{"id":2481806,"date":"2025-09-03T08:18:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-french-will-say-anything-for-a-paycheck\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T08:21:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:21:54","slug":"david-french-will-say-anything-for-a-paycheck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-french-will-say-anything-for-a-paycheck\/","title":{"rendered":"David French Will Say Anything For A Paycheck"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdavid-french-will-say-anything-for-a-paycheck%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2481806&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text is a critical commentary on David French, accusing him of dishonest and insincere journalism primarily serving a paycheck rather than truth. The author, Chris Bray, argues that French&#8217;s recent column in The New York Times misrepresents controversies involving Cracker Barrel and actress Sydney Sweeney&#8217;s advertising campaigns. Bray claims French falsely portrays these issues as minor or fabricated right-wing outrage, despite broad and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israeli-pms-christmas-message-israel-our-common-heritage-only-place-in-region-protecting-christian-life\/\" title=\"Israeli PM\u2019s Christmas Message: Israel \u2018Our Common Heritage,\u2019 Only Place in Region Protecting Christian Life\">significant media coverage<\/a> from outlets like The Guardian, The New yorker, The Atlantic, and major network news. Bray denounces French as a disingenuous figure who consistently distorts reality and panders to his audience by dismissing legitimate criticism as baseless outrage. The piece was originally published on Bray&#8217;s Substack, &#8220;Tell Me How This Ends.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Even for a soulless and brain-dead whore whose dismal personal character is well-known,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Ibc4J\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this<\/a>&nbsp;is a remarkable performance of sociopathic&nbsp;<em>I&rsquo;ll say anything for a paycheck<\/em>&nbsp;whoring:<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The evil right-wing media just made up a totally fake controversy about Cracker Barrel, you see.<\/p>\n<p>Every paragraph of French&rsquo;s column is a strawman. Every claim is obviously false. He&rsquo;s not even&nbsp;<em>sort of<\/em>&nbsp;describing surface-level reality. David French now gets paid to point at cows and say, &ldquo;That&rsquo;s definitely not a cow.&rdquo; He&rsquo;s a fabulist, and a talentless one. His sole value is that he gets to cosplay &ldquo;conservative&rdquo; while mindlessly doing all of the dumb leftist tropes, giving correct-thinking cadre the very small thrill of feeling righteous about the people they hate. He&rsquo;s a professional reassurance artist: Yes,&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;readers, people you disagree with are always wrong and never have a point about anything. Thanks, David, here&rsquo;s a nickel.<\/p>\n<p>So.<\/p>\n<p>You must be blind and amnesiac, because French explains this about the &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dunkin-now-on-the-leftist-boycott-list-after-its-own-genetics-ad\/\" title=\"Dunkin&#039; Now on the Leftist Boycott List After Its Own &#039;Genetics&#039; Ad\">good jeans&#038;rdquo<\/a>; thing with Sydney Sweeney, the other recent branding controversy that he discusses alongside the Cracker Barrel thing: &ldquo;There was no actual groundswell of opposition to Sweeney.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>No, seriously:&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;There was no actual groundswell of opposition to Sweeney.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/strong>David French just wrote this sentence and got it published in The&nbsp;New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Right-wingers just made it all up, calculatedly stoking outrage about something that wasn&rsquo;t even real: &ldquo;But if there&rsquo;s a conflict between telling the truth and stoking outrage, time and again, the right chooses outrage.&rdquo; Read these paragraphs carefully, and watch how casually this man lies:<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senators-take-aim-at-biden-doj-nominee-gupta-over-past-left-wing-attacks-on-lawmakers\/\" title=\"GOP senators take aim at Biden DOJ nominee Gupta over past left...wing attacks on lawmakers\">left-wing attacks<\/a> on Sweeney &ldquo;were confined to a small number of online voices.&rdquo; Almost no one else had anything to say about it, and the topic&nbsp;<em>certainly<\/em>&nbsp;wasn&rsquo;t covered widely in corporate liberal media. Meanwhile,&nbsp;<em>in the same newspaper where French is making this claim<\/em>, and within the last month:<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s&nbsp;The Guardian, also giving the matter a liiiiiitle bit of attention:<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>How utterly shameless do you have to be to pretend this, in public and in print? Quite famously and quite recently, the highest-profile magazine in the country ran an unusually stupid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/critics-notebook\/the-banal-provocation-of-sydney-sweeneys-jeans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">essay<\/a> about the Sweeney ad:<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;Interestingly, breasts, and the desire for them, are stereotyped as objects of white desire, as opposed to, say, the Black man&rsquo;s hunger for ass.&rdquo; Anyone who pays any attention at all to media remembers this insane thing. But David French somehow convinced himself that people will&nbsp;<em>believe<\/em>&nbsp;his description of a minor controversy that was only taken up by &ldquo;a small number of online voices.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Aside from The&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;and The&nbsp;Guardian&nbsp;and The&nbsp;New Yorker,&nbsp;The Atlantic&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2025\/07\/sydney-sweeney-american-eagle-ads\/683704\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote about it<\/a>, The&nbsp;New Republic&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/198770\/trump-sydney-sweeney-ad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote about it<\/a>, network news covered it over and over again&hellip;<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&hellip;and then David French said this, not even a full month after the high point of the widespread and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >hugely obvious mass media controversy<\/a>:&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;There was no actual groundswell of opposition to Sweeney.&rdquo;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This man is a&nbsp;<em>shameful<\/em>&nbsp;figure. He never so much as passes truth in the street. His schtick is too obvious now to pretend that he&rsquo;s doing anything but a &ldquo;real conservative&rdquo; minstrel show for pay. Imagine living that way.<\/p>\n<p><em>This <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/p\/david-french-is-aggressively-and?publication_id=484195&amp;post_id=172435748&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=k64i1&amp;triedRedirect=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> was originally published on the author&rsquo;s Substack, &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tell Me How This Ends<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Chris Bray is a former infantry sergeant in the U.S. Army, and has a history PhD from the University of California Los Angeles. Find his Substack, &#8220;Tell Me How This Ends,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French&#8217;s column is full of false strawman claims<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":2481807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/french.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[36659,5157,36497,4902],"class_list":["post-2481806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-david-french","tag-journalism","tag-media-critique","tag-opinion"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/french.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481806"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481810,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481806\/revisions\/2481810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2481807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}