Thank you to @peterbakernyt's editors for resisting the temptation to straighten out this paragraph.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

David Fahrenthold Retweeted

Thank you to
@peterbakernyt
's editors for resisting the temptation to straighten out this paragraph... It is a fantastic act of grammar as journalism...

https://nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/politics/trump-news-conference.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

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[demmiblue]

1. It is a thing of beauty (saw it this morning on MJ)

[soothsayer]

2. That's awesome

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Didn't know what to expect, but turns out it IS a fantastic piece of journalism.

Wry commentary by providing simply the whole truth, nothing but the truth.

[Nevilledog]

4. Bwahahaha

[young_at_heart]

5. Kudos to Peter Baker

All I can say is WOW!

[Dem2theMax]

6. That's probably the best thing I will read this week.

[SharonClark]

7. It's a beautiful piece of writing in it's simplicity.

Thank you for sharing.

[Hekate]

8. I'm impressed!

[ananda]

9. An English teacher approves this paragraph also!

It's brilliant!

[packman]

24. Seems as if I was taught

to NEVER begin a sentence with the word "And"because it is a coordinating conjunction used to connect two words, phrases, clauses or prefixes together. And that's what I learned. And I still think it's a poor way to express a thought.

[SCantiGOP]

10. He blamed Biden for not fixing deficient roads and bridges

Is Mike Pence actively involved in road maintenance around the country? Biden was VP, how can the most ardent trump supporter think the condition of local roads is somehow a reflection of his ability to govern?

[gratuitous]

11. I think Trump can say that with a totally straight face

After all, didn't Trump's Infrastructure Week fix all the roads and bridges? Or am I remembering that wrong?

[SCantiGOP]

13. Trump said in his campaign

that he would have an infrastructure bill ready the afternoon of his inauguration.
If he hurries, he might be able to have it ready in time for Biden's inauguration.

[lagomorph777]

12. They read that aloud on MSNBC today. It is art; onomatopoeia.

Brilliant writing.

[czarjak]

14. Certain truthiness.

[irisblue]

15. The 'Paper of Record' kept looking the other way about Trump's detoriation

snip--"an hour of presidential stream of consciousness as Mr. Trump drifted seemingly at random from one topic to another, often in the same run-on sentence. Even for a president who rarely sticks to the script and wanders from thought to thought, it was one of the most rambling performances of his presidency."


NYT got lots and lots of access through Maggie Haberman.

[yonder]

16. This is great. What an effective way to shine a light on how tRump doesn't detail

anything he claims while he endlessly pinballs around from one topic to another. I honestly learned nothing less from Bakers account than I would've by reading an account that was written to meet standards of style. I'd like to see this technique used for everything he blasts out - maybe then folks would get that despite all the words, claims and blame, he really says nothing.

If the yam-head can break every norm under the sun, then why can't journalists and their editors?

[moonscape]

17. He had me at his opening "In theory, ... " n/t

[Hortensis]

18. Fine flow of writing, describing Trump's stream of consciousness

as a stream of consciousness, albeit far less disjointed. Doubt anyone felt any need to "straighten it out."

Thanks, Mahatma. I scanned this this morning and missed this bit.

“We could go on for days,” he said at one point, and it sounded plausible.

Bet it did after making the WH press wait in the hot summer sun with the sun in their eyes, and then for another hour.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. It makes you feel Trump's reality and live in his head for a moment

whoa! get the smelling salts.

[Wounded Bear]

20. "We could go on for days, and it sounded plausible..."

[wendyb-NC]

21. That paragraph is the most accurate description

of that orange things, public verbalizations possible, random topics hit by a cyclone.

[jayschool2013]

22. From Dana Milbank

in yesterday's WaPo:

He started with an announcement about Hong Kong; bounced to Biden’s infrastructure plan; swerved to the pandemic; careened to the swine flu of 2009; lurched to Ukraine and Burisma (“Where is Hunter?”); wobbled into the stock market; detoured to “AOC” (“a young woman not talented in many ways&quot , “Bernie" and Nancy Pelosi; floated into Maine fisheries; listed into the “tremendous fraud” of mail-in voting (“a mailman was indicted someplace”); and took on water with a claim about “criminals pouring into our country” — from Europe.

[Botany]

23. Gibberish

He weighed in on China and the coronavirus and the Paris climate change accord and crumbling highways. And then China again and military spending and then China again and then the coronavirus again. And the economy and energy taxes and trade with Europe and illegal immigration and his friendship with Mexico’s president. And the coronavirus again and then immigration again and crime in Chicago and the death penalty and back to climate change and education and historical statues. And more.

“We could go on for days,” he said at one point, and it sounded plausible.

[Cha]

25. Also said.. ".. Biden will end suburbs and windows...

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