Neera Tanden is causing a stink yet again. She's Tweeted that her mother is a stupid idiot who doesn't understand either the press or how a phone works -- hanging up was not an option because her foreign mother is so stupid and NYT was just so evil to the old woman. That's what Neera says anyway. Neera's mother is no delicate flower and if she can handle the stink off Neera, she can handle anything. (By the way, non-stop phone calls saying, "She really does stink, doesn't she?" Yes, no joke, she does. And for people like myself who have a strong sense of smell, she's been offensive for years. Soap and water, Neera, daily.) And Neera's little War Hawk buddies from the Democratic Party are rushing to prop her up including the joke that is Paul Krugman. Paul, you are a joke.
Here's a typical Tweet. See the problem?
I thought the tone of the his story was weird because he was so clearly outraged for Bernie. Just as bad, if not worse, no one at the NYT edited or asked Vogel to rewrite it.
Ken Vogel once requested Chelsea Clinton’s school transcripts, using an FOIA form.
His story?
Elizabeth Williamson and Kenneth P. Vogel (NEW YORK TIMES) reported that story. Over the years in the US, we've come to expect that women's work is disappeared but if you ever think that's just done by men, grasp that women contribute as well -- women like Amy Mullen who write women like Elizabeth Williamson out the story.
I'm also not sure why Amy Mullen's is grasping the pearls over Kenneth Vogel asking fo Chelsea's transcripts. He's in his early forties so Chelsea was clearly an adult. It appears he requested that as Hillary was making her second run for president. That's perfectly fine and Amy Mullen is just a pathetic drama queen who's going to throw anything out there in her lust to protect her beloved Neera.
Faux feminism. If it weren't for faux feminists, the US might not have any at all. Faux feminists are just concerned that women get into spots that men hold. They're not concerned with real feminist issues. They're break the ceiling gals who want the status quo because they're too limited to imagine anything better.
Hold on though, we're not done with the stupid f**ks.
The NYT story on Neera Tanden should never have brought her mom into it. And whether you agree with Neera's views or not, her aggressiveness is one of her biggest strengths and would be lionized if she were a man.
Feminist Brian Fallon. Really, "Aggressiveness is one of her biggest strengths and would be lionized if she were a man"? Well he did work for Hillary so possibly that's where he learned that crap. But, no, Brian, aggressiveness is not admired in anyone. No one, in this day and age, says, "Thank goodness he's aggressive in the work force!" No one says that you stupid idiot.
Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, admitted to the NYT that she assaulted an editor at her own organization for posing a mild question about the Iraq War to Hillary Clinton. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/us/politics/tanden-sanders-.html …
Brian, you know what you're really doing? You're making a lot of us want to explore your boy Mayor Pete whose racism is well known in the community he represented. So as his racist gentrification program becomes a story, remember you did your part to make it one by attacking a legitimate journalism article.
Oh, look, nutty Rosa Brooks. Well of course. Neera did send out that e-mail asking everyone to Tweet her defense and so we're seeing those who are compromised rush forward. Rosa, for those who've forgotten, proposed that journalists be registered. I'd settle for inoculated but Rosa has always been an Orwellian nightmare.
She's a War Whore who has gotten by on her mother's reputation because she has no accomplishments of her own. She's a cheap little whore who is either too much of a liar or too stupid to know history. "Would you run an article about a male . . ."
Oh, Rosa, you old dirty whore, stop pretending you are a feminist or that you know anything.
Rosa, we get it, you're an old whore who tires easily. But stop playing the 'woman' card because you're not a feminist and you have no grasp on history -- recent or otherwise. You're just a dirty whore who came forward to defend a dirty whore named Neera. May you both find an afterlife that is as destructive as what the two of you have done to the world.
Oh, look, disgusting Gwen Ifill's cousin pops up to defend Neera. Gwen, the dead closet case who made nice with Condi -- cooking with Condi, remember, will always be the ultimate media whore who laughed in real time when Iraqis were shot up by Blackwater, who made jokes about it on the air. You'd think that would be enough to make the whole family leave public life. But if you think that, you're giving more thought to it than that pathetic family ever did.
- BACKSTORY: In 2008, @NeeraTanden set up what she thought would be an easy interview for @HillaryClinton with @Faiz Shakir, then editor of @ThinkProgress. But Faiz asked about the Iraq War. Later, Neera punched him & asked “Who the f— do you think you are?”
THE POLITICS: @BernieSanders’ broadsides against @AmProg seem designed to rally his base by casting the group as an avatar of the corrupt Democratic establishment that deprived him the 2016 nomination & to signal that he won't abide a repeat of 2016.
Randa Darwish (ALBAWABA) notes:
Aleppo’s recognized 1350-year-old Umayyad Mosque that was almost completely destroyed by war in Syria was one of the oldest historical mosques that got destroyed.
That's a more polite way of speaking about an issue that has touched off rage. WHen I saw the Tweets on Monday night I wondered about it. And then yesterday I heard what? US student after US student talking about the tragedy. And it is true that there had been no US attention and mourning for the things lost in the Middle East. That's in part because Americans aren't taught about those historic buildings. Mostly, we learn about them when they're destroyed, if we ever learn about them. Those in the Arab world who feel that Notre Dame gets in one hour more attention and sympathy than the destruction of a major mosque does in six months are correct.
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