re: #30 lawhawk

She doesn’t do straight reporting. (snip)

Below is a comment I posted in July, 2018. My opinion has not changed (and Maggie is still writing the same kind of crap.) I will say, I find it “interesting” how Maggie hypes most NYT stories, often tweeting up to 10 or 12 times a day, but she didn’t post one tweet promoting her latest Hopey hagiography.

It’s Saturday, so it’s time for a puff piece about Ivanka and Jared. This one is especially nauseating—including things like:

They live in a rented mansion in the Kalorama neighborhood, where they have courted groups of lawmakers and Washington hands in an effort to ease hyperpartisan tensions over cocktails and comfort food.

Ah, how homey—cocktails and comfort food (surprised there isn’t a photo of one of Vanky’s centerpieces.)

And this bit of fanciful exploration:

Mr. Kushner appears to see himself as the custodian of Mr. Trump’s political brand, offering his father-in-law “options,” and has spoken about clearing out the Republican Party of lingering resistance. He has privately said that he has been taking action against “incompetence” and that any tensions are a result of fighting for his father-in-law’s best interests.

Pretty funny that Jared is taking action against incompetence. Look in the mirror, boyo. Of course, the only confirmation of this comes through a Jared spokesperson, because Jared and Vanky were just too busy to comment for this article.

Then there’s a list of all of Javanka’s enemies within, followed by this tremendous insight:

Both husband and wife, like Mr. Trump, are said to hang on to grudges, but Mr. Kushner is far more transactional than his wife. Like his father-in-law, he appears to convince himself that fights did not happen if someone has become useful to him.

And the capper is the final line, about what Vanky really brings to the party, talking about her fabulous work with Susan Collins:

And so Ms. Trump has delivered one of the few things she can uniquely accomplish in Washington: Riding in a car together one day, she handed Ms. Collins a phone. The president was on the line.

I know there was discussion earlier about how terrible is that some of us “hate on” Maggie Haberman and how it’s misogynistic. I dislike her and much of her reporting for the following reasons:

1. She writes like a gossip columnist—usually much more taken with palace intrigue than actual news.
2. She regularly writes fluffers about Jared and Ivanka—with little value, little fact. (She’s tweeted about this story 6 times so far today.)
3. Any time she’s called out for anything, she is totally defensive, snotty and condescending.
4. I’ve seen, first-hand, how she can take a 20-minute interview and turn it into a 3-word quote that is the opposite of what was said, but fits her pre-conceived frame for an article.