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NY Times columnist admits he was 'wrong' about Trump's supporters, says Russian collusion story was a 'hoax' . Bret Stephens said Trump's supporters were right to be angry at the system
Fox ^ | Joe Silverstein

Posted on 07/22/2022 5:38:37 PM PDT by NoLibZone

The New York Times published a series of op-eds by its opinion columnists Thursday that began with the phrase "I Was Wrong About." As part of the collection, Bret Stephens admitted he was wrong to label Trump supporters "appalling."

Stephens said, "The worst line I ever wrote as a pundit" was the first he ever wrote about Trump: "If by now you don’t find Donald Trump appalling, you’re appalling."

"This opening salvo, from August 2015, was the first in what would become dozens of columns denouncing Trump as a unique threat to American life, democratic ideals and the world itself," he continued.

Stephens said he "regret[s] almost nothing of what I said about the man and his close minions" but that "the broad swipe at his voters caricatured them and blinkered me."

"It also probably did more to help than hinder Trump’s candidacy. Telling voters they are moral ignoramuses is a bad way of getting them to change their minds," he continued. "What were they seeing that I wasn’t?" he pondered.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bias; coup; media; mediabias; msm; peedossier; russiagate; russianhoax
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To: caww

They were the children raised with ‘timeout’’ punishment instead of getting their butt smacked.


21 posted on 07/22/2022 6:50:01 PM PDT by antceecee
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To: NoLibZone

“He didn’t win, did he.”


22 posted on 07/22/2022 6:50:28 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: NoLibZone

Little late for a mia culpa


23 posted on 07/22/2022 6:55:36 PM PDT by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: NoLibZone

He was doing good until this. He still doesn’t get it

Despite this revelation, Stephens argued that he would not be “morally” wrong to “lambaste Trump’s current supporters, the ones who want him back in the White House despite his refusal to accept his electoral defeat and the historic outrage of Jan. 6.”


24 posted on 07/22/2022 7:01:41 PM PDT by roving (Blue Lives Matter More Than Children)
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To: skeeter

The guy is a flaming @sshole who is desperate to regain his credibility. Too late. I won’t read anything he writes again — even at gunpoint.


25 posted on 07/22/2022 7:21:05 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: FamiliarFace

Good post! No one should trust the “Expert Class” one iota. They have no idea what is best for us what’s done is done.


26 posted on 07/22/2022 7:25:02 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: DannyTN

Most of RINOs are doing a full court press to get out the Trump vote for the midterms. Lizard Cheney is obviously doing her own thing.


27 posted on 07/22/2022 7:27:24 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: NoLibZone

I’m sure there is some nuance in all this but the left in general believes gaining power justifies any means necessary. Bearing false witness is one of the lesser sins they employ.


28 posted on 07/22/2022 7:28:44 PM PDT by xp38
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To: NoLibZone

Bret is a neocon’s neocon.


29 posted on 07/22/2022 7:32:32 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: roving

“He was doing good until this. He still doesn’t get it

Despite this revelation, Stephens argued that he would not be “morally” wrong to “lambaste Trump’s current supporters, the ones who want him back in the White House despite his refusal to accept his electoral defeat and the historic outrage of Jan. 6.”

Great point...they don’t understand it’s not Trump per se’ it’s anyone who we feel is actually working for us and not the deep state. We may not agree with everything he says or does but we know in the end he’s on our side. I thank him mostly for outing these RINO’s again. May take a few election cycles to get them out but i hope we never forget who was on our side.


30 posted on 07/22/2022 7:33:26 PM PDT by jetvol1
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To: skeeter

A newsmax guest describd Brett Stephen’s remarks as these elites taking a sip of water to clear their throats before they go back to their lib/commie type chardonny. No kudos to the creep for this.


31 posted on 07/22/2022 7:39:10 PM PDT by Stepan12 ("...To the American gulag with this guy.and with the beasts of the earth.")
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To: NoLibZone

I don’t click on any NTThymes link, it is all sanctimonious sap, and I have much better things to do.


32 posted on 07/22/2022 7:54:28 PM PDT by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: NoLibZone

NY Times “won” a Pulitzer Prize for their Russia-hoax reporting.

Will they give it back? Will Pulitzer correct this error?

NO.


33 posted on 07/22/2022 8:12:14 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: NoLibZone

This was one of 8 articles by Times columnists about things they got wrong. The paper made him come up with something to write.


34 posted on 07/22/2022 8:21:09 PM PDT by x
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Might make it palatable


36 posted on 07/22/2022 9:50:17 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: NoLibZone

Programmed “mea culpa” so people think the left has “seen the light”. Fake. They are bald faced communist liars
These leftists need to be destroyed. In all and any legal way. No quarter.


37 posted on 07/22/2022 10:24:09 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: NoLibZone

The NY Times has a long history of bullshit lies bias reporting and covering up facts.


38 posted on 07/23/2022 8:49:46 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: skeeter

“What were they seeing that I wasn’t?” he pondered.


Stephens wasn’t seeing the facts on the ground. He was too busy “seeing the facts” provided by the Trump-haters in their talking points. But, this is no great surprise. In my view, the NYT and all of its esteemed “journalists” have been water-carriers for the elite for decades. The little people are simply there to be told what to do and what to think, as soon as they have finished cleaning the pools, collecting the trash and watching the EV’s roll off the assembly lines.


39 posted on 07/23/2022 8:51:43 AM PDT by JGPhila
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To: NoLibZone

Piss off Stephens.

Biden’s your boy. You stuck him with us, suck it up.


40 posted on 07/23/2022 12:27:11 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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