Laurence Tribe tweet - Won't write for Newsweek again

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

[chia]

1. Love and respect Laurence Tribe, good for him

[4139]

2. My favorite birtherism...

[yellowcanine]

3. Nancy Cooper and Josh Hammer need to resign or be fired. Otherwise Newsweek has no cred going

forward.

[yardwork]

8. Their statement that they didn't anticipate that this would be used to further birtherism....

That might be the lamest thing I've ever read a supposedly reputable publication say.

[Grokenstein]

16. "How could we have possibly imagined that

this lit Molotov Cocktail we threw could have been used as an incendiary device?"

[LiberalFighter]

19. Wiki has this on her.

Nancy Cooper is an American journalist, birther, and news executive serving as the global editor-in-chief of Newsweek magazine.

Last edited 15 Aug 2020.

[yardwork]

28. Lol! She deserves that.

[zentrum]

34. Good find. May the...

…title follow her all the days of her life.

[question everything]

4. I was really surprised when I read that it was published there

It used to be so liberal that we did not renew the subscription because of their non stop attacks on Hillary, and Bill, throughout 2008, even after she dropped from the race.

[customerserviceguy]

5. It's too late

Her purported "foreignness" is out there, which is what Trump wanted us to all be debating rather than his policies.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. That's the racist problem, that some bit of foreignness taints a person in tRumpanzee eyes

The deplorables in the cult don't travel internationally.
They don't get exposed to foreign ideas.
They hate Spanish or French in high school.
They don't like "foreign food" except maybe Taco Bell and Chinese Gourmet Express.
They think Americans invented the automobile, the telephone, apple pie and hot dogs.

They believe the US is number one in education, health care, and style.

They are racists through and through.

[erronis]

18. Don't pile on the poor "american exceptionalism". After all they are first in COVID 19 deaths,

first in thinking that guns solve problems,
first in pretending to be religious and following their savior but actually being total hypocrites,
first in the worst healthcare system in the developed world in terms of actually helping real people,
first in electing a moron (well, more than one: trump, reagan, bushie w),
first in having a party that is actively undermining its own government.

[KS Toronado]

36. You're kinda outspokened and 100% correct.

[usajumpedtheshark]

37. tRumpanzee (chortle) I like it even though most apes are smarter than tRump

[JI7]

29. His wife is a foreign prostitute that came here illegally and they are just fine with that

[Phoenix61]

6. Anyone who couldn't see how the article

would be weaponized has no business working for a magazine. Hell, I’m not sure they’re they should even be delivering them.

[Mike Nelson]

7. Yikes!

... how could people rise up to this level at Newsweek - a major news-magazine - and not know how at article would be taken?

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Newsweek has in past times

found someone to do a hit piece of a Democratic Candidate even if it was a total lie.

[karynnj]

45. Newsweek is not the Newsweek of yesteryear. Like many magazines, it failed and the NAME was bought.

Since then, I have been stunned by what they have become.

[Mike Nelson]

47. Thanks for that info n/t

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[Paladin]

10. Thank you, Professor Tribe. (nt)

[NCjack]

15. Me too.

[MFGsunny]

43. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! n/t

[splunge63]

12. fool me once, ...

Newsweek showed their true colors. Propaganda outfit, plain and simple.

[Upthevibe]

13. This is sickening!

[NCjack]

14. Didn't see it. I don't read trash.

[aquamarina]

17. The fact that the article came out

17 seconds after Biden added Harris to the ticket strongly suggests that they had it teed up and ready to go. It’s total bullshit for them to claim ignorance.

[rickyhall]

20. They publish a magazine but can't fucking read our Constitution. Pathetic...

[dchill]

21. K&R.

[W T F]

22. Now, Newsweek can be considered fake news

[still_one]

25. No, but they provided an opportunity in the form of an OP Ed to push the birthism LIE, and that

makes them an accomplice to right wing propaganda as though this is a valid debatable point

[LisaM]

23. I was surprised Newsweek ran it.

There were other problems besides the birtherism slams against Harris - holding up the Dred Scott decision as being credible, failing to mention that she got the AG job he ran for in the primary. They did not vet this enough.

I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt that they published this in some kind of attempt to be even-handed, but this is really a major screw up and they have a lot of damage control to do.

[niyad]

30. There is NOTHING "even-handed about publishing a flat out LIE. Sen. Harris was born in

Oakland, CA, our 31st state. She is a naturally-born Amweican citizen. PERIOD!!! And if the editor is too ignorant to know that, the editor is too f'n stupid to be anywhere near a publication. PERIOD!!!!! There is NO excuse, NO rationalization, NO justification they can use to hide their racism and misogyny.

[LisaM]

38. I said attempt.

It was hardly a rousing success.

[GoCubsGo]

41. I'm not surprised.

A few weeks ago, they were pushing the junk science from that Yale professor, that claimed that hydroxychloroquine really, really is a COVID-19 wonder drug. They have been going downhill for years.

[Thekaspervote]

24. I had my say to newsweek via their twitter acct and their website!

[Cha]

26. Retweeted!

[Cha]

27. NewsWEAK.

[NurseJackie]

31. Perfect!

[Cha]

33. ..

[nolabear]

32. Fantastic!

[Crunchy Frog]

35. On this site, Newsweek should be treated similarly to Breibart.

It should not be allowed as a source.

The truth is that the old and respected news magazine is now dead. What exists now is a RW rag using a purchased name and logo.

They can stuff their non-apology up their ass.

[DFW]

39. Did they go all online?

I haven't seen or read Newsweek in many, many years. I didn't even know the brand was still alive.

[Sierra89]

40. Good for Lawrence!

When news outlets, (as well as trump) put out stories and remarks such as this they know exactly what they are doing. Even if they later reel it back in and/or apologize, it is given air. People who are too lazy to go research and find it is false will believe it. Then they lay it low and spread it wide as well. I will never read Newsweek again. As far as I am concerned they are a propaganda rag now. What a shame.

[MrModerate]

42. Newsweek was dying and now it's dead. n/t

[spooky3]

44. The Newsweek author was Harris' Repub opponent for AG. He works at a low tier

law school in Orange County. The first fact is disqualifying evidence of bias, and the second raises the question: why was Newsweek unable to find someone at a more respected law school to write an opinion and have it reviewed by other respected scholars before publishing--or find a refereed article in a good journal? Maybe because no serious legal scholars think the opinion has any credibility?

This is more evidence that the Newsweek editors should be fired.

[VA_Jill]

46. My late ex

used to refer jokingly to the magazine in question as "Newspeak". Now it has truly earned that sobriquet. I will no longer read any of its articles online, either. They lost me as a subscriber some time back. Now they have lost me as a reader, permanently.