New York Times endorses plutocracy!
The Grey Lady calls "coziness with the moneyed class" an "asset," in an editorial supporting Cory Booker. Seriously
BY DAVID SIROTA
If you happened to have read the New York Times opinion section this weekend, you may have noticed you were told that the U.S. Senate the body comprised primarily of millionaires apparently needs more lawmakers who are very close to the wealthy.
Yes, despite every member of the upper house raising huge amounts of campaign money primarily from the American aristocracy, and despite the fact that legalized bribery results in votes that consistently defend the aristocracys economic interests at the expense of everyone else the grey ladys editorial board implored voters to see Senate candidates all-too-close relationship with Americas uber-rich not as something suspicious or repugnant, but as something commendable and worthy of reward.
This was the powerful message in the Times house editorial this weekend endorsing Newark Mayor Cory Bookers candidacy in New Jerseys upcoming special U.S. Senate election. Citing Bookers success engineering a $100 million donation to Newark schools from Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg (but conveniently not mentioning the ugly controversies surrounding the donation), the newspaper concluded its endorsement with a slap at Bookers opponents one that in a single sentence revealed everything you need to know about the elite medias royalism (emphasis added):
Considering all that, you might expect an allegedly liberal editorial board in this Citizens United era to issue a scathing editorial denouncing Booker and endorsing one of his opponents with a more virtuous record. The fact that the opposite happened this weekend at one of the worlds largest newspapers exposes a taboo truth: namely, that regardless of stated ideology on hot-button issues, the establishment press across the ideological spectrum almost universally accepts and/or lauds rather than questions the corrosive influence of money in politics. Indeed, even the ostensibly liberal New York Times editorial board doesnt view Bookers unseemly relationship with the moneyed class as any kind of liability it openly views it and praises it as a cherished asset.
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