Victor Davis Hanson isn’t too pleased with his New Yorker interview
And I can’t say I blame him one iota. I previously wrote about the unwarranted slurs the article’s author, Isaac Chotiner, dished out to Hanson at the piece’s outset in an effort to discredit him.
Here’s Hanson’s twitter feed about Chotiner’s article (hat tip: commenter “sdferr”):
For the record, I recently spoke with @NewYorker's @IChotiner per his request for a discussion on my recent book. The published piece was "edited and condensed for clarity”; however, . . . https://t.co/wMIQ3t9CaL
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) February 25, 2019
the editing was done so in a way that omits the chronological accuracy of our conversation and the vast majority of what was said, which I think is important for purposes of context, tone, and intent—both Mr. Chotiner's and my own.
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) February 25, 2019
There's also introductory false accusations of "a history of hostility to undocumented Mexican and Central American immigrants . . . and to African-Americans who speak about the persistence of racism." Neither charge is remotely true.
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) February 25, 2019
If Mr. Chotiner would release an accurate transcription of our “long conversation,” there will appear wide discrepancies in tone, intent and content from the published interview.
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) February 25, 2019
This is exactly why many people today have distrust of many in media and reflects the unprofessionalism that occurs too often. An unfortunate piece that shouldn't have been published in its current form and should be retracted.
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) February 25, 2019
You screwed up. You trusted him.
Never talk to the media; or if you do video the whole thing yourself and tell your interviewer you will release it if you’re not satisfied with what they publish.
Smart fella like VDH shoulda known that.
Always record the interview. We should have a fed. law ensuring recordings of interactions with the media is always legal. Probably never get it through the Senate.
Newsflash. The media have no integrity at all.
My mother was once interviewed by a newspaper reporter about the curriculum at her high school. She was most distressed to see what she said to the reporter cropped to make a point opposite of the one she’d intended (and opposite of the one manifest in her actual words). She got a disagreeable phone call from her old history teacher complaining that she’d misrepresented the curriculum. She had to explain to the woman that the reporter had misrepresented her. The year was 1948, when it’s a reasonable wager a great many more journalists thand do today cared about reporting and knew short-hand.
If we made it an affirmative defense in assault cases that the object of the assault is a journalist, we’d get better behavior from journalists.
If the Revolution turns bloody, we’ll be hunting down the Journalists and the Professors, with dogs, in the swamps.
What.
Did.
He.
Expect???????????????????
“We love to lie” (sung to the tune of “I Love to Laugh”).
“And we love to misrepresent.” (No tune required.)
“And we love to destroy people we consider beneath the pale (that is, people who don’t think like they damn well ought to, that is, who don’t think like we do…. Well, they have it coming to them. They deserve everything they get. Feh.).”
And then we congratulate ourselves on our cleverness!! (We are so, so, so clever!! Oh, and moral, too! And we have history on our side!!)
Another knife in their backs—another pat on ours.
And what chutzpah this Hanson creep spews!! These meshuggeneh racist Trump supporters really have no right to complain. Gevalt! He—a Trump supporter!—-complaining about the Truth??!!
Feh. He deserves what he gets. Everything. And then some.
All of them do.
And no one can say that we can’t demonize, degrade and destroy our opponents like the best of ’em.
No one can make that claim.
NO ONE!!!
Speaking of destroying people….
https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/25/michael-cohen-dossier-false/
Damn we’re good!
And, heh, speaking about lying…
http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/22/john-brennan-shouldnt-be-lecturing-america-he-should-be-the-focus-of-a-congressional-investigation/#.XHQsXyREwTY.twitter
To be sure, “The New Yorker” has a reputation to live up to:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-did-jane-mayer-ronan-farrow-and-michael-avenatti-give-trump-his-biggest-victory-yet
A person as intellectually learned and as school-of-hard-knocks experienced in the ways of the (left-oriented) world as is Dr. Hanson — I would not ‘a’ thunk it.
To quote myself responding to someone in the earlier thread:
Don’t know, but at a guess he might have assumed the interview was about the book, or about his historically informed perspective on Trump, not about himself.
I suppose victims of the progressive slander machine will eventually realize that not only is it unwise to agree to talk to them about yourself [Which VDH probably knew full well], but you cannot even give them the time of day if they claim to be late for a meeting and ask what your watch reads.
So what happened to the edit function and preview?
The second to last paragraph was supposed to be included in the second blockquote as the response.
VDH’s book released on March 5. Buy your copy through the neo AMZN portal.
VDH should have known better. The msm ghouls are devoid of any morals or sense of honesty. Shunn them.
Of course with the benefit of hindsight it is all so obvious to many what VDH should have, could have done. How many here have been in similar situations? Of course “I” would not have been so naive or foolish. Right. Think about it and what you are assuming.
So what happened to the edit function and preview?
I think Neo turns it off at irregular intervals to mess with our heads. Behind that Granny Smith, she chuckling.
VDH should have recorded it — all Trump supporters, all conservatives, should be recording calls more often.
Trump should have an org do a realWhiteHouse set of tapes of all his press, both to show what is really going on, but also to get better.
I don’t like twitter, mostly; tho I do like that Pres. Trump uses it. 58.7 mln followers. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
Politics is moving farther away from the policy wonk and far more to the celebrity – PEOPLE / good publicity skills are becoming more important to getting votes than good policy.
VDH and all conservatives do know better, just don’t want it to be true, that the Dem media truly are their enemies.
(and edit allows me add here that I have it)
DNW:
That was me you replied to, in the prior post.
But, yes, victims of the leftist slander machine should always have two independent forms of recording going on any time they interact with the media.
BTW, your phrasing was “progressive slander machine” rather than “leftist slander machine”; but y’know what? I’m tired of meekly submitting to their word games, and this is an instance where I’m not going to call someone what they want to be called. When dealing with leftists, I’ve decided to go out of my way to put the word “progressive” in scare-quotes. My intent is to highlight the Orwellian absurdity of trying to turn society’s clock back to the worst errors of late 19th-century German political philosophers, and calling that “progress!”
And as for “liberal”: I always replace that term with “leftist.” There’s nothing liberty-promoting or liberty-loving about the whole cadre.