never was tolerance. It always was fascism.)
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To: knighthawk

‘New York times editorial board member ‘

I think I see the problem.


10 posted on 06/09/2021 12:46:54 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam)
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To: knighthawk

The flag has been politicized for as long as there have been flags. This “unbiased journalist” is perfectly fine when democRATS do it, but she doesn’t like it when the other side does it too.


11 posted on 06/09/2021 1:16:35 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Der Impfstoff macht frei.)
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There is no context in which her comments are acceptable


12 posted on 06/09/2021 1:32:40 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: knighthawk

taken of contexts is their escape to be able to say anything and get away with it once its released and its out there


13 posted on 06/09/2021 1:43:32 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: knighthawk

She said it. I heard/saw it. F***k this commie bitch and the computer she uses against America.


14 posted on 06/09/2021 2:44:21 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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“Her argument was that Trump and many of his supporters have politicized the American flag.”

Biden’s people used thousands of American flags at his inauguration to hide the fact that people were not there.


15 posted on 06/09/2021 2:50:56 AM PDT by odawg
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To: knighthawk

More absolute nonsense. The American flag stands for the American Spirit. Trump simply appeals to those who support the American Spirit. The vaunted NYT does not.


16 posted on 06/09/2021 3:18:12 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (RISE UP O MEN OF GOD. BE DONE WITH LESSER THINGS.)
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To: knighthawk

so, it’s the so overused ‘context’ defense, eh?

Well, if the quoted comments are untrue, then it should be simple to prove.
If ‘context’ is the issue, perhaps this ‘writer’ should consider a new line of work.


17 posted on 06/09/2021 3:29:10 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: knighthawk

every time a lefty gets caught, it was “taken out of context”
another mouthy dark skinned girl flapping her gums about how unhappy she is in the USA. Move. Wakanda is nice this time of year.


18 posted on 06/09/2021 3:32:46 AM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is???? )
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To: knighthawk

Absolutely laughable considering the number of times those leftists deliberately misinterpret and take ANY conservative thought out of context. They are the masters of this victim tactic.


19 posted on 06/09/2021 3:40:27 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking. )
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To: knighthawk

The effort by the “New York Times” to deodorize the words of Mara Gay fails to understand that once a skunk lets go of its spray, you can’t undo its stink.


20 posted on 06/09/2021 3:46:57 AM PDT by jonrick46 ( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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