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rc4797's avatar

"The Times isn’t being manipulated; it’s using Rufo as an excuse to do what it wants to do." That's 100 percent correct but I would only add this. The Times was full on board with claiming a scalp for supporters of Israel who want to silence and sideline all criticism of Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza. What they miss is that more young people today - and a lot of those who are not so young - now read and watch independent news sources not in Israel's amen corner. The Times is increasingly irrelevant.

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They are so afraid of far-right criticism--as if ANYTHING they did could make the far-right view them as valid--that they grab on to these "opportunities" in order to say "See?! See?! We're fair, please know we're fair, we HEAR you! Left, right, we cover all the malfeasance!"

Totally related to the plethora of "Angry 'Conservative' (read: bigot) in a diner" stories, which we KNOW we're getting a f***ton more of now through November. ("In this Michigan diner, Martha and Joe Holder don't like Trump's brashness [sic], but..."

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