Today must be my day for trashing Pravda. Already, I have trashed Peggy Noonan's lament for the Washington Post, and contrasted her fantastical idea of what the media's relationship to truth is with the fact that the Post lionizes Adam Schiff as a model Democrat who is trying to save democracy.
Noonan writes for The Wall Street Journal, so I trashed it. The Washington Post is the "gold standard" for political coverage, and I trashed them.
So next, I need to trash the New York Times to complete a trifecta.
Jamelle Bouie gives me that opportunity, as it happens. He is a columnist for the Times and has been called "one of the defining commentators on politics and race in the Trump era" in the Columbia Journalism Review.
Bouie has had quite the career for a man who is only 38. Wikipedia gives a short overview:
Bouie was awarded a writing fellowship for The American Prospect in 2010. He was awarded a Knobler Fellowship at the Nation Institute by The Nation in 2012.[7] Bouie became a staff writer for The Daily Beast in 2013,[8] writing about national politics.[9] In 2014, he moved to Slate as a chief political correspondent, covering politics, policy, and race.[10][11] He joined The New York Times as a columnist in 2019.[12][13]
Bouie was a contributor to Barack Obama and the New America: The 2012 Election and the Changing Face of Politics,[14] a 2013 book edited by political scientist Larry Sabato.[15] Bouie has been a political analyst on CBS News since 2015.[16][12] He frequently appears on Face the Nation,[17][18][19] the network's Sunday morning show,[20] and contributed to the network's 2016 election night coverage.[21] Bouie writes articles focusing on history, public policy, and national politics. He also writes about entertainment, such as science fiction, comics, and film.[22] He has reviewed breakfast cereal for Serious Eats.[23]
He must be a genius, right? Collaborating with Larry Sabato at 25 and a CBS News analyst by 27. A New York Times columnist by 32. Wow.
No, Bouie isn't a genius, but something much better in the 21st century: a very angry black man. The cultural elite is in love with angry black people, and Bouie could only be a better match for their requirements for advancement if he were transgender. But then again, his rise to the top preceded the alphabet craze by a few years, so he would do just fine.
...Of course, Bouie made these vicious comments on Bluesky, a safe space of the viewpoint intolerant of the left. Part of dehumanizing others as "fascists" and "Nazis" is that there is nothing that is considered indecent or excessive in attacks ...
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) February 8, 2026
...These are the voices that the NY Times amplifies while barring a U.S. senator and firing editors for exposing readers to alternative viewpoints. https://t.co/drWdkaZHSw The paper now peddles in hate to feed a national addiction.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) February 8, 2026
How angry is Bouie? Well, this representative of the "kind" and "empathetic" left vented his spleen on BlueSky this weekend, and it tells us much about how he and his admirers think:
New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie suggested Vice President JD Vance's mother was right to have attempted to sell him for drugs in a Bluesky post on Wednesday.
In a series of comments on the left-wing platform, Bouie criticized Vance for a recent interview with the Daily Mail where he declined to apologize to Minnesota shooting victim Alex Pretti's family after accusing him of showing up with "ill intent" at an immigration enforcement protest.
"[T]his is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway," Bouie wrote.
He added, "like, do you see that smirk? that brief 'ain’t i a stinker' grin? beneath contempt."
Bouie also responded to a comment calling Vance "pompous" while musing "No wonder his mom tried to sell him for Percocets."
"[I] can’t imagine a parent who wouldn’t sell little JD for percocet if they knew he would turn out like this," Bouie remarked.
A model citizen, is Bouie.
Actually, he is a model New York Times columnist, demonstrating the kind and loving soul of Pravda.
One could say many things about Bouie's comment, and it would be too easy to point out the racial double standard on display. If Vance said a bad word about Bouie, he would be excoriated as a racist, but, really, by now, it is tiresome pointing out this hypocrisy. Liberals are calling black law enforcement officers the N-word, and we hardly blink anymore. I started noticing years ago that liberals began using homosexual slurs against Republicans decades ago. And now I chuckle when they expose their hypocrisy on the issue.
But the hypocrisy is not my point, except perhaps in a different sense. Rather, it is the pure hatred at the core of the liberal mind in these divided times. We are long past the time when liberals actually believed in the effectiveness of the welfare state to improve society, and when they talk about homelessness, poverty, inequality, or saving democracy, we all know that it is so much hot air. Welfare exists to facilitate graft, homeless programs to feed an industry that profits from the degradation of the mentally ill and the addicted, and inequality is at its most extreme in Blue cities and vacation spots like Martha's Vineyard, which only welcomes immigrants if they are fabulously wealthy or there to clean the homes and manicure the lawns.
No, liberalism has hatred as its core. Hatred of the hoi polloi, to be precise, and especially if they are white, male, and heterosexual. That hatred burns deep within them, and it bursts out like an exploding star at the drop of a hat. They can barely contain it in the best of times, and it is rarely the best of times for them.
You see this daily, whether it was their lament that Thomas Crooks wasn't a better shot or the celebration that Charlie Kirk's assassin was a better shot, it all comes from the same wellspring. When Audrey Hale shot up her old school, the "protesters" labeled HER a victim of police violence.
"Seven Fingers, Seven Victims" -- TN Capitol Protesters Appear to Include Trans Shooter Among the Victims pic.twitter.com/vCd1tAYwWb
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) March 31, 2023
It is not just the "activists" who think this way; the rot goes all the way to the top of the cultural elite.
Raw, unadulterated hatred. Just as Jay Jones can wish death upon the children of a man he hates and still become Attorney General of Virginia, Jamelle Bouie can wish that JD Vance had been sold into slavery for Percocet.
As I often point out, the modern Left was born in the French Revolution and, to this day, admires Lenin, Mao, Castro, and Che.
The left likes to imagine themselves to be Luke Skywalker, or at least the young Luke Skywalker before he became disgusting and pathetic. But in reality, they are Emperor Palpatine.
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