Posted on 11/19/2021 5:55:25 AM PST by karpov
Nellie Bowles, the former New York Times reporter who is married to Bari Weiss, the former Times op-ed editor whose newsletter Common Sense is a Substack sensation and publishes top-shelf op-eds practically every day, says in the latest edition of Common Sense that she found the liberal narrative about rioting in Kenosha last summer wasn’t true, but the Paper of Record buried her report until after the election last November. Bowles writes:
Until quite recently, the mainstream liberal argument was that burning down businesses for racial justice was both good and healthy. Burnings allowed for the expression of righteous rage, and the businesses all had insurance to rebuild.
This notion, she discovered when she went to Kenosha, was false.
The part of Kenosha that people burned in the riots was the poor, multi-racial commercial district, full of small, underinsured cell phone shops and car lots. It was very sad to see and to hear from people who had suffered. Beyond the financial loss, small storefronts are quite meaningful to their owners and communities, which continuously baffles the Zoom-class.
So she wrote about that. And then:
Something odd happened with that story after I filed it. It didn’t run. It sat and sat.
Now it could be that the piece was just bad. I’ve sent in bad ones before, and I’ll do it again. A few weeks after I filed, an editor told me: The Times wouldn’t be able to run my Kenosha insurance debacle piece until after the 2020 election, so sorry.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
“Stupid People Burn Down Their Neighborhood Assisted by Evil AntiFa People. News months from now, if ever.”
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Just like large sections of the planet are going to be locked up [see Tongass National Park] for the enjoyment of the Elites, after the herd gets thinned down to a manageable number of compliant service personnel.
The narrative was that this was ALL Trump’s fault - and when Biden is elected (the FIX was already in) - the “adults” would be in charge now and everything would settle down into a peaceful, rainbow utopia.
This was allowed to continue to get Trump out of office.
the businesses all had insurance to rebuild........
I doubt it. Even if insured, policies usually do not cover riots and civil disturbances!
Liberals do not know such things..............
The Propaganda Media doesn't show images from Kenosha because so many of the buildings are burned out and how many of those that survived are still boarded up, all from the Democrat anti-American riots of 2020.
They pillage, burn and vandalize easy targets of opportunity, places where the National Guard won’t be called out, police are ordered to back off, and private citizens who protect themselves are prosecuted as “vigilantes”. Needless to such, such places are always run by Democrats, all the way up the chain from city council to state Governor.
Meanwhile, doofus hipsters in Marin County and Yorktown Heights cheer it on as “mostly peaceful protesting”. Living in wealthy and isolated communities is their protection. Mark Zukerman doesn’t have to worry about mobs of Antifa and BLM throwing gasoline bombs over the walls of his compound in Palo Alto. The same goes for Joe Scarborough living on his estate in Jupiter, Florida.
Didn’t know that abt Bari Weiss.
She’s still a good reporterette and I will pay attention.
Until she jumps the shark....
I have done bookkeeping/accounting for 64 YEARS.
I have NEVER seen an insurance policy that will pay for destruction caused by rioting—insurrection or anything close to that.
Building destroyed in the WATTS riots in Los Angeles still are NOT rebuilt.
The media should be sued out of business for telling the population ‘Insurance will pay for the damages”.
NO SUCH THING.
The businesses burned out in Minneapolis over George Floyd had 93% BLACK employees...
See Tagline.
From “All the news that’s fit to print” to
“All the news that fits, we print”, and now
“All the news that fits our masters’ narrative”.
The mainstream liberal argument was that burning down businesses for racial justice was both good and healthy.
Unless it’s their businesses
The old Gray Whore is doing the elephants, reporting on the circus and taking kickbacks...
Anyone wonder why people trust used car salesmen more than the press?
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