{"id":169,"date":"2008-01-29T09:53:26","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T14:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opticality.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/the-new-york-times-makes-me-laugh\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T12:42:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T17:42:17","slug":"the-new-york-times-makes-me-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/the-new-york-times-makes-me-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times Makes Me Laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wanted to write about this immediately when I saw this last Friday. But, I really don’t write about politics<\/em> per se, and my comments here have nothing to do with politics anyway.<\/p>\n

But, since I just wrote a few minutes ago regarding Caroline Kennedy’s endorsement<\/a> of Barack Obama, I had little trouble convincing myself that this was in that same vein. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

So, last Friday, The NY Times endorsed Hillary Clinton in this op-ed<\/a>. I don’t begrudge them their opinion<\/em> (they even label it that \ud83d\ude09 ), but I do find some of their phrases amusing (to say the least). This is, after all, supposedly the paper of record<\/em>. What a joke.<\/p>\n

Tell me if you think the following sentence doesn’t make the editors of The New York Times sound like schoolgirls<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

“The idea of the first African-American nominee of a major party also is exhilarating, and so is the prospect of the first woman nominee.”<\/p>\n

Exhilarating<\/strong><\/em>? Really? No, wait, sorry, they too realized what an extremely silly thing to say that was, since they followed it up immediately<\/strong> with the next two sentences:<\/p>\n

“‘Firstness’ is not a reason to choose. The times that false choice has been raised, more often by Mrs. Clinton, have tarnished the campaign.”<\/p>\n

Ah, so, it tarnished her campaign to bring it up, yet you<\/em> (the vaunted editors of The NY Times) couldn’t resist coloring it even further with the word exhilarating<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

When I read that, I had an immediately exhilarating<\/em> thought as well, some might even call it ironic<\/strong>. What if Condoleezza Rice were running for president. Would The NY Times editors be exhilarated<\/strong> at the thought of the first African-American Woman<\/strong><\/em> nominee? Let’s not waste too much time on that imponderable<\/em>. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wanted to write about this immediately when I saw this last Friday. But, I really don’t write about politics per se, and my comments here have nothing to do with politics anyway. But, since I just wrote a few minutes ago regarding Caroline Kennedy’s endorsement of Barack Obama, I had little trouble convincing myself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70,2,89],"tags":[1371,163,161,157,1372],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy","category-2","category-politics","tag-comedy","tag-condoleezza-rice","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-irony","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}