Hillary’s pot shot at the Times’ oop-ed
Dowd ‘stoned’ over Dem-ticket gaffe
Hillary Clinton told longtime New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd on Saturday to lay off the pot brownies.
The jab came after a column from Dowd said Joe Biden and his yet-tobe-announced running mate would be the first Democratic male/female presidential ticket since Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro in 1984.
The piece, headlined “No Wrist Corsages, Please,” apparently forgot Clinton’s 2016 White House run with Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia.
“Either @TimKaine and I had a very vivid shared hallucination four years ago or Maureen had too much pot brownie before writing her column again,” Clinton tweeted Saturday, referencing Dowd’s 2014 column in which she described nibbling a chocolate pot candy.
The mistake, which the paper also included in a tweet, remained online for less than an hour before the Times issued a correction.
“An earlier version of this column incorrectly stated the history of the Democratic ticket,” the correction read. “It has been 36 years since a man chose a woman to run as his vice president on the Democratic ticket, not 36 years since a man and a woman ran together on a Democratic Party ticket.”
Lefties pounced on the flub. Leading the charge was Center for American Progress boss and Clinton ally Neera Tanden.
“It’s truly embarrassing that their Hillary hatred operates to erase an historic event that happened just 4 years ago. Who is editing this?” she tweeted.
“The hatred of Hillary is so intense there it is blinding.”
Democratic strategist Tom Watson wrote, “The NYT is broken.”
Dowd and the Times did not respond to a request for comment.
Clinton allies such as Tanden have long been suspicious of the Times and what they felt was an unfair obsession with the e-mail scandal that rocked her 2016 campaign. Saturday’s mistake was the latest dustup for The Times, which has seen its opinion section roiled by one scandal after another. In June, the Times ignited outrage — and a staff revolt — when it ran an opinion piece by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) calling on President Trump to use federal troops to quell riots sparked by the death of George Floyd. Dozens of Times staffers tweeted against the piece. “As a black woman, as a journalist, as an American, I am deeply ashamed that we ran this,” wrote Nikole Hannah-Jones, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her work on the
Times’ widely discredited 1619 Project.
Within hours of running the Cotton piece, Times opinion-section editor James Bennet was pushed out. Jim Dao, another top opinion editor, was reassigned. Weeks later, still another editor, Bari Weiss, resigned, citing a hostile work environment and bosses too sensitive to online criticism.
“Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor,” she wrote in an open letter.
Times staffers, meanwhile, have described a hellish work environment at the paper with management largely afraid to move against woke employees.
Among those jumping on the latest Times embarrassment was Ari Fleischer, former press secretary for President George W. Bush.
“I think the NYT oped columns would be improved if they hired @TomCottonAR as a fact checker,” he cracked.