{"id":558129,"date":"2021-06-09T12:37:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T16:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=558129"},"modified":"2021-06-09T12:37:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T16:37:07","slug":"nyt-defends-mara-gays-disturbing-american-flags-statement-social-media-pounds-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-defends-mara-gays-disturbing-american-flags-statement-social-media-pounds-them\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Defends Mara Gay\u2019s \u2018Disturbing\u2019 American Flags Statement. Social Media Pounds Them."},"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\">24<\/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%2Fnyt-defends-mara-gays-disturbing-american-flags-statement-social-media-pounds-them%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=558129&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1187711269.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday night, after New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay was heavily criticized for her remarks in which she stated that seeing \u201cdozens of American flags\u201d\u00a0was \u201cdisturbing\u201d and that \u201ctens of millions of Trump voters\u201d \u201csee \u2018American-ness\u2019 as the same as one with \u2018whiteness,\u2019\u201d the Times defended her by claiming her words were taken out of context, prompting an incendiary reaction on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The Times tweeted, \u201cNew York Times editorial board member Mara Gay\u2019s comments on MSNBC have been irresponsibly taken out of context. Her argument was that Trump and many of his supporters have politicized the American flag. The attacks on her today are ill-informed and grounded in bad faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.6296296296296\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay&#8217;s comments on MSNBC have been irresponsibly taken out of context. Her argument was that Trump and many of his supporters have politicized the American flag. The attacks on her today are ill-informed and grounded in bad-faith.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYTimesPR\/status\/1402407267471867906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Times was blasted on social media.\u00a0Former Fox News \u00a0anchor and current podcast host Megyn Kelly: \u00a0\u201cSpin away \u2014 we heard her loud and clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.8571428571429\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Spin away \u2013 we heard her loud and clear.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/megynkelly\/status\/1402413496889925639?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Newsbusters\u2019 Curtis Houck added, \u201cI see you guys and gals are going with the \u2018tweet through it strategy.\u2019 Bold move!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.7647058823529\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I see you guys and gals are going with the &#8220;tweet through it strategy.&#8221; Bold move! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zmeDYTRtiT\">pic.twitter.com\/zmeDYTRtiT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1402421267614121986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Actor Nick Searcy: \u201cWrong. She hates the country, and that is why she works for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.6243093922652\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wrong.  She hates the country, and that is why she works for you. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nytimes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qQXY9CTp0i\">https:\/\/t.co\/qQXY9CTp0i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nick Searcy, INSURRECTIONAL FILM &#038; TELEVISION STAR (@yesnicksearcy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yesnicksearcy\/status\/1402485342385491969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News host Laura Ingraham: \u201cShe\u2019s disturbed by seeing American flags. What exactly was taken out of context? The word \u2018American\u2019? Or the word \u2018flags\u2019? Air ball.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.4558823529412\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">She&#8217;s disturbed by seeing American flags.  What exactly was taken out of context?  The word &#8220;American&#8221;?  Or the word &#8220;flags&#8221;?  Air ball. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZQ3gu7EKbm\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZQ3gu7EKbm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IngrahamAngle\/status\/1402428831114354690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDilbert\u201d creator Scott Adams: \u201c\u2019Politicized the American flag\u2019 is a strange way to describe patriotism.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.0281690140845\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Politicized the American flag&#8221; is a strange way to describe patriotism. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ybk48Z1NCR\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ybk48Z1NCR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottAdamsSays\/status\/1402603058878582791?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Radio host Erick Erickson: \u201cNo no, we can all see the clip for ourselves and the left is out defending her focus on giant American flags from trucks. She really doesn\u2019t like people who fly the flag and thinks they are all Trump supporters or racists or both.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.7123745819398\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No no, we can all see the clip for ourselves and the left is out defending her focus on giant American flags from trucks.  She really doesn&#8217;t like people who fly the flag and thinks they are all Trump supporters or racists or both. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TCFt0SeUTP\">https:\/\/t.co\/TCFt0SeUTP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EWErickson\/status\/1402626415296757760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Radio host Mark Davis: \u201cNo sale. #MaraGay is a political bigot, twisting love of country into some sinister white supremacist xenophobia. Want to see politicization of the American flag? Revisit anthem kneeling, which I\u2019m guessing Ms. Gay thought was swell.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.117647058824\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No sale. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MaraGay?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MaraGay<\/a> is a political bigot, twisting love of country into some sinister white supremacist xenophobia.  Want to see politicization of the American flag?  Revisit anthem kneeling, which I&#8217;m guessing Ms Gay thought was swell.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Davis (@MarkDavis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkDavis\/status\/1402416995740573698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Journalist\/author Glenn Greenwald: \u201cThis is such a lie. The clip was originally posted vy @tomelliott and he purposely posted the entire clip of Maya Gay\u2019s comments from the first word to the last: 2 minutes, 34 seconds of it. It\u2019s fine to agree with what she said but nobody distorted anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.4567164179104\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LOL. This is such a lie. The clip was originally posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tomselliott<\/a> and he purposely posted the entire clip of Maya Gay&#8217;s comments from the first word to the last: 2 minutes, 34 seconds of it. It&#8217;s fine to agree with what she said but nobody distorted anything. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cVDiRMPwdn\">https:\/\/t.co\/cVDiRMPwdn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1402635999499390978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Host Mika Brzezinski prompted Gay\u2019s remarks by surmising that a commission looking into the events of January 6 would be vital, then segued into calling former President Trump \u201ca threat to our democracy to this moment.\u201d She stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13\">\n<p><em>Post-Trump, there needs to be an investigation that looks into how we got here, and that\u2019s why the January 6 commission would have been so important or looking into the events that led up to January 6, Mara Gay. Because I\u2019m not just talking about the week before, I\u2019m talking about the months before, and even the years before. And it may be that the one way that perhaps there can be an explanation to the American people who were hornswoggled or misled in any way by this man who is a threat to our democracy to this moment.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gay responded, \u201cI think this is another area where Democrats really need to get serious about talking about what this threat is. I think you said it really well, Joe, a minute ago, where you talked about the need to stop being surprised by all of this and start taking it seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gay then posited that Democrats should simply ignore the GOP and proceed on their own: \u201cYou know, it\u2019s really concerning to me that the Democrats haven\u2019t just gone ahead at this point and said, \u2018We\u2019re doing this on our own\u2019 in terms of getting a commission together to explain to the American people how we allowed the insurrection to take place in the Capitol. I think that really needs to move forward swiftly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then Gay turned to her position that many Americans refuse to \u201cshare the democracy with others\u201d because they see \u201cAmerican-ness\u201d as the same as \u201cwhiteness\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\">\n<p><em>You know, the reality is here that we have a large percentage of the American population \u2014 I don\u2019t know how big it is, but we have tens of millions of Trump voters who continue to believe that their rights as citizens are under threat by simple virtue of having to share the democracy with others. I think that as long as they see \u201cAmerican-ness\u201d as the same as one with \u201cwhiteness,\u201d this is going to continue. We have to figure out how to get every American a place at the table in this democracy but how to separate \u201cAmerican-ness,\u201d America, from \u201cwhiteness.\u201d Until we can confront that and talk about that, this is really going to continue.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gay then described being \u201cdisturb[ed]\u201d when she saw American flags being flown by what she believed to be Trump supporters:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p><em>I was on Long Island this weekend visiting a really dear friend. I was really disturbed; I saw dozens and dozens of pick-up trucks with explicatives (sic) against Joe Biden on the back of them; Trump flags, and in some cases just dozens of American flags, which is also just disturbing, because essentially the message was clear. It was, \u201cThis is my country. This is not your country. I won this.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She concluded:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13\">\n<p><em>And so until we\u2019re ready to have that conversation, this is going to continue. What really is concerning to me as well is it\u2019s not just Democrats in Congress; I think there\u2019s a large percentage of Americans, even from my colleagues in journalism who are invested in some way in pretending that this isn\u2019t the threat that it is. That is the real concern, because the Trump voters who are not going to get on board with democracy, they\u2019re a minority; you can marginalize them long-term. But if we don\u2019t take the threat seriously, then I think we\u2019re really all in bad shape.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.3645833333333\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NYT\/MSNBC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaraGay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MaraGay<\/a>: In Long Island last weekend, I saw \u201cdozens of American flags,\u201d which was \u201cjust disturbing\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RhGdqqJope\">pic.twitter.com\/RhGdqqJope<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1402218237048279041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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