‘It’s Embarrassing That The New York Times Is Doing This’: Conservatives React To The NYT ‘1619 Project’
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Some conservatives and journalists condemned The New York Times following its “1619 Project” that “aims to reframe the country’s history.”
The “1619 Project” is made up of numerous stories and poems about slavery and racism and suggests America’s “true founding” was when the first slaves arrived.
Newt Gingrich tweeted Sunday that “The NY Times 1619 Project should make its slogan ‘All the Propaganda we want to brainwash you with’.it is a repudiation of the original NY Times motto.”
“The fact is I saw one reference that The New York Times claims that the American Revolution was caused in part to defend slavery,” Gingrich said on “Fox & Friends.” “That is such historically factually false nonsense that it’s embarrassing that The New York Times is doing this.”
Gingrich also mentioned a leaked NYT town hall meeting where Executive Editor Dean Baquet “‘basically said, ‘Look, we blew it on Russian collusion, didn’t work. Now we are going to go to racism. That’s our new model,’” according to the former speaker.
“This is a tragic decline of The New York Times into a propaganda paper,” Gingrich said.
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