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2020-11-01
Note to Self: Michael Kinsley
The last thing I read
,
or ever
will read
,
by Michael
Kinsley
—commissioned and
published by the
New York
Times on
July 29, 2017.
I gave my Kinsley books
away to the library after
this.
Perhaps that was the wrong
thing to do
—after all,
someone might come along
and read them...
Michael Kinsley
(2017-07-29):
We Asked People to Say
Something Nice About Trump. Here’s What We Heard
<
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/opinion/sunday/we-
asked-people-to-say-something-nice-about-trump-heres-
what-we-heard.html
>:
‘Yes, it’s true that Hillary Clinton got
more votes, but he got the votes of more than 62 million
…
‘…
The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and
other establishment outlets have been brazenly, laughably
hostile to Mr. Trump, in their news pages as well as their
opinion sections. Maybe this hostility is justifi ed. In fact, I
think it probably is.
‘
But that doesn’t justify reaching out to twist stories or
looking for the anti-Trump angle. Nor does it justify the
open hoping—if not assuming—that something will come
along to rid us of this turbulent hotelier. Impeachment is
supposed to be an occasional tragic necessity, not just
another tool for replacing the results of an election....
‘
There has been endless vilifi cation of the guy and
speculation about how we might get rid of him.... Earlier this
year, The New York Times allowed me to ask its readers, “Is
there nothing nice you can say about the man who, after all,
is our president?”...
‘
An alarming number of readers demanded that their
subscriptions be canceled because this one pro-Trump article
appeared in a daily sea of antagonism to him. Should it
really count as pro-Trump to say, well, he’s done this one
good thing among all the bad things?
…
