New York Times Runs Huge Free Campaign Ad For Trump

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-30 13:19:33 | Updated at 2024-11-06 03:00:03 6 days ago

New York Times Runs Huge Free Campaign Ad For Trump
Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 26 Oct, 2024 | Francis Menton

Posted on 10/30/2024 4:53:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber

I know it’s crazy, but I continue to get the print edition of the New York Times delivered to my front door every day. It’s part of my mission to keep up with what the other side is thinking. I read it (less and less) so that you don’t have to. But even an occasional skim makes it obvious that with every passing year and day they retreat ever more from serious news, and descend ever further into crazed partisan zealotry.

So imagine my surprise this morning when the entire central portion of page 1, covering three of six column on the top half of the front page, contains what appears to be a huge free ad for Trump for President. Here is a picture of what that looks like, with a format quite unlike all their other news columns, including much larger type than the norm, double spacing between lines, and plenty of boldface:

The headline is “If Donald J. Trump wins, he is ready to radically reshape American government from the moment he regains the White House.” (The online version of this piece has a different headline (“If Trump Wins”) and does not include the summary in the photograph above.)

And then this massive ad continues into four full pages of the interior of the paper, pages A10 to A13.

OK, I’m sure that the brilliant editors at the Times were not thinking that this huge article would be viewed as an effective campaign ad for Trump. They clearly have intended it as a harsh, definitive and irrefutable take down — the final driving of the stake through the heart of this nocturnal monster. They have spun every argument to be as damning as possible to their adversary, at least in the view from inside their bubble.

But to my reading, it sure looks like they are making a lot of effective arguments to vote for Trump. I’ll start at the beginning.

He has said he intends to expand presidential power by bringing independent agencies under his direction . . . .

That’s just saying that Trump intends to operate the federal government in accordance with the Constitution, notably the principle that “The executive Power [of the U.S. government] shall be vested in a President of the United States of America”? That quote is the first line of Article II of the Constitution. The Constitution contains no other grant of executive power. If the so-called “independent” agencies (examples include the SEC, FTC, FCC, CFTC, and many others) decline to follow the direction of the elected President, then they are acting contrary to the Constitution and undermining democracy. (For more background on how the “independent” agencies slipped the bounds of the Constitution, see my post on the subject from way back in 2016 here.)

. . . stripping employment protection from civil servants and purging officials from security agencies . . .

Civil servants who decline to follow the direction of the elected President are equally acting in defiance of Article II Section 1 of the Constitution, and of their oath to uphold the Constitution. The violation of oaths was particularly egregious within the security agencies during the first Trump term. Whichever candidate a voter may be favoring, I would hope the voter would expect the civil servants to honor the wishes of the voters and follow the directions of whoever gets elected. Of course civil servants who violate their oaths of office should be fired. So-called “civil service” protections date from a more innocent era (1880s) when naive good government types thought that the government could just be staffed by neutral and non-political “experts.” Today that has morphed into a system of a huge bureaucracy of 90+% Democrats who think they are entitled to work full-time to undermine all efforts of an elected Republican to change direction of the ship of state. I have confidence that today’s Supreme Court will uphold the ability of the President to fire civil servants who are actively working to undermine him. But while that issue gets litigated, I endorse this proposal of Steven Hayward:

Trump ought to have his cabinet officials determine who is useless or obstructive and order them to work from home. Then cut off their email and access to department computer servers the next day.

. . . He has said he would direct the Justice Department to prosecute his political adversaries, including President Biden and others he perceives as his enemies. . . .

The Times seems to think that such prosecutions would be a huge break from norms and are a signal reason to hate Trump. In the real world, of which the Times seems completely unaware, the norm has already been broken by Biden’s multiple prosecutions of none other than Trump. Harris would with 100% certainty continue those prosecutions should she win. Meanwhile, Trump is unlikely to prosecute Biden, both because it would be a distraction, and because his own recent Supreme Court victory undermines the basis for any such prosecution. And Trump did not prosecute Hillary Clinton after defeating her, despite ample basis to do so. So, if you think that prosecutions of political adversaries are a bad idea, clearly Trump is your candidate.

. . . He plans a drastic crackdown on immigration . . .

Thank you for making that clear. As far as I am aware, polls seem to indicate that out-of-control illegal immigration is among the top issues of concern to the voters.

And those are just from the first few lines of the front page summary of this big article. The farther you read, the more reasons come up to vote for Trump. Here are just a handful of further examples from the rest of the article:

- “Push for other countries to take would-be asylum seekers from the United States.”

- “[H]e has pledged to rein in regulatory agencies.”

- “If he retakes the White House, Mr. Trump would be in a far better position to dismantle environmental and climate rules.”

- “Mr. Trump . . . is offering his audiences bespoke tax cuts. For restaurant and hotel employees in Nevada . . . Mr. Trump offered ‘no taxes on tips.’ For the retired Americans who vote in great numbers, he said he would end taxes on Social Security benefits. . . .”

I’ll await the Times’s comparable write-up of the contrary campaign positions of Kamala Harris. They can try to spin Harris’s positions favorably to her, but first they’ll have to figure out what they are. Probably they have a team of 20 or so reporters out there right now trying to figure that out. Good luck coming up with anything prior to the election.

TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

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1 posted on 10/30/2024 4:53:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber

To: MtnClimber

Hats off to the New York Times. That was a pretty good Trump ad.

2 posted on 10/30/2024 4:54:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)

To: StAntKnee; texas booster

Manhattan Contrarian Ping

3 posted on 10/30/2024 4:54:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)

To: MtnClimber

I feel for you but thanks for doing it so we don’t have to. you must be on some really strong blood pressure meds. just sayin’.

4 posted on 10/30/2024 4:58:05 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First ges secnd" L.Star)

To: MtnClimber

They say that as if those are bad things.

5 posted on 10/30/2024 5:03:06 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)

To: MtnClimber

I think that youtube is running free ads for Kamallah. EVERY youtube I watch has a Kamallah ad at the beginning. All of them. That would be a very expensive ad campaign. Are they a free gift from youtube?

6 posted on 10/30/2024 5:09:55 AM PDT by Doctor Congo

To: MtnClimber

Too funny! The more effective technique, which we see used here by Never-Trumpers (although they’ve been pretty, lately) is to troll us by asking whether Trump means anything he says. After all, ‘where’s the wall?’, etc. The Trump-haters and Trump-lovers will vote regardless of what the NY Times says, but the ones in the middle who are considering Trump can be swayed by trolling Trump far more effectively than attacking Trump for not being a Leftist.

7 posted on 10/30/2024 5:12:27 AM PDT by BobL

To: metmom

Yeah, file this under “I already said I was voting for Trump…”

8 posted on 10/30/2024 5:12:27 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)

To: MtnClimber

The Left is so out of touch. Their bubble needs to break.

9 posted on 10/30/2024 5:15:37 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)

To: MtnClimber

They really are unstuck from reality if they believe this is all bad.

10 posted on 10/30/2024 5:16:48 AM PDT by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")

To: MtnClimber

I must say, that’s one helluva add. I agree with everything in it.

But, the NYT did not run this as a favorable add. Everything in it is poison to the left. Diehard readers will cringe when reading it. The softer ones will cry.

11 posted on 10/30/2024 5:18:29 AM PDT by redfreedom (May God save us from what the Democrats do in the name of good.)

To: MtnClimber

LOL. I see what you did there. NYT doing a Trump Ad. Indeed it is.

Who was the POTUS who put US Marines in mail cars in the Wild Wild West to waste bad guys who were robbing the mail?

Ahhhh, the Good Old Days.

12 posted on 10/30/2024 5:18:43 AM PDT by caddie

To: MtnClimber

I read the NYT every day also.

That’s why I knew by Christmas 2022 that the regime was done with Biden and that a late switch, as late as possible, was the plan.

I was sure it was Newsom/Whitmer, and I still don’t understand how they took such a risk with Harris.

13 posted on 10/30/2024 5:24:47 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)

To: Jim Noble

I still don’t understand how they took such a risk with Harris.

It is the DEI symbolism.

14 posted on 10/30/2024 5:27:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)

To: Taxman

15 posted on 10/30/2024 5:28:01 AM PDT by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))

To: Doctor Congo

I haven’t seen any Kamala adds on YouTube, but I have seen plenty of adds for our democrat congressman running for reelection, and for our democrat state senator also running for reelection. It’s infuriating.

And get this: the congressman is a former local tv weatherman, and the state senator is a former tv news anchor.

I voted last week. Straight Republican.

16 posted on 10/30/2024 5:30:08 AM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)

To: Doctor Congo

OLD SCHOOL trick...yout-ube
Add the hyphen and see what happens.
I am not suicidal...just in case
Held on to that trick long enough.

17 posted on 10/30/2024 5:35:44 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)

To: Doctor Congo

I would imagine they’ll fix the exploit once it becomes more widely known so use it fast.

18 posted on 10/30/2024 5:37:41 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)

To: MtnClimber

I thought radical (fundamental) transformation was what it was all about.

19 posted on 10/30/2024 5:45:56 AM PDT by fwdude

To: Jim Noble

Money don’t you think? One billion...hard to give up.

20 posted on 10/30/2024 5:50:40 AM PDT by Chickensoup

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