Replay: The Real Story of “The Central Park Karen”

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Over the next few days we are going to be replaying some listener favorites from the last year, starting with what was without a doubt our most provocative and popular episode: a re-examination of the Central Park Karen. Amy Cooper was not the internet’s first “Karen” — the pejorative used for a demanding, entitled white woman. But as the Central Park dog walker who went viral for calling the police on a black birdwatcher last year, she quickly became the paragon of the archetype. Within 24 hours, Amy Cooper had been doxxed, fired from her job, and surrendered her dog. She wound up fleeing the country. She hasn’t spoken publicly since last summer. Until now. In a wide-ranging interview with Kmele Foster, friend of Honestly and co-host of The Fifth Column, we revisit the story of what happened in the park that day. We show what the media intentionally left out of the story. And we examine the cost of mob justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	BAM, picture this! You're watching your favorite artist play. Not that artist!
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0:31.5	Hi, it's Barry here to wish you a happy Hanukkah a Merry Christmas a Festivist Kwanza whatever it is that you're into
0:38.1	Over the next few days we're gonna replay some listener favorites from the last year
0:45.5	Starting with what was without a doubt our most provocative and popular episode, a reexamination of the Central Park Karen.
0:51.2	One of the reasons we wanted to share this one is because a commitment to telling the truth, not just repeating the convenient narrative, is core to our mission.
1:00.0	And it's hard to think of any story from the past year whose facts were so muddied by politics than this one.
1:08.0	And with that, the story of the Central Park camera.
1:22.0	Last year, on May 25th, a cell phone video was shot in New York City Central Park. In the video you see a woman with a dog
1:25.1	she's wearing a COVID mask and she's in a wooded area of the park called
1:29.3	the Ramble. Would you please stop? Sorry I'm asking you to stop.
1:33.3	You see her notice that she's being filmed.
1:35.4	Sorry, I'm asking you to stop.
1:37.0	Please don't come close to me.
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