In the past week we have found out that:
-according to the flight logs, Bill Clinton took at least 26 trips on billionaire/convicted pedophile jeffrey epstein’s private plane, to his private island – which was stocked with underage girls; presumably for the pleasure of epstein’s guests.
We also found out that one of Bill Clinton’s former mistresses, Dorothy Kyle Browning, has written a tell-all book that, among other things, claims Hillary Clinton was every bit the enabler that Donald Trump called her.
So, when publishing an article about how the abuse of women relates to this year’s presidential campaign, who does the New York Times write about? Donald Trump, of course.
Here are the three key paragraphs:
Their accounts — many relayed here in their own words — reveal unwelcome romantic advances, unending commentary on the female form, a shrewd reliance on ambitious women, and unsettling workplace conduct, according to the interviews, as well as court records and written recollections. The interactions occurred in his offices at Trump Tower, at his homes, at construction sites and backstage at beauty pageants. They appeared to be fleeting, unimportant moments to him, but they left lasting impressions on the women who experienced them.
What emerges from the interviews is a complex, at times contradictory portrait of a wealthy, well-known and provocative man and the women around him, one that defies simple categorization. Some women found him gracious and encouraging. He promoted several to the loftiest heights of his company, a daring move for a major real estate developer at the time.
He simultaneously nurtured women’s careers and mocked their physical appearance. “You like your candy,” he told an overweight female executive who oversaw the construction of his headquarters in Midtown Manhattan. He could be lewd one moment and gentlemanly the next.
The article, taking it at face value, shows Donald Trump to sometimes be a chauvinistic smart-ass.
Not very nice. But compare it to Mr. Clinton’s jaunts to Lolitaville, and the allegations that Hillary Clinton covered for his sexual excesses, and see which is more damning.
Oh, did I mention that Rowanne Brewer Lane, the woman this article features, was on TV telling the world that the Times doctored up its account of what happened between her and Trump.
Ms. Brewer Lane’s exact words:
“The New York Times told us several times that they would make sure that my story that I was telling came across, They promised several times that they would do it accurately. They told me several times and my manager several times that it would not be a hit piece and that my story would come across the way that I was telling it and honestly. And it absolutely was not…they spun it to where it appeared negative. I did not have a negative experience with Donald Trump.”
Is this the Times’ idea of honest reporting? Of journalistic integrity?
Unfortunately, it probably is.
