Torching the Times, Biden Morphing Into Bernie, Poster Child of Hubris

3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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Government, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Join Jim and Greg as they applaud former New York Times opinion writer Bari Weiss for resigning and blasting the Times for becoming a forum only for the far left. They also chronicle Joe Biden's ongoing embrace of the Bernie Sanders agenda, which is curious since he was nominated for not being Bernie Sanders. And they dissect the ego and delusion required for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to create a poster to explain what a terrific job he did handling the COVID outbreak in his state.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Three Martini lunch. Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim
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0:39.7	start with our good Martini and it's not often that a rational voice leaving a
0:47.0	publication is considered good news but in this case it definitely is.
0:51.2	Bari Weiss I think I'm saying that right, is or was an opinion writer with the New York
0:56.4	Times, probably the last rational one left on the opinion page.
1:00.9	She has issued her letter of resignation.
1:03.0	She of course had a pretty widespread followed Twitter thread talking about how the new ideology in the New York Times newsroom and editorial room was clashing with the old
1:15.3	guard and that the new guard was essentially winning but now she is resigning she's
1:20.3	talking about how she was openly
1:22.7	uh... hassle discriminated against mocked intimidated on the online slack channels at work
1:29.6	with people from all over the spectrum trying to get her fired.
1:34.4	It was never reprimanded by the higher-ups who are on those same threads and so forth.
1:39.0	So she issues this resignation letter in just a couple of paragraphs here she says
1:43.3	op-eds that would have easily been published just two years ago would now get an
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