Pulitzer board rejects Trump's challenge to Post, Times Russia stories

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

The board that administers the Pulitzer Prizes rejected former president Donald Trump’s request to rescind the 2018 prizes awarded to The Washington Post and the New York Times for their reporting about his campaign and administration’s connections to Russia election interference.

Trump challenged the awards on three occasions, including last year, arguing that the articles were based on “false reporting of a non-existent link between the Kremlin and the Trump Campaign.” He called the stories “no more than a politically motivated farce which attempted to spin a false narrative that my campaign supposedly colluded with Russia despite a complete lack of evidence underpinning this allegation.”

The Pulitzer board rejected that claim on Monday after undertaking the journalistic equivalent of a state election recount. In an unusual move, it authorized two independent reviews of the articles submitted by the newspapers — and essentially recertified the results.

“The separate reviews converged in their conclusions: that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes,” it said in a statement.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/07/18/pulitzer-reject-trump-russia-stories-challenge/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wp_main

[question everything]

1. Is this what he does at night? tossing and turning searching for grievances?

[smb]

6. He Counts Grievances Like Normal People Count Sheep nt

[LudwigPastorius]

11. Trump went full Captain Queeg a long, long time ago.

From 2015:

https://people.com/celebrity/donald-trump-sends-vanity-fair-editor-photos-of-his-hands/

For the last 25 years, Donald Trump has been sending pictures of his hands to Graydon Carter to prove his fingers are properly proportioned, the Vanity Fair editor has revealed.

The bizarre, decades-long feud between the journalist and the billionaire presidential candidate began when Carter wrote an essay for Spy magazine calling Trump a “short-fingered vulgarian,” Carter wrote in this month’s editor’s letter.

“Like the other packages, this one included a circled hand and the words, also written in gold Sharpie: ‘See, not so short!’ I sent the picture back by return mail with a note attached, saying, ‘Actually, quite short.’ ”

Carter wrote that Trump sends “the occasional envelope” of torn-out magazine pages, “On all of them he has circled his hand in gold Sharpie in a valiant effort to highlight the length of his fingers.”

[ShazzieB]

13. Ooh, gold!

I guess plain old black's not good enough to use for circling those "ineffable, effable, effanineffable, deep and inscrutable singular" digits!

Apologies to T.S. Eliot. I needed to convey extreme hyperbole and couldn't think of anything more hyperbolic than this!

[housecat]

16. T.S. Eliot would be flattered

[jaxexpat]

19. Jellicle hands are awfully short.

[LudwigPastorius]

20. Black sharpies are only good for redirecting...

the paths of hurricanes!

[AZLD4Candidate]

21. I don't want to know if he plays with his balls though.

[groundloop]

2. What a fucking crybaby.

[paleotn]

3. Why was a review even necessary?

[captain queeg]

4. He obviously didn't write it, too many multi syllable words and he is illiterate

There is a small industry supported by listening to him and trying to make a semi intelligible sentence or paragraph. You have to sink pretty low to make your living that way.

[ShazzieB]

14. In this case, I'd guess he got a lawyer to do it.

It has that flavor.

[William Seger]

5. Not just a loser; history's most pathetic loser (n/t)

[2Gingersnaps]

7. He thinks he can bully and threaten

A rewrite of history. His legacy is already written, and it is as bad as he fears.

[Maeve]

8. In other words, "Suck it, loser. They had truth on their side" eom

[dweller]

9. Doesn't matter

Pisswig will claim he won anyway


✌🏻

[Marcuse]

10. The J6 Committee Report should win a Pulitzer Prize in the General Nonfiction category.

[yaesu]

12. Fascists like to bully their way into changing fact to fiction. If they ever get back into power

that will be the norm as it is in putins russia.

[Wounded Bear]

15. trump still wants daddy to come in and bribe the professor to pass him...

[Mozeltov Cocktail]

17. I find it absolutely ridiculous the lengths people go to just to appease this man...

I guess not everyone has learned that he is going to ask for recounts over and over and over... he wears people down, then grinds some more until he gets a number that makes him a winner.
The Pulitzer Board is now somewhat diminished for not sticking by their original reasoning for the award. By going through the time and expense of reevaluating their original decision they have lent an air of legitimacy to his unfounded and unverifiable complaint...

[Evolve Dammit]

18. And yet the media covers him ad nauseum. Unless he dies, he will probably win. n/t

[Novara]

22. Wouldn't it be an amazing world if the media would just ...

... ignore the buffoon? Imagine the peace!

All along the media has been complicit. In everything. I guess the only way the media won't cover him is if he dies. The day can't come soon enough. I am sick of living in a world that thinks this piece of garbage is worthy of so much time and effort.

[Evolve Dammit]

23. I can only imagine the New Yorkers who had to listen to the last 5+ decades of it?

Of course he didn't have nuclear codes and stuff then..... He can never get anywhere near a position of power again.