MARK JUDGE: Conservative Coverage of the Arts is an Embarrassment.

The political coverage in the Times is pure Marxism. The opinion section of the edition I recently picked up features angry academics and activists defending the censorship of Roald Dahl, blasting the 1776 founding of America, and saying that Ron DeSantis is trying to shut down free speech. Boilerplate socialist nonsense. This is the same Times that tried to kill me in 2018. Criminals and opposition researchers tried to take out my high school friend Brett Kavanaugh when he was nominated for the Supreme Court. Their plan involved using extortion and witness-tampering to make me, a former drunk with a colorful last, the nominee and therefore take down Brett. It didn’t work and the right people are in jail. The Times reporters who participated are considered a disgrace.

Still, I couldn’t give up Sunday’s Times. One time shortly after the 2018 hurricane a friend saw me leaving the store with one tucked under my arm and stopped me. “Wait, the Times?” he said. “Are those the totalitarian assholes that tried to kill you?” They are. Seeing such communist propaganda so close to the arts sections brought to mind a line from the great film The Sweet Smell of Success—“I don’t like you, you’re like a cookie with arsenic.”

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