New York Times accused of 'sanewashing' Trump post with report on dumping 'brown liquid'

[Miles Archer]

New York Times accused of 'sanewashing' Trump post with report on dumping 'brown liquid'

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-nyt-sanewashing-brown-liquid/

Donald Trump posted an AI video in which "King Trump" can be seen dumping feces from a fighter jet onto protesters, but the New York Times is catching flak for its coverage of the post.

The president shocked political analysts and experts with an AI video he posted this weekend. Trump late Saturday night dropped a new Artificial Intelligence video in which "King Trump" is shown flying a jet in a crown and dumping feces on "No Kings" protesters, leading some to call into question his sanity.

Now, the Times is being criticized for its portrayal of the video.

In an article called, "Trump Posts Fake Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters," the Times argued, "President Trump shared what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media. It shows Mr. Trump wearing a crown and flying a jet that dumps brown liquid on demonstrators."

[wcmagumba]

1. He is totally bonkers and a world class asshole...

Hail to the Creep!

[BattleRow]

8. The burger king...

[lastlib]

25. Not a burger anyone wants to eat........

If you want to mop it up, better use neoprene gloves and a gas mask......

[BattleRow]

36. A "nothing burger" king.

[Silent Type]

2. They would have been criticized no matter what they did.

[paleotn]

11. So why not perpetuate the regime's propaganda? Is that what you're saying?

You know, some of us are sick and tired of NYT's "Move along, move along. Nothing to see here" attitude when there's a whole hell of a lot to see and be aware of here. Perhaps it's from cowardice that the NYT's shrinks from being on the right side of history. Or, perhaps those running the gray lady really have no problem with fascism American style.

[Silent Type]

38. Don't read it. David Parkman might good substitute for you. Personally, believe readers of NYT know what's going on

and reacted negatively to trump's posts.

Others think that if the media doesn't explicitly say before every sentence "Remember trump is a POS" or something similar, that readers are too stupid to react properly to trump's BS.

I'd be interested in what large media you frequent?

[paleotn]

39. A number of sources, leavened with a good bit of critical thinking...

And don't go to extremes in your response, i.e. "explicitly say before every sentence." That's a little strawman-ish, no? Ever heard of normalizing? That's the rub.

And seriously, how far does Trump have to go before NYT and others throw up their hands and admit he's bat shit? Instead, they bend over backwards to give legitimacy to the ravings of a lunatic. "Well, some in the administration are saying this", when "this" is so untethered from reality it's certifiably. If the "this" is "Portland is a war zone", the rational response is, no, it's most certainly not. Been there. It's fine. We don't know what on earth he's talking about. But that's not what we get. What we get is legitimization of crazed lunacies as though they're valid points. They're not.

[Oeditpus Rex]

41. '...he's bat shit'

"And seriously, how far does Trump have to go before NYT and others throw up their hands and admit he's bat shit?"

Ever heard of a libel suit?

The previous poster is correct. Too many people here are angry because the news media don't echo their own thoughts, if not words, about The Felon and his Misadministration. They don't seem to understand the great responsibility that accompanies a cobstitutionally free press.

Legitimate news media are duty-bound to report and opine only that which they're certain to be true. This is why the NYT described what came out of AI Drumpf's airplane as "brown liquid" tather than "feces." One can asdume it was feces, but assumption is the bane of every legitimate reporter's occupation.

Learn to think like an editor and an attorney, because they go together in at least one sense: if you can't prove it in court, you shouldn't put it in the paper.

[Ilikepurple]

18. Yes, we must sanewash the sanewashers lest insanity prevail?

For some, blind allegiance to legacy media seems to be the most important issue of our time. I’m not sure what this statement is meant to argue? Are we trying to chill criticism on the basis that disagreement exists? I guess we should have no problem with the Dobbs decision overturning Roe because the Supreme Court would have been criticized no matter what they did? If, more charitably, you are saying that the NYT will never be “good enough” for some of us, that might be true, but it doesn’t directly respond to the sanewashing accusations here. Being the target of the hypercritical does not by itself shield one from all criticism.

[vanlassie]

33. Really? That's your take?

[SocialDemocrat61]

37. Some just can't help being

apologists for the corporate media.

[sop]

3. "Brown liquid" must be the NYT's style guide euphemism for diarrhea.

[Vogon_Glory]

4. The Gray Lady's current management is poo-pooing Orange Julius'

mental state.

[dobleremolque]

19. Change the ink color and NYT can be referred to as the Brown Lady. n/t

[Vogon_Glory]

42. I suspect that you caught my punch-line, but others

reading this thread may not know that “poo” is a euphemism for excrement.

[dobleremolque]

43. Yes, that, but I'll also bet that a considerable number of readers here

don't know that the nickname "Gray Lady" comes from the days before offset printing, when graphics/picture reproduction in a newspaper involved an expensive, multi-step process, with nasty chemicals and acids, to create an image plate for letterpress. So the NYT front page was often an expansive field of nothing but gray type without pictures of any kind, hence "Gray Lady." (I think I've dated myself here.)

[NNadir]

5. This is hardly new. The allegedly "left" NY Times including assholes like Haberman, Dowd, et al has been doing this...

...for decades now.

They are thus responsible for the collapse of what once was a leading beacon of democracy in the world, the United States.

They should all take baths in a "brown liquid."

[Miles Archer]

14. Peter Baker was the one who resulted in my canceling my digital sub.

His demeanor is much like Mike Johnson's. He'd write all of these pro-Trump, whataboutism op/eds...not as bad as Fox News or Newsmax, but a lot like the style of Katy Tur on MSNBC. You'd be reading and go "HUH?" And he was a frequent guest on MSNBC, which made me like him even less. When I dropped the sub I wrote that I was doing so over Baker...not that they cared, of course, but I did tell them.

[dalton99a]

6. Karoline Leavitt says it's maple syrup

[Harker]

12. She should try it on pancakes.

[Ilsa]

22. Yeah, trump promised us sweets all through his campaign.

But instead, we get this.

He really doesn't get that his a.i. toon makes him look like a really bad leader. He's such a child deriving enjoyment from his juvenile imagination.

[C_U_L8R]

7. Shitposting, literally.

[gfarber]

9. The Royal Flush

King Trump took a jet for a ride,
With a crown and some ego to guide.
He dumped from the sky,
On protesters nearby—
A brown rain he could barely hide.

In a video proudly displayed,
Where AI and delusion parade,
He soared through the mist,
With a fecal-armed fist—
A monarch of memes poorly made.

The Times tried to soften the blow,
Calling filth just a "brown liquid" show.
Their phrasing quite neat,
Sanewashed the tweet,
While readers said, "Come on, we know."

The protesters shouted, "No kings!"
But Trump had some airborne flings.
From his fantasy throne,
He let judgment be flown—
In jets full of crappy misgivings.

The press tried to walk a fine line,
Between satire and sewage in brine.
But with “liquid” so vague,
They entered a plague—
Of readers who rolled eyes online.

With a digital flush from above,
He rained down what none could call love.
Yet headlines so clean,
Masked the obscene—
As though filth wore a velvet glove.

[Doodles]

10. Love it!

That’s great!

[BattleRow]

16. In this case,saniwashing is perhaps more appropriate.

Sanitize that crap...literally.

[dobleremolque]

20. Excellent! (Have the Pulitzer prizes been awarded yet? I'd nominate this post.) n/t

[SocialDemocrat61]

13. Why would anyone expect better from the Times?

[Paladin]

21. I damn sure wouldn't expect anything better from the NYT.

Cutting trump way more slack than he's entitled to---as usual.

[Buddyzbuddy]

15. Those words are fine filtered through a lawyer.

They're precise without embellishments.

[BannonsLiver]

23. Calling shit what it is is not an embellishment.

“Honey, I’m going to the bathroom to release some brown liquid.”

There’s no one alive who says that. There are precise terms for shit. Feces is one. Bowel movement is another. Excrement. Dung. Stool.

They chose to sane wash.

[Buddyzbuddy]

27. But a lawyer would not draw that conclusion, it's an assumption.

I'm not defending the NYT article. It's just a theory based on observation. If you don't want to get sued then don't write anything except exactly what is said, done or shown. That's from a layman. The Felon loves to put lawyers he's already paying to work. He knows the reaction he'll get before he's outrageous. He counts on it.

He knows what it is, we know what it is, the NYT knows what it is. But, in a courtroom when the NYT is being sued, the Felon's lawyers are going to say, "prove it".

[W_HAMILTON]

44. ...

[Buddyzbuddy]

45. Does it matter that I have no idea what this means?

[sprinkleeninow]

31. There's also hovno, guvno, skit, etc.

Did this really transpire?

It appears to be bottoming out, yes?

Take him away.

Lord, how long? King David himself asked in the Psalms.

Lord Have Mercy On Us Righteous Ones!

[Zackzzzz]

17. I had to sit down. This is from my president?

I am breathless.

Yesterday I could not believe our Marines shot over I-5 and
45 played a "game" as to who would flinch first about closure.

I remember when Eisenhower was president
and he spoke of Liberty, Dignity and Integrity.

OH WELL.

[NJCher]

28. speaking of Eisenhower

I was listening to Heather Cox Richardson and she brought up the point that it was Eisenhower who started the process for the 25th Amendment. It happened after Eisenhower realized its necessity after he was ill for some time.

She puts out her theory that what Swalwell is doing when he says that there might be a "jail break" with republican senators is that he is trying to shake a few more loose.

[JustAnotherGen]

24. They are part of it

Don't trust the times.

[Orrex]

26. Why doesn't he just fucking die?

Like, seriously? What the fuck is keeping his rotten carcass from simply dropping dead?

[live love laugh]

29. This is his way of announcing that he's given up the diapers.

But still no potty training…

[bucolic_frolic]

30. Brown sewage would have been a more accurate and equally polite term as "liquid'

But we shouldn't expect NYT to use a thesaurus. They probably don't have one.

[kacekwl]

32. The headline should have read

The president of America shits on his own citizens. The Supreme Court and Republican party approve. I guess they are used to it.

[Generic Other]

34. We need a little cheering up from Allan Sherman

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[maxrandb]

35. NYT Pitch Bot

"Benevolent Monarch Magnanamously Delivers Beneficial Fertilizer to Subjects"

[spanone]

40. CBS 'NEWS' reported on trmps shit video calling it Brown Sludge.

FUCK OUR MEDIA.

[raccoon]

46. Maybe Herr Goebbels told them to change it to that. Or rather, somebody was channeling Goebbels.

[Champp]

47. The corporate media has shit the bed

Not doing their jobs.

[uponit7771]

48. M$M is in on it, they're enabling him and MAGA