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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGreat op-ed from Kristof in the NYT's today. I particularly enjoyed this paragraph
"Trump howls at the news media, not just because it embarrasses him, but because it provides an institutional check on his lies, incompetence and conflicts of interest. But we can take his vitriol: When the time comes, we will write Trumps obituary, not the other way around."
NICHOLAS KRISTOF, NY TIMES, FEB. 25, 2017
GP6971
(31,017 posts)An excellent read.
madokie
(51,076 posts)malaise
(267,823 posts)we have a winner
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I have a little nothing twitter account to which I occasionally post links to discussion of corruption and failures of the media. I will never forgive the NYT's readership-pandering sabotage of everything Hillary has done for a very long time, but it is still one of the planet's great sources of investigative journalism.
Thanks for the post, MichaelSoE. In spite of everything, good journalism is not dead and I believe Kristof is right. This is certainly what the Constitution intended when it included the press as an institution to be protected.
procon
(15,805 posts)Hopefully we will read about his treason trial and impeachment shortly before his obituary.
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)nini
(16,670 posts)Exactly what will happen.
AwakeAtLast
(14,112 posts)That will leave a mark. I can already see tiny fingers tapping furiously....
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I'm certainly not a Kristof fan, but he gets a lot right in this piece. I had to laugh at this paragraph:
But while you voted for Trump because you put faith in his gauzy pledges, I bet he will do no better with campaign promises than with marriage vows.
BOOM!
Cha
(295,926 posts)catbyte
(34,174 posts)lastlib
(22,981 posts)Not that I want the prezidunce to die...I would like him to suffer a good long while to experience what he is inflicting on others. But I will enjoy reading his obituary.
spooky3
(34,303 posts)according to polls. He knows he is propagandizing, and is doing it to manipulate stupid people and people who want reality to be the way he describes it.
Fritz Walter
(4,281 posts)Then, there's this sentiment:
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)I agree - I've never killed anybody, nor danced on anybody's grave, but I do take pleasure when somebody evil and corrupt dies.
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,777 posts)boston bean
(36,186 posts)volstork
(5,394 posts)Nick Kristof is a progressive gem.
ProfessorGAC
(64,425 posts)When i read the title i read Krystol. But, the OP has the full name and when i saw Nicholas, i knew who had written that.
That said, i clicked on it thinking W Krystol might actually have said something smart. Now, that would have been a shock!
Cha
(295,926 posts)NICHOLAS KRISTOF, NY TIMES, FEB. 25, 2017
Mahalo Michael
Turbineguy
(37,212 posts)I like it!
llmart
(15,501 posts)Can't wait until they get to do just that.
tblue37
(64,982 posts)Trump Voters, Your Savior Is Betraying You
Nicholas Kristof | FEB. 25, 2017