How Do We Know When We’re Winning? Just Read the New York Times |
It’s difficult to overstate the influence of the New York Times on America’s liberal elite.
For our overeducated overclass, the Gray Lady serves the same function Walter Cronkite once served for the country as a whole: defining the bounds of acceptable discourse.
If it’s in the Times, you’re allowed to think it.
That’s why even conservatives who detest the Times and everything it stands for should keep an eye on which articles it chooses to publish. When right-thinking liberals’ favorite newspaper gives them permission to make a tactical retreat from some wildly unpopular position, we can be sure that we’ve truly won the argument.
The most recent example came last week when the Times published a piece headlined “Pelosi Resisted Stock-Trading Ban as Wealth Grew, Fueling Suspicion.”
The idea that there was something suspicious about the former House speaker’s massive wealth is nothing new. It’s a matter of public record that, right before the Justice Department announced an antitrust lawsuit against Google, Pelosi’s husband, Paul, sold 30,000 shares in its parent company, Alphabet. He also unloaded half a million dollars in Visa stock just a few months before the DOJ filed a bogus lawsuit against the company over its alleged monopoly on debit transaction processing. As dozens of antitrust experts have since