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Jonathan Chait Applauds Ivy League Presidents

Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  Dec 08, 2023
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12.08.23

Low Octane Gas Lighting – NEW YORK MAGAZINE

  • Generating clicks by defending the indefensible.

While the performances of the Ivy League school presidents testifying to Congress have repulsed most of the country, driven away donors, brought about calls for resignations, and generated enough backlash that they are already backtracking in classic CYA fashion, leave it to Jonathan Chait to come forward and defend these disturbingly permissive elites.

We need to wait for Mr. Chait to clarify if the questions about why she was not condemning the call for eradicating Jewish students were ridiculous or unanswerable.

Blue-Anon – THE NATION

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  • Defending terrorists is HOT right now.

It is a banner week for journalism – hell, for a couple of months in truth – for those desperate to support the indefensible Hamas terrorists. In this example, we have Jeet Heer uttering his disdain for the imagery of the terrorists who surrendered to the IDF. We have sat back in disgust as we have seen numerous journalists supporting the murderous, inhumane animals of Hamas, but for Heer, seeing these barbarians rounded up and held was a time to deliver contempt for those favoring this.

We have to guess that simply slaughtering them in the fashion they killed innocent citizens would have been an approved option.

News Avoidance Syndrome – THE INTERCEPT

  • The horror of tighty whities displayed for the world to see.

One journo who has been on a particularly pernicious run of rotten takes of late has been Briahna Joy Gray. She has been consistently dependable to offer up horrendous views on the Israel war, and sure enough, she was outraged at the image of the prisoners rounded up and kneeling with the IDF.

This would be where it is pointed out these prisoners all retain their heads and are not raped, kidnapped, or tossed into ovens – unlike the innocent civilians in Israel on October 7.

Pathological Media Amnesia – WASHINGTON POST

  • Sure sounds like WaPo is an outlet of Goebels, according to its standards.

For the better part of a month now, the press has been on the warpath as far as labeling Donald Trump a "Nazi." This latest is based entirely on him using the word "vermin" in a speech, and there has been a mad rush in the press to suggest this was him using Hitler-like language.

But now we find, nestled in between all the coverage of Trump supposedly using a Nazi term, this little nugget from the recent past when WaPo not only felt free using the same "vermin" word but did so in direct reference to the same guy.

Presentation Paradox – SYRACUSE.com

Once again, we have a crime against a Jewish target, and the press shies away from their regular practice of jumping to conclusions when it suits a narrative. There was a report of an individual firing a weapon outside a Jewish temple and school in Albany, New York, yet here is an outlet claiming confusion over what provoked such behavior.

More than just a default avoidance of uncomfortable realities, this attempt is made more ridiculous by the fact that the outlet explains the details in its report:

The man dropped the shotgun before officers arrived on the scene and detained him, Albany Police Chief Eric Hawkins told reporters at the scene.“We were told by responding officers that he made a comment, ‘Free Palestine,’” Hawkins.  The chief said the episode was being investigated as a hate crime.

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