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There’s clearly a campaign going on in George Soros-affiliated media to replace the anti-crime black woman district attorney of Los Angeles County with somebody more Kim Foxx-like, even if it’s a white guy from San Francisco. From the New York Times:
Why Los Angeles Could Be the Setting for the ‘Most Important D.A. Race’ in the U.S.
By Tim Arango
June 21, 2019LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles has the biggest jail system in America and sends people to state prison at almost four times the rate of San Francisco, even though violent crime has fallen in both cities.
San Francisco is the richest and most expensive city in America and is only 5% black and 15% Hispanic, with, in my impression, virtually no old time Mexican gangs.
L.A. is 9% black and 49% Hispanic, with the most famous old time gangs in the U.S., such as the Crips and the Bloods.
Los Angeles has made a lot of progress against gangs since Bill Bratton was brought in to head the LAPD by ex-mayor Jim Hahn. Out went the strategy of “decapitating” gangs by targeting “kingpins.” It turned out you don’t actually need a criminal mastermind to head a gang. In fact, arresting kingpins made gang membership more attractive for junior members since it gave them opportunities to rise up the ranks.
Instead, So Cal law enforcement switched to rounding up large fractions of gangs at once, using RICO.
But when it comes to criminal justice, the two cities could not be more different.
“They are polar opposites,” said Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter.
Now, those competing approaches — pushing to reform mass incarceration versus a more traditional get-tough-on crime tact — are likely to clash in the race for district attorney of Los Angeles. George Gascón, the district attorney of San Francisco, is weighing a return home to Los Angeles, where he was a police officer in the 1990s, to challenge Jackie Lacey, Los Angeles’s incumbent top prosecutor, setting the stage for what activists and experts say will be the most important district attorney’s race in America. …
As he weighs the decision, Mr. Gascón has been visiting local activist groups in Los Angeles, including Black Lives Matter. …
Activists in Los Angeles, as well as national figures who have backed, with campaign cash and grass-roots support, liberal district attorney candidates across the country in recent years, are pushing Mr. Gascón to run.
Harry Baldwin’s “The Eye of Soros”
I.e., George Soros.
… When Ms. Lacey was elected district attorney in 2012, she became the first woman and first African-American to hold the office, and she was embraced by liberal activists as someone they hoped would take a new approach to criminal justice. But in office, she has spoken out against statewide reforms of recent years aimed at reducing prison populations, and put herself forward as an aggressive enforcer of the law, an approach that won her two elections.
… And this week, the American Civil Liberties Union published a report of Ms. Lacey’s handling of the death penalty, calling it “shameful” and riddled with racial bias. The report found that all of the 22 people sentenced to death in her tenure were people of color. And while Governor Newsom in March announced a moratorium on executions, Ms. Lacey has said she remains supportive of capital punishment, noting that it is still the law in the state and that voters have backed the penalty. Her office continues to pursue new death cases.
In a written response to questions, Ms. Lacey said, “My values are a reflection of my experience growing up in the Crenshaw District. Growing up, we witnessed gang violence, poverty and difficult relations between the police and community. From the Watts riots, to overcrowded prisons, to seeing people I knew going to jail and becoming victims of crimes, I don’t come from the privileged background of a typical county D.A.”
Ms. Lacey was unapologetic about being tough on crime, writing that her goal is to create an environment “where children in disadvantaged communities have the opportunity to thrive and not live in fear.” …
These days, each Wednesday, Black Lives Matter activists hold rallies outside Ms. Lacey’s office at the Hall of Justice in downtown Los Angeles, to protest her tenure in office and demand her removal. But how much success they will have remains to be seen.
“There’s just a really stark contrast,” said Lara Bazelon, a professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, referring to San Francisco and Los Angeles. “I guess the huge unanswered question is, are L.A. voters ready for someone who’s more progressive?”
How many Americans have the Bazelon family helped get murdered over the last three generations?
Classic NYT misdirection. A technically accurate reference which casual readers will misinterpret, and don’t think that’s accidental on the part of the writer & editor. The clause beginning with “even though” is intended to seem relevant–a linchpin, even–when in fact it’s not really meaningful at all, as Steve hints with his ‘hatefacts’ about the makeup of the ‘citizenry’ of the two cities.
If violent crime falls in your city (or even if it doesn’t, frankly), you should send people to prison at the same rate as another, far wealthier, and less crime-ridden locale. You got a problem with that, racist?
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=17838
Think how much more time and people need to be involved in subordinating the facts to the Truth. Do they openly acknowledge this to each other as the stuff is crafted? Not often, I suspect. One of the reasons for the teams of editors and the shared bylines one sees on so many of these articles (although not this one) is that each can plausibly deny to herself that she is responsible for misleading the readers. There may even come a point when the "journalist" writes like this naturally.Replies: @Kronos
Fewer than they’d like.
George Gascón, the district attorney of San Francisco, is weighing a return home to Los Angeles, where he was a police officer in the 1990s, to challenge Jackie Lacey, Los Angeles’s incumbent top prosecutor, setting the stage for what activists and experts say will be the most important district attorney’s race in America. …
And I am indifferent. Couldn’t care either way. For much of the American land and social landscape I don’t have any skin in the game. I just don’t care what happens to LA or San Francisco. I’ll watch with melancholy amusement.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/gascon
It sounds like this Mrs. Lacey is not the usual black woman in a high government position. Good on her. The money might be coming into the Black Lives Matter movement from somewhere, but I imagine the regular black voters will vote race-wise as is normally the case. Put pictures on the ballots, if you have to.
That’s the thing with even the big Soros money going into “grass-roots” campaigns. Normal Americans can beat it handily, if they just don’t listen to the TV propaganda and think for themselves. The real problem is when the Soros money goes directly to the politicians – they will ditch their promises and screw their voters over for those 30 pieces of silver.
Wikipedia says he was born in Havana, so I doubt he’ll be cast as white by the media. It seems he learned how to walk the progressive walk in SF, but it’s not clear how much non-activist LA minorities will vote that way.
Bill in Glendale
She seems to think black lives matter. What an original thought.
No wonder they hate her.
If violent crime falls in your city (or even if it doesn't, frankly), you should send people to prison at the same rate as another, far wealthier, and less crime-ridden locale. You got a problem with that, racist?Replies: @Fred C Dobbs, @anonymous
Zman gets to the nub of the issue at the 12:00 mark of his latest Power Hour. Readily apparent to anyone with two ears and two eyes, but absolutely verboten from discussion at the Approved Channels, such as the Gray Lady of Times Square.
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=17838
If violent crime falls in your city (or even if it doesn't, frankly), you should send people to prison at the same rate as another, far wealthier, and less crime-ridden locale. You got a problem with that, racist?Replies: @Fred C Dobbs, @anonymous
Many articles in periodicals like the New York Times are the opposite of what used to be known as reporting. These “journalists” palter for a living, writing like a sleazy lawyer briefing a bad case, or a PR type trying to deflect public outrage.
Think how much more time and people need to be involved in subordinating the facts to the Truth. Do they openly acknowledge this to each other as the stuff is crafted? Not often, I suspect. One of the reasons for the teams of editors and the shared bylines one sees on so many of these articles (although not this one) is that each can plausibly deny to herself that she is responsible for misleading the readers. There may even come a point when the “journalist” writes like this naturally.
There is a Chinese rapper by the name of China Mac. In one of his interviews on VladTV he described the death of the Chinese mafia. They basically ran out of recruits interested in it as the Chinese economic position improved.
Meanwhile, the black gangs had no shortage of recruits because membership in a gang was not a pragmatic thing driven by necessity on the ground. It is more culturally ingrained for the black gangs.
I want to make a Bazelon-themed T-shirt. Any ideas on a design or slogan?
“San Francisco is the richest and most expensive city in America and is only 5% black and 15% Hispanic, with, in my impression, virtually no old time Mexican gangs. L.A. is 9% black and 49% Hispanic, with the most famous old time gangs in the U.S., such as the Crips and the Bloods.”
The hypocrisy is just amazing sometimes.
Btw, I'm surprised than that clip who have a lenght of 50 minutes is still on Youtube. Better upload it on Dailymotion or Bitchute while we still have the chance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkFPN5zUw3IReplies: @Kronos
The hypocrisy is just amazing sometimes.
https://youtu.be/C0FnJDhY9-0Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Hrw-500
Thanks.
“…..was a police officer in the 1990s”. If the guy’s a “reformer” after that, he should be exhibit B for bringing back forced institutionalization of the mentally ill.
Steve, speaking of Bazelon, there could be glitch in the archives, where Cloudflare is blocking access to some April 2019 iSteve articles (paging Ron Unz!):
April 10, 2019
https://www.unz.com/isteve/a-theory-about-why-judge-bazelon-could-empathize-with-criminals/
https://www.unz.com/isteve/presidential-height/
April 11, 2019
https://www.unz.com/isteve/british-bobbies-crack-down-on-limerick-hate/
https://www.unz.com/isteve/coyw-ruled-a-racist-license-plate/
@Ron Unz
And I am indifferent. Couldn't care either way. For much of the American land and social landscape I don't have any skin in the game. I just don't care what happens to LA or San Francisco. I'll watch with melancholy amusement.Replies: @Cortes
Sounds good…
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/gascon
L.A. is 9% black and 49% Hispanic, with the most famous old time gangs in the U.S., such as the Crips and the Bloods.
Their fame is largely amplified by Hollywood portrayals. In reality, the Crips and Bloods pale in many ways to the Chicago gangs, like the P Stones, Vice Lords and Gangster Disciples. Those gangs are older, far more organized, and are the dominant gangs in much of the heartland, where Crips and Bloods are viewed almost as farm teams. There may be second generation Crips in LA, but there are fourth generation Vice Lords in Chicago.
The Chicago gangs also have had that weird crypto-Masonic/Islamic/Moorish Science thing going on for for a long time as well, particarly among the loosely- aligned Vice Lords and P Stones, so it adds a cultish religious veneer that helps attract the impressionable. Don’t forget that it was one of these sets, the El Rukns, who got busted in the 1980’s by the FBI for its contacts with the Libya to procure terror weapons.
Granted, there’s that famous gang “family/community” thing that somehow turns into the circular firing squad in all of them, but it should be remembered that most of the gangs in this country are in either the larger People and Folk “Nation” alliances. These alliances were created by Chicago gangs in the 1970’s. The Bloods and Crips may get more media attention, but Chicago has and still sets the tone on the street.
You get the impression that Soros is a Loki-like figure who just likes to wreck stuff (and the Bazelons are terminally fatuous poseurs).
‘Tough-on-crime’ incorporates the following notions: (1) that there are good act and bad acts, and that ordinary people can tell the difference; (2) that people have agency, and that when they commit good acts and bad acts, they exercise that agency and are accountable for the consequences; (3) that punishment is properly a function of the nature of the act; (4) that maintaining order – and the security of persons and property – takes priority over nearly any other function of government; and (5) that people respond to surveillance and punishment about how ordinary people might expect they’d respond. These five notions are anathema to the Bazelons and to obstreperous black nationalists, albeit not for precisely the same menu of reasons.
The hypocrisy is just amazing sometimes.
https://youtu.be/C0FnJDhY9-0Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Hrw-500
Could you imagine the reactions if there was a movie titled “The Last Black Man in Detroit”?
Btw, I’m surprised than that clip who have a lenght of 50 minutes is still on Youtube. Better upload it on Dailymotion or Bitchute while we still have the chance.
https://images.app.goo.gl/LzbtRK5GnmftPaJQ7
April 10, 2019
https://www.unz.com/isteve/a-theory-about-why-judge-bazelon-could-empathize-with-criminals/
https://www.unz.com/isteve/presidential-height/
April 11, 2019
https://www.unz.com/isteve/british-bobbies-crack-down-on-limerick-hate/
https://www.unz.com/isteve/coyw-ruled-a-racist-license-plate/Replies: @Hail
For all those pages, I too get
continuously reloading; can never access article.
@Ron Unz
Some people just never learn. They get swallowed by their ideology and they interpret reality in a completely different way than you and I. Or maybe he just likes having the moral high ground, and since having the moral high ground in 2019 means emboldening criminals, he will do that. Do not forget , many progressives are narcissists.
Meanwhile, the black gangs had no shortage of recruits because membership in a gang was not a pragmatic thing driven by necessity on the ground. It is more culturally ingrained for the black gangs.Replies: @Hibernian
Of course the left tells us that all social pathologies in the ghettos are economically based.
Some left leaning men, and women, go into military or paramilitary organizations as foot soldiers of the left. (Not talking about Rosenberg style high treason, although that’s a real thing.) Women reserve officers are a trip.
You mean the government is applying the RICO law against actual racketeers and not political activists? Be still my heart!
At this point I think the left holds up the black underclass as superior on their behavior. The left craves drama and there is to be found in the black underclass.
The thinking of nearly all black people on crime is bizarre. Whites are eager to get rid of criminal whites who prey on the white community. But blacks are eager to protect blacks that prey on the black community. Certain elements ought to rot in hell for brainwashing the black community against their own interests.
“… put herself forward as an aggressive enforcer of the law…”
And why exactly is that a bad thing?
Fox Butterfield has changed his name to Tim Arango.
From Chappelle’s Show, Mooney on Movies:
“Hollywood is crazy…”
You guys made me post this.
Btw, I'm surprised than that clip who have a lenght of 50 minutes is still on Youtube. Better upload it on Dailymotion or Bitchute while we still have the chance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkFPN5zUw3IReplies: @Kronos
Well at this point “The last white man in Detroit” would be closer to the mark. I’ve always been curious on the white middle/upper class “Detroit Diaspora.” Did they mainly move to the coasts or middle America? I’m sure there were plenty of (very discrete) country club talks in what exactly went down in Detroit. Detroit refugees in private discussions in the Hillcrest Country Club (L.A.) and it’s ilk.
https://images.app.goo.gl/LzbtRK5GnmftPaJQ7
True. The White Left serves the Black Queen.
SF / SF County (one and the same) are a lot safer than Oakland / Alameda County.
Think how much more time and people need to be involved in subordinating the facts to the Truth. Do they openly acknowledge this to each other as the stuff is crafted? Not often, I suspect. One of the reasons for the teams of editors and the shared bylines one sees on so many of these articles (although not this one) is that each can plausibly deny to herself that she is responsible for misleading the readers. There may even come a point when the "journalist" writes like this naturally.Replies: @Kronos
Any idea on when this started to happen? 2013? 2008? Sooner?
FYI, here is the late Larry Auster on Emily’s grandpa, corroborating Steve’s terrific April effort about the elder Bazelon (comments closed there):
But no compassion for the actual violent crime victims, as Steve points out.
“There’s clearly a campaign going on in George Soros-affiliated media to replace the anti-crime black woman district attorney of Los Angeles County with somebody more Kim Foxx-like, even if it’s a white guy from San Francisco.”
That’s the point, though – to replace the racial minority with a white upperclass liberal; “crime” is merely a racial grievance exploitation tactic they will use to get it done. I’ve long suspected that California’s increasing pozzness partly originates from a desire of the wealthy white elite there to maintain control of key state positions like governor, lt. governor (both now white), and various DA positions. I suspect they are feeling the heat as California continues to Hispanisize (there were more Hispanic births there than white and Asian births combined last year). The current AG, for example, is a guy named Xavier Becerra. He looks the part, too – both parents are Mexican. I think they are practicing racial grievance mongering against “The Other” (whites in the rest of the country) to keep Hispanics in line and voting for the pozzed white LGBTQ elite in California instead of fielding their own, race-conscious, candidates who might be a bit more socialist and less LGBTQ friendly.
Thus, we get a continual stream of placation and racial grievance mongering, like Gov. Brown’s healthcare for illegals and Gavin Newsom’s ridiculous rhetoric against other Americans: white guy lt. Governor Gavin Newsom recently used racial grievance language to “otherize” the rest of the country so people won’t notice that he’s really “The Other” he refers to – a rich white guy; Gavin used “The Other” (non-Californian whites) in a bizarre comment about the rest of the country being racist and evil like California was back in the 1990s (WTF?) before the white patriarchy of Brown and Newsom in order to keep POC from noticing that maybe it’s time for a socialist Hispanic governor … which would be bad for rich white guy LGBTQ types in the very wealthy Bay Area but probably good for prole whites in homeless camps on Skid Row and POC.
In the entertainment industry, white guys like Harvey Weinstein used fake feminism as a cover for his bad sexual behaviors and profiting from stereotypical (and diversity free) white female movies like Mansfield Park and Shakespeare in Love. You just saw a similar phenomenon with Netflix: deeply in debt, they had to turn to traditional whitish chick flicks to make a profit … but they were sure to denounce the patriarchy’s use of the word “Chick Flick” on Twitter in order to keep the outrage mob from noticing their hypocrisy in regards to the narrative; they like making money but have to do it carefully in this environment, thus the diversionary tactics. White guys like Rob Reiner use “muh Trump issa racist” on Twitter to distract people from his 2014 initiative to keep minority and white trash-attracting Whole Foods out of his 97% rich white Malibu neighborhood. White guys like Seth McFarland denounced white guy Tucker Carlson for (inconsequential) comments over PBS funding so people won’t notice he has a cartoon and a sci-fi show with demographics that both skew heavily white male. Taylor Swift was forced to denounce the white “racist” republican candidate in Tennessee during the 2018 election to keep POC from noticing she only hangs out with and dates whites.
I think this explains a lot of the increasing pozz in Hollywood movies, too. Thus, we get things like a white female producer of X-Men Dark Phoenix claiming the name should be changed, insinuating the title is sexist – that despite the obvious idiocy of obliterating the ip’s name recognition value – so certain people don’t ask why there isn’t more racial diversity in that position as well – racial diversity of the type that’d probably crash the industry. And white guy JJ Abrams diversified Star Wars, and promoted that fact, to keep people from asking why a POC can’t be given his big director’s job, instead. Pozzed white writers make sure the public knows their movie villains (the First Order in SWTFA) are ridiculous Nazees and Trump voter caricatures to keep POC from pointing out that their writing is so bad that a POC couldn’t possibly do any worse if given their jobs.
It’s all a game of diversion by otherizing a rival racial group elsewhere so they can continue making profit and living the good life by keeping POC off their backs. I think that’s profoundly immoral, especially since they cloak their racism in sanctimonious rhetoric. One wonders how long that can last.
Aside: and that’s also why southern California will never let northern California break away and form a second state. That would put a lot of LGBTQ white guys around LA in a lot of trouble as they’d have fewer “Others” to divert POC attention to.
That's the point, though - to replace the racial minority with a white upperclass liberal; "crime" is merely a racial grievance exploitation tactic they will use to get it done. I've long suspected that California's increasing pozzness partly originates from a desire of the wealthy white elite there to maintain control of key state positions like governor, lt. governor (both now white), and various DA positions. I suspect they are feeling the heat as California continues to Hispanisize (there were more Hispanic births there than white and Asian births combined last year). The current AG, for example, is a guy named Xavier Becerra. He looks the part, too - both parents are Mexican. I think they are practicing racial grievance mongering against "The Other" (whites in the rest of the country) to keep Hispanics in line and voting for the pozzed white LGBTQ elite in California instead of fielding their own, race-conscious, candidates who might be a bit more socialist and less LGBTQ friendly.
Thus, we get a continual stream of placation and racial grievance mongering, like Gov. Brown's healthcare for illegals and Gavin Newsom's ridiculous rhetoric against other Americans: white guy lt. Governor Gavin Newsom recently used racial grievance language to "otherize" the rest of the country so people won't notice that he's really "The Other" he refers to - a rich white guy; Gavin used "The Other" (non-Californian whites) in a bizarre comment about the rest of the country being racist and evil like California was back in the 1990s (WTF?) before the white patriarchy of Brown and Newsom in order to keep POC from noticing that maybe it's time for a socialist Hispanic governor ... which would be bad for rich white guy LGBTQ types in the very wealthy Bay Area but probably good for prole whites in homeless camps on Skid Row and POC.
In the entertainment industry, white guys like Harvey Weinstein used fake feminism as a cover for his bad sexual behaviors and profiting from stereotypical (and diversity free) white female movies like Mansfield Park and Shakespeare in Love. You just saw a similar phenomenon with Netflix: deeply in debt, they had to turn to traditional whitish chick flicks to make a profit ... but they were sure to denounce the patriarchy's use of the word "Chick Flick" on Twitter in order to keep the outrage mob from noticing their hypocrisy in regards to the narrative; they like making money but have to do it carefully in this environment, thus the diversionary tactics. White guys like Rob Reiner use "muh Trump issa racist" on Twitter to distract people from his 2014 initiative to keep minority and white trash-attracting Whole Foods out of his 97% rich white Malibu neighborhood. White guys like Seth McFarland denounced white guy Tucker Carlson for (inconsequential) comments over PBS funding so people won't notice he has a cartoon and a sci-fi show with demographics that both skew heavily white male. Taylor Swift was forced to denounce the white "racist" republican candidate in Tennessee during the 2018 election to keep POC from noticing she only hangs out with and dates whites.
I think this explains a lot of the increasing pozz in Hollywood movies, too. Thus, we get things like a white female producer of X-Men Dark Phoenix claiming the name should be changed, insinuating the title is sexist - that despite the obvious idiocy of obliterating the ip's name recognition value - so certain people don't ask why there isn't more racial diversity in that position as well - racial diversity of the type that'd probably crash the industry. And white guy JJ Abrams diversified Star Wars, and promoted that fact, to keep people from asking why a POC can't be given his big director's job, instead. Pozzed white writers make sure the public knows their movie villains (the First Order in SWTFA) are ridiculous Nazees and Trump voter caricatures to keep POC from pointing out that their writing is so bad that a POC couldn't possibly do any worse if given their jobs.
It's all a game of diversion by otherizing a rival racial group elsewhere so they can continue making profit and living the good life by keeping POC off their backs. I think that's profoundly immoral, especially since they cloak their racism in sanctimonious rhetoric. One wonders how long that can last.
Aside: and that's also why southern California will never let northern California break away and form a second state. That would put a lot of LGBTQ white guys around LA in a lot of trouble as they'd have fewer "Others" to divert POC attention to.Replies: @dfordoom
It’s almost as if everything is actually about class, and about rich whites maintaining their grip on power and screwing everyone else. It’s almost as if identity politics is just a smokescreen so we won’t notice that those rich whites are still in charge and they have no intention of letting go of power ever.
Probably with Gutenberg, if we recall Mencken and Twain. Hunter S. Thompson more recently had a memorable thing or two to say about the vocation.
But the prevalence of these newspaper articles that come out of nowhere to push a perspective on a controversial issue without reporting anything discretely newsworthy seems to have taken off, as you suggest, in the last decade or two. Reporters like Seymour Hersh seem inspired by the hunt to expose the Establishment, and we have to wait until they nail it; the type we’re talking about get their pulse pounding by waving one of its little flags, and they show up on schedule.
This change has been evident over the years when I’ve occasionally had reason to deal with local news media about government misconduct or bad policy. They increasingly seem clueless, almost hard-wired by the time they’ve been educated and credentialed as “journalists” not to perceive the problem, much less motivated to jump on a story.
Absolutely not. Hersh's business is selling books to injure the reputation of a menu of personal bogies. Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, the military the Mossad, the CIA, the Reagan Administration &c. He has no interest in accuracy and no interest in the Establishment per se. All of his books are about the military, the intelligence services, or politicians and dignitaries who supervise them. He has no experience working for either, even the two-years-and-out modal for men born in 1937. You'll notice that the Establishment media is untouched by Hersh, even though that's the world he actually knows professionally.Replies: @anonymous, @Kronos
My impression is that it has grown to new heights in the 2010s, but has existed in some form for decades, often in the form of malicious use of misdirectionist statistics.
“Blacks are charged with drug possession at a much higher rate than Whites despite comparable rates of drug use,” is a classic. It is dishonest as follows: If a defendant is suspected of (say) a string of armed robberies and is caught with drugs on him, there are many cases where there is some problem or potential weakness with the state’s armed robbery case, but the drug charge is solid and will get him off the streets for a while so drug charges are pressed in addition to the others.
The turbocharging of this form of writing in the Megaphone Media seems associated with the rise of the ugly little creature known as the “Fact Check”:
Makes sense, the whole SJW political correctness machinery was born and raised in the universities. Can’t imagine it could’ve gotten off the ground in a trade union or a company’s HR department (by itself.)
Reporters like Seymour Hersh seem inspired by the hunt to expose the Establishment
Absolutely not. Hersh’s business is selling books to injure the reputation of a menu of personal bogies. Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, the military the Mossad, the CIA, the Reagan Administration &c. He has no interest in accuracy and no interest in the Establishment per se. All of his books are about the military, the intelligence services, or politicians and dignitaries who supervise them. He has no experience working for either, even the two-years-and-out modal for men born in 1937. You’ll notice that the Establishment media is untouched by Hersh, even though that’s the world he actually knows professionally.
He can only write in German newspapers now right?Replies: @Art Deco
Absolutely not. Hersh's business is selling books to injure the reputation of a menu of personal bogies. Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, the military the Mossad, the CIA, the Reagan Administration &c. He has no interest in accuracy and no interest in the Establishment per se. All of his books are about the military, the intelligence services, or politicians and dignitaries who supervise them. He has no experience working for either, even the two-years-and-out modal for men born in 1937. You'll notice that the Establishment media is untouched by Hersh, even though that's the world he actually knows professionally.Replies: @anonymous, @Kronos
I thought that might light you up, as it did back in February. Remember? Even the cool and detached Mr. Sailer weighed in: “Seymour Hersh is one of the great reporters in American history.”
That you would seize on my use of Mr. Hersh merely as an example of traditional reporting seems pretty obsessive.
He’s not an example of ‘traditional reporting’. He’s a disreputable character who has a market.
Would love to see a quantitative attempt to measure this.
One idea is date-range-confined searches for the phrase “even though,” which is the verbal glue that holds together the weaselly argument in the OP here, i.e.,
Compare NYT appearances of “even though” in the 2010s, maybe aided by a certain keyword (“white” would be useful), with the same search for mid-late 20th century NY Times articles. Anyone can take a stab at this analysis. I think a pattern will be noticed.
I tentatively conclude that this kind of writing in the pages of the NY Times begins slowly in the 1990s, rises in the 2000s, and takes off in the 2010s:
Here is a 2017 appearance of “even though”:
The argument is not made explicitly, at least not in this excerpt, but that “even though” serves its job. The “even though” implies a White conspiracy.
A highly slippery use of “even though” in 2015,
Implied there is that there is no legitimate White identity except being a John Brown (!), an argument waved through without discussion by that “even though.”
And the old standby, from 2015:
This says nothing about average ages, average credit ratings, average incomes, household size, cultural propensity to rent or own, or any other factors. This writer just shoves an “even though” on us and declares victory.
In reviewing results for the same query for 1970s and 1980s articles, I don’t readily find any “sneering Fact Check”-tone uses of “even though.” It wasn’t hard to find the above three from the 2010s. I do find some in the 1990s, such as:
That is an early appearance of the non-sequitur “even though,” likely made in bad faith for racial-political reasons, of the sort we have slowly grown used to in the 2010s. So it’s not like this is a fresh innovation by, say, young b.1980s journalists writing in the 2010s.
Just for fun, here is a funny one from the 1990s:
Absolutely not. Hersh's business is selling books to injure the reputation of a menu of personal bogies. Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, the military the Mossad, the CIA, the Reagan Administration &c. He has no interest in accuracy and no interest in the Establishment per se. All of his books are about the military, the intelligence services, or politicians and dignitaries who supervise them. He has no experience working for either, even the two-years-and-out modal for men born in 1937. You'll notice that the Establishment media is untouched by Hersh, even though that's the world he actually knows professionally.Replies: @anonymous, @Kronos
Didn’t they shit-can him after his Osama book? Made Obama look like a lying cheating amateur.
He can only write in German newspapers now right?
Seymour Hersh is an 'investigative reporter', which is code for 'con artist'. If you've got no scandal, you've got no book. His entire career has been undertaken in the post-Sullivan legal environment, and his subject matter is such that issuing corrections can be awkward for public officials, even if what he writes is concocted out of whole cloth.
He can only write in German newspapers now right?Replies: @Art Deco
No clue who the ‘they’ is.
Seymour Hersh is an ‘investigative reporter’, which is code for ‘con artist’. If you’ve got no scandal, you’ve got no book. His entire career has been undertaken in the post-Sullivan legal environment, and his subject matter is such that issuing corrections can be awkward for public officials, even if what he writes is concocted out of whole cloth.
No Norteno gangs remaining in SF?