New York Times Runs Front-Page Ad for Jeff Sessions

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Mark Krikorian:

I didn’t think I could be more favorably disposed toward Sen. Jeff Sessions’s nomination as Attorney General until I read today’s front page New York Times profile, published in anticipation of tomorrow’s confirmation hearing.

You get the impression the reporters themselves concluded that the left-wing racism smears are BS and just wrote a straight-news piece on him. The long article is practically an ad for the #ConfirmSessions effort. Pardon the long string of excerpts, but they’re all good:

a devout Methodist and an Eagle Scout who will soon celebrate a golden wedding anniversary with his college sweetheart. …

he is widely regarded as rigidly honest and inflexible on issues he considers matters of principle. …

The family lived in a one-story house with no driveway, a small concrete front stoop and a heating system consisting of a fireplace and space heaters. …

He learned thriftiness from his parents, who grew up during the Depression. … Friends joke that even after he attained the comfortable life of a senator decades later, he refused to replace an aging car or the outdated kitchen countertops at his home in Mobile. …

After he was elected senator, taking a seat on the same Judiciary Committee that denied him the judgeship, Mr. Sessions seemed to bear no grudge against those who had humiliated him in 1986. …

“Preventing something bad from happening is just as important to him as getting something good done,” said Marcus Peacock, a former senior aide. …

Liberals may chafe at such rigidity, but Mr. Sessions shares their disdain for the philosophy of “too big to jail … “Normally, I was taught, if they violated the law, you charge them. If they did not violate the law, you do not charge them.” …

“This is what justice is about,” Mr. Sessions told him. “You don’t put your finger on the scale against the poor person who’s trying to make a living.” …

“You’ve got to be prepared to say no,” he said in 2011. “And if you do, politicians normally come around. You don’t have to do it publicly. You just tell him, ‘Mr. President, you cannot do that.’” …

Sure, the piece quotes Chuck Schumer and a couple of professors criticizing Sessions, but there’s a lot of people like that on the left, and this is a news story, after all. And the piece refers to several of his “strident” and “rigid” opinions that are just standard conservative positions shared by scores of millions of people outside the Times’ newsroom, but I’m pretty indulgent of the parochialism of Manhattan bubble-dwellers.

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The New York Slimes is just the american version of the russian news rag PRAVDA and like all liberal leftists rags its nothing but leftists propeganda Liberal news papers have only one good use lining a birdcage with its not worth reading

the slime has lost employees in a progressive manner over the last several years. told you chucky has sealed files and is a pos in the greatest way – snowflake 100%. if the feds uncover his past he would have never been elected to office

He’s been Alamaba attorney general and run for the Senate 3 times; I’m sure more time is needed to vett him. After all, who IS this guy?

NY Slimes ran a full page ad calling for insurrection. Stop DT at all costs
http://gothamist.com/2017/01/05/celebrity_anti_fascist_ad.php
As they are freaking out , we will remain calm and carry on.

@Spurwing Plover: #1
You’re being unfair to PRAVDA. I read it, and there have been several stories critical of Putin and the Russian government.
They’re not the NYT or the WaPost.