The New Yorker is famous for its pithy cartoons that don’t actually make you laugh. (Remember when Elaine Benes drew one on Seinfeld?) But it also dives into jounalisming from time to time. This time it leaves the bustling streets of Manhattan to go to Wichita to explain how racist Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is.
Oh, you didn’t know Mike Pompeo was racist? Well, first of all, he works for Donald Trump, so that puts him at Level 2 Racist. But you see, tangential racist is not good enough for the scrounging, thorough reporter from the New Yorker.
No, she will accuse Mike Pompeo of being Level A-1 Racist, and will even do some half-assed research to prove it.
In this article in The New Yorker, writer Susan Glasser begins by quoting an unnamed “Former American Ambassador” that Pompeo is “like a heat-seeking missile for Trump’s ass.”
Well then.
Good to hear that the country’s diplomatic corps has an air of decorum and etiquette.
Then again, this likely top-dollar campaign contributor doesn’t have the nerve to actually state their name, but hey, what a quote!
And the article goes on to point out that (horrors!) Pompeo was a Marco Rubio supporter in the Presidential Primary. Yes, the exact same story that Tim Alberta told in the recently published American Carnage, and as Alberta described on Jonah Goldberg’s The Remnant podcast.
And she says that Pompeo’s business career wasn’t as successful as he says it was. But that’s all relatively forgivable stuff, right? Business and politics.
But what is unforgivable is being a racist. And Glasser has the goods!
Or does she?
She states that in Pompeo’s 2004 campaign for Kansas’s 4th Congressional District, the Pompeo campaign “tweeted praise for an article” that was racist against his opponent and that “a supporter bought billboards urging residents to “vote american—vote pompeo.””
Well, here’s the lowdown (easily found by a simple Google search): On the Twitter post, it was a campaign staffer, of course, who manned the Twitter keyboard — and deleted the Twitter post after one hour. The campaign said it was inadvertent, and in any case, Pompeo personally phoned his opponent, Raj Goyle, the next day and apologized.
But you didn’t see that in Glasser’s article, did you?
And the “supporter” who “bought billboards”?
No.
This was a guy who had his own digital sign, above his business, that he used to put digital images up for candidates he likes. The Pompeo campaign had no control over this guy. And oh by the way, the guy took the image down after he was questioned about it.
So, staffer with dumb Tweet, where Pompeo personally apologized. And some guy with a digital billboard.
That’s it. That’s the controversy.
But how does The New Yorker‘s Susan Glasser define it?
“Pompeo ran a nasty race.”
So feel free to swallow the rest of the magazine article dipped in just a tad more than a grain of salt.
And you wonder why the the trust in the media is at nil these days?
Because of hit-pieces like this, disguised as journalism.
Oh, and if you, Journalist, insist that Mike Pompeo apologize for anything and everything Donald Trump says, then you must step up and condemn garbage like this.
We will all be waiting…
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