Don Moynihan: Just to clarify: A member of Congress who supported white nationalism tried to get a Black university president fired by accusing her of anti-semitism. When that failed other white nationalists accused her of plagiarism, but needed mainstream media to treat it as a big story. And they did.

Just to clarify: A member of Congress who supported white nationalism tried to get a Black university president fired by accusing her of anti-semitism. When that failed other white nationalists accused her of plagiarism, but needed mainstream media to treat it as a big story. And they did.

Just a little skeptical that the folks posting Prager U videos care about academic integrity

Media outlets doing Rufo’s handiwork should look at what he does when given power over higher Ed: corruption, censorship and incompetence, all to impose his political ideology https://open.substack.com/pub/donmoynihan/p/new-college-is-a-warning-about-the?r=slfke&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

New College is a warning about the price of populist incompetenceopen.substack.com What happens when inexperienced radicals can't run public services

It is entirely feasible to not treat the bad-faith framings of events by the far right as legitimate news. It’s a choice. If you are concerned about the integrity of higher Ed, look at what is happening in Florida.

That’s my thing..there are some fair critiques but this is totally in bad faith.

What are the fair critiques?

Of higher ed in general? Lots from poverty pay to political take overs. of Claudia Gy's scholarship? None that I can see. It's character assassination, frankly.

As far as the institution, higher ed, academia & issues of $, power, influence there are critiques that pre-date Dr. Gay & will exist long after her that should be discussed. As far as things that have happened under her, would recommend looking at the Harvard Crimson which has better reporting. +

Partly to impose political ideology, but partly to divert public money into their own pockets.

Yes. The swamp shtick. Grifters who hate taxes (and many of their fellow Americans and earthlings) want limited government to make them limitless.

The contortions they are making to justify this inquiry are pretty impressive. It just seems like Congress should have more pressing things to do than go after one person at a private entity.

They have no interest in legislating, so they want to look busy somehow.

Limited Government == Limited to Forcing Everyone Else to Obey Their Morals It was no beer in the '20s while they drank wiskey, no divorce in the '50s while they went overseas, no abortion except for their mistresses. No privacy except in their gated communities.

it's actshually about integrity in academic journalismrghremge3

Wrote a bit about this: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-campai...

The campaign to remove the President of Harvard is about DEI, not plagiarismdonmoynihan.substack.com Is there a difference between covering the culture wars and participating in them?

And of course Marc Rowan and Ronald Lauder are now fundraising for Virginia Foxx at 6600 per couple:

Foxx is wretched, and you can bet that money will go straight into her pockets. Our district is so gerrymandered she could win reelection from the grave - she doesn’t need to fundraise.

Starting to think NYT exists primarily to launder far-right talking points.

c'mon Nathan, you're making it sound as if they hire climate deniers for their op-ed sections, or write articles about how Trump is actually a moderate. ... oh, wait.

The NYT is betting on 2025 as the dawn of a right wing dictatorship under White Christian males and they will be it's official propaganda organ. The alt-right has Co-opted churches Co-opted MSM Co-opted one major political party Established totalitarian rule in almost half the states

While I tend to cut historical persons slack for "not predicting the next few years with imperfect information," the NYT DID have some nice things to say about that Hitler fella back in the day.

“afflict the afflicted and comfort the comfortable”

2015/16 taught me that the NYT doesn't have principles. It has Overton window positioning.

Rufo keeps clearly stating his plans like he’s a Bond villain yet supposedly intelligent people still keep falling for his bad faith bullshit.

Are they really falling for it, or do they just not care?

Yes

That's likely because they like and agree with him

He was in Washington state until recently doing anti tax stuff.

Tapper is a real sucker.

This implies that he doesn’t realize what he’s doing. He does.

I thought so for a while, but he is genuinely very dim

Underestimating your enemies is a mistake you only get to make once

no he isnt, hes a rabid zionist

He cares about the deficit. He's both.

Jake fuckin' Tapper?

He was ever thus. In fact, I think he's a great example of how easy it is to gain peoples trust by speaking their language

He rolled up here speaking fluent shitposter and I wanted to believe too

Yeah - I think he's intelligent enough to not just be a hapless dupe here, but he's also naive enough to be very easily conned by bad actors.

White male

I mean, when they recently ran a free Trump ad in the form of a town hall where the gibbering fascist predictably ran roughshod over Kaitlan Collins, Tapper was all "this is fine, whatever you want to normalize, CNN"

Jake Tapper defends CNN over Trump town hall: 'We can't ignore him'nypost.com When asked by podcaster Kara Swisher how journalists should cover Trump, Tapper responded: "As he is."

Lol Kara Swisher

Tapper’s assistant typed up that boilerplate equivocation while the Townhall was being broadcast.

Just stop making excuses ffs theweek.com/articles/737...

The myth of the male bumblertheweek.com How manipulative men use one of our culture's most muscular myths — that men are clueless — and weaponize it into an alibi

This looks interesting. Will read.

To me Jake Tapper will always be the guy who got his start by capitalizing on monica lewinsky’s suffering and that’s all he is.

Jake mastered the befuddled credulity kayfabe a long time ago.

He leapfrogged into notoriety by writing about his date with Monica Lewinsky. Opportunistic man.

Can't find it right now, but someone I follow here noted Tapper vanished from Bluesky in early October, and I replied that Fun Speaking His Mind Jake Tapper™ had blazed across Bluesky like a meteor and would be sadly missed, but I was doing my best to cope.

I guess he figured out which side his bread was buttered on

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