It’s difficult to believe that the legacy media is going to hold anyone in the Trump administration accountable, given all of the sane washing we have witnessed for the last year, or will be allowed to provide the kind of hard- hitting reporting we previously saw because of their corporate owners.
"In 1933, Hugo Boss was producing the uniforms for the SS and Hitler Youth, as well as the standard Nazi brownshirts. When Germany began to more intensely remilitarize in 1938, Hugo Boss began to produce uniforms for the Nazi armed forces."
I have to admit I’ve done a soft defense of NYT in the recent past - pointing out an occasional investigative article that shines light on some transgression that other news outlets had ignored. “So much sanewashing but at least here’s one to counter its floundering reputation”. But then this. FFS
"White supremacists are normal ass white people and it’s been that way in America since 1776. We will continue to be in trouble till we understand that."
To be clear. If PH is confirmed by the senate & NMP (Not my president) keeps getting his way, I as a Female Veteran of the USAF, who swore to defend a Constitution that will no longer be relevant?
Is that what you all are seeing??? Seriously folks. Only way to stop the Bully is to stand up to him.
that is what she does. She is usually spot on.
Anyone who thinks that Ivanka Trump doesn’t carefully cultivate that image, to appear exactly as the writer describes it, isn’t paying attention.
She is just describing what she is doing. If one Freidman regularly, they’d know she is not endorsing it.
“What are the GOP’s most fashionable and fascist drunks - and possible rapists - wearing to their confirmation hearings? The answer in today’s Critics Corner.” - America’s paper of record
It appears Trump/GOP have threatened the Republican senators who were opposing Pete Hegseth confirmation with running opposing candidates against them. Sen Joni Ernst (R) will now support Pete H. She also refused to meet with the sexual assaults accuser of Pete H. This kept her name anonymous.
Lipton is just shamelessly shilling for his boss, it's really gross.
Frankly, I feel that blocking him and/or NYT as a whole would be valid moves because the latter is only going to do PR for our transition from republic to fascist empire.
Trump’s victory in the 2024 election was a failure for the United States as both a nation and a country. He has contempt for democracy and the Constitution. He is threatening to rule as the country’s dictator on “day one.” he means it literally and figuratively. https://www.salon.com/2025/01/14/t...
and one apparently unfamiliar with the military flag code…which might normally not be particularly relevant, but as he's going to represent the military...
they should send the fashion critic to such hearings! It’s good to break these things down. I think ms. Friedman did not do a particularly amazing job. Derek guy I think would have more directly commented on this in a more pointed way.
So I love fashion, I think it’s as important as any other art form, and I actually think it could be really interesting to dissect maga through the lens of fashion (cf menswear guy). But like… what do we actually learn here? Politicians wear power suits and have expensive haircuts? It’s just shallow
*What* suit was he wearing? Why? How was it cut? What traditions is he placing himself within? Which is he excluding? How does that comport with his politics and personal behavior? How do Democrats do this differently? How do women do this differently? How do Black people do this differently?
Fashion critic. And didn't you get the memo? Her incisive reporting on President Zelenskyy's olive t-shirt was a critical moment in the annals of wartime journalism.
I've been complaining about this fashion editor for years. There's a finite amount of space in the newspaper and a finite number of dollars that the organization can spend on journalism. The existence of these stories is the result of conscious choices on the parts of many people. Deranged people.
I appreciate their doing that. I despise the fact they refused to do this during the last four years. Mainstream media is not going to get me back easily or quickly because they betrayed democracy in favor of leverage with a potential new administration. We now know it is the new administration.
Me, a NYT reporter, watching a guy wearing an American flag t-shirt and American flag hat promise that, given the slightest opportunity he will slaughter every last American citizen: “what a patriot”
I appreciate the note regarding being sure to read the stories. While not all of us can bear reading bad news or things that frighten us, we can at least be upfront if we are ignorant about something. If you can't read about something because it is too terrible, don't tell others it isn't that bad.
The Pete Hegseth confirmation hearings have create a new controversy that's taken the country by storm:
As we reported yesterday some say Hegseth was wearing a blue suit, white shirt, & red tie with navy stripes. But others saw a tan suit, green shirt and tie with yellow stripes. Which do you see!
Substance abusers aren't just the hobo in the gutter drinking out of a bottle in a brown paper bag. This article is written on stereotypes rather than facts. It's just bootlicking.
He gave me the creeps, especially his body language when women were questioning him. He's one smooth operator, but he is in way over his head for this position. But maybe that's why they want him?
In other words, the NY Times is saying, “Hegseth is crazily unqualified for the position, but man, how can you not give him the position when he looks so GQ’ish and patriotic? I mean, it’s not like he’d be overseeing the largest military on the planet, right?”
On one hand, he indicated that he would invade Greenland, refused to answer when asked whether wife-beating should be a disqualification for Secretary of Defense, and was ignorant of military law. On the other hand, his suit was blue. So there are arguments for and against his qualifications.
"the hard-drinking, adulterous, budget-mismanaging person..." OK, he may not have looked like that guy, but we know the guy who looks the part will be along later.
Let's ponder the possibility that there was only enough in the image-consulting budget for one of these hard-drinking adulterers to get cleaned up in time.
"Wow I mean really just look at this guy, can't believe he doesn't look disheveled, maybe fascism isn't that bad after all if they can dress to impress!'
This is 100% rage bait writing. No one with an IQ above room temperature thinks any of this. This is all about getting liberals to share this by dunking on it. And it’s embarrassing NYT has resorted to this. Every major newspaper is dead now. Some great journalists are stuck at TMZNYC now.
You must be right, it's like a trolling Ross Douthat column. It can't be possible that a serious editor would let this into the "paper of record." Can it?
Because hedging on following the Constitution and federal law in case your fascist president tells you to make the army shoot protesters on US soil is being patriotically correct now.
This is so not a pro democracy stance. They still are doing nothing to call out the performance art being engaged. His own team found him to be too erratic and two extreme to let him help serve on January 6, 2021. Shouldn’t we know who he is because of that
LIKE HE WAS GOING TO SHOW UP IN FRONT OF CONGRESS IN TRAILER TRASH COSPLAY
"Sure didn't look like he was the hard-drinking, adulturous, budget-mismanaging person that critics of his nomination had described. Also, if I bootlick enough, I'll see my own reflection, which will aid in my grooming."
I managed to hold down a job for a year despite drinking a liter of vodka a day, including taking shots during lunch, because I could compose myself and didn't "look" like an alcoholic. This is deranged and it's fucking dangerous as a former addict.
"I'm a homicidal maniac, they look just like everyone else." - Wednesday, Adams Family 1991.
Not sure what they think an alcoholic 'looks like'. My dad is one. He never looked disheveled or scruffy. You wouldn't know he was an alcoholic if you worked with him... What a fool that writer is.
I’m still back to New York Times is still betraying this country. They’ve bought in as all of the other major media sources like LA times Washington Post, giving millions to the felon for his inauguration. I hope not one of you continues to support any of those people who whitewash fact.
it’s possible this column was supposed to be cheeky but it doesn’t land at all—particularly with the NYT’s history of whitewashing fascists. you’re not the onion.
What should be said: Hegseth looks at Senator Ernst with despise and thinks that no woman should be able to question him. Everyone in the room can see it and no Senator should vote for him.
I can't read the whole thing*, but I googled the author. She's the "fashion director and chief fashion critic" for the NYT. This is who you assign to this story at this moment? wtfffffffff
*No, thank you, no gift links, please, I don't want to start yelling and scare my neighbors.
Back in the mid 1990s and earlier, the NYT actually was cheeky. It was one of the reasons I took it seriously. It was obviously great reporting and great writing, like the L.A. Times back then, and the New Yorker.
I quit the NYT recently — too much fluff that I had to filter through. And f Trump.
NYT just proving again that all it cares about is ginning up outrage for fun & profit—including getting us to engage even if just to rant about what fkg hypocritical trolls they are.
I guess the new standard is not assaulting anyone during your confirmation hearing. And did he know the person he wore the KIA bracelet for. seems pretty gross too
Weird how sometimes the NYT can read people's inner selves, like when a drunkard is heroically clenching his jaw, but other times can't, like when Trump is lying like a rug.
Did they expect him to show up drunk? How do you look adulterous or “budget-mismanaging”? Couldn’t a person who writes for the NYT use a better adjective than that?
It's why November 5th 2024 will one day be looked at as the end of the American experiment. None of our supposed safeguards are remotely equipped to withstand what's coming.
Sure, let's hire the way DJT does, based on a headshot and how someone sounds in a 2-minute TV clip. It's not like any other qualifications matter, do they?
Oh, that's not all. Later @ericlipton.nytimes.com begs us to pay to read about Pete McRapey's fashion choices because reading about a rapist's choice of blazer is the quality journalism we've come to expect from the @nytimes.com.
God this is almost Rich Lowry “starbursts” level hagiographic fanfic. I’m cringing with secondhand embarrassment that someone wrote this, and then it got published.
I am a costume designer for film and TV.
The minute he sat down I said, “someone styled him” They very successfully styled him, just as the article says.
We might not want to hear about how they win over and over again, and the tools they use to do it…but they keep doing it.
So you think one of Trump's tools for winning is being well styled? Is it his baggy and wrinkled suit, his neck tie that stretches way below his belt, his clownish hair, and orange skin spray?
As a costume designer my job is to create a person, a personality. To read the room, so to speak.
That stylist today gave them what they want. They made him look like someone who wouldn’t do the things he is accused of.
They were successful in the con.
Translation: "Hey, we sanewashed trumps racist ramblings & downplayed his blatantly corrupt and disgustingly traitorous acts to get him elected, so now we're going to monitize the horrific acts of him and his sychophants. Come and get it, libs!!"
The thing Timesmen don't seem to understand is that a not-insignificant amount of horseshit will ruin a big vat of ice cream, especially when you are adding the horseshit to the ice cream in plain sight
I could barely understand if @dieworkwear.bsky.social would write about satorial choices by the incoming administration (though I would suppose he wouldn't write so positively about it), but I had - against better knowledge - hoped their political stuff would be better.
the thing about this is that how people dress is really interesting and lots of people have interesting things to say about it and never once has that person been NYT fashion critic Vanessa Friedman
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I mean...holy shit.
"Drunk rapist cleans up nice" is a take.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/major-brands-nazi-collaborators/4
Vanessa Friedman skewered Hegseth for his costume.
He looked exactly like the Mango Mussolini wants his 🤡s to look.
Good job, Vanessa.👍
Nonono
Lap lap lap
Nonono
Rinse and repeat
Why didn't DEMS put it on an easel?
Donate to pro publica, because we need an ethical press if we're ever going to save ourselves from fascism
https://youtu.be/K9ZR3Z1DYaI?feature=shared&t=45
Just...bruh.
"Some readers also criticized the article for including a link to a webpage that sells swastika armbands"
Ya don't say?!
"White supremacists are normal ass white people and it’s been that way in America since 1776. We will continue to be in trouble till we understand that."
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Is that what you all are seeing??? Seriously folks. Only way to stop the Bully is to stand up to him.
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Anyone who thinks that Ivanka Trump doesn’t carefully cultivate that image, to appear exactly as the writer describes it, isn’t paying attention.
She is just describing what she is doing. If one Freidman regularly, they’d know she is not endorsing it.
Brilliant take downs, by describing how people dress, the personas they create.
Clothing is a billboard, to tell people who you are, or to fool them into thinking you are someone you are not.
Describing it is not the same thing as endorsing it.
Frankly, I feel that blocking him and/or NYT as a whole would be valid moves because the latter is only going to do PR for our transition from republic to fascist empire.
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/14/t...
Why not just look him up on grinder instead of putting it all out there like this?
Block the NYT
I haven't read it all, I just saw the splash page with the headline and lead over the photo
If the Senate confirms that drunken letch – and the rest of those unqualified nominees—, we should keep expecting scandals
As we reported yesterday some say Hegseth was wearing a blue suit, white shirt, & red tie with navy stripes. But others saw a tan suit, green shirt and tie with yellow stripes. Which do you see!
monkey's paw: *curls*
Yes, he appeared from Central Casting, like most of DonOld’s picks.
Where he keeps the backup gin.
- NYT in like 3 months
Me: Impossible, you fucking idiot, I’m wearing a suit.
You're mistaken, sir. It's a monkey that he has on his back.
It is very easy to doubt his love for his country
"Sure didn't look like he was the hard-drinking, adulturous, budget-mismanaging person that critics of his nomination had described. Also, if I bootlick enough, I'll see my own reflection, which will aid in my grooming."
Not sure what they think an alcoholic 'looks like'. My dad is one. He never looked disheveled or scruffy. You wouldn't know he was an alcoholic if you worked with him... What a fool that writer is.
And his hair was perfect, nah
https://marquettewire.org/3982778/opinion/harrington-new-york-times-sickening-normalization-of-nazis/
archive of NYT from Dec. 11, 2016, about the style of "alt-right" Nazis - "An Alt-Right Makeover Shrouds
the Swastikas" .
Excuse the archive link but I'm never sending another click to the NYT in my life if I can help it.
werewolves of london
(Thank you for those excerpts—I don't think I could have handled reading the whole thing.)
*No, thank you, no gift links, please, I don't want to start yelling and scare my neighbors.
https://archive.org/details/new-york-times-pro-nazi-pro-hitler-1939
I quit the NYT recently — too much fluff that I had to filter through. And f Trump.
See, I would find this kind of write up to be humiliating. Why aren’t Republican voters capable of embarrassment?
Proving that, yes, NYTimes reporters can type one-handed.
I could have not looked. I knew you wouldnt have capped it if it wasnt eyeball-bleaching dipshittery, so there was no need to look.
I could have not looked
Wise shall be the bearers of light, but the handmaidens of fascism are the most credulous creatures on God's green earth.
If there is one thing Trump knows how to do, its the long con…
He's as thin-skinned as his orange overlord.
If the NY-highbrow-Post closed tomorrow, I wouldn't she'd a tear. The tears for its death have already been shed.
If you pay for the NYT….why? You’re supporting this garbage.
New York times missing the ball again
She is exposing what they are doing. What the con is and how its done
https://bsky.app/profile/ericlipton.nytimes.com/post/3lfkv4zgzvk2b
The minute he sat down I said, “someone styled him” They very successfully styled him, just as the article says.
We might not want to hear about how they win over and over again, and the tools they use to do it…but they keep doing it.
That stylist today gave them what they want. They made him look like someone who wouldn’t do the things he is accused of.
They were successful in the con.
Happens in courtrooms every day
Translation: "Hey, we sanewashed trumps racist ramblings & downplayed his blatantly corrupt and disgustingly traitorous acts to get him elected, so now we're going to monitize the horrific acts of him and his sychophants. Come and get it, libs!!"
Is it Mags?
Meanwhile, those mildly critical stories Lipton was touting are buried in the politics section. Fuckers.