Gina Anders, presented by NYT today as unbiased Trump defender, is activist who admires Confederacy

[highplainsdem]

This was how the NYT started their article:

LEESBURG, Va. — Gina Anders knows the feeling well by now. President Trump says or does something that triggers a spasm of outrage. She doesn’t necessarily agree with how he handled the situation. She gets why people are upset.

But Ms. Anders, 46, a Republican from suburban Loudoun County, Va., with a law degree, a business career, and not a stitch of “Make America Great Again” gear in her wardrobe, is moved to defend him anyway.

“All nuance and all complexity — and these are complex issues — are completely lost,” she said, describing “overblown” reactions from the president’s critics, some of whom equated the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children and parents to history’s greatest atrocities.

“It makes me angry at them, which causes me to want to defend him to them more,” Ms. Anders said.

-snip-

Makes her sound a bit like a moderate Republican, doesn't it? Someone who's simply driven to defend Trump because his critics are so unfair to him.


The truth, which the NYT neglected to dig up, is that she's a former Ron Paul supporter and activist who's now a board member of the ultra-conservative West Virginia Liberty PAC, which among other RWNJ causes defends Confederate monuments.

http://wvlpac.com/legislation/



People have been pointing this out to the NYT's Jeremy Peters on Twitter.

He's been responding by blocking at least some of them, including Brian Beutler:

Link to tweet

[gratuitous]

1. Curious, isn't it?

Peters' safari to the hinterlands to find a typical Trump voter just happens to turn up Gina Anders, quoting her extensively, and providing all kinds of details on her life and work, but leaving out these salient details. Did Peters know this and intentionally leave out Anders' public record of activism? Or doesn't he know how to use the Google? Where was Peters' editor on this?

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Had this Peters POS pegged from the get go.

The Guy sure loves his Botherism interjections,especially with Brian Williams and Chuckie Toad.

[hatrack]

2. Y'all have GOT to read this Twitter thread - absolutely damning to NYT

Their credibility continues to crumble, with new chunks falling off almost every day now.

Staggering.

[gratuitous]

5. Spoiler alert

Peters winds up blocking Beutler on twitter after a very brief exchange. But everyone else on twitter seems to get it. Peters does not come off well at all.

[DonCoquixote]

10. what is sad is

The NYT was experiencing more subscriptions and strength because it WAS the LIBERAL paper, but for some reason, they felll like they have to coddle the right, why? Only the GOP can act like they are being pragmatic when their ideas fail even pragmatism.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Nuance and complexity?

Trump has no clue what those words mean.

[oasis]

4. Busted! (eom)

[kimbutgar]

6. Typical republicscum

Shame on The NY Times for not looking into her background. But something tells me the writer knew what was and “accidentally” ommitted it.

[bitterross]

8. I stopped at "admires Confederacy."

I have serious issues with anyone who still admires the Confederacy. The people who took up arms against this nation because they wanted to continue owning other humans.

They were, and still are, all traitors.

[Solly Mack]

11. No room for MAGA gear because of all the Confederate gear.