For John, BLUF: The recognition of human rights is an evolving thing, and we should celebrate our movement forward. Nothing to see here; just move along.
Monday, the 14th of June, was Flag Day this year.
In the mean time, over at The New York Times there is a meltdown as a memberof the Editorial Board is triggered by the sight of American Flags on pickup trucks on Long Island:
From The New York Post, by Reporter Lee Brown, 9 June 2021, 8:11 am.
Here is the lede plus three:
The New York Times is vigorously defending editorial board member Mara Gay after she was widely ripped for saying she was “disturbed” at the sight of “dozens of American flags” flying in Long Island.Right.Gay had herself complained about the attacks that followed her appearance on MSNBC early Tuesday in which she said Donald Trump supporters flew the flag to say that “this is my country … not your country.”
“I see I’m being trolled with the American flag this morning. Trolling a Black journalist with the American flag is not the own some people think it is,” the Times board member and MSNBC contributor tweeted.
After outrage grew throughout the day, the Times’ PR team tweeted a statement late Tuesday insisting that her clearly heard comments had been “irresponsibly taken out of context."
It seems to me that Ms Gay has “irresponsibly taken out of context" the flying of the National Flag. It is everyone's flag. Everyone who is an American Citizen or aspires to be one.
I think Ms Gay is having a Pauline Kael moment, but without the insight of Ms Kael, that there are people out there, that one runs into all the time, but never engage in political conversation. In fact, it sometimes appears that The New York Times itself is having one big, decades long Pauline Kael moment. That is not a good look for the Nation's Newspaper of Record.
I wonder, if we had a national vote, would The Old Gray Lady or our National Flag win?
Hat tip to the InstaPundit.
Regards — Cliff
No comments:
Post a Comment