And he began with the simple things that everybody’s known and felt—the freshness of a fine morning when you’re young, and the taste of food when you’re hungry, and the new day that’s every day when you’re a child. He took them up and he turned them in his hands. They were good things for any man. But without freedom, they sickened. And when he talked of those enslaved, and the sorrows of slavery, his voice got like a big bell. He talked of the early days of America and the men who had made those days. It wasn’t a spread-eagle speech, but he made you see it. He admitted all the wrong that had ever been done. But he showed how, out of the wrong and the right, the suffering and the starvations, something new had come. And everybody had played a part in it, even the traitors.
Stephen Vincent Benet, The Devil and Daniel Webster
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo understands that the New York Times is walking, once again, hand in hand with enemies of this country:
The New York Times’s 1619 Project is an attack on “the American way of life” that aligns with the Chinese Communist Party, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
“They want you to believe Marxist ideology that America is only the oppressors and the oppressed,” Pompeo said Thursday at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. “The Chinese Communist Party must be gleeful when they see the New York Times spout this ideology.”
Pompeo issued that rebuke at the unveiling of a new report from the Commission on Unalienable Rights, a panel he convened last year to provide “an informed review of the role of human rights in American foreign policy.” He acknowledged the historical perpetration of human rights abuses by the U.S. government — including slavery, that “we expelled Native Americans from their ancestral lands,” and foreign policy decisions that violated the sovereignty of other nations. But he maintained that this history has been distorted into “a slander” of the American people.
“Our founders also knew the fallen nature of mankind,” Pompeo said. “So, in their great wisdom, they established a system that acknowledged our human failings, checked our worst instincts, ensured government wouldn’t trample on these unalienable rights.”
Pompeo also said that “the New York Times refused to publish” an op-ed on the report by Mary Ann Glendon, a mentor and emeritus Harvard professor who chaired the commission, before making a joke about the recent controversy over the newspaper’s decision to fire the editor who published an opinion column written by Sen. Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican.
“You are even more dangerous than Sen. Tom Cotton,” he said to Glendon.
Go here to read the rest. The story of America is a great epic, a history of the attempt to live out, with many stumblings, the ideas that the Founding Fathers set forth at the birth of the United States, and all the lies in the world will not change that. Go here to see resources which counter the congealed mendacity of The 1619 Project.
The real damage inflicted by the New York Times is that it is the bible of the MSM which influences millions. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is to be congratulated for calling them out. But much, much more needs to be done. Perhaps they should be targeted by the Dept of Justice for subversion. The N.Y. Times is a traitor to our country.