“My regret is that editor’s note. My mistake there was trying to mollify people,” Bennet said in an interview with Smith’s new publication Semafor. He went on to accuse publisher A. G. Sulzberger of having blown “the opportunity to make clear that the New York Times doesn’t exist just to tell progressives how progressives should view reality. That was a huge mistake and a missed opportunity for him to show real strength.”
“I never apologized for publishing the piece and still don’t,” said Bennet, who also charged Sulzberger with disloyalty.
“When push came to shove at the end, he set me on fire and threw me in the garbage and used my reverence for the institution against me,” he continued. “This is why I was so bewildered for so long after I had what felt like all my colleagues treating me like an incompetent fascist.”
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