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Well, we turn now to the finest columnist in America.

Michael Goodwin, you can read his column every Sunday and every Wednesday in the New York Post.

Michael Goodwin, how you doing?

Good morning, Mark.

Thank you.

Hey, I loved Sunday's column, the radical left turning on the woke New York Times.

Now, you used to work at the New York Times when it was a prestigious place. Now it's a crazy place.

But how did this happen?

Well, yes, I did my undergraduate work.

But it has to do with this transgender coverage, and the transgender movements and the activists and the far-out left people say that the Times is too cruel and is parroting right-wing talking points on transgenderism for daring to question whether all these surgeries on children are a good idea

for something last wish here, Mark.

I mean, we know how woke the Times is on race and everything

else. But what's interesting here is that the Times has, to me, it sounds like they're reading

from a cult playbook when they write about transgenderism, but it's never enough for the left, no matter how far

you go, unless you say exactly what they want you to say, then you are, you're a Republican,

you're a right winger, you're transphobic, you're filled with hate, you're

discriminating, and et cetera, et cetera. And in this case, there was an additional element,

which is that several New York Times writers, staff writers and reporters, and people who contribute occasionally to the op-ed

pages or other opinion pages, sign these letters denouncing the paper and their colleagues

at the times. So this is a real civil war at the times as well.

And to their credit, the top editors put out a statement saying,

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