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ELIZABETH: "NEW YORK TIMES"
OPINION EDITOR BARRY WEISS TODAY
TORE INTO THE TIMES FOR BULLYING
SUPPRESSION OF SPEECH IN HER
SCORCHING RESIGNATION LETTER
ANNOUNCING SHE IS QUITTING.
WEISS SAYS "THE TIMES" IS
DOMINATED BY FAR LEFT-WING
IDEALOGUES RUINING THE
NEWSPAPER.
THEY’RE BULLYING AND SUPPRESSING
CENTRISTS WITH THOSE DIFFERENCE
OF OPINION.
"THE TIMES" IS RUN BY A TWITTER
MOB MENTALITY.
TALK ABOUT IT WITH FOX NEWS
CONTRIBUTOR JASON CHAFFETZ.
GREAT TO HAVE YOU ON. SHE SAID THEY CALLED HER A NAZI
SHE SAID THEY CALLED HER A NAZI
AND RACIST FOR BEING A CENTRIST.
YOUR REACTION TO THIS.
>> THIS IS A SCATHING LETTER AS
YOU CAN READ.
IF YOU WANT TO READ GOING OUT TO
A BLAZE OF GLORY AS SHE EXPOSES
WITH HER FIRST-HAND KNOWLEDGE AT
"NEW YORK TIMES" T WAS ABOUT AS
SCATHING AS IT GETS.
IT WAS NOT ABOUT COLLECTIVE
DISCOVERY OF TRUTH.
IT WAS ALL ABOUT FULFILLING THE
AGENDA SOME OF THEM HAD.
IT IS NOT A TRUE NEWSPAPER
ANYMORE.
THE OLD GRAY LADY AS THEY CALLED
THE NEWSPAPER, IT IS JUST NOT,
IT IS NOT, IT IS NOT THE NEWS.
IT’S A GLORIFIED NEWSLETTER TO
RADICAL PEOPLE ON THE LEFT.
I MEAN THAT’S REALLY WHAT IT’S
GRAVITATED TO.
SHE WAS BROUGHT IN 2016 TO TRY
TO UNDERSTAND AND EXPOSE WHY
TRUMP WAS SO WILDLY POPULAR BUT
SHE WAS SUPPRESSED TO THE POINT
THAT SHE HAD TO LEAVE.
ELIZABETH: YOU KNOW, WEISS SAID
SHE JOINED THE PAPER IN 2017
AFTER "THE TIMES" ADMITTED THEY
MISSED THE FACT THAT TRUMP WOULD
WIN.
BUT "THE TIMES," SHE SAID
BASICALLY THE COVERAGE BEGINS TO
BOUNCE BACK FROM THAT MISTAKE TO
MAKING MISTAKES IN THE MUELLER
PROBE, NOW TRUMP IS A RACIST,
AMERICA IS A RACIST.
SHE IS WARNING "THE TIMES" IS
MAKING SAME MISTAKE NOT GRASPING
THE COUNTRY THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO
COVER, POISONING THE NATIONAL
DEBATE WHO AMERICA REALLY IS.
SHE IS WARNING A QUOTE, AN
ENLIGHTENED FEW DECIDE WHAT THE
TRUTH IS AT THE TIME THEY HAVE
PREDETERMINED NARRATIVE.
SELF-CENSORSHIP IS THE NORM.
TWITTER MOB THINK IS THE "TIMES"
ULTIMATE EDITOR.
YOUR REACTION TO THAT?
>> I THINK THAT CONCLUSION IS
EVIDENCE TO THOSE OF US ON THE
OUTSIDE.
HERE SHE IS AN INSIDER.
THE PERSON ACTUALLY THERE
DAY-TO-DAY.
SHE IS EXPOSING WHAT SO MANY OF
US HAVE BEEN CONCERNED ABOUT,
THAT "THE NEW YORK TIMES" HAS
PRESUPPOSED THE DESTINY OR
DESTINATION, THEY HAVE
PRESUPPOSED THE OUTCOME AND THEN
THEY JUST WRITE STORIES TO PULL
FILL THAT PROPHECY THAT THEY
HAVE.
IT IS SO WRONG.
IT IS NOT, THAT IS NOT NEWS
COLLECTION.
THAT IS ADVOCACY FOR THE LIBERAL
AGENDA.
THAT IS WHAT THE
"NEW YORK TIMES" HAS GRAVITATED
TO ACCORDING TO HER.
NOT FROM ME AS A CONSERVATIVE
REPUBLICAN WHO LIVES OUT WEST.
THE PERSON WHO SHE WAS BROUGHT
IN TO DO THIS, THAT IS WHAT SHE
IS WRITING IN HER OWN WORDS AND
I HOPE EVERYBODY GET AS CHANCE
TO GO BACK TO READ HER
RESIGNATION LETTER.
IT IS VERY ILLUMINATING.
ELIZABETH: THEY’RE RUNNING
OP-EDS BY THE TALIBAN, BY TOP
IRANIAN OFFICIALS, BY NICOLAS
MADURO.
A CIVIL WAR BROKE OUT THE AT
"THE TIMES" AFTER REPUBLICAN TOM
COTTON AND PROTESTS LEFT TWO
DOZEN DEAD.
THE FORMER OPINION EDITOR
RESIGNED OVER THAT.
SINCE THEN "THE TIMES" HAS BEEN
CHANGING HEADLINES AFTER THE
FACT, IF THEY’RE TOO PRO-TRUMP
OR TOO PRO-REPUBLICAN.
YOUR REACTION TO THAT?
>> WELL, WHAT SHE SAYS IS THAT
THEY JUST FOLLOW TWITTER.
AND TWITTER IS THE DRIVING FORCE
RATHER THAN A COLLECTION OF
NEWS.
YOU WOULD THINK THE OPINION
SECTION OF "THE NEW YORK TIMES"
WOULD BE A PLACE WHERE YOU COULD
SEE CONTRASTING VIEWPOINTS.
AND BE ABLE TO THINK THROUGH
ISSUES.
THAT IS NOT WHAT IT IS ANYMORE.
THAT CASE I THINK OF SENATOR
COTTON, EXPRESSING A THOUGHTFUL
POSITION AND HAVING IT PUBLISHED
WHICH WOULD LEAD TO PEOPLE
RESIGNING AND GETTING IN TROUBLE
THERE AT "THE NEW YORK TIMES."
I MEAN THAT EXPOSES IT AS MUCH
AS ANYTHING.
ELIZABETH: ALL RIGHT.