NOBODY COVERS POLITICS AS INTIMATELY AS THE GRAY LADY!
[Michael] Barbaro* sees and hears with the eyes and ears of love. He is downright rapturous about what he witnessed. He sees an uninhibited Hillary Clinton breaking away from cautious stagecraft. He focuses on her being “pelted by a driving rain” and “overcome by exhaustion, exhilaration and a swirling wind.” She “lets loose with her hands.”
Her arms thrust skyward, one after the other, in what starts to feel like a dance.
There’s an unfamiliar sense of abandon and joy.
The rain grows heavier. Her wet clothes turn a shade darker. She cracks a wide smile. She takes in the scene around her and laughs before she finishes her sentence.
She’s drenched now, her voice hoarse. The storm is mussing her hair. It’s time to leave the stage. But just before doing so, she turns and raises both arms, giving herself up to the storm and the moment — and the looming end of this adventure.
Listen, we all have our weird sexual kinks, even if we choose not to broadcast them in national newspapers. But wow.
—This New York Times Reporter Is Pretty Turned On By Hillary Clinton.
Lest you think this is the first time the Gray Lady descended into Pyongyang-level idolatry over a Democrat, here’s a couple flashbacks to 2009 when the Times was equally repulsive:
The other night I dreamt of Barack Obama. He was taking a shower right when I needed to get into the bathroom to shave my legs, and then he was being yelled at by my husband, Max, for smoking in the house. It was not clear whether Max was feeling protective of the president’s health or jealous because of the cigarette.
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“This is the first president I’ve known who looks, talks and acts like a peer,” is how one Washington man explained it to me. “Notwithstanding his somewhat exotic life story, I feel like I understand what he’s like and where he’s coming from. And despite his incredible achievements, he still seems like a lot of people I know. If you stopped the clock in 2004, in fact, or maybe a couple of years earlier, he’d feel roughly like a peer in terms of accomplishments, too.
—Judith Warner, the author of a book titled Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety, in a February 2009 New York Times article titled “Sometimes a President Is Just a President.” (Sigmund Freud to the emergency room, stat.)
But the Times wasn’t done yet:
“During these first 100 days, what has surprised you the most about this office? Enchanted you the most from serving in this office? Humbled you the most? And troubled you the most?”
—Jeff Zeleney of the New York Times, May of 2009, asking the above questions to Mr. Obama during the press conference commemorating his administration’s first 100 days in power.
* Barbaro, despite covering national politics for one of America’s largest newspapers, didn’t know until a year ago that C-SPAN has separate phone lines for Republicans and Democrats: “New York Times Reporter Tweets Embarrassing Observation About C-SPAN During Benghazi Testimony.”
As Peggy Noonan recently noted, “It’s the big fact of American life now, isn’t it? That we are patronized by our inferiors.”