Thank you for writing this, as a progressive it is disgusting that people would spread this vile. I am not a big supporter of Nikki Haley but she seems to be a smart reasonable and able leader. Its too bad that this book was even published.
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Well put, Sir.
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I thought he was referring to Hope Hicks. As UN Ambassador, one doesn't really think of Haley as spending as much time in Washington as NY.
Now she should be castigated for complaining about the politics on the Grammys. Music and politics have been intertwined for about five decades now. Shame on her. If this happened in another country I'm sure she would opine against it.
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Unfortunately sexism and misogyny is never off the table. It crosses every line everywhere. I agree what was said about Nikki was appalling. What Hillary said about Trump was fine and right on.
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I’m shocked, shocked by all the comments here that attack Bari Weiss for her entirely understandable defence of Nikki Haley.
Oh wait, this is the New York Times.
Never mind.
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There is a big difference between President Obama and the illiterate megalomaniac. The latter is a well-known sexual predator who even pays porno stars. In fact, he pays up to $130k to keep them quite. Nobody with a grain of brain would believe it, but the megalomaniac has even bragged about it.
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You are absolutely right. I am no particular fan of Amb. Haley's world view (nor do I seethe that she doesn't seem to see things my way, which has become the hallmark of American citizenship left and right). But this was disgusting. And CNN et al trucked in this story? Instead of all the actual news out there? The NRA spokeswoman Loesch acts unhinged (and arguably treasonously, so eagerly does she imply it's time for civil war) but she's absolutely correct when she sneers at the sanctimoniousness of too many people on the other side of conservatism. The country needs journalists to act like journalists right now. Grow up, newsies. You've got responsibilities now.
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This opinion piece is more than a little off kilter. Slut-shaming? It is indeed unfortunate and understandable that Ms. Haley has felt the need to speak out in response to this post-publication and not so clever aside, but no one I know has shown the least amount of interest in this post-publication insinuation. Perhaps that is why there hasn't been much of a reaction to the story, a fact about which the author makes too much in my opinion. It is ironic indeed that Ms. Weiss makes so much of Wolff's distasteful insinuation, an event of inconsequential innuendo, and fake news.
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Is the author of this piece actually decrying the alleged "slut-shaming" of Ambassador Haley? Or is he/she not so subtly trying to manufacture a bigger media scandal by bringing it to public attention? I had never heard any rumors about Ms Haley and Mr Trump until I read this article, and I subscribe to far too many mainstream and other Web publications. I am not averse to learning about new reasons to discredit Trump, but I would prefer they be based in something besides promotion of salacious innuendo.
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It’s not the reputation of the UN ambassador that causes unflattering speculation but the reputation of the president. When you become an ally of President Trump, male or female, questions arise.
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I don't really understand how your whole thesis ties together. I am a fairly avid consumer of news (and a woman sympathetic to issues of sexual harrassment) and I, for one, had no idea that there was any shady allusion to Nikki Haley having an affair with Donald Trump in "Fire and Fury." Whatever the shortcomings of the book and its coverage by the media, surely the overwhelming takeaway is that it paints a picture of Mr. Trump as supremely unfit for the office he holds. Therefore it seems logical to me that Hillary Clinton would be part of a good-natured joke about the book -- after all, Trump's unfitness was a major theme of her campaign - and that the joke would have nothing to do with Nikki Haley at all. Ms. Haley may be justly aggrieved at the allegations, but I don't really understand why she would tweet about the skit in that case -- it seems only to draw attention to her when it's unlikely to be paid otherwise.
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Nikki Haley?
I thought they were blabbing about Hope Hicks.
And Stormy Daniels and the 130K pay-out for keeping her mouth shut.
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No one should be surprised about this in our toxic political and social climate in the US. This is how Repubiicans operate also. Trump's words are often heard"Some people are saying" or "I heard that", "Maybe it's true that?"
All the lies Trump and others in his party have told about any and all Democrats.
If Trump were behind something like this,like he has been in the past, he'd say "I heard Haley is shagging"( Bernie or Schumer or whoever). All's fair folks.
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Ben you start off trying to compare a similar hypothetical situation with Obama and Power as the grabber in chief and Haley. The comparison is completely specious, Obama has never been associated with adultery and never bragged about grabbing women's crotches. I do feel sorry for Nikki, but when you work for creepy guys, rumors happen.
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Trump and the Republicans are so low that it is impossible to feel any sympathy for Nikki Haley, warranted or not. Personally, I believe she slept with him.
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Did we expect anything else from the Left, the Media or Hollywood? It another reason DJT won...and it will get only worse. Remember when Fox News was racked by sexual assault claims? Sexually assault was conflated with conservatism, the R party and every white man, especially if conservative and religious.
Fast forward to #metoo, now it liberal and progressive institutions, the media and entertainment.....do you hear anything about the connection between them and the political left? There is little moral outrage at the strong relationship between these institutions and the Democratic party and progressives.
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The difference is that Haley works for a serial sexual assaulter and womanizer, unlike President Obama. She and her supporters should understand that when you lie down with pigs, you will get muddy!.
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You can't shame Idiots and MAGAts.
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Aside from the points made in this editorial - and whether you agree or not - I find it incredible that our Ambassador to the UN would publicly comment on an awards show / sensational book. I was not aware that she was the woman who may have been referenced at the end of the book - until she as much said she was. As much as I disagreed with her decision to become a part of this horrific administration - I previously had some respect for her, in how she conducted herself. No more; the person who is occupying the WH ruins everything he touches with his vile behavior. Everyone associated with him is tainted and ruined including, sadly, the one woman who initially appeared to conduct herself in the manner expected of one representing the US to the world. She's become just another one of his sycophants, speaking up in his defense rather than doing what's in the best interest of us all
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Really? Democrats are the hypocrits? Just explain that to the Dixie Chicks. Then, explain the reaction to Hank Williams, Jr. In the former, they were unpatriotic for expressing displeasure with GWB. In the latter, Obama was compared to the Nazi leader. Really? Give me a break.
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Okay NYT I am going to cancel my subscription. If I wanted to see nonsense I would just watch Fox News.
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Is it possible for Hillary Clinton to "slut shame"?
More profoundly, is this what has become of the Clinton dynasty.
(yipes)
i’ll tell you what’s “highly offensive” and “disgusting”. it’s niki haley, the one with an undergraduate degree in…wait for it… accounting, that's it, having the gall to tell UN diplomats, highly trained diplomats, on her first days, that the US would be “taking names”. now that’s a story. this one, not so much. i have no sympathy for Ms Haley. so what if she really is doing it with POTUS. i don’t really care. I do care that, as our rep to the UN, she uttered that stupid threat.
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Is the author joking to say that the left has the moral high ground in today's politics? Believe me, in this current environment, neither party as anything close to a "moral high ground." Certainly both parties have found it easy to smear their political adversaries with some of the most defamatory nonsense. Just look at the TV commercials during the political season.
It is obvious that some Democrats see Nikki Haley as a threat so it is Ok to smear her with rumors & innuendo. Nikki calls the UN for what it is: a repugnant organization that attacks the USA & Israel and gives aid & comfort to Islamic extremists and third world terrorists. It's about time that somebody in the government called out the UN for what it has become and in no uncertain words tells it that the USA has had enough. Could Nikki Haley be our first woman president?
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As I recall Haley has a history of using unfounded anonymous rumors of her affairs to her political advantage. Michael Wolff is a GOP lackey.
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This is the first I have heard of any of this (didn't watch the Grammy's and not paying attention to every slip and slide out of Fire and whatever). But, the trashing of any woman, right, left, European, African, Russian, Japanese, any one is despicable. I am an outraged liberal who thinks this column is also a bag of trash as well.
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Ooo, does Melania know about this?
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I had read "Fire and Fury" because of Trump not any other rumor. And I didn't know about this rumor, nor even care about it, until I read the Opinion article in the NYT !
And by the way, isn't slut-shaming about shaming someone who is being sexual ? Why then is this the right headline for this column ?
There seem to be a lot of things off in the NYT Op/Ed pages' judgment these days.
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"Why then is this the right headline for this column ?"
Weiss never uses the word "slut". The Fake News Times is lying, yet again, with a headline.
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What a disgraceful headline. Slut shaming is defined as "the action or fact of stigmatizing a woman for engaging in behavior judged to be promiscuous or sexually provocative." The headline suggests she engaged in this conduct and should not be condemned for it.
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Maybe the reason there hasn't been a response to this so-called "slut shaming" of Ambassador Haley is that most of us hadn't heard about it until we read this Op-Ed piece! So thank you, Bari Weiss. You were the first to reach me with the rumor. BTW, I am reading "Fire and Fury," but I haven't read the part that Weiss mentions.
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"The fundamental complaint of the right in the culture wars has been that the left is hypocritical."
No, the fundamental complaint that the right has is that the left exists. Hypocrisy is just one of the many charges the right flings at the "Libtards" to try to destroy any political legitimacy the left might have. Indeed, for conservatives, hypocrisy is among the least of the left's sins. After all, Jonah Goldberg (formerly of the National Review) equated liberalism and fascism, a far more serious allegation than hypocrisy (though also even more spurious). Conservatives basically think the left is evil and should be permanently disempowered; hence Carl Rove's dream of a permanent conservative majority.
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trump assaulted women
he paid off a prostitute probably more than one
he committed treason by colluding with Putin
he money laundered in many real estate deals
he is racist
he is a white supremacist
he is a liar
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Goes to show what a joke the supposed feminist movement really is. Everyone knows that progressive women only demand feminist rights and respect when other “progressive women” are defamed, damaged or defiled - conservative women be damned.
Just read the comment section for confirmation of this double standard which ultimately results in “feminism” being rejected by the majority of America which recognizes it for its true left wing agenda not an actual concern for all females.
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By the way, Bari, by having this column trending all over the place you have very clearly defeated your own purpose: you are the only person that has called Nikki Haley a "slut." Your desire for some click bait is what has shamed this high profile American diplomat. So, shame on you for trading on her reputation to serve yourself.
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Bari Weiss: Cannot you do any better than this?
Innuendo disguised as fact?
This is why the right denounce the NYT as fake news. Who edited this piece?
Bari--go back to college.
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Regardless of your bias, we can all appreciate how 'disgusting" even a bottom feeding sycophant like Ms. Haley finds the thought of a sleepover with the current White House Creep-in-Chief.
Bless both of their pea picking hearts, they chose each other.
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Me...too thinks that Ambassador Haley protest too much! She clearly has found a way to survive with Donald J. Trump where no other women have or dare to go. Her talents as an Ambassador are limited at best and she constantly goes in the opposite direction of her boss, so conclusions are easy to make -- should she be slut shamed for it -- certainly not -- consenting adults should feel free to do whatever they like. The evangelicals don't care -- they've given the President "a Mulligan" on the porn star, so this too shall pass and Ms. Haley should also get a pass.
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When you throw in with pigs, you get slime on you!
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Did the author see the clip?!? Haley jumped into something that she had every right to criticize, but NO ONE read ANYTHING about her on the show--not even anything remotely suggestive. This op-ed is IDIOTIC, in that it fails by the end of the first paragraph--the setup doesn't match the outcome.
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The lady (Haley) doth protest too much, methinks...
Whether or not Haley literally shacked up with Donnie in the sack is not the point --- what she HAS clearly done is to utterly sell out any vestiges of principles she had and "doing anything" to advance her career, even if it means spouting utter nonsense that serves to only inflame world intentions.
Haley is as utterly unfit to be UN Ambassador as Trump is to be President--- and she's doing his bidding...for the advancement of her own political ambition.
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Bari Weiss, I hope you are just as outraged at the non-response by the Republicans regarding Russia's high jacking of our 2016 election. The sovereignty of our country certainly matters more than "slut shaming" Haley whose zest of defending the indefensible leaves some of us with our jaws on the floor. Haley should be equally outraged at the destabilization of the Middle East by declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel without support from the rest of the planet. Instead, she spouts Trump's ignorant declarations and threatens to "take names" of those countries who don't agree with Don the Con's threats. Haley needs to toughen her hide if she is a mouthpiece and soldier for Trump. Take a cue from Hillary, after decades of right-wing abuse and pointless investigations, she's still standing.
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Actually HRC has been slut shamed 8 ways to Sunday and you know it. For staying by her husband, not becoming lead council for every woman to have alleged an affair with her husband, for working with a woman whose husband was a sexter. While she herself has never once been accused or harassing, or cheating, she has been relentlessly attacked. Yes, that is called misogyny. This is called sexism.
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Democrats have lost a sense of direction and will lose their hold on their vote banks one by one. Not one democratic senator, congressperson or governor called this slut-shaming of Nikki Haley disgusting or highly offensive. It was left to a strong independent gutsy woman like Nikki Haley to defend herself. Shame on you democratic leaders, you are spineless, hypocritical and truly deplorable. Women have been held in high esteem by the Trump administration. Just acknowledge the women in the Trump cabinet and associated with Trump administration. It is astounding the caliber and abilities Administrator of the Small Business Administration Linda E. McMahon
Representative of the United States to the United Nations Nikki R. Haley
Secretary of Education Elisabeth Prince DeVos
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen
Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Communications director Hope Hicks
Counselor to the President and former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway
The best and most accomplished women of the USA are doing great service to the country and we should hold them in the highest esteem and role models for successful women and we should respect them no matter which party or which media outlet or press outfit.
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If anyone asked me (they haven't) I would say Nikki Haley has too much good sense and taste to have an affair with the president. Hope Hicks seems much more likely to be the one involved, if anyone is. However, I'm not seeing a huge amount of discussion about either woman myself; maybe I'm just not reading the right sites, but I haven't noticed liberals calling Ms. Haley a slut. Or Ms. Hicks.
Given the president's history, no one would be surprised if he's having an affair of some kind. But all the attention seems to be focused on his affair (alleged) with the porn star, not on what the author of Fire and Fury alleged.
Again, maybe I'm just not reading the right sites. But seems odd for this rousing defense when no comments are actually happening.
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I didn't find the Nikki Haley rumor credible.
But... weren't we really slut-shaming Donald Trump?
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It's juicy because Ms. Haley has been a devoted bigot when it comes to the sexual activities of others. Her track record on gay rights is appalling. The rumor of whether or not she's sleeping with the president has gone viral because of the bed she made for herself.
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Of all the photographs of Ambassador Haley to choose from, you selected the one where she looks beleaguered and tired. Ambassador Haley is a strong, powerful, and, yes, attractive woman who earned her job through her own hard work. For an essay assailing her undeserved slut-shaming, the picture is covertly countering the text. Yes, that is why the "TimesUp" and "MeToo" movements are important. Even when the words seem to be supportive, the non-verbals tell the real story.
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Seriously? The ONLY hypocrite in this article is Nikki "Bless Your Heart" Haley who had the nerve, the gall, the unmitigated audacity to accept a job working for a man she spent months furiously saying was unqualified to be president! Her "no politics please" plea makes her out to be a bloodsucker for sympathy as opposed to the principled politician she claims to be. Hypocrite indeed!
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Weiss: "Imagine this: ..."
My advice to Weiss is to never start an OpEd like that. Several commenters, including me, were very confused by the following "imaginary" episode. If Weiss wants to charge someone with hypocrisy, she should cite *actual evidence* of hypocrisy.
2018-01-30 23:07:10 UTC
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Props to Nikki Hailey if she managed to get get away with only having sex with Donald Trump. All the other people attached to the top tiers of his administration seem to sell their souls and lose their minds as a condition of working for him.
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Lately NYT op eds are reading like blog pieces. Lots of point of view with very little substance. Sadly this describes most of your gender pieces. I get the need to get clicks but this story is a nothing burger
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Ms. Haley, is tainted by a falling star ...
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First of all , If any body watch that episode of Bill Maher.
The topic was exactly thsi one.
Bill Maher insisted, If Donald Trump is not an master of anything, what is he really doing in WH?
Wollf answered , you know, womanizing.
Bill quite amazed and tried to confirmed , what do you mean , He is still doing that how?
So The topic is Not the Nikki Haley. That is suggested some stupid Readers of Wolf book. I read the book that will never be my conclusion.
There is another person in WH is the most likely candidate of this allegation but not Nikki Haley.
Wolf alleged he hinted this in the book but he didn't say he circumscribed. With some gossipy media this issue reached this level.
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I don't understand - this article says in 3rd paragraph "the woman's name jumps out as if it was printed in boldface: Samantha Power.
What has this to do with Nikki Haley ?
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Perhaps Ms. Weiss cannot recognize that this president and anyone associated with his presidency is no longer entitled to the benefit of the doubt. We know Donald Trump is an unashamed serial adulterer; he brags publicly about his sexual rapaciousness and has decades of press clippings to show for it.
Perhaps Ms. Weiss has rationalized this aberrant, pathological, completely unpresidential behavior and seeks to normalize it for the rest of us, making her a real and present danger to the public good and ostentatiously unfit for publication in The New York Times.
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This is a very poorly written opinion piece. I read Fire and Fury and it was real clear that Michal Wolff was saying that Nikki Haley was buttering up Donald Trump because she thought if she could snag a cabinet level position, she could leverage it to 2020. Why else would she spend time with him, he is not the most erudite person in the world. But she, coming from the swamp of the Republican Party in South Carolina, had enough hubris to think she could outdo Bobby Jindal. When are these non-white-males in the Republican Party going to realize they have no future there — that is if they want to build the American dream. And yeah, Hillary was great in that skit, as was Candi B!
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Another example of the one thing right wing “intellectuals” are good at...false equivalency.
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Why are some people excusing any sex harrassment that isn't actual rape? And saying firing is too severe? Some people are brainwashed by the rationalizations of abusers and a culture of tolerance. What do they think tolerance leads to? Do they want to seem like sophisticates, and paint the critics and protests as overly moralistic scolds? Or something?
So what, if "'Darling Nikki' met Trump in a hotel lobby fingering thru a magazine?" Who could blame her, or "shame" her, with the lure of an ambassadorship, if Lil' Nikki started to grind?
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Maybe this is a simple case of revenge. Trump and his Republican minions are smearing so many government agencies and Mueller and who knows who will be next.
We also all need to remember that Wolff is a pretty questionable source and we need to give his speculations and innuendos there just due.
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I thought that Nikki Haley tweet was odd.
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Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.”
― Neil Postman
If the Republicans in the current administration showed any hint of caring for anyone but themselves, perhaps we could rouse sympathy for her. But with the continuing barrage of total selfishness coming out of this pack, it's hard to define them as victims.
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Better Nikki Haley than Stormy Daniels, don't you agree? Melania's shelf life has expired. Am I wrong?
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The whole Fire and Fury thing is a waste of everyone's time. Trump makes enough public statements that are horrendous and insensitive why is anyone wasting our time with this.
Analyze the issues, the actual policy statements. Give us facts that deepen our understanding. Quote real people who want to be on the record.
Be journalists and not gossips.
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So Nikki Haley decides to work for and enable a president who has done nothing but lie and spew hatred and misogyny but we should all be outraged when the same vile behavior is directed toward her? Perhaps the hypocrisy is hers.
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haley has chosen to work for (and stay with) trump, knowing plainly who and what he is. the rumors really focus on trump, based upon his documented behavior. to be honest, it's hard to understand why anyone, male of female, continues to work for the trump administration. guilt by association, based upon recent history? yes. what else is new?
Having Clinton read the book was funny and did what the Grammys wanted- we're talking about it. It is a stretch for me to agree the skit had anything to do with anyone except Trump. This does not change that Haley is a woman I respect and honor for her intelligence, commitment and service. I applaud her speaking out freely with her opinion though I believe she's wrong on this and many other issues.
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You can thank Donald Trump for sleazy events discussed here. He has lowered the bar beyond anything that we could have imagined and that this type of situation could become the subject of an Op Ed falls on his and the Republicans that created the space for him to gain office and yes, a tone deaf Democratic party to a very very very small degree.
I am not a Republican but I agree 100% with this. This is a hard working person who should be supported by women's groups, even if they disagree with her politics. This book may nave truth in it but it discredits itself by forgetting that this is a public servant who has worked hard and deserves to be treated with dignity, and will Hillary please go away. She lost, was a lousy candidate and it is time for new blood in the Democratic party.
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Clinton herself must have emotionally suffered during the outing of Bill's affair. She might have divorced him, but instead found some middle way. Her balance gives her maturity whereas Trump's hotheadedness evidences his unworthiness to lead. Ample evidence of his executive orders and incendiary statements portray his unconsidered acts. Another person might have shown the staffer to the door rather than retraining with better skills.
As for Haley, my mind is not made up about her worthiness in representing the United States at the United Nations. Many comments speak favorably of her. When she denounces countries which hold a different point of view, she misuses her office. Trump wouldn't have chosen her if she were to speak with her voice on UN issues.
Anyone on DT's team has to develop tough skin. I think Sears still sells them.
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I had exactly the same reaction to each event , ie M Wolff insinuating about Haley, and also hearing about the reading of his book at the Grammy event.
As for HRC, her appearance there further reinforces to me how tone deaf she is and that is why she lost.
What continues to outrage me is how Trump gets away with everything he does, because it is causing the end of all civility it seems.
The problem is our standards of what punishment fits the crime have long been badly distorted. And our definition of the crime has been warped, so that harrassment has been much too tolerated. That's what gave Hillary the excuse to keep this man on her staff. And that's what has given some of these notorious powerful men the rationalizations to go further into abuse.
That's what this movement is trying to correct. With toleration of smaller abuse comes worse and worse abuse. Then we get these appalling headlines.
And this applies to politics also...the political representation and treatment of the average citizen is appalling in a system of domination over elections and policy by the rich and powerful.
The Resistance Mvmts against Trump and against sex harrassment are all part of the same assertion of human rights---never more needed than in the age of the Abuser in Chief, mistreating the nation. And when the radical right wing dominates our 3 branches and most states.
This is bizarre. I jumped to the end of the book and came up with a completely different (and much more supportable) sentence fingering a different staffer. Who in their right mind would think that Nikki Haley would sleep with the president? That is ludicrous on the face of it.
If you go to more than the last chapter you can find sentences that could implausibly implicate almost every woman on the staff because that is the style the author uses.
Bari should double check his allegations before promoting this specific narrative. When you repeat an allegation like this you need to be aware that you are also promoting the narrative.
I imagine that I will spend this evening in the local watering hole discussing just which staffer. Because Nikki Haley? Who could pass up that gossip?
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It is astonishing how easily Bari Weiss got rolled. Can she not imagine that Nikki Haley placed herself as a victim to cynically score political points and to act as a diversion? Haley knew that the rumor wasn’t about her.
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Sometimes playing the victim works, it seems to be working for Trump. I would not have known this if Haley hadn’t spoken up about it.
What’s really sad is that there is always a kernel of truth and possibility in every sleazy innuendo made about Trump. Because it tells you who he is. “Stormy” gets paid off to shut up and there’s not even a cricket from the Republicans.
My theory about why ??'s base, sexist smear of Nikki Haley is met with little more than a collective shrug is that his book deserves no more than a collective shrug. The reviews reveal it as a salacious book-length tabloid whose prime purpose is to sell copies. I've read enough. I'm not going to buy or read it, let alone keep it on my book shelf as a historic factual resource.
I lived in SC when Haley was governor, she was great and admirable. No one doubted her sincerity. As for Clinton, she is a has been with a long history of demonstrated dishonesty and disgrace.
Yeah, but THEY STARTED IT!
The whole thing, this universal endless sniping, is obscene. It didn't start
with the advent of Trump but he and the actions of his supporters have fostered it. And now everybody is in on the act.
It seems that some people have a lot of free time.
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Let's not try and compare the behaviors of Democrats with that of the Republicans in congress and the pseudo one in the White House. Who is it who keeps pretending that the media is fake news, that truth is fiction while fiction is truth, and has crossed just about every line of decency and veracity by being a truly loathsome person with no filters and no intelligence. It's not a Democrat.
The old saying you are known by the company you keep remains valid. Nickki Haley made her choice last year and can live with the consequences.
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All true - but the more we behave like them (and lies and innuendo about irrelevant matters are exactly what they do), the less moral credibility we have. Moral credibility does matter.
Yes, some individuals may display poor judgement by emulating the pathetic Republicans and their demented leader, but most Democrats have no desire to do so. Credibility still matters to them, as does respect, truth and the values of a democracy, not an autocracy. The direct road to a second-class society is Trumpian, and we refuse to go there. We actually have moral credibility in that regard.
I think what demonstrates Bari Weiss has no business having a column in the NY Times is this kind of pure dishonesty:
"Imagine this: The author of the most popular book in the country and says the following about President Barack Obama...."
Bari Weiss conveniently forgets that Donald Trump himself went on many talk shows to say he had a copy of Obama's Kenyan birth certificate and Americans should know that their President has been lying about being born in the US and is illegitimate.
Bari Weiss conveniently forgets that Donald Trump himself told the country that Ted Cruz' dad "probably" helped Lee Harvey Oswald assassinate President JFK.
Did "heads explode"? Nope, Bari Weiss and other fans of Donald Trump made him the President and attack everyone who dares to criticize his constant lies.
To hear Bari Weiss have the chutzpah to write a column attacking a CELEBRITY when her own beloved Republican Party has elected the man who specialized in this is truly shameful.
To allow this woman a column is truly shameful. She has mischaracterized what was said on Bill Maher while she believes it is fine for Trump to lie all he wants to smear good people because Trump is a Republican and his lies are fine with hypocrites like Bari Weiss.
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From the tone of her op-ed, I'd guess Bari Weiss was angling for the position of Trump's next squeeze. If she thinks printing this rumor in The New York Times won't double or triple its impact, she's a perfect intellectual match for The Donald.
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"... this kind of pure dishonesty: ..."
The following Weiss quote begins with the word "imagine". An imaginary event cannot be called honest or dishonest.
"... her own beloved Republican Party ..."
Where did Weiss identify herself as a "Republican"?
"To allow this woman a column is truly shameful."
You shame yourself by refusing to acknowledge the hypocrisy of the left. Quoting Weiss:
"For years, the fundamental complaint of the right in the culture wars has been that the left is hypocritical, and the Nikki Haley episode perfectly confirms the point: A prominent Republican woman is smeared."
Re: Michael Wolff/Nikki Haley inference
Your article incorrectly identifies Samantha Power as the UN ambassador that Michael Wolff infers was spending "a notable amount of private time" with Trump on Air Force One"...it seems that a retraction would be in order...soon.
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No, that's not accurate. Go back and reread the article.
The author was positing an imaginary scenario involving Power and Pres. Obama for reasons of contrast. Yes, a stupid ploy in an even stupider article.
But, no, she didn't misidentify Samantha Power.
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"Your article incorrectly identifies Samantha Power ..."
Read more carefully. Weiss is describing an *imaginary* episode.
Trump stinks up anyone and anything that gets near him. Ms. Haley is whining because she’s on the receiving end of what Trump, Hannity and the rest of the crowd have been slinging for years. Republicans drag you down into the mud because it’s the only way to interact with them, the only way to fight back. Unfortunately, everyone loses in the end. So for the Republicans and their associated enabling evangelicals I can only say, “As ye sow, so shall ye reap”.
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I couldn't care less about Nikki Haley, Michael Wolff, or his book.
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Swing and a miss.
The author doesnt seem to understand what slut shaming is. This is not slut shaming. Hinting that someone might be having an affair, but you cant prove it is not slut shaming. Name calling about such an act would be slut shaming. For example if he had called Haley a loose woman or said she was a horrible person, etc. because she was doing the president, you know, like what the right did and keeps doing with Monica Lewinsky by using her as a punching bag and joke punchline for 20 years now, that would be slut shaming.
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It is shameful to insult Nikki Haley in this way. As well as bringing distress to Trump's wife, who cannot publically address the insult to her marriage and husband.
I used to think that Republicans reached low but now I see that scum inhabit both political parties and much of the media.
Disgusting!
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Don't imagine Bari Weiss is some sort of progressive; no progressive would ever try to normalize Donald Trump and his revolting personal life.
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I believe Wolff's book accurately reports what people in the Trump WH are saying to one another. I don't think Wolff is simply making things up. Whether what they say is literally true or not is another matter. So what this particular rumor tells us, is that the Trump WH has no problem with slut-shaming Nikki Haley. Trying to blame Democrats for this is nuts. Comparing this to a theoretical accusation that Obama and Samantha Power had an affair is also crazy. Obama has zero history of having affairs with women. Trump has a huge history of it, even bragging about it, even paying off porn stars to hide it. So there's certainly a risk any woman who works for Trump takes in spending any time at all alone with him. Immediately people on Trump's own staff are going to start wondering what's going on, because it's Trump. It's not about Nicki Haley, it's about her boss and his lecherous, adulterous, shameless history.
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I did not see the Grammys award show, and I have not read "Fire and Fury." I know very little about Nikki Haley, but enough to know I do not like her political point of view. I do think that slut-shaming is despicable.
But what is important to remember is that prize-winning musicians do not necessarily have good judgment about politics or news reports or read-between-the-lines gossip and smears, nor should their spoken opinions be taken as the view of anyone but themselves. It is incumbent upon actual Democratic political leaders, e.g., Chuck Shumer, Nancy Pelosi, Barak Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, to make it clear that the slut-shaming attempt on Nikki Haley is not the Democratic Party's position, and in fact is deplorable.
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Wolff's insinuation is despicable. However, linking it to Clinton's reading of an entirely different part of Fire and Fury is beyond disingenuous.
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I was disgusted with Nikki Haley when she accepted a job from Trump, who she has sex with has very little impact on my opinion of her. More, I also don't particularly care if anyone in this administration is the victim of lies or false innuendos. THEY ALL DESERVE IT.
Citizen Hilary will always be a complicated subject for Republicans but her reading a passage at the Grammys about Trump eating McDonalds has nothing to do with Nikki Haley or any miss handling in her public life of a harrassment issue with a subordinate.
But if the point is Democrats are hypocrits, it would probably make for a snappier column to point out instances when someone from either party isn't hypocritical.
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Matt Lauer's interview with Hillary Clinton wasn't "tough." It was obnoxiously fixated on her emails. While his interview with Trump that night was palsy walsy, full of soft ball questions, almost as though he was talking to a friend. Interesting, considering what we now know about Matt Lauer and Donald Trump. Mysogyny?
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The insinuations reported here are despicable. It is not entirely surprising, however, that that they have appeared. Some will be suspicious of even the housekeeping staff in a brothel. Ms. Haley should find herself a better workplace.
Nikki Haley is an apologist for a president who is a misogynistic racist so why would anyone waste their time and energy to defend her?
However, it is not cool what has been done to Nikki Haley. It is obviously sexism to imply that she has slept her way to the top instead of focusing on her grit and intelligence. Nevertheless, those who hold women down (including women who hold other women, i.e., every femal Republican) don't get to cry about it when the tools of their bosses are used against them.
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Donald Trump gained political prominence when he jumped on the rumor mill and propagated the slanderous lie about Obama: an outrageous lie that he was not born in this country. It was racist and dirty. Michael Wolff is using an outrageous lie to propagate this story about Nikki Haley. It is sexist and dirty. Is Michael Wolff running for President in 2020?
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I agree with much of this article (remarkable, given my views on Bari Weiss) but I wonder where Ms. Haley's outrage was when she took a job from an admitted sexual abuser. It's hard to play the feminist card at all, Ms. Weiss, when you are talking about someone who, by her actions, is complicit in the worst kind of abuse of women but who only wants to raise that point when she is the victim. There is a circular kind of hypocrisy here that catches everyone in its grasp.
For myself, it only matters to met that Nikki Haley is a repulsive UN ambassador. She is a horrible, horrible representative of her country. I despise her on the grounds that she is a bully and behaves like a thug at the UN. That is reason enough to dislike her. I don't need scurrilous rumors from a book.
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Thanks for spelling this out and making sure everyone in the country knows that the author of Fire and Fury thinks Trump and Haley were getting intimate. Without you I would have entirely missed it.
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Sorry, but this article is shocking imprecise. There's a big difference between rising to the defense of harassed woman, and feeling no empathy for a rumors of a voluntary relationship with a known Lothario president. Nice try, Bari, but there's no equation here.
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How ridiculous! I consume news voraciously. I’ve read numerous articles about the Wolff book, mostly with a view towards figuring out how much of it is true. Yet the headline for this article is 5e first I ever heard of is rumor. I’m afraid his is just another example of a liberal reporter twisting in knots to try and show false equivalence between the left and right.
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"Liberal" reporter Bari Weiss?
Assuming all NYT writers--reporters, opinion columnists, authors of editorials--are "liberal" can lead to amusing-- if inaccurate-- conclusions.
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As the writer of this piece, I wonder if you've just contributed to the public shaming of Nikki Haley, in addition to Hillary Clinton for your own ends. Apparently, a large number of people who don't normally seek out innuendo and gossip were unaware that Ms. Haley had even been shamed. If you are so concerned with her reputation, why call even more attention to this piece of gossip it in a Times editorial? My only conclusion is that you've used it to elevate your own moral standing, rather than to defend Ms. Haley.
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It is the media making a big deal out of nothing, Michael Wolfe never mentioned Nikki Haley`s name, it is the media making it a big deal out of it and so Nikki Haley fell into the trap and reacted to this media hyped issue.
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If Obama had the sexual abuse history Trump does, then the entire premise of this article might might sense.
And let's not forget the right wing smear campaign that alleged Hillary had an affair with Vince Foster.
Before she murdered him, that is.
Cue the Jerry Falwell video tape.
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The accusations against Haley are typical of the material in Wolff's book. Nasty and undocumented rumors. Because they are aimed at a woman without any history of such activity , the accusations are treated as the nasty innuendo that they are. The rest of the book has the same value, titilating or not.
Nikki Haley has proven she is no one's puppet. She speaks her mind in a forceful way and has diverged from President Trump on occasion, especially during the election.
To infer by insinuation or degrade herin any ways is as good as abusing or molesting her.
Nicki Haley's life matters.
Great piece...up to a point. The notion that the "left has smartly and justifiably seized the moral high ground that the right has abandoned" is simply untrue. All one has to do is listen to the lyrics of many of the artists featured at the Grammy's and the continued adulation of serial harassers at other awards shows to understand that the only thing the left has seized is ... hypocrisy.
Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador at the UN is owed an apology. She absolutely did not deserve this salacious insinuation. Michael Wolff is just like any other sexist whether it be Trump or Roy Moore. And yes, the Grammys, Oscars and Emmy should not make politics the theme for the awards.
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You ask the Democrats to defend Ambassador Haley? Where is Trump’s Defense of his Ambassador?
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"When Matt Lauer subjected Hillary Clinton to a harsh interview, within 24 hours it was common knowledge that it was evidence of misogyny. But when Nikki Haley is smeared with the most base, sexist lie, it’s met with little more than a collective shrug."
One was running for president of the United States in the middle of an election, and the other is an appointed ambassador. Why are you expecting the same level of reaction given the difference in the circumstances and the importance of their influence on matters of significance. I assume you have trouble telling the difference between apples and oranges at the grocery store.
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I thought Ms. Haley was a bit of a hero for her actions re the flag in her home state. I was disgusted that she would team up with the vilest person in America, a self admitted sexual predator. Trump has so divided ( and destroyed ) our country that I no longer count his "supporters" among my friends or family". I do not think I ever can. As for Ms. Haley, she has destroyed herself, as has every person associated with Trump.
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Subtle? There has never for one minute been anything "subtle" about the left's double standard (which is their only standard).
"Good grief Charlie Brown." Not a big fan of Ambassador Haley, but this has been highly offensive. Unfortunately, if you ride the coattails of a person who has lived by the tabloids, you can end up on page 6.
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This gossip shouldn't be repeated. The worst thing you can say for Haley is that she lacks the knowledge and experience to be UN Ambassador and that she works for Trump.
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Ms. Haley is being treated shabbily indeed. However the context matters. The postulated parallel involving Barack Obama would gain no traction due to his transparently good character. It is on the other hand difficult to imagine behavior, sexual or otherwise, which one could comfortably feel to be too atrocious for Donald Trump.
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This is exactly what people have naturally come to expect from this president and that's why this story is "met with little more than a collective shrug."
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The media lives up to the "fake news" appellation when it treats Michael Wolff's book "Fire and Fury" as having any credibility. That a book filled with falsehood and fiction sells better than anything filled with fact and fidelity you know where writers are going to go.
We have a country trying to address some real problems. Donald Trump, for all his faults, has put forward a lot of proposals to address them. Critics have put forward their opposing proposals. But any discussion of those problems gets lost in a cacophony of outrage and silliness.
I'm sick of petty partisan politics. I'm sick of the Russian investigation. I'm sick of Hillary Clinton's emails. These things don't matter. Focus on the things that do.
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Resorting to such bad behavior has been a bipartisan sport for decades. However, considering the amoral people they support, it is laughable that the "family values" right goes after the left on hypocrisy. That said, it's disgusting to attack Ms. Haley on these grounds because of her politics. And, what a waste of time, HRC reading from an inflammatory book at the Grammy's.
But Bari Weiss ignores or is not familiar with the many progressives who criticized Hillary and didn't want her to get the nomination, for many reasons. Still, she is far more qualified than the president to hold that office. And Ms. Haley is smart enough to see that.
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Completely ignoring Dandy Don's escapades with 19 victims - Dandy Don was going to sue every one of them - what happened to that? Nikki Haley should just ignore it like Teflon Trump does unless he doesn't, creating 4th grade nick names for his adversaries. If you're in public life, it's going to happen, what counts is how you respond.
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Weiss writes, "the left has smartly and justifiably seized a moral high ground ..." Are you kidding me? Weiss has not given credit to his co-authors, Jim Beam and Jack Daniels, working overtime after midnight for goodness sakes. Just because liberals don't like President Trump's conservative policies, believe me, doesn't mean they're on some moral high ground. It is President Trump who stood with the March for Life a couple weeks ago, while Democrats and liberals seek to promote, even expand, abortion by overturning the Hyde Amendment. And that's just one example. Do not talk to me about Democrats having the moral high ground. Period.
Weiss is irrationally conflating two separate issues. The alleged insinuation that Haley had an affair with Trump is, by all accounts I've seen, based on "reading between the lines" of the book (which I admit I have not read, and don't plan to). I understand that none of the excerpts read at the Grammies had anything to do with that, and Haley's tweet made no reference to it. People disagreeing with Haley's complaint about the Grammies being politicized aren't buying into any sexual allegation about her unless they specifically introduce that idea theirselves.
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Not sure why anyone watched the Grammys. Not about music and celebrating those that created fabulous, original music that entertains. I for one could care less what Cher or any other celebrity is thinking about Fast and Furious or any other political book. They are not experts and their opinion is worth no more than my own. As for the comments, seems folks care more about talking about her relative to whom she works for - quite bizarre. "Well, maybe, maybe not, but darn it she is working for Trump which makes her deplorable, so who cares what lies are said?" ! I'm no Trump fan, but if I were asked to hold a position like this, I'd take it! What an opportunity. Trump isn't the US government, he isn't the US embassy - he is the President and one man. Surely someone here has worked for someone they didn't care for or agree with, but loved their job and the opportunity it provided. Right? Hmmm. Go back to your safe room and come out when you're ready to grow up.
Innuendo aside, I haven't seen her deny spending a lot of private time alone with Trump...which tells me that part is accurate. So you have an underlining spending a bunch of time currying favor with their superior, with the ultimate goal of stepping into his shoes. Whether she is or is not having an affair with him (gross) is irrelevant. It's no different than the bromance between Trump and Christie and just as likely to end in her losing favor and being cast to the side.
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Do not forget our precious National Anthem. The third stanza of the poem from which it is taken celebrated the dreamed for annihilation of the Colonial Marines, slaves fighting with the British, in the name of true freedom. Some report that the Colonial Marines soundly defeated troops let by Francis Scott Key which likely motivated his inclusion in the poem. Not to mention his vigorous support of the slavery.
The motivation of congress at the start of the greatest depression for the adoption of such a racist based rant needs academic review of the records detailing the debate and speeches supporting the law. I believe the evidence will show that Conservatives from both parties wanted to shore up support among whites to stay loyal to conservatives ideas in the face of economic collapse using race to divide and conquer.
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First time I've heard any of this. Thanks, Bari, for keeping me in the loop.
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When I participated in the Women's March on 1/20/2018, I did it for all women. I am a proud liberal Democrat. But reading some of these comments from those on the left makes me weep. How could Don Cheadle, whom I formerly admired, be so insensitive at best? Why does there have to be two standards for literally everything depending upon the political party of those concerned? Yes I know it's another publication, but Ruth Marcus's column on what she would wish Hillary had said upon the revelation about the sexual harasser in her 2008 campaign should be read by everyone.
If women cannot support each other and call out misogyny and sexism regardless of the political identity of the woman or the harasser (broadly including those who smear women with base, sexist lies) then how do we hope to ever achieve a world, both social, political, and workplace, where we are not subject to misogyny, sexism, and second classism?
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I do not trust Trump to behave well with any woman in private situation. But I believe Nikki Haley who has been changed from pragmatic moderate reasonable Republican to Trumpist extreme right wing war monger Republican (may be to keep her job safe). This rumor is as good as Trump's birther rumor. If Nikki would be a Democrat, the FOX TV and the right wing talk radio would have lot of fun. But CNN. ABC, CBS and MSNBC did not make any deal about it . Rather all these so called left wing media criticized Michael Wolf and Bill Maher which is right thing to do.
I have not read the book (yet). I did not watch the Grammys.
I don't care whether Trump is having an affair with Haley.
The "issue" of what was said in a skit at the grammy's , or in an acceptance speech, is a non issue.
Art is self expression and sometimes it's political. Deal with it.
What we should all be focusing on is
A president who is unfit for office, and who on an almost daily basis
attacks free speech,
attacks former opponents,
attacks the constitution.
attacks the men and women who work in law enforcement
attacks minorities,
and attacks perceived enemies simply because they have the audacity to disagree with him.
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I think the left's response to insinuations directed at Ms. Haley is more a reflection of the fact that they see her as a far-right mouth-piece than anything else. To be frank, it would be difficult to view her as "a prominent Republican woman", if there is any truth in the rumors that John Bolton is the one coaching her at the UN.
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I have I have been wondering how Nikki Haley came to Trump’s attention and how he came to appointing her as U.N. ambassador. As far as I have read she had no previous profile in foreign affairs. And I have never read that her world intersected with Trump’s. I would enjoy comments on those issues.
Any Republican who failed to react to Trump's outrageous lies, smears and insinuations by endorsing Hillary for President and urging their supporters to vote Democratic does not have any moral grounds to be outraged at the lack of response or outrage on the part of Democrats/liberals in denouncing stupid rumors regarding themselves. And as far as I'm concerned, that goes for anybody who despised Trump but couldn't bring themselves to vote for Hillary.
The only debate that this President deserves is whether his administration is a farce or a tragedy. He is our very own Wizard of Oz, and people like Nikki Haley are helping prop up the screen to create the illusion that he is anything other than an uninformed fraud who fundamentally misunderstands the role of President.
Where were all the journalists coming to the defense of Clinton against the outrageous claims that were being made about her by Trump? Why do they tolerate the Presidents association with alt-right propagandists - why do they agree to give legitimacy to alt-right publications by allowing Trump to lump them all together as "the press"?
American journalists reaction to this administrations daily assault on the truth and Republican collaboration is pathetically inadequate, and you want us to care about some crude insinuation against Nikki Haley?
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First, why is the s word now accepted as something in popular conversation? Have we really dropped that far? Second, Samantha Power is a bad example. There was an unconfirmed rumor that Barack Obama was cheating on his wife with Power. Third, no one was shaming Nikki Haley. They were gossiping about her. There is a difference. That the NYT is now host to these kinds of errors is very sad.
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Bari Weiss would rather attack Hillary Clinton (who had nothing to do with this) than to point out the rabid attacks on Jews and Democrats by Donald Trump's fans in the far right who are some of those "nice guy" neo-Nazis that Trump has so much sympathy for. Why isn't Bari Weiss demanding that Republicans disown their biggest fans in the neo-Nazi movement?
When they come for you, Bari Weiss, remember that you were one of the complicit people who didn't speak out against fascism but defended the promoters of fascism from any criticism. In Germany, you would have made a fine collaborator until you were no longer needed and then there will be no one left to speak out for you. Shame on you. Glad that this supposed 'insult' that no one knew about is more important to you that the neo-Nazi Trump supporters threatening Jewish rabbis in Montana.
Because poor Nikki Haley was fake "slut shamed" but no one knew about it until she told us she was?
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I think the point the author was trying to make is that the left can't claim moral superiority on the #MeToo movement while at the same time perpetrating the same crime against a political enemy.
Regarding disowning neo-Nazi's, that isnt' the topic at hand. Why should she have to bring that up in regards to the sexual harassment culture she's talking about?
And what Republicans are claiming ownership of Neo-Nazi's? I've only seen politicians disavow them again and again.
I saw the interview Bill Maher had with the writer of the current book on Trump's White House. The subject of Nicki Haley came up but was disavowed.
Not sure what the big deal of this piece is. No smear. No admission. Only ruled Amb Haley out.
There was no conclusion as to whom the author referenced only that Haley was not a good guess.
Let it go.
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So what if Ambassador Haley is having an affair with Trump? As long as they are consenting adults, I really don't care. I also don't care if he had an affair with a porn star, although Melania might. What I care about is how Trump and Haley are representing the United States in front of the rest of the world and if their policies benefit ALL of the people of this country.
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The only possible policy that will benefit "ALL of the people of this country" is: Prevent government from using physical force to prevent us from living our lives and enjoying our rights to life, liberty, property, and pursuit of happiness. You know, like the Founding Fathers wanted.
Because it's not possible to have a policy that benefits ALL of the people if the policy takes money from one group who has it and showers it upon those who don't. That's not going to benefit ALL.
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A good article that spun great comments. Adding to Tom's comment - the hype about "Fire and Fury" is also annoying. I like James Corden and I am disappointed at him. Janet is correct in stating that the complaint of the women were given attention, Counseling is only effective in the long run. Temporarily suspending offenders from their duties is a necessary accompanying measure. That is not paranoia. It would be the same for cases of substance addiction - which are similar. The #metoo movement is neither a hysteric reaction nor a witch hunt - we need to move to the next step, which is talking about mental health issues in an educated and tolerant way. We need prevention from early ages, which means funding. We need an inclusive culture that will provide jobs to people with disabilities, but foremost, we need to change how we select our political and business leaders.
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"Mrs. Haley is not a stupid woman."
Maybe, but I've certainly seen her say things as stupid as any other Republican politician, and in prominent settings. I agree that Wolff's unreliable book should not be embraced, but we shouldn't have to embrace Haley in order to make that point, nor should we have to unduly praise her in order to defend her against slander.
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Except that except that it is unlikely most of the celebrities or commentators you refer to knew of Wolfe’s sleazy innuendo about Haley. I follow the news closely and daily and only heard the story now from you. It is generally agreed, from the liberal commentators I read and watch that Wolfe is a bad journalist and a sleepy guy. But his involvement is down to Trump and Bannon who gave him all the insider access for the book and of a number of real journalists would have given an arm and a leg for.
I think you think they know something you do when they probably don’t.
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Yeah, but here’s the thing, Bari. Some of us, who consume mainly mainstream media but avoid the gossip rags (with the exception of Fire and Fury). hadn’t heard this rumor until YOU spread it. Who’s a hypocrite now?
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Hillary read a passage from a book about the president eating at McDonalds. She must have a defective memory because she is describing her husband who was quite famous during his first administration for stopping at a local McDonalds rather frequently. The press made a lot of noise about it at the time. Now we know why. Bill was afraid of being poisoned.
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how do we know it's a lie? Also, i thought the insinuation was Hope HIcks.
And Trump....he's committed adultery before, right? Dozens of times?
Is it so bizarre to think that he's committing adultery again, right now?
It would be STUPID to not consider that situation is very probably true.
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I agree. I never thought it was Nikki Haley.
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Silly to air to that rumor. There's at least one other party in the book it could be. What's worse about Haley is her doing DT's bidding at the UN, trying to bully the rest of the world into doing what DT wants.
She was a fine governor. Samantha Power she's not.
Forget the stupid rumors NYT. Our democracy is collapsing, no checks/balances and a tyrant in charge. .
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“The “politics” in question surely involved the star treatment of a questionable book written by an author trying to increase sales by hyping unsubstantiated rumors.”
As opposed to a so-called President of the United States who tries to increase his popularity by hyping unsubstantiated rumors, or worse, telling outright pants-on-fire lies.
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This is so odd. This is the very first time I'd heard that Haley was the person Wolff had meant. Is that common knowledge? If not, it's Weiss who is doing the shaming by pairing Haley with the innuendo. It does make more sense why Haley felt a need to comment on the Wolff reading. But Haley never referenced that connection in her tweets.
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"Nikki Haley is not a stupid woman."
For the sake of the UN I hope that's just a bit wrong, or else we might be fishing for descriptor like blithely canting or fatuous...same dillema as applies to the POTUS.
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I am puzzled by this. As a liberal, of course these spurious accusations should be called out. However, who is repeating these allegations? I have read the outage over this on the Reagan Battalion, heard it on Fox, seen it referenced in other right leaning media organizations, and read Ambassador Haley's reaction. Where is this supposed character assassination taking place? As a feminist, I do not feel that I have to go onto Breitbart or Reddit in order to speak out against other liberal feminists who are defaming the UN Ambassador, as I don't know of one who is doing so.
However, this story does nicely cover for the silence on the Wynn allegations and campaign money. Many media outlets are pursuing this Haley story rather than the RNC and its silence over Wynn. Very odd and puzzling.
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Two politicians I admire, whose politics are right of my own: Nicki Haley for drawing the line and taking down those dispicable flags.
John Howard for rounding up the guns after the Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania. Real leaders take political risks and they are rare.
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I agree with Bari Weiss on this one. Though I voted for Clinton, I would like her to go away and stay away - we simply do not need to bring her back into the public eye. To say that Haley deserves to be a target or ridicule because she "works for, and defends, a base, sexist liar" is hypocritical given that Hillary is married to, and has defended, a lying adulterer (in consequence of which Clinton was unable to capitalize on the Access Hollywood tape). Haley is one of the few women in this beleaguered administration, and whether or not she is a conservative I bristle at the suggestion that the woman must be sleeping with the boss. And anyone who calls themselves a feminist should be similarly aggrieved.
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No one except Bari Weiss has brought this up. The only reference I saw to it was shot down on the Bill Maher show by the book's author.
The right wing media may be defending Haley for reasons of their own. They frequently avoid facts for their own means.
I'm not sure what the reference to Haley being a target is. She says things in her role and is either commended or criticized. That's how it works in Washington.
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As I Watched Bill Maher's interview, both Wolfe and he never mentioned Haley's name either directly or indirectly.
Read The "Fire And Fury" Book, no mention of Haley being Trump's Mistress.
It did mention that Haley being "Ambitious as Lucifer" and that she wants to run for President if Trump declines to run in 2020.
As for being on Air Force One, there are plenty of women who constantly ride on it, so Nikki is not the only one.
The "Fire And Fury" Book does provide many in-depth explanations of the motivations of Trump and the individuals in his Administration.
Haley's Protestations are just the Trump strategy, so well executed, of "Deceive, Distract, and Deflect".
The Real Take Away is that Trump is a deeply flawed individual,
more than any other President since Richard M. Nixon.
And our Republic will reap The Permanent Whirlwind.
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This type of stuff is only harmful if you take it seriously. Wolff is a quack. Hollywood is nothing but frauds and hypocrites. Clinton is a hypocrite who threw away an almost certain election through her hubris. Haley should know better than to take any of these things seriously.
At any rate, the comments about Haley were incidental to the larger mission of just painting Trump in a bad light which is what people really are looking for, the confirmation that Trump is one dimensional and completely inept.
Most of us have found that 'confirmation' you write of. Trump proves daily how inept he is for being president. His supporters only prove how low their standards.
The entertainment industry has never been known for its penetrating intelligence or its moral and ethical strengths. I don't look to the awards wing of that industry for knowledge or guidance or model behavior. What strikes me lately, though, is how far the major news sources have tilted toward entertainment and celebrity reporting in both its style and content. So much reporting on the personalities of political figures and the scandal/action/adventure goings on and relatively little on the actual processes of politics. This seems to be a revenue oriented development (people click/buy entertainment news)--if not one more distant side-effect of TDS.
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No woman who serves, supports and aligns herself with a treasonous, virulently racist, sexist, wealth-worshipping sexual predator is going to tug my heart strings as a victim of anything. She chose her tribe. Let her deal with the consequences.
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Nikki Haley shouldn't be surprised. Trump defiles everyone and everything that comes in contact with him.
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Haley is a revolting opportunist but lets focus on the real issue namely that the country is going downhill fast largely due to the Republicans. Is it any surprise that political discourse follows?
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I know. I know. I agree..to a point. But. This president is so disgustingly proud of his aggressiveness with women and so unrepentant of his abuse and vulgarity that any women who has the unpleasant opportunity to be in private with him for any reason, gets dirty by his reputation. Lie down with dogs. No matter how smart and accomplished. Or innocent. She would be better off staying away from the infection.
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Congratulations, Bari Weiss, on multiplying the "rumor-mongering." I would wager that most people who have read this column had not previously heard about Michael Wolff's innuendo about Ms. Haley. Now you've given that "rumor" new life. In fact, by repeatedly calling it a "rumor" rather than the mere sleazy insinuation that it in fact was, you've suggested that everybody's talking about it. Well, now, after your blabbing in the Times, you may turn out to be right.
Sometimes the best way to handle an unworthy remark is to ignore it. This was one of those times.
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When you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas....
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It is not easy to occupy the moral high ground here, but occupy it the progressives must do. By being mostly consistent and party-blind is difficult to do but absolutely essential. I can't pretend to judge each individual case, but if the progressives selectively bash conservatives and the conservatives selectively bash progressives, then harassment collapses into just another tool of partisan warfare, robbed of its legitimacy.
I will take the default position that Ms. Haley has been defamed and demeaned by this unsubstantiated garbage. It doesn't make me any more likely to support her politically, but I support her dignity.
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I think a lack of reaction is due to the lack of any credibility to the rumor. I read the book and then saw the show but didn't feel the comment warranted much consideration. I think there was a another Storm which had objective facts and not a whisper of a whisper.
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I loathe Trump and love Obama. I want to believe any muck about Trump and believe everything thing M Wolfe writes. However suggesting that Nikki Haley would let Trump touch her has now made me question everything Wolfe wrote. I'm not a Haley fan but please stop using sex to belittle women. Just stop.
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Among other things it is hard to believe that any self-respecting woman would have anything intimate to do with such a despicable individual.
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I have voted Democratic most of my adult life. If the Democratic party wants to win control of the House, Senate, and POTUS, they need to wash themselves clean of everything Clinton. News flash-this election is over and she lost. What more evidence do you want. She lost to a reality TV show guy and before to an unknown that had a cup of coffee in the Senate. Rehashing the last election and having her read at the Emmy's is painful. I could go on as to why she is one of the most disliked politicians in recent memory but you already know. If the next Democratic campaign is nothing more than "look what a fool Trump is". it will also be a loser. Ms Haley is a star. Smart, charismatic, and likable. She may work for a fool, but most of us have worked for a fool at sometime too.
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Bravo! Thank you for telling it like it is!
The Dems are upset that Hillary lost and to whom she lost. But, seriously, the Dems nominated a woman who had previously lost to a novice. What the heck did you expect this time?
The sad part is that I am not convinced that Hillary won't try again. She would lose against either Trump or Haley.
The first step to solving a problem is acknowledging the problem. Hillary lost fair and square. It is over. Nominate someone who can speak to people in the rustbelt and stop with the bias and relying on obnoxious, know it all celebrities. Why should the average Joe trust them?
As someone on written record here and at the Guardian excoriating the man in the White House without mercy for three years without a break, I have to agree with the central tenet here.
I have raised concerns about Wolff's tome from the onset. In the rush to gush over it, some appear to have lost the salient point that Wolff himself was criticizing journalists who said nearly everything he maintains is a "scoop," but they did so years ago. Some of those journalists are rightly bemused and irked by the fact that it's Johnny Come Lately who is now taking all of the credit (and millions).
But those journalists engaged in feet on the ground, hardcore investigative journalism that was rigorously fact-checked, and they still took heat for daring to cast aspersions on the "great man."
I'm still waiting for a credible explanation for how Wolff swept in at the 11th hour, cobbled together execrable prose, rumor, innuendo, and tosh and walked away with all the prizes. He was palpably exploiting the moment with tricks like the Bill Maher tease ( I ground my teeth watching it, and Bill was off his game too).
Haley is right to be offended and perturbed. Unless there is hardcore proof behind Wolff's coy assertions, he owes her a public apology.
That's a shame because much of what he said is fundamentally true (but, again, well known years before he put to paper), but cheap tricks like this just feed DJT's sense of aggrievement and undermine the work of credible reporters.
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There's an old proverb about dogs and fleas that might be relevant in this case. Regardless of what she may or may not have done, and I don't believe for a minute that she did, it's inevitable that anyone, everyone, is going to get tainted by association ... and I think rightly so ... just not in the way it's being insinuated in this case.
I found this accusation disgusting. Nikki Haley does have an off putting demeanor and behaves like an opportunist and rubs a lot of people the wrong way. But the answer isn't to try and smear her in this ridiculous manner.
"In the Trump era, the left has smartly and justifiably seized a moral high ground that the right has abandoned by its embrace of the president." Talking to Republicans and Liberals has convinced me that these groups have different opinion on what constitutes good morals and moral high grounds. Once you've accepted that, it's easier to understand why Conservatives would believe Hillary Clinton was involved in a pedophile ring and why Liberals think Conservatives who die in natural disasters deserve it because they don't believe in climate change.
Please stop calling Nikki Haley a woman of principles. She is part of the Trump team and a part of it whole-heartedly. Do I need to remind everyone about the threats she continues to make at the UN if you don't kowtow to the whims of the US? Do I need to remind you of the times that she has backed Trump and his inane decisions and policies?
If you had principles, you would have steered clear of the putrid ship that is Trump.
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Who would have taken this seriously were it not for Haley's weird and insistent over-the-top denial? And nobody in the Trump circle should expect to be immune to public attention of the same kind regularly issued by their boss.
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How disgusting , We take a strong willed women, make her the ambassador to the UN, She shows how strong and vocal she can be, and then we take the left who is suppose to champion women's rights, and tear her apart and make lewd comments about her. Tell me if the #metoo complain is going to rally behind her with support.
Sorry, but I can't work up much sympathy for anyone on Team Trump. They are all enablers of this embarrassment of a president who constantly tells lies and distorts facts. Either you stand for truth or you don't; you can't pick and choose to suit your purposes.
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Tit for tat is to be expected in politics. Trump supporters echoed Trump in screaming "Lock her up!" Now the payback continues, month after month, and it seems that although the Trumpers can dish it out, they can't take it. And, to keep the old sayings going, A person is judged by the company they keep, which applies to UN Ambassador's.
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Nikki Haley is judged by the company she keeps.
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As long as women can advance themselves primarily on the basis of a personal relationship with a powerful man, there will be whispers about trading sex for a job. As long as powerful men think that getting women to perform sex acts is part of their lawful power and not the shameful and disgusting habit it really is, we may suspect that there is some truth to the whispers. Not all male leaders indulge in this habit. we ca stop electing men who do.
Firmly believe Ms. Haley is too intelligent a woman to risk destroying her career by having an affair with Trump. Given his history, I would actually be astonished if we don't find out at some point, that Trump was having an affair while President.
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I yield to no one in my loathing of Mr. Trump. And for the life of me, I can't think of anything in in Ms. Haley's background that qualifies her for her position at the UN.
But I want these people brought down with strict attention to the rule of law, not the irresponsible hearsay and gossip that Michael Wolff so gleefully peddles as serious investigative reporting.
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Puritanical moralizing has always been a part of American political culture. When people of the mortal sin category like Harvey Weinstein are exposed, it is predictable that those in the venial sin category get dragged into the morass of punishment. The rumor mills of sensationalist journalism (babe magazine, for example) stoke the fires of equal punishment for all offenders. One hundred-plus French women respond with an intellectual-cultural statement far beyond the ken of most Americans.
It takes a while for the hubba-hubba of the entertainment industry to die down but then it gets more serious: digging up relatively low-level decisions of the Clinton campaign, vicious speculation on the president’s wife, and now -based on nothing- the US Ambassador to the UN. There’s only one American politician (the vice-president) who can escape such perversity because he never will be in the same room alone with a woman except his wife, but his choice carries its own weight of puritanism.
Thank you, Bari Weiss, for writing about the hypocrisy.
I am no fan of President Trump but, I am a fan of unbiased opinion pieces. Thank you for pointing out the double standard applied to Nikki Haley. Guilt by association is not okay on television but, frankly television does not have the standards set by the NY Times. Thank you for an excellent opinion piece.
Maybe it has something to do with the thrice-divorced Trump's having a history of sexual aggression, womanizing and extra-marital affairs. And the fact that the happily married, never divorced Obama doesn't have that history or anything like it. The treatment is not equal, because the two presidents are not equal.
Not by a long shot.
I watched Wolff on Bill Maher's show. He didn't smear Haley and he denied implying that Haley had slept with Trump in his book. He writes about Haley on pages 305-306 of Fire and Fury. In neither page does he assert, or imply, anything scandalous about Haley unless the quote from a member of Trump's senior staff that Haley is "as ambitious as Lucifer" counts as scandalous.
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It seems as if everyone mentioned in the Wolff book wants us to know that. Haley is no different. If she can get her 15 minutes of Fox or Politico she'll take it. She's "offended" I'm sure, but gleeful that she's important enough to be noted.
I'm with the folks whose response was "not worth my time." But are there any?
If you lie down with dogs, you're going to get fleas. If you work in the Trump administration and think you won't be slandered, degraded and devalued by the left, and ultimately cast aside by Trump himself should you transgress, then you're just dumb. Haley should have responded to this pitch into the dirt the way Pres. Obama responded to overt racism by Republican lawmakers: with dignified silence.
It's THEATER. Who would bring the biggest ratings?
We've suffered conspiratorial lies about Hillary for decades as the right wing destruction machine has considered her enemy # 1.
I think JB hit on the crux of the problem: if you don't like the lies, why would you ever associate with Trump? Fire and Fury is merely the logical outgrowth of this administration.
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I haven't read through all 900 comments so I apologize if I'm repeating But if I am repeating It deserves Repeating: trauma is a confessed misogynist. Obama is not. So the whole premise of this piece is false. Even though I may Democrat, I have great respect for Ms. Haley and she does not deserve what she got and what she is now getting. But to absolve Mr. Trump because he was the subject of rumors, these were not unfounded.
Since when is Michael Wolff an avatar of the left, liberalism, or the Democratic party?
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This is the lowest of Low slurs against a decent intelligent out standing woman.
Shame on the Media for even publishing this rot.
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Haley is an opportunist. She used her faux rage at The Grammys to benefit herself.
Wolff didn’t say she had an affair with trump. Some people have accepted that to be the case based on what other people have suggested. She lives in a political world where she allows innuendo and rumor to besmirch others. She has to get used to this coming back at her.
There’s no slut-shaming here. No one has said she was wrong to have conducted an affair with trump. It’s simply reporting what others have suggested. If she had or didn’t t have the affair with trump, it’s her business. It has nothing to do with a comedy skit that makes fun of her purported paramour. Haley overreacting makes it look more suspicious about those alleged illicit moments.
By the way, I’m not saying she did have an affair with trump, but that’s her choice if she did.
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You're right, Bari, that Nikki Haley does not deserve this, and to point out the partisan double standard.
However, I think you're seriously underestimating the potential reaction to a hypothetical bogus rumor about Samantha Power and Barack Obama.
In a Newsweek poll in December 2017 (11 months after he left office), 51% of republicans believed that Barack Obama was born in Kenya. Combine that with the insidious and destructive racist meme that is alive and well after hundreds of years: that black men want to rape white women and soil the "purity of the white race", and will do so if allowed - and all hell would have broken loose, far beyond the confines of Fox News.
I would seriously have worried for the safety of Samantha Power - as well as that of President Obama, in the event that the vilest American undercurrent of racism and sexism was given such an obvious pair of targets.
Your editorial was plenty strong without this over-reach.
If we have established anything in the past two years, it's that misogyny is alive, embodied and emboldened by the man in the White House. It's clearly the case that Trump demands praise--no praise too fulsome--from his subordinates. Nikki Haley, Elaine Chao, Sarah Sanders, Kellyanne Conway etc have prostituted themselves compliantly, just as their male colleagues have.
To have to do with Trump is to be defiled, but it's stupid and misogynist to assume that the defilement must include sexual relations. But let's not forget that few people would ever have credited a rumor about Obama and Power because Obama regarded women as equals. No one--absent Fox News, as the writer notes--would have believed it for a minute, because Power didn't confuse propitiating the president for promulgating policy, and Obama didn't make public jokes about dismissing her if she didn't please him.
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Guilty by association ? Then we all are cuz we are all interconnected in more ways than are visible.
Thank goodness for Bari Weiss, the only woman with the exception of Maureen Dowd to put Clinton in her place. It's time for Clinton to go away and for feminists, may of whom have been writing in your paper, to get it right. She lost because she's disliked, she's polarizing, she's got an entitlement issues, she ran a lousy campaign, she surrounds herself with terrible campaign aides and she calls people who don't vote for her deplorables. She's just lucky that Donald Trump is in office and the attention is focused on him. Of course Clinton gets a pass by all the feminists when she overlooks sexual misconduct among men in her circle. She needs to do something useful like help in finding another woman candidate for President instead of throwing them under the train as she did (and her staff did) with Kirten Gillbrand That woman has no character and is as small as they get.
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She got more votes than anybody that ever ran for president except for Obama. She beat trump by over 3 million votes. She took on the Republican Party, Trump, the Russians, Bernie and his low information Bros. And beat them all.
What have you done? Lol
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Bari Weiss has jumped on a typical Republican ploy to undermine his opponents. Agreed that “The president has been spending....” is a low attempt at obscurity by a writer. But the use of the Bill Maher episode and also translating it into they're calling her a "slut" is also a low attempt to rile the Republican base and foster divisiveness. Throwing a bone by saying Matt Lauer indeed was sexist toward Hillary, but look at what Hillary did is an attempt at trying to appear gracious while slinging arrows. Weiss uses dirt to defend and attack at the same time. Bari Weiss has well learned the psychology of the Republican playbook.
I no longer watch the misogynistic Bill Maher, but I am not surprised that he would blow this sentence out of proportion. Ms. Haley, a strong woman, defended herself against the insinuation, putting Bill Maher in his place, and doesn't need Bari Weiss to defend her honor or to turn the incident into a talking point. Bill Maher's offensiveness certainly does not represent the majority of Democrats or progressives as Bari Weiss tries to suggest.
Turning the argument toward Hillary attempts to divert attention from the Stormy Daniels incident and Republican support for a man who has been on video verbalizing his sexually harassing behavior and a purported sexual harasser running for the Senate.
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I have found Nikki Haley's presence at the UN an affront on many levels but it took this article, in the New York Times, to attach the epithet "slut" to her (though, mind you, one who is undeserving of public shaming). I had heard about the Bill Maher/Michael Wolff exchange but I had no interest in finding out who the woman in question might be. I now find myself, oddly, in possession of this "knowledge" thanks to this article which sounds a note of concern which I suspect might not be entirely genuine.
Assuming that a woman used her sexuality to get her job is repugnant, no matter whether you dislike her politics or not.
There's no excuse.
And I'm personally disappointed in Hillary Clinton for her actions with respect to her advisor and the allegations against him. I also wish she hadn't defended her husband quite so vigorously.
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The insinuation is gross and inappropriate. It's also little more than a footnote in a book full of dubiously sourced political napalm. You're not going to get much outrage over something most people aren't even aware of. Folks are a little carried away with the schadenfreude of this incompetencies of this administration slapping them in the face in such spectacular fashion, but I don't know a soul who's taking the book as gospel, nor anyone who believes Haley is doing the literal nasty. Well done managing to bring Hillary Clinton into this, though. That's always a sign of clear and unbiased perspective.
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I don't approve of Wolff's innuendo and I don't know anyone else who does -- they are far more focused on the non-lascivious, frankly terrifying, anecdotes he unearthed. So I plead not guilty to Weiss's efforts to tar me with any accusations of "slut shaming" of Nikki Haley or anyone else. Haley willingly took a job that requires her to report to someone who debases women and political service on a daily basis. I am immune to her cries for respect when they seem to be limited to a class of one, that is, herself. When she stands up for women more generally, then I might change my mind.
The notion of an affair between Nikki Haley and Trump is so patently absurd that I don't expect one person to believe it. While the left can gleefully delight at the annoyance the book has caused the president, I don't think there is any real danger of slut-shaming Haley on behalf of liberals. Therefore I believe that the opprobrium directed at Mrs. Clinton is a bit overwrought. Anyhow, HRC is now a political has-been. Any attempt to link her to the future of the Democratic party should be roundly discouraged. The example of the Obamas, who have conducted themselves blamelessly and graciously, IMO, should be the model for all politicians, regardless of party, moving forward. Nonetheless, the conduct of the current occupant of the White House and his administration invite ridicule and grief. The outrages which damage our nation are legion and we should not refrain as a people for speaking out against Mr. Trump's manifest unsuitability to lead this nation. Though the rumors detailed in the book are silly, demeaning and should be laughed off, those who align themselves with Trump deserve little pity, especially if they are using his manifestly corrupt administration as a stepping stone for their own political ambitions. You lie down with pigs you get covered with... well, you know.
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And another thing: Trafficking in malicious gossip about presumably untrue activities is not slut-shaming. Slut-shaming is when women are unfairly criticized and demeaned for engaging in sexual behavior that is deemed acceptable for men or, if you prefer, for being promiscuous. That's not what happened here. Being accused of committing immoral or morally questionable acts is just old fashioned gossip and meanness. It has nothing to do with the political statement in favor of women's equality and freedom that objecting to slut shaming makes. So you don't even qualify for the "if you're taking a political stance you need to apply it even to people you don't like warning" that might otherwise justify this waste of space. IOW, even your basic premise is wrong making this column an even more egregious waste of space.
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*This* Democrat believes Nikki Haley when she says the idea of her having an affair with DJT is “disgusting.” I may not agree with her political leanings, but I know she’s thoughtful and intelligent. The insinuation is vile. I cringe at the thought of being anywhere near that vile lump of suet.
Imagine A, now imagine B, and now imagine C. Now bring it home with one more trashing of Hillary, add a racy title, stir in some culture war, and finish with outrage that people might be critical of Trump.
Hillary lost a year ago. Time to let her go and stop using her to avoid defending Trumps actions on their merits.
BTW - Those are pretty obscure events you are stringing together. If your paper didn't report them, how are its readers guilty of condoning slut shaming?
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Mr. Wolff mentioned no names.
Isn't it interesting he gets slagged.
The world is up side down.
He mentioned no names.
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This article references to many generic nobodies. Feminist Twitter, commentators, random artists at the Grammy. Those ppl don't represent the left in the country. I don't think most ppl on the left cares about Donald trumps affairs or thinks Nikki Haley is sleeping with him. I mean is this even a serious issue? The whole article sounds like made up drama most ppl don't care about. Referencing a few trolls on the internet isn't representative of "the left" in the country.
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When the staff of the White House (and with the putrid status of the organization, the noun should be written 'staph') perceives an attack on the principal, the will generate distraction in any possible way. While it may be true members of the workers there would have told Mr. Wolff about a possible dalliance with the UN ambassador, prudence requires a careful person to suspend belief absent proof. It is improbable Mr. Trump's reputation could be more damaged by another affair--I have lost count of the violations to his serial marital oaths--but Russia recedes amidst so juicy a tidbit.
If all the politicians were laid end-to-end in the deepest ocean trench, it would be a good thing.
Great clickbait churnalism here, singling out a single word "private time" from a salacious book and turning it into a instance of partisan drivel. I know that NYT has a working code that for every piece critical reporting on this corrupt administration, they have to issue forth a turd to keep up that all-too cliched appearance of balance, but at a certain point you've really got to stop it with the "both sides" nonsense.
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The only one shaming Haley is the author herself. Most people haven't heard this rumor (certainly not those who PRE-TAPED the Grammy segment). Fewer still would believe it was even about Haley. Has the author considered that as UN Ambassador Haley spends about as much time in Washington as Melania did last winter and spring when taxpayers were shelling out millions for her to remain in NY? But of course why let facts get in the way of a good story, especially when you can blame Hillary again?
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Tell me who you walk with and I'll tell you who you are.
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This affair rumor is less credible than the Ted Cruz's father's participation in the Kennedy assassination. Donald Trump is just repulsive in his appearance and his personality. No attractive, intelligent woman would have an affair with him without being paid. Mr. Wolff is just shamelessly trying to boost his book sales with groundless speculation.
Other than getting my attention, I am not sure this was the best title for this opinion piece.
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This really is a shameful episode of how low the people in politics, media and entertainment can get in order to sully someone's reputation. Shame on all you rumor mongers! One does not have to agree with Ms. Haley or her views in order to extend to her the common courtesy of not subjecting her to unfounded rumors. How low have you fallen oh my country!
And what was the whole issue about Nikki Haley having an affair with one of her staff prior to the
gubernatorial elections ?? A rumor ????
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Wolff's unsubstantiated rumor obviously refers to Hope Hicks, not Nikki Haley.
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The author assails Wolff for a base and sexist lie and smear, and assails the Left for hypocrisy, but where's the exculpatory evidence that shows that Ms. Haley is indeed being unjustly accused?
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I read the book & heard the comment. I thought Wolff was referring to Hope Hicks, a young woman promoted far beyond her capabilities. Wolff describes her as regularly dressing in the sort of short skirts & boots favored by the president. The logistics of an affair make more sense for her: she sees him daily. Haley does not. The book has a 2-page discourse on how close Hicks and Trump are, and how she never pushes back on his stupidest ideas. Another argument for the possible mistress being Hicks is her incompetence. Trump has not been known for favoring playmates who are clearly more knowledgeable than he. Haley's parents immigrated from India, and Trump is a racist. How many affairs has he had with women who have darker skin? The fact is, it's not clear who Wolff meant. If the press corps has decided he must have meant Haley (even though the book hints as or more strongly that it might be Hicks), and said press corps has run around trumpeting this rumor as if Wolff had directly asserted it, just who is showing a dubious allegiance to the truth? Who is demeaning our ambassador to the UN? Is it possible "Javanka" (who introduced Hicks to Trump) responded to Wolff's vague comment by promoting the idea that Wolff slimed Haley? Their doing so would discredit Wolff & protect Hicks. I don't really care where Trump parks his penis. I do care that the NYT pay attention to what's true & important. This isn't it.
She hitched her wagon to a known[alleged] sexual predator to transition into a cushy job after leaving public office. She may not have slept with Trump but she debased herself to the point of losing credibility and human decency in my book. After Trump's single term she may have a job at the rumor mill known as Fox News as a fake news analyst.
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Ms Haley need not literally sleep with der Dumpf to be seen as compromised: you need only associate with him to have his immoral stench rub off on you. She needn’t be shamed for the possibility of sleeping with so odious a troll; shame on her for such naked political opportunism.
I have not interest in knowing who Nikki Haley is or is not sleeping with, none of my business. All I know is that this woman has done something awful that no other politician has ever done in the history of this country. She withdrew funding for UNRWA, the United Nations refugee agency which support 5 million Palestinian refugees including scores of children for political reasons.
the NYT ought to be writing about this tragedy rather than what happens at a comedy show at the Grammys.
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Unwra should have been dismantled years ago. Arabs are maintaining this myth of refugees after all these years. Arab oil money could have funded a solution but they prefer have Americans pay for their political propaganda. No more.
Nikki Haley for President.
I do not have a very high opinion of Nicki Haley. She was not a particularly good governor and she only looks good as UN Ambassador because the rest of Trump's Cabinet is so dismal. That said, it is ridiculous to think she is sleeping with Trump. That also said, she should NEVER be considered as a candidate for president. NEVER!!!
Oh yes.... Our first woman President. So much better than Hillary.
What really saddens me about Nicky Haley is not whether she did or did not sleep with Trump. I mean, thats pretty terrible if she did but the bigger issue is that she is Indian American and has absolutely no roots or ties with India. I mean, she is practically white. That is just so sad to me. I don't expect her to start campaigning for south asians but at least acknowledge that youre indian! She isnt even ethnically half indian - she's completely 100% indian! And the average American has no clue! We need strong female figures like her to help the indian community in the US. So come on Nikki! Step up! Acknowledge your background. Appreciate who you are!
There is no outrage because it is a silly story. The book confirmed things most people knew and threw in "cheeseburgers in bed" for fun. I never even heard anything about Nikki Haley Until today. I heard that it was another woman in the White House... an even younger woman. Equally ridiculous. And it doesn't matter.
He's an amoral, incurious bully. That's the story.
I honestly do not know what's more despicable:
1. The pretense that all us lib'ruls take Michael Wolff seriously.
2. The appropriation of a discussion developed in feminist theory about the ways women are portrayed to try and get Trump, right-wingers, and the complicit off the hook.
3. The nice little kicks to the groin offered to Hillary Clinton in this ugly little piece of...writing.
Really a shameful performance. And by the way, when you're a right-winger committed to a denial of women's rights, it takes a fair old amount of gall to argue in favor of women's rights.
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Good on You NYT. N.Haley is a good person. Nobody should degrade her in any way. Dems out to get their head out of ... whatever and tend to the business at hand, get rid of DJT and keep Haley as a sane,pragmatic, servant to the American people. She's great. BTW, I'm DEM and proud of it.
Hillary should have more sense than to take part in that sleazy read-aloud of Wolff's book. She should have remembered Michelle Obama's rule: "When they go low, we go high."
Please, Hillary AND Bill, just go home and enjoy your retirement.
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Liberals believe that they are better people, but they are not. Their arrogance is annoying and helps keeping Trump in power.
Nikki Haley for President !
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Good grief. Has it really come to this? One of these days, American adults will begin acting like adults again, rather than toxic, gossip-mongering, bullying pre-teens.
One certainly hopes so, in any event. Alas, with the President and his entourage setting the tone, the temptation to strike back with the same sort of vulgar, lowest common denominator level of discourse will always be difficult to resist; and occasionally temptation will win out. In a world of Pizzagate, lunatic 'deep state' conspiracy theory, phony voter fraud commissions, delusional 'alternative facts,' snide nicknames and all the rest, it can definitely prove challenging to fend off vertigo and to keep one's head. But we must.
It would be encouraging if the New York Times, at least, could stick to the substance and give this sort of background noise short shrift. Yes, we understand, you need the 'clickbait.' But here's the thing: we need to preserve a democracy here in the U.S. more than you need whatever revenue you derive from this tripe. We're talking our government, not cheap entertainment; not reality television, albeit that's what our current Commander in Chief knows best and his greatest success.
Please NYT, just can it. Cease and desist.
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Bari Weiss is quickly becoming my favorite writer on the NYT payroll. Keep fighting the good fight against the regressive left! Some of us on the left don't want our politics tainted by hypocrisy, celebrity virtue-signalling, rumor-mongering, and intellectual laziness.
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Mrs. Clinton did not give the faith guy in her campaign a pass. On the contrary, she got him help. It didn´t work but she tried. I wonder if any Republican would be willing to do as much for the Molester in Chief. It may take somewhere between a while and forever, so I´m going to wait for that one sitting down.
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Can someone tell me how many times Nikki Haley condemned Donald Trump for his Birtherism lies?
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This the recent NYT profiles of Trump supporters goes far towards restoring my confidence in the institution of the New York Times. Sulzbergers, thank you for acknowledging balance in your reporting. As a libertarian whose historic devotion to the NYT, given recent changes in focus has come to the point of severing my subscription multiple times, I thank you. Please don't test us further. I think I speak for many many others.
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I don't have to imagine very hard. The current President went on many shows in 2011-2012 claiming he was finding all kinds of proof that President Obama was not an American citizen.
Are you kidding me with this imagine if column? Donald Trump has turned the White House into a circus and you wonder why clowns Michael Wolff are performing there?
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What happened to the Bari Weiss who wrote "Aziz Ansari Is Guilty. Of Not Being a Mind Reader"?
This is not nice, obviously. And Hill is equally hypocritical.
But there is a price to side with Trump......
And there was also no proof that Obama was born in Kenya either, right?
Ms. Haley has not problem working for Trump with his porn star affairs and attacks on women in every way from personal to policy. For Haley to even comment seems absurd as she supports the worst type of misogyny in every facet of public life and public policy.
The more you talk about this, the more true it becomes....
To her credit, Nikki Haley said Trump's numerous accusers "should be heard and dealt with." But beyond that, she really doesn't have a whole lot to say about the odious way the President has repeatedly spoken of women: "crooked Hillary," "Pocahontis Warren", "Sneaky Diane Feinstein," "Wacky (Frederica) WIlson", "Dumb Mika (Brzezinski), then the whole "Bimbo" Megyn Kelly bit ("blood coming out of her wherever"), dissing Carly Fiorina because of her face, to say nothing of the Access Hollywood clip. I stop here, though I could easily fill my word limit with an inventory of Trump's sexist smears.
So sure, it's a bit of a double standard that there was a 'collective shrug' around Halay. Oh, and the fact that Wolff may have "stretched the truth"? Meh, the way most people see it is that he probably got more things right than wrong. So now let's return to the real issue - the fact that the President is openly sexist, openly racist, and a compulsive liar.
Don’t fall over yourself. Nikki Halley didn’t need to rush to the defense of her boss. But she did. Michale Wolf’s book is many things, but it’s knee-jerk to call it ‘questionable.’ Hillary Clinton has been so viscously attacked by Trump she certainly has the right to take a shot back. A judgmental inclusion of her feminist credentials really stretches to make a point only made so you could hit a word count.
You're going to hold the Grammys responsible for something Michael Wolff said on Bill Maher's show? What's the connection? Furthermore, the accusation wasn't in the book. Such a right-wing canard.
Nikki Haley has acted in the manner of a classy professional representing US in United Nations. I absolutely believe that she has been maligned in the book "Fire & Fury" suggesting that she got the job because she had slept with Trump. Trump has demonstrated his taste for Porn Star type of women, whereas Ms Haley is too proper a woman with high intellect to fall for Trump. That said, I hope she will not just be Trump's mouth piece, but an independent Ambassador representing US. a world leader continuing its policy to promote democracy and to build alliances with other nation, contrary to Trumps' belligerent language about other nations.
Oh please stop it! You think Democrats give a hoot about this. Was Obama and his wife not subject to all kinds of insinuations. So bad was it that at some point even his bowing to the the Japanese Emperor was a sign of surrender. Remember when Michelle arms were exposed( as if it was something salacious) in a picture. Remember when Obama was a muslim. Who gives a rats behind about Nikki Haley and Trump. We got more important things to worry about. The Republic will outlive and outlast Trump. Nikki Haley can learn a thing or 2 from Trump-it won't kill you and Christian conservatives, who were the only people who cared about who is sleeping with who have now decided it is no longer important. Nothing here, move on!
Yeah, yeah, yeah - nice try! After the racist rantings of Trump about Obama's birthplace (still ongoing), you are not going to gin up any sympathy for rumor-mongering that you attempt to tie to Democrats. Why on earth did Trump give Wolff unfettered access to the White House? You have to love that the Democrats are getting blamed for that. And how about the blaming of the Democrats for the government shutdown? Interesting. The Republicans control the House, the Senate, the White House and, for that matter, the Supreme Court. How did the Democrats shut down the Federal government?
As far as I can judge, Nikki Haley sleeping with Trump hasnt seeped into the public consciousness at large, heck it wasnt even verbalised on Maher's show- which is probably why the liberal response has been so muted.. It is actually a healthy sign that innuendo isnt c automatically onverted into fake facts on that side of the political spectrum. If we follow the author's make believe logic through though, you can be sure Fox and right wing radio friends would shout innuendo about an Obama affair as fact from the rooftops and many Republicans would start repeating it. Liberals are a weaker force politically because they are a coalition but it also creates a certain discipline that the other side lacks.
THis is yet another instance of journalists trying desperately to show that both sides are as bad as eachother- they are not. Hilary failing to take action against alleged sexual harassment is not in the same universe as actually describing in detail how you sexually harass and get away with it.
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Nice try. (1) Haley supports the world’s biggest misogynist - hence the “collective shrug” on the left. (2) The media celebrated Lauer’s “hard-hitting” attack on Hillary; it’s revisionist history (and media guilt!) to suggest otherwise. (3) Please, help us to “imagine” more hypothetical political misogyny - for instance, let’s pretend that once upon a time conservatives alleged that Vince Foster committed suicide because he was having an affair with the Hillary...and the media ran with the allegations. Oh, wait a minute....
Oh Nikki, don't worry, we think that you are gross even if you didn't "submit" to Trump.
This is just what you get with someone like Trump. end of story
Why does this author assume Nikki Haley or anyone else in this administration is telling the truth?
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So another arrival that could have been good but you had to go to blaming Hillary for the actions of some man. She actually acted appropriately. He touched s woman's shoulder and kissed her forehead. He didn't grab her by the you know what.
I'm so happy to hear that they found each other. Perhaps they'll become softer and more caring. It's clear that Donald and Melania are on the outs. Nikki is a tough cookie, but if they are in love, it'll bring out the feminine in her. The world can only benefit by their budding romance. Looking forward to more news about this. Thanks Bari and Mike!
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You can not possibly compare Democrats Kristen Gillibrand and Kamala Harris to Republican Trump appointee and Trump supporter Nikki Haley.
Gillibrand and Harris fight for ethics and integrity. They are both champions of vulnerable people who have been grossly underserved by Trump and his shameful Yes Men in the Republican Congress. Haley is working for arguably the most unethical and mentally diminished President in the history of our country.
Why wouldn't the Grammy artist take clear aim at Trump? Trump has been a complete disaster and ongoing nightmare to America. Like a disease with out a cure. Not to mention a dangerous provoker of North Korea. Only in a country of Fascism would artists ignore Trumps deplorable racism and the White Supremacist overtones of the Republican Congress.
Nikki Haley: you are who you represent. The worst of the worst.
Michael Wolfe has more or less as much credibility as Mr Trump, so who knows?
Can we please put an end to the journalistic cliche, "Not so much"?
The Trump administration acts in so many ways to undermine the Constitution and threaten the rule of law that this story doesn't merit a look. Compared to buying off a porn actress before the election, I am surprised anybody bothered to write about it at all. I simply don't believe it. Trump is so repulsive, only someone who lives for cash would fool with him. Haley has demonstrated principles that indicate she would forego that experience.
Lie down with dogs, rise up with fleas.
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I haven't seen a single progressive say anything negative about Nikki Haley and your article doesn't mention one.
The fact that a sleazeball wrote a book about Trump doesn't mean he's an Obama sympathizer or a progressive. And I have only read about liberal politicians criticizing this sleazeball writer.
Haley is one of the very few Trump appointees with decency. She should have the job as long as she wants.
Okay, there were some nasty "jokes" in very bad taste about Nikki Haley at the Grammy's. "Bad Democrats! Go to your room and repent." But here's some news that you are ignoring. The Times has a long history of following every little thread about the Clintons from Whitewater on. It published the supposed exoneration of the Russians right before the election. It has done a lot lately but has been very late to the table.
I thought that Hillary Clinton once again shamed herself by getting down on all fours in the mud. Obama has been mum or at least as far out of the spotlight as possible, he's rising above it, he remains presidential. Hillary continues to jump at every chance to wallow in Trumps filth. It's boring. And she's boring. She barely got my vote as a last ditch effort to prevent the pig currently squatting in office. If anything this cycle has shown me that the Democrats are just as useless as the Republicans, they all put party, politics and petty sniping before country. Do your jobs.
Hillary Clinton who was the prominent enabler for her sex-addicted husband has no right to insinuate that Nikki Haley has been guilty of sexual misconduct. I can't believe there are Democrats who still still believe she walks on water. Her past record puts the lie to that. I don't particularly like Ms. Haley, but she has my sympathy on this one.
What's the fuss? Nikki not to Trump's taste. No one believes it!
Thr character of the news media is being tested once again. And once again they have failed the test. Every editor in American ought to have looked at this story as a good wayi to say "no more.," No more printing every rumor of an anti-Trump flavor. You have stirred up a lack of trust in members of the Trump administration and this reporting will just do more of it. Come on. Use good sense and reflect fair plaiy.
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Like Nikki, Bari is earning her national Republican bona fides at the expense of low-hanging left wing fruit. Again and again.
Left wing because neither Maher nor Wolf are Democrats. Pointedly not Democrats.
Never mind, Weiss hits the ground swinging, slinging purple language around like nunchaku: "the worst sexist smear imaginable" and the like.
And poor, poor Niki, after savaging the civilized world with her diplomat mask barely covering her contempt, after attacking Trump over and over before rolling over and presenting herself for her new appointment, after abandoning anything like comity and relationship-building to pull a Goodfella's threat fest on the floor of the United Nations because, apparently, she is incapable of competing intellectually with her peers at 405 East 42nd Street, she is whining about a fabricated nanosecond of nastiness so indirect and unimportant this column is the first anyone of note has heard of it.
Sadly, this column is also the new normal for the New York Times. Blustery, insubstantial hit pieces on Democrat has-beens, and a perceived-slight manufactory par excellence for the Republican Right.
One valuable insight to be gleaned here, though, is that Nikki Haley would roll up like a wet tissue if she ever came in for her deserved portion of exposure and mockery. This should give pause to all those hearty souls lost on the Right who seem to be hoping she will parlay her fake victim-hood into a run for the Presidency.
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What planet does this writer live on? The media and Republicans vociferously rejected any suggestion that misogyny was playing a role in the 2016 election. It is only after two womens marches and the #MeToo movement that misogyny in the public sphere is just beginning to be acknowledged. And once again Hillary Clinton is bashed as part of the tirade, made a part of the problem instead of its most notable victim.
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Rumors to the contrary, I haven't had sex with Haley, none of the Trumps, Steve Miller or either Clinton.
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"But Ms. Haley is not a stupid woman." Here you defeat your own argument. If Ms. Haley is not a stupid person: (1) she knows that by injecting herself into the Grammys she was taking a political stance (again) and would draw fire for it - possibly her intent as she enjoys publicity; (2) she has calculatedly chosen to work for a president who has drastically lowered the tone of discourse with innuendo and personal invective, opening his subordinates to the same and inviting it to rain upon them as part of his management "style". She is a highly driven political hack adept at using using tools to gain higher and higher office. She has not been above rhetorically using the fact she is a woman when it has been to her advantage. She was a poor governor who had to be cajoled into taking the obvious moral stance on a flag. She was a "never Trumper" now working for Trump. She is woefully inarticulate representing this nation at the UN - an embarrassment beside competent diplomats. So perhaps she can be excused as something other than intellectually gifted. As to the innuendo, it isn't contained within the book which generally rings true to anyone observing this White House with a modicum of fairness, or its primary occupant as he has proven The Peter Principle over the past decades. It also seems more likely that Ms. Hicks was the subject.
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Very poor choice of headline since the term "slut-shaming" generally refers to attempts to blame women for sexual relations or harassment that actually took place, and no one seems to believe the rumor about Ms. Haley (I don't). This is not "slut-shaming." Words have meaning.
This click-bait title is awful. Slut-shaming the criticism of a woman based on some kind of appearance of sexual behavior or sexuality. Nikki Haley has done nothing to warrant having her name in the same headline as "slut-shaming." Sure, the term itself aims to critique the misogyny and double standards inherent in the ways women and men are held to different standards when it comes to sexuality. It still doesn't fit here. I may disagree with nearly everything Ambassador Haley says about foreign policy but there is nothing in her dress, demeanor, or actions that could be labeled as slutty or provocative. She hasn't been "shamed," she has been the victim of rumor. For the foreseeable future, any Google search for Nikki Haley will bring up "slut-shaming" as a search option. This is on you, NYT.
"I don't think anyone is paying any attention to the Nikki Haley rumor, period, let alone slut-shaming." (another NYT commenter) I concur. The whole premise of this article is bogus.
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I think most of the world was completely unaware that this section was in the book because most people have not read the book. Sure, lots of people bought a copy, but most people did not read it, or did not read it all the way through, because it is awful. It is so clearly full of made up stories that even those of us who really dislike Trump couldn’t read it. Also, to imply that Clinton is slut shaming because she read a section of the book, not the one in question, is a bit of a stretch. The headline of this opinion piece is so provocative that many people will read this article and that is how they are going to find out about the Haley rumor. So congratulate yourself for you click bait because this is what will put the rumor out there for public consumption. Finally, no woman in their right mind is going to believe this rumor. The idea that she would sleep with Trump is not only stupid, it is disgusting.
I am deeply confused. I saw the skit. How exactly did it single out Haley? Is the book off limits, and Trump too, because she is mentioned in it? Your point is nonsensical. Sure, don't make reckless insinuations - such as insinuating that Hillary Clinton was "slut shaming" Haley. This is the kind of piece columnist write when they really having nothing of substance to say.
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As a moderate Republican, I despise the leftist politicalization of the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Grammys, etc etc. Maybe it makes them feel good about themselves temporarily to virtue signal and grandstand, but they are paying a well-deserved price in the massive loss of viewers of these shows. Bari Weiss is completely right about their hypocrisy in slut-shaming of women, as long as the women are on the other side politically.
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Haley didn’t deserve what she got. People dislike Trump and he is powerful. Since Roman times, the powerful have been the subject of sarcasm and the butt of jokes. In this case Haley is, unfortunately, collateral damage. She deserves better, unfortunately Trump is a big juicy target. Michael Wolff is a parasite.
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I think the current administration systematically promotes whatever its self-serving, greedy, and ignorant insiders want, whether or not it benefits the nation, and whether or not it is legal. It will be a flat out lie for Trump to call for "unity" in the tirade he is set to deliver this evening. What's more, I disagree with much of what Nikki Haley has done in her role as Ambassador to the UN. However, I think that "slut shaming" is the correct term to describe the message that she is having an affair with Trump. And, I agree that having Hillary Clinton read from "Fire and Fury" was stupid, and further proof of that Clinton and whoever advises her are clueless. Where were Hillary's trenchant comments -- maybe written by herself? -- on January 21, or on any other day when her words might matter? The whole circus is sickening. Shame on the Left for stepping into the ring. Aren't things bad enough?
This headline is irresponsible and unprofessional. First, it uses the term "slut-shaming" incorrectly. The term refers to negative judgments rendered towards a woman acting in a sexually transgressive way, whereas Ambassador Haley has done nothing scandalous or improper. Second, the headline associates the word "slut" with Ambassador Haley unnecessarily and undeservedly. She is not the victim of having "slutty" behavior judged by others, she's a victim of someone lying about her behavior and strongly implying that she did things she didn't do. She deserves better from the NYT.
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This double standard, essentially dishonesty, has been in the body politic's bloodstream since the dawn of time....or at least the creation of this Republic. In more recent times, it has been used against women (and men) who advocated for black civil rights, women's rights, gay/lesbian rights and also against those who were for choice for abortion and against those who advocated against choice for abortion. There's little new to meet the eye here. Now that the 'shoe is on the other foot' and both left AND right are being made the subject of this kind of sliming, now maybe we can move beyond the individual personalities involved to examine the policies they advocate for (or against).
As for 'slut shaming', really? Get real. Ambassador Haley is a politician, as is Trump, as is Obama, as is Hillary, etc. Name one politician who is NOT a 'slut'. You can't name one who isn't because they all are. Who stinketh the most?
I think "slut-shaming" is used incorrectly here if there is no affair. People are not tarnishing her name for behavior she engaged in. The idea behind slut-shaming is to say that a woman who likes sex shouldn't be made to feel ashamed of that.
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This is the worst. So if we don't angrily tweet about an insinuation made on some late-night show, we're complicit in the slut-shaming of someone? Let's try this: stop acting like Twitter is the be-all of social discourse and that the absence of outrage on this one (really annoying) medium is the same as active support.
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How can maybe I don’t understand the term, but how do you slut-shame someone who is not a slut?
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The Times has widely spread this rumor by printing this opinion piece. It should be beneath the supposed dignity of the Times to encourage rumor mongering as an opportunity to castigate Democrats. The fact that our so-called president is mired in many nasty accusations of sexual assaults, derogatory statements about women, and even payoffs for sexual dalliances is the real problem. He slimes everything he comes near and Nikki Haley received some of the slime by association. What did she expect would happen as a result of her opportunistic appointment? Any attractive woman who comes near him is a target for his sexual sliming and possible physical attacks. He has said so himself. Let’s place the blame where it really lies.
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I don't understand the connection with Samantha Power in the third paragraph. If this is an error (as it must be) the Times needs to correct this, fast.
This is the first I have heard of this rumor, and on the Op Ed page of the NY Times! It's ridiculous on it's face and giving it space in this paper (or website - I have no idea if it's in the paper) even if to attack it, is unfortunate. Trump is a vulgar goon who either buys or intimidates women into having sex with him. Nikki Haley is not vulnerable to either approach. Politics aside (I'm sure I agree with her on little) she's clearly strong-willed, intelligent, and clear-eyed. Exactly the kind of woman Trump would never have a chance with. It's shameful that she is even asked to respond to this idiocy.
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Whatever. Why is the NYT shilling for Nikki Haley? Her big mouth that spews all kinds of nonsense surely can take care of itself.
So, did NYT stand up for Hillary Clinton when Trump was stalking her on that debate stage? I don't recall seeing that.
Why does NYT need to protect Trumpistaville? They don't need your help. They need to be covered properly so that we can see that they are all frauds, including Ms Haley. Taken any names lately Ms Haley?
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It's a ridiculous charge and, as the article points out, Wolff is using this innuendo to sell books. So don't worry, Nikki Haley, we don't think you're THAT insane... But why do you work for that lying, vulgar, porn-queen chasing, racist, corrupt Mafioso sleazebag? Bad company.
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She's not Trump's type. She's not a blonde, supermodel, or porn star.
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Wait. Let me get this straight. Republicans like to joke about Democrats running a pedophile ring out of a pizza parlor? But it’s not ok for Democrats to poke fun of a book?
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Yo Studio, Yes, according to this author, you are correct.
I ignore television and social media when it comes to political news. I don’t follow anyone on Twitter. This the first I have heard of this latest tempest. If I had not noticed this editorial I would not have even been aware of it. It seems the author is a part of the problem.
She implies that all people who differ politically from Trump are complicit in what she perceives as the slut shamming if the UN Ambassador. And many commenters join the chorus.
I am well aware that there are idiots all over the political spectrum. The president is proof of that. But to paint all with the same broad brush the author does disservice to her own cause as well as her credibility. If all “progressives” are party to this shaming I can only assume all conservatives are racist pawns of Vladimir Putin.
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To drag Nikki Haley down as someone to be exploited by Trump is an insult to her accomplishments as a leader and a woman. That sort of tawdry insinuation belongs in the dustbin of history. This leans on two premises: DJ is a pig ( duly noted) and Haley has no option but to have a relationship with him to get ahead ( that is a sexist stretch). Not only does this reek of sexism on behalf of Wolfe, it seems innacurrate. Haley might be an attractive woman, but she sure the heck isn’t his ‘type.’ In so many levels.
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Maybe I'm missing something. I haven't read "Fire and Fury," and don't know if I ever will, but main takeaway I got from cable TV, mainstream new sites, etc. was that Trump's White House is dysfunctional, period. The Nikki Haley angle is a late add-on that I give no credibility to and which has not gotten a much if any airplay on the liberal late-night shows I admit to watching.
In that context, saying that having Hillary Clinton read about the president's love of cheeseburgers is tantamount to participating in the slut-shaming of Nikki Haley seems over the top at best. As far as I know, no one at the Grammies read anything about an alleged affair between Trump and Haley. I think Ms. Weiss is straining way too hard on this one. Or perhaps she wishes to inherit Maureen Dowd's position as Hillary's personal Inspector Javert?
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This is this is rich. Trump repeatedly attacks private citizens, attacks John Mc Cain, attacked other candidates in the election, still attacks Hilkary Clinton, was rececorded about assaulting women, was just found out to be consorting with a porn star and then paying her off — and you are going to cry foul about an insinuation about Nikki Haley? Please....
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This kind of rumor-mongering about Nikki Haley is no better than that "Hillary killed Vince Foster" or the "Pizzagate" nonsense.
And reading Fire and Fury at the Grammy's? Really? Have to agree with Haley on this one. Stick to the music. I get the #Timesup and #Metoo at the Grammy's, but not that.
And as an aside, Hillary--doing stunts like this makes everyone who didn't vote for you glad they didn't. I did vote for you and think this was beneath you. You lost and Trump won. Yes, he is an idiot, but do you have to stoop to his level? Take a lesson from Obama and Bush II--they have maintained their dignity despite the idiot in the W.H. Leave the political skewering to SNL and Bill Maher.
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I thought that Mrs.Clinton*s appearance on the Grammy*s related to Mr.Trump;how does Ms.Weiss arrive at this conclusion:"The author who does the smearing[about Ambassador Haley] is celebrated by all the A-listers,
including the most prominent Democratic woman in the country,.."So,Hillary Clinton reads a portion of "Fire and Fury"in a skit and this illustrates a"...fundamental complaint of the right in the culture wars...that the left is hypocritical,..."I*m sure I am correct that the extremely brief appearance of Mrs.Clinton at the Grammy*s in this skit was about Mr. Trump,yet this tiny appearance elicited from Ms.Weiss a rant.A rant about Hillary Clinton.
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What?
Feminists didn't immediately jump to the defense of a woman who does the bidding of the most disgusting misogynist president ever?
Shocking. Simply shocking.
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Bari - I'm going to indulge in something the GOP has perfected, led by Kellyanne. It's called whataboutism. You have something in common with Tony Perkins, the president of the conservative Family Research Council,
who proudly said he was giving Trump a mulligan for having sex with a porno shortly after the birth of Barron and then paying her $130,000 in hush money. The only difference is that you have given Trump at least two mulligans 1) when he smeared Kirsten Gillibrand, calling her a lightweight who would do anything for a donation 2) when he smeared Mika Brzezinksi calling her "low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe [whom Trump later insinuated he murdered someone], came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift."
I couldn't care less about whom Nikki Haley has sex with. By agreeing to join the Trump administration and support the lies, willful ignorance and racism that guide its policies, she is a prostitute nonetheless.
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Nikki. You play with fire, you get burned.
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The double standard is well evident by the comments left here by the Times normal, leftist readers. So funny that they completely ignore the point of this article and carry on with their one sided hypocrisy.
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I'm a liberal, not a "progressive". I despise Donald Trump, and (almost) all he stands for. I haven't read "Fire and Fury", and don't intend to read it. To insinuate that Ms. Haley had sex with Mr. Trump because they had a private meeting is sleazy and silly.
On the other hand, if you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas. Also, for the right to complain about sleazy innuendo, after the treatment they gave the Clintons and the Obamas, is howling hypocrisy. Conservatives howl about much, but they howl loudest when given even a dose of their own medicine.
Um...I don't get it. I suspect this writer is cherry-picking facts to suit her world view...again.
Did they mention Ms Haley by name or indicate they were talking about her in any way? They were reading from a book which conveys the madness that is Trump.
Ms Weiss, you are a conservative and you defend other conservatives. Or in this case, you find a way to talk trash about Hillary Clinton. That isn't feminism; it is tribalism.
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They didn't mention her by name.
Bari Weiss is perfectly fine with Trump supporters rabidly attacking Jewish Rabbis in Montana. That isn't a problem for her.
But this supposed "slut shaming" that no one knew about is a national tragedy to Bari Weiss. What are the lives of a rabbi's family in Montana threatened by Trump's supporters who read the right wing pro-Trump propaganda worth to Bari Weiss. Nothing at all. Because no one is allowed to say anything bad about all those "good people" who love Trump and just happen to hate Jews and anyone else who isn't white, Christian and European.
As far as I'm concerned, she is "sleeping with the enemy" metaphorically by serving in his corrupt administration. I could care less whether there is a physical relationship. (Except, eeewww!)
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And this is news? Democrats abide by the double standard. It's their MO.
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You must have missed all of the outrage and vilification of Hillary Clinton because she happened to be married to a sexual predator and decided, for her own personal and likely complicated reasons, to stay married to him. All of the vile lies and insults spewed by Faux Infotainment at Hillary and Chelesea Clinton, Michele Obama and the Obama children, including about their appearance, and Elizabeth Warren and Susan Rice and Loretta Lynch and even Samantha Power, and any other strong woman who has had the temerity to speak her mind. So, why don't we start with condemning the right wing media, and then we can turn to whether those who actually champion women's rights, rather than clamoring to take them away, should rush to the rescue of a damsel in distress who hitched her wagon to the party of misogyny, the party of stripping women of their rights, including the right to do as they wish with their own bodies, the party of unequal pay for more work, the Mad Men party? The only double standard here runs one way. What is good for the right wing gander is not good for geese on the left.
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Bari Weiss has no problem slut-shaming women as long as they are democrats.
She just doesn't believe that Republicans can be criticized. Even if they are right wing anti-Semites attacking a Montana Rabbi and Trump has done nothing to stop their hatred except call them "good people".
*That's* what you get from this book???
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Brava! The hypocrisies of the Progressives are innumerable and endemic.
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First non biased item I’ve read in the times for a long time. Good start
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So let me get this straight. You disapprove of the rumor being circulated-- yet you think it's appropriate to "out" Haley in the New York Times as the woman referred to in the aforementioned rumor?
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He may or my not be schtupping Nookey Haley. I care not. But when Melarchia flees her husband, I pray she does not return to NYC. We do not want Trump's seed here in town.
It's not clear what in this opinion is fit to print.
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I wasnt aware that Haley was smeared. Wolff said something and a lot of people jumped to a conclusion. that conclusion may or may not be wrong.
Do you really think "the left" should jump to hose down every piece of innuendo out there? Why are people of my political persuasion suddenly responsible for that? Why isnt "the right" responsible for hosing this innuendo down?
Want to see a real smear job? read this opinion piece. Typical right wing precious petals. Waa waa waa!
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It is truly hard to be a Democrat in this era. I'm a millennial, African-American and born in NYC. I graduated with a degree in Economics and went to a top notch academic institution here in NYC. The Democratic party is truly disturbing. The media has acted like a propaganda wing for this party. I'm no Trump sycophant but the level of bitterness and utter lack of logic flowing from the Left has moved me out of the party. Yes, go ahead. Accuse me of being a 'Russian' (the Left's favorite slur these days) but the level of hypocrisy and hate flowing from the media, Democratic party and elites is stomach turning. What are the Left's actual ideas to uplift this country? Let me guess, tear down every man and woman who dares to disagree. It's tiring. Look in the mirror, you have become the very thing you claim to hate.
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Bravo, Thomas.
Like yourself, I am a minority (Hispanic), educated (MBA), and barely a Democrat these days.
The level of bias from the left is truly disturbing and out of control.
Why not simply report facts and let people make up their own minds?
Good column. Attempting to smear Nikki Haley like this is disgusting gutter journalism. As it happens, this is not remotely believable as Haley is a woman of substance, not the kind of person 45 chases anyway. As far as I'm concerned, this mud sticks mainly to Wolff.
As for Clinton's appearance at the Grammys, I happen to agree with Haley. It was out of place and tone-deaf. I hope I never see another politician at an awards ceremony, no matter how much I may support them. Such appearances only further the dangerous mix of politics and spectacle which gave us this outrage of a presidency.
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trump is toxic. Her name is but one more of a long list of those that associate with him too long and regret it.
Seems like juicy gossip (when it's about the "enemy") overpowers the Dems' moral compass
I don’t understand why the left shoots its own messenger. Republicans celebrate in the gutter of nonsense conspiracies, lies, vicious attacks, insults all completely untethered from reality. That message resonates in the huge orchestra hall that is right wing media. Wolff writes a book criticizing Trump and the rest of his faul smelling crew, including the ambassador, and we have to take him down all the way, calling it out as lacking any “true journalistic muster” You guys fight like victims. Bullies need a bat to their face. Keep discrediting your own, thinking you are holier than the pope and watch this same fraud administration and its king reptile win again. Haley made her bed when she joined with that crook. Now she can literally sleep in it.
...goes on to show that left has an agenda and its uses espousal of morality based issues to achieve it.
Left: Now that I have shamed Nikki, where is my joint now, and stranger are you coming to bed?
The slur against Ms. Haley is vile, and the silence in response to it is deafening.
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The default position for republicans and unfortunately for some self proclaimed progressives is to attack Hillary.
Clinton can say whatever she wants to say and frankly I don't care if it's from a comic book. Trump has proven to be the gift of a lifetime for comedians and for the media in general. Besides that every politician becomes a butt of humor and with Trump that speaks for itself.
Trumps is so insanely funny that it makes me want to cry.
Huh?? I read Fire and Fury and watch MSNBC morning and night -- but never heard this story until reading it here! So don't blame the liberal media, and certainly not the Democratic party, with peddling it.
Our politics, led by Trump, is turning into a cesspool. It is unfortunate that Clinton would stoop to his level.
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Bari, It is hard to disagree with you. The nasty comment in the book from Wolff is outrageous and should evoke the same #MeToo moment. Why did this get by without a peep from anyone? Many liberals are not fond of Nicki Haley for political reasons, but this kind of Bannonesque attack should offend everyone.
No one is giving the Niki Haley fire and fury any credibility, but some rejoice in trolling a woman who chose to work for a president known for sexual harassment, infidelity and the billy bush tape. She made the decision to ignore all that and be associated with him, so for her to be the subject of a troll is just irony.
I take exception to the characterization that Matt Lauer's interview was commonly acknowledged to be the grossly misogynist piece of trash that it was. In fact - it was really only feminists - who have been subjected to that gross double standard - watching Lauer yuck it up with Trump while attacking that annoying woman of a certain age who all men wish would just go away. Go back and watch how white guys responded to that interview - it was not with outrage.
In response to your (final) rhetorical query, perhaps this is because when one allies themselves with a person who doesn't deserve to visit the White House on a tour—much less inhabit it—you have abandoned the prospect of being treated with any decency.
Your "imagine this "story does not work. Barack Obama was a President with a moral compass and integrity. He was a person who respected women. No one would ever believe such a tale. Trump is a Pig. He treats women like disposable animals. His cabinet members are swamp creatures. Someone would believe Wolf's story might be about Haley since she sold her soul to work for this "man".
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Look who woke up with fleas...
And all she did was spend time with the dirtiest dog she could find.
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When is a smear a smear? Can you actually smear someone without actually mentioning the name of the person? G
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Seems like Haley can ans should file a libel law suit.
Unfortunately it's the company she keeps. Lay down with dogs, get fleas.
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Don't know what you are smoking Bari, but (a) nobody at the Grammy's was insinuating that Nikki Haley was "sleeping" with Trump or even that other thing implied by Wolff. (b) Hillary was a poor idea because of the recent news about her decision compounded with her history on Bill's affairs, plus she lost, and there is no point celebrating losers, really.
Finally, your tossing in the names of Kamala Harris and Kirsten Gillibrand - maybe you should spend more time thinking things through - Trump did insinuate something nasty about Gillibrand, tweeting she was "willing to do anything" to get campaign contributions. There was some overreaction from the likes of Elizabeth Warren and others.
In conclusion, your piece shows an eagerness to push a position no matter what the facts are. Just FYI, no matter what the talking heads at Fox say or the exploding heads of right wing radio say, the vast majority of Liberals and Democrats really don't care a whole lot what celebrities say. They simply don't. Those folks are expressing their opinions, and sometimes it is funny, other times not. End of story. We do not go to "Church of Hollywood" on Sunday, we do not have an annual "Celebrity Worship Breakfast", we do not have them write our Party platforms or legislation. We have things in very clear perspective. We welcome you and your ilk to try it. It will truly Make America Great Again, and not Hate Again. Try it.
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What is the point of the preposterous hypothetical comparison between Obama and Trump? That the mainstream media would have condemned the rumor had it been Obama? Wish it were so, but my hypothesis is that the media would have spread the rumor with greater coverage than this one, and it would surely have been pushed into hysteria, aided by boisterous cheerleading from Fox. What is wrong with the New York Times??
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What are the odds of Queen Elizabeth II being caught in bed with Pope Francis? Just as big as Nikki Hailey being caught in bed with Trump.
When you give multiple passes to the biggest liar the world has ever seen, expect to see the unexpected.
We all know that Trump has turned a corner upon becoming President and is no longer the lecher he once was. Obviously fake news.
Is anybody else sick of Republican tirades? Is anybody else sick of Republicans calling all Democrats “the left?” (This country hasn’t had a “left” in recent memory but we most definitely have a “right.”) Is anybody else sick of generalizations about “all Democrats” based on somebody’s Twitter feed? Seriously, could this piece be any more embarrassing? Nobody I know cares for one second about who anybody in the Trump administration sleeps with, is said to sleep with, or claims to sleep with. Let’s get a grip on reality; a journalist made a sleazy charge, not a prominent Democratic politician. And Republicans howl about feminist Democrats’ double-standard? This is what they make a stink about? They have nothing to say when the Republican National Committee funds the campaign of a known sexual miscreant. They could care less about their president dehumanizing women at every opportunity. They elected an admitted serial sexual assaulter. But this bothers them? This fuels their outrage? Enough already. The hypocrisy of feminists, such as it is, is nothing compared to the endless hypocrisy of Republicans and the Republican Party in their abuse of women. Can they please give it a rest? And can the Times give it a rest with them? Ms. Haley didn’t join this administration under duress. As folks said when I was growing up, and as so many commenters have said, you lie down with dogs you get fleas.
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If she's sleeping with the "President", she should just own it.
It's an honor in many ways.
There is no one more anti-Trump than I, and Bill Maher, Wolff and Hillary Clinton should be ashamed of themselves for their crass promotion of the book. Full Stop. A more likely explanation for the Wolff rumor, if it's not an outright lie, is that Trump made his typical sexist thug comments about Haley behind her back, which would generate plenty of rumors.
As a card-carry member of the Democratic Party I can tell you they are frequently inconsistent, cowardly, foolish, and often downright stupid. However, the Republicans are the kings of hypocrisy.
I might have some sympathy for Ms. Haley if she had not checked her soul and morality at the door when she became a Trump enabler. It's not the job of Democrats to defend her. I fact those crickets are Republicans who care so little about women that they won't defend their own.
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Liberal Trump-despising democrat here. Could not agree more.
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What ought to be required reading, that I'd just love to hear Mrs Clinton read from, is the 1999 book, "No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton" by author and journalist (RIP) Christopher Hitchens.
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The woman in question is Hope Hicks, not Nikki Haley.
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This President and his enablers like Nikki Haley have turned the White House into a dumpster fire of insults, personal attacks, and other odiferous conduct. Who invited the likes of Wolfe into the White House in the first place? To now criticize the culture that Trump has created is the height of hypocrisy.
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Based on her performances at the UN as well as her comments on subjects like North Korea I'm guessing she isn't sleeping with anyone let alone the the Donald. A little romance might do this person some good.
I wake up one morning hoping to read some interesting and thought provoking articles or opinions in the news, therefore go directly to the New York Times, and what do I find? This ridiculous, middle school, inarticulate "what if" article concerning an insult thrown in an interview with a third rate writer during a second rate television show's interview? My God! Who cares!
I have never heard about this so called smear. Thanks for bringing it out in the open. If you are going to smear someone don't keep it a secret let it all get out there. guess i don't read the right newspapers or watch the right news shows.
Outside of talking heads I don’t think anybody would associate a smart woman like Nikki Haley with a dummy like DJT.
After all the vicious vicious comments that spill from our “Leader” the right wingers sound like “snowflakes” from here.
To Hilary:
Please just go away....please
Dems have no chance with you and the other 70 year olds
Only someone younger and passionate needs to emerge
With Trump's history who can blame anyone for speculating about the absurd. That being said, no responsible opponent of Trump is pedaling this garbage. Compare this to Faux News' and hate radio's 24/7 smearing of the Obamas with every falsehood imaginable from birtherism to grossly overestimating travel expenses,etc. etc. This " Imagine this " rhetorical stunt is stunning in its false equivalency and isn't worthy of the Times' opinion page.
As UN Ambassador, I'm behooved why Haley tweeted about Grammy Awards; comments she surely knew would resurface rumor she said is untrue?
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How do you know that Wolf's innuendo is a lie? The problem is Trump knows no boundaries; he is a disgusting excuse for a human being. And Haley has given him praise, shown him loyalty. Why?
Nikki Haley is content to work for a president who spent years spreading the racist conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was a Kenyan-born Muslim. It seems that her objection to public smears is confined to when they are directed at her.
The title of this article is offensive. Why add to the offense? Making people accept some bad boy word play as part of the proper English language is as much a crime as insinuating that someone is having an affair. Trash talk doesn't elevate the discourse. Not at all.
When I heard the Nikki Haley rumor, I thought it was a sick joke.
When I heard the what's-her-name porn actress rumor, I knew it was true.
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You undercut your argument by bringing Clinton into it, seemingly just to be able to call Dems hypocrites. The Grammy segment with Clinton was taped, not live, and was most likely shot before Wolff's comments to Maher. And do those comments mean the book can never be cited without it being considered an injury to Haley?
Wolff's attempts at slut-shaming Haley are disgusting, but also laughable: no woman, Dem or Repub, would give such a claim any credence, especially considering the other party involved in this case.
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I have had my copy of Fire and Fury for a couple of weeks now. I am 40 pages from the end so have not yet stumbled or blank-read (slept through) the passage mentioned in the article. A page-turner, F&F is not. More than once my cat has convinced me we (the cat and I) were better served with a nap on the couch as she commandeered my chest for her sphinx imitation, interposing her head between my eyes and the book. (A critical aside: I haven't seen so many typographical and syntax errors in a book of this length in...well...ever. Talk about rushing to the printer. This guy's as bad a proofreader as --maybe worse than-- I am when it comes to hitting the "Submit" button.)
There are times when I have to admit it's easier to believe Trump's side of the story. I have yet to meet a woman who will say she would sleep with him for any amount of money, let alone for nothing more than the "thrill" of it. Let's be objective and honest here. The man is sloppy fat, has the complexion (and probably the breath) of a rhinoceros, and the suave repartee` of a well-watered wino. The Beatles were right. Money can't buy you love. Or, in Trump's case, even one night stands.
If Nikki Haley says she has not sampled Trumpian delights, I don't just give her the benefit of the doubt, I believe her.
Now, Kellyanne Conway on the other hand...
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Bari has had some good moments lately (her defense of Aziz Ansari) but at bottom she’s a millennial #metoo loon especially as it applies to Democrats. This is just an opportunity for Hillary hate regarding a rumor no one cares about or is paying attention to.
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I think this author is missing the point. I don't know of anyone who is either surprised by the grenades rolling out of Michael Wolff's book, or considers it a fine piece of journalism. Michael Wolff is not a Democratic Party operative. His work has been widely criticized as "gutter journalism". In fact, I have yet to read a good review of his book.
The Grammy's are not the Democratic Party. Like them or not, they are supposed to be entertainment. The book is a popular punching bag. Equating jokes based on the book with "slut-shaming" Nikki Haley is really quite a reach.
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Come back to earth. You're not hearing any Democratic leader uttering this unfounded nonsense including Clinton. Michael Woolf is not going to be nominated for anything. More than 70% of Democrats are not going to believe this. Compare that to Birtherism and the nomination and election of the birther in chief by the base of the Republican Party and the sibsequent moral and pilitical collapse (is that an oxymoron) of its leadership. Pizzagate! Get real. I don't believe this. What I do believe is that he had a fling with a porn star and paid hush money.
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She’s not his type. She’s only an enabler.
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Hillary's campaign was the original birther.....per Reuters editor at the time.
What about, what aboutism raises its ugly head again. What if President Obama had been accused by at least a dozen women of unwanted sexual advances. What if President Obama had bragged of grabbing women by their genitals. Then the what aboutism might make more sense. Everyone who is allied with Trump must face the fact: lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
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Why is the quote from the book "The woman’s name jumps out as if it was printed in boldface: Samantha Power, the United Nations ambassador."??? Wasn't Samantha Power Obama's UN Ambassador? At least get the names right!!!
Not a tit-for-tat, a reality based splat.
Bari the lesson to learn, Hillary or Nikki, "she that lieth down with a dog shall rise up with fleas".....
I admit that I am of two minds about this op-ed piece. On the one hand, I agree wholeheartedly: the gratuitous sexualizing of women in the public eye as a way to demean and disempower them is as old as time (see Cicero's attack on Clodia for a "recent" example) and it is, in a word, disgusting. But Ms Haley is not the only public woman subject to such focus on their sexuality rather than their competence--in both positive and negative terms. Anyone remember the way Janet Reno was attacked by Republicans because she did NOT present a conventionally attractive, reassuringly demure presence to the world? How many women in politics are the subject of whisper-attacks just because their vaginas represent a threat to the men in the room? Their number is legion, I suspect. Ms Haley is, ironically, in good company.
On the other hand, she has hitched her wagon to a president and administration that is repulsive on myriad levels. To complain that she is abused by others when she is surrounded by abusers begs the question: how are you challenging the stuff you see all around you, Ms Haley? Are you speaking truth to power now? Or is your high dudgeon selective?
The use of women's sexuality as a weapon to attack them is something all people should eschew--especially the current POTUS, who has adopted it as his favorite go-to tactic when dealing with any woman who criticizes him. Maybe Ms Haley needs to have a chat with her boss.
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Sorry Nikki, but you can't roll in the dirt with this Administration and this repugnant president and expect to be defended by the people Trump is defaming and by the standards they defend against his continual vandalism. You took a side. Live with that.
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The evidence of a corrupt society is the desire within of people to be politicians.
Extreme wealth is created by some criminal activity. The entire world thinks USA is stupid. We are number #1 in nothing except pollution. We lie to start wars. The corporations reap profits by building more destructive weapons. 17% of Americans think we are great. Education is a farce. USA will be remembered as soap opera with ugly people. It will go down in history of the world as the worst civilization. Its atempted ethnic cleansing of tthe entire planet...
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She works for and represents the biggest misogynist slob who is are president and I'm supposed to feel bad for her. Sorry not buying it. Collaborators always suffer once the history is written.
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I will not put it behind the Queens hustler knowing his history of molestation.
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The same shrug that conservatives show when we have news of the president and the porn star. Sorry. Cannot muster the energy for one, cannot for the other. Plus, what if it is true. Many people are saying...
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If you are going play politics “for” Donald Trump’s team you are going to be disrespected, after all you have thrown your future in with the most Disrespectful leader and Disrespected person in modern times, expect your ambition to reveal your hypocrisy.
Sleep with fish heads, you are going stink.
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This is more yawn inducing than rage inducing.
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The stupidity of Hillary getting anywhere near an author phrasing his unfounded/unproven innuendos about sex
In a Blue Dress context... boggles the mind and also demonstrates how inept Hillary’s judgment can be.
The book isn’t serious journalism.. the author isn’t a serious scholar. Bill Maher isn’t an authority, just a biased comedian who does impersonations if Alec bl
Aldrin impersonating trump and who often goes for the lowest common denominator of sexual innuendo.
He did not reveal anything about President Obama, it's Donal Trump, not P{resident Obama.
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"But when Nikki Haley is smeared with the most base, sexist lie, it’s met with little more than a collective shrug.".... that's because no one believes this stupid rumor, no matter what side you are on. Why respond to something as inane as this? There are bigger issues to discuss.
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The premise of this op-ed is silly, stupid, and perhaps even base.
It's based upon a guy selling a book filled with innuendo, gossip, and hearsay.
Trump orchestrated the selling of lies and he, along with all those who signed up with him, get a taste of his manufactured swill. Lie down with the Prince of Lies and get up with slander.
Trying to make a case of false equivalence here is all this is and harkens back to the 2016 campaigns.
I am disgusted to have read this nonsense.
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I think Wolff implied it more to irritate Potus, because obviously Haley isn't up to his high standards of porn stars who remind him of his daughter, and it would really bother him if people suspected he sunk so low.
Puhleez.
Who, exactly, is expressing this "insinuation?" The author of this piece.
Nikki Haley doesn't like being swept up in the vileness that IS her boss? Too bad. You lay down with dogs, blah, blah, blah.
Next.
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She insinuated herself.
Or it mayor it’s because Haley supports an unfit president, who supports pedophilia, racism, bullying, and mysogeny etc etc etc..the list is too long. Haley whole hearted supports this nearly evil man. She deserves whatever terrible things she gets.
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Just so.
Haley 2020! (or 2024)
Fire and Fury, HRC, the Grammy's and the Dems in the trash
We live in a strange time when people like Senator Kirsten Gillibrand appear on the View to state that Bill Clinton and all of his offensive sexual harassment habits were not a problem because "we" didn't know any better. They were different times. Are we supposed to take you seriously Senator? Really?
The Nikki Haley comment was a stupid comment meant to sell a stupid tabloid book. As for your comment that the "left" has seized the moral high ground from the GOP...you have to be kidding me!!!
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Did Bari Weiss defend the pope? Did Bari Weiss come out angry when Peruvian evangelists staged a riot for The NY Times? Did Bari Weiss evaluate the crazy accusations of countless FOX news fabrications? Doubtful. So “slut shaming” in this context becomes yet another vitriolic misused word. I hope Bari Weiss finds her place at FOX with the other exaggerating Republican crybabies.
Her writing is an example of how evangelists and Republicans put the moral high ground on Democrats rather than the Republican Party. This article is an example of how Democrats accept it without a fight.
The silly hypocrisy of it is in a thousand courtrooms in Manhattan and behind a propaganda campaign to discredit the FBI. I am shocked at the spite-filled hatred The NY Times shows against the Catholic Church.
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[S]He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. Proverbs 13:20.
I can assure the press that very few Americans even know what you are talking about - no one cares. . I am surprised the NYT took this story on with such glee. It is a non story.
I'm baffled by the idea that no competent, honorable woman or man should serve in the Trump administration. The president is a moral catastrophe doing grave damage to the presidency. We should welcome any decent people who are willing to forfeit their futures by filling critical positions. Total failure at the top would do even more injury to the nation. Would we rather have the United States represented in the U.N. by a porn star?
Why are you assuming it is a lie? At best, we don't know if it is true or a lie, so you are totally overreacting. This seems like your Minnie Driver moment.
I despise Trump, but was disgusted by the spectacle of Hillary reading us a bedtime story.
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It's nice to see the NYT showing some fairness for a change. Not that I expect it to continue, but it gives one a smidgen of hope.
Oh please. I thought a more likely candidate for Trump's WH paramour is Hope Hicks who is much younger, prettier and more slavish than Nikki. I even found the required "bingo" graf described by Michael Wolff in "Fire and Fury."
The slur is disgusting, yes - but I'd point out one important distinction: To my knowledge, nobody with an ounce of brains is buying it, or promoting it.
Contrast that with the slurs coming from the right.
Does anyone really believe that Haley fits the bill as to what Trump looks for in a woman? That thought is based on historical references to whom he has “allegedly” bedded!
In this case the left is as hypocritical as the religious right by defending or ignoring Trump’s affair with porno star Stormy Daniels.
Sad!
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This op-ed fails to name a single person who said Donald Trump and Nikki Haley are having an affair. Instead, it asks for outrage against unnamed people who said so.
This article is very poorly written/edited. I simply could not follow it and could not make out what it's saying. There is no contextualization for those who haven't been following this story, if it IS a story. Is it saying Haley is sleeping with Trump?
What about air/water pollution, war, malnutrition,, gang violence, opioid addiction, corruption, the real problems?!! Please, are your writers incompetent to deal with those subjects?
God what a ridiculous world.
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The logic of this piece escapes me. There is nobody on the left that has insinuated anything about Nikki Haley, other than that her foreign policy stinks. It made me wonder where this new NYT Op-Ed writer is coming from. Surprise, surprise, the WSJ editorial page!
If you want a contrasting perspective on the "diversity" of NYT Op/Ed writers in general, and on Bari Weiss's history as an activist "journalist" in particular, you might find the following link of interest. I will read her work with a jigger of salt in the future. I don't mind contrasting perspectives, but manipulation and distortion is not what I subscribe to the NYTimes for.
https://theintercept.com/2017/08/31/nyts-newest-op-ed-hire-bari-weiss-em...
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Thanks for the link. It's quite a barrage of personal attacks, with interesting assumptions about its readers--for example, that defending the Israeli government on anything is a clear sign of turpitude. I find far more "manipulation and distortion" in the Intercept article than I do in Weiss's thoughtful and wel-supported piece here.
Interesting that Bari Weiss takes great umbrage at negative aspersions about Nikki Haley were cast by Michael Wolff but doesn't seem troubled by 'The Donald's' negative treatment of Ted Cruz's spouse during the 2016 campaign.
Guess that it all depends upon whose ox is getting gored as Granny used to say.
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Wait, people watch the Grammys?
Like Mama said, "You'll be known by the company you keep."
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Yes I stopped watching all the narcissistic, ignoramus Hollywood award shows. They did themselves in with their one sided political material.
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There it is. In their zeal to get rid of Trump, these self labeled "liberals" will stop at nothing. This is laughable, particularly in this climate where any female involved in a sexual imbroglio is typically canonized by the press and these " liberals", but not in this case!
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That Wolff is such a sleaze! Is that OK, Ms. Weiss?
Are Democrats now responsible for what a gossipy writer says in an interview about his gossipy book?
Weiss would have a real point if Democrats or liberal media were making anything of the allegations -- but they are not.
Though I've sworn off "All Russia Scandal, All the Time" MSNBC I can bet that they're not discussing Ms. Haley's sex life. Like most liberals, they're scratching their heads over how Haley can display integrity at times, and at other times act as an embarrassing shill for the Trump Administration's most egregious behavior and statements.
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The problem with Nikki Haley is that she is hanging around with a known graber, the Graber in Chief.
The saying "Show me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are? » might apply in this case!
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I bet most women would concur with Ms. Haley that even the thought of an affair (putting it euphemistically) with Donald Trump is “disgusting.”
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Everything that comes into contact with Trump is contaminated!
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Ok, let’s get it out there. The Democrats are hypocrites. The Republicans are hypocrites. Politics is hypocritical as is the media that covers it and the supporters that promote it. Anyone disagree? If not, can we please stop with the “if this was...” editorials. There’s no news there, move along.
Good lord, who on earth started this rumor about Nikki Haley? It's pathetic and base. I *hate* this administration with the fiery heat of a supernova. And I'm no fan of Ms. Weiss after her offensive article in response to the Ansari situation. But this rumor is misogynistic, period. Consensual sex AND THE LACK THEREOF is nobody's business. And yes, that includes Stormy Daniels as well. Nobody's business.
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“But Ms. Haley is not a stupid woman.” This is where your argument falls down. She’s not an especially bright person. She might be a stupid person’s idea of an intelligent or possibly moderately articulate individual, but she hasn’t an intellect to celebrate. She is a schemer, to be sure. She was a rather poor Governor who had to be cajoled into taking the obvious moral stand on a flag. She is an abysmal representative of her country at the UN, where she has proven inarticulate by comparison to actual diplomats. If we for a moment assume she is bright, then she surely knows that (1) her tweet during the Grammys was overtly political and would deservedly yield a firestorm and (2) that by accepting a position in the current administration she took a political stand that has consequences. Her boss thrives on disgusting behaviour and innuendo. He leaves his associates open to the same, indeed inviting it. I have no sympathy for Ms. Haley on this matter. Moreover, the content of the book rings very true to anyone observing the dysfunction of this White House or aware of the incubus at its center and “his” multi-decade misanthropy and attention seeking. This is not a left/right issue. It is one of common sense and basic values.
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No critical thinker believes all of what Wolf wrote and I could care less if Nicki is having an affair with Donald. What I do care about is her working in an admin that pretty much hates women and minorities. Their polices scream misogyny and racism, so I have zero respect for anyone in this administration and in that sense she is in bed with trump.
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Pulleeze Hillary has put up with sexual harassment forever and ever and ever, just being a woman in a power position. I am old enough to remember it all.
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"In the Trump era, the left has smartly and justifiably seized a moral high ground that the right has abandoned by its embrace of the president. That’s a high ground the left cannot hold if it embraces subtle double standards that it would never accept for a moment if the woman in question was a Kirsten Gillibrand or a Kamala Harris." But the woman in question is NOT Ms. Gillibrand or Harris. It is a powerful, smart woman who sold her soul to the Trump administration and has gone before the world stage and threatened to obliterate another nation. Sure, sexual innuendo is low, but not nearly as subterranean as advocating the genocide of 25+ million Koreans. If nuclear holocaust is met with a collective shrug, why not a mere sexist lie?
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I am glad this is published in the New York Times. Nobody cares whether Miss Haley is having an affair or not. It is unfortunate that Mr. Wolff could not resist the insinuation. I am equally baffled by the reading of "Fire and Fury" at the Grammy's. Such cheap shots steer the discussion away from serious issues at stake.
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Having not read the book and hearing zero about this, thank you. I mean seriously. Thank you. It's like I stepped into a Fox News article. If Fox wrote and if it's viewers actually read. I appreciate it.
As to Ms. Haley, can you actually be serious? She cozies up to a toxic, despicable, disgusting human being and you're worried about her reputation? Ever heard the phrase, lie down with dogs get up with flees.
And don't worry. No one would EVER take Nikki Haley seriously except Trumps delusional followers and this will have zero effect on how they feel. Or would it? I mean after all, she just a woman and we know women are always suspect and emotional and not as smart as your very stable genius with the big brain.
You couldn't look worse. I wouldn't worry about it.
Actually... Michael Wolff never actually said that an affair was happening. He said there was something he felt sure of but didn't have hard proof. He didn't write Nikki Haley was having an affair with the president in the book, and he didn't say it on Bill Maher's show. YOU'VE read between the lines and seen what you want to see. Perhaps there is something else to see. Perhaps there is nothing at all to see and Michael Wolff just wants you to read his book. Or perhaps every fantasy you dream up is in fact reality. I for one, take unsubstantiated rumours and speculation for what they are: worthless without more information. If she's been smeared with a base, sexist lie (presuming it is a lie), then it's being met with a collective shrug because it's a lie you dreamed up yourself. If Michael Wolf had actually said it, out loud, on national television, without proof, then I expect you would be getting the outrage that you obviously desire.
Given that Republicans have made it their modus operandi to lie, smear and attack anyone and anything that stands in their way of total capitulation to the excesses of the Bloviating Orange Traitor, i can hardly get outraged by tasteless insinuations of a tabloid journalist in a tell-all book about said philanderer. Cry me a river.
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I rarely agree with Ms.Weiss on anything,but
this is a brave ,brilliant comment on the left's
hypocrisy when it comes to sexual harassment. Ambassador Haley can be called
a drunk for defending herself and her reputation by some actor and no one on the
Hollywood left is outraged.Mrs.Clinton can
be an enabler of sexual harassers for years
and she is invited on the grammys,perhaps
the most repugnant awards show ever conceived by the mind of man.
I was hoping against hope that this would be
an N.Y. Times editorial, but that apparently
is a miracle too far.
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Wolff is being way too coy by half here. He also in the book (which I have read) mentions by name a young female aide (age about 28) who is always with Trump on Air Force One, is willing to do anything for him, and even "steams his pants while he is still wearing them."
"A prominent Republican woman is smeared. The author who does the smearing is celebrated by all the A-listers, including the most prominent Democratic woman in the country, who herself has a history of giving a pass (or worse) to men accused of sexual assault and harassment. And yet the arbiters of American culture cheer the Democrat and, in the words of the actor Don Cheadle, tell the Republican who has the gall to defend herself: “Sit down, girl. You’re drunk.”
And that is why the left is so popular in the US. It lives in an isolated hypocritical urban bubble, oblivious to large segments of the US population. This type of smear, together with the fact that the US economy is actually doing well, as per yesterday's NYT op-ed, is why the left will possibly find Mr. Trump winning in 2020. Well-done left. You have seen the enemy and it is your own egos.
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I couldn't care less about Haley's romantic life. I also couldn't care less that she is the subject of innuendo and lies. She is serving and defending the biggest misogynist in public life without uttering a peep about everything he has said and done.
So ... boo hoo Nikki Haley.
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We'll probably never know for certain if there's an affair but, as this article states, Nikki is not stupid. She knows that Trump is a philanderer. She chose to work for him and defend him.
You have to ask yourself what kind of a woman would put herself in that position and I think most people who know how the world works can connect the dots.
As they say, you are known by the company you keep. If your boss is known for adultery and you, as a woman, continue to stand by him, you've invited the question.
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I am somewhat sorry that Ms Haley got caught up in the slime. However, she has chosen to work for an arrested adolescent who has admitted to and bragged about sexual assault, and while it might not be plausible that she is engaged in an affair with him, it is certainly plausible, considering his past, that he would be cheating on Melania assuming that he is capable of it. He also rose to prominence with a vile, totally fictitious racial attack on the most decent man to be president in my lifetime.
Ms Haley has made her bed and now must sleep in it.
Please don’t make this into something which it clearly is not ! Just because it’s insinuated at the end of a book does not mean that any news organization would ever print such garbage. Yours is the only article I have come across, spreading this story.
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Ms. Weiss missed the point. Nikki should be shamed, and be ashamed. Not of the rumors of her affair with the traitor in chief(although she is protesting a little strongly), but of her disastrous tenure at the UN and supporting a traitor. About as shameful as it gets.
I saw the Bill Maher show and thought Wolff implied that it was not Haley....
But Haley's actions at the UN have diminished any respect I had for her after the church massacre in Charleston...
Oh , please ..Nikki’s a big girl , and she should know if you sleep with dogs ( even metaphorically) you are going to get fleas .
She has aligned herself with a man who insults and smears literally everyone ( taunting McCabe about his wife losing an election ...what kind of adult does that ) .
I don’t think anyone cares , but I am soooo tired of the hypocrisy..
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Quite frankly, I think Ambassador Haley has more intelligence, strength of character and better taste than to consider a personal relationship with the disgusting Donald Trump.
Haley made her bed..........and, no, she has no integrity. You partner up with trump and you forfeit any pretense to integrity. This isn’t difficult people
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She’s no saint- save the hypocrisy. Hillary needs to go away- and stick to the music. Let Trump implode.
Nikki Haley is right to be outraged over any insinuations that she slept with Donald Trump to get her job.
That said, this is a political issue, not a sexual harassment issue. Not even a sexual harassment issue raised by people to slander Ms Haley, although, ironically, it's interesting to note she finds the idea of sleeping with Trump to be disgusting.
Donald Trump has been an unscrupulous hound all his life according to himself and nearly anything you read about the man. Stormy Daniels anyone? Grab them by the what? He's also a lot of other things, possibly including a money launderer for the Russian mob.
The point is, when you associate with people like Donald Trump, you catch fleas of one sort or another. Consider Ms Haley to be flea bitten of a sorts.
Ms Haley may not have slept with Donald Trump sexually, but she didn't hesitate to jump into his administration's bed when she had the chance. Everybody makes choices.
True, without evidence the affair is rumor mongering. The fact that people don't step forward to defend Haley and that rumors (Republican sources presumably...) is because of what the GoP has done to the political environment. Similar to many other Trump Cabinet appointees, Haley had little or no background in international affairs and was a poor choice. She has been a Trump facilitator throughout. She has not spoken out against his outrageous pronouncements and behavior. When neo-Nazis march at UVA and the President talks about good people among them does this not reflect on our diplomacy? Moslem bans and hate mongering? Adultery with a porn star and sexual harassment cases?
Haley deserves to be supported against this innuendo. It's shameful. And the absence of proof makes it what, "False News". But this is what she bought into. Her ambition trumped morality. The guy who bragged about grabbing genitals and charged Obama with being foreign born? And you demand that women, Democrats and main stream media defend Haley? That this opinion piece ran in the NYT is so much more than what the WSJ, Breitbart, Fox or any of the right wing media would do. Ponder that. Sad, so sad...
"First they came for they came for..... ....and when they came for me
there was no one left to speak for me...?"
Yes, the rumor mongering is shameful. But don't ask us to feel sorry for Haley...she's part of the problem.
It's unlikely that the obese junk-food eating septuagenarian Donald Trump can, um, do the deed without pharmaceutical assistance. Melania, can you confirm?
Give it a rest. The shame here is that this nasty person is the face of our country to the world, saber rattling and knowing nothing and causing damage to many people around the world. Who cares that "requisite submission" in Wolff's book is a common insinuation for sex? She is plainly submitting whatever judgment she might have had -- that's undeniable.
" ... and was seen to be grooming her for a national political future."
Sheesh. I'm willing to believe almost anything about this cesspool of an administration, but even I didn't read that as sexual.
How about this one: Trump had an "affair" with a porn star. The good news is it was consensual. The bad? It was consensual because it was paid for.
Not so many years ago, you couldn't have made this offkey maelstrom up....
No longer. From the lemming left, performers sing their Folderol Follies to music with a decided, political downbeat. So much so, many of us have eschewed these leftist musicians. On their own, unlicensed, they have added a political secundo to their over-rated musical primo.
What you hear when is what Grammy just gave you: Cacophony.
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Are you kidding me?? "For years, the fundamental complaint of the right in the culture wars has been that the left is hypocritical, and the Nikki Haley episode perfectly confirms the point: A prominent Republican woman is smeared." Actually, for years, the hypocrisy of the right with regard to sexual proprieties and allegedly "Christian" values has been jaw-droppingly, gobsmackingly, infuriatingly, shamelessly blatant. So, one prominent Republican woman has been smeared - implicitly, mind you, not expressly - and there's a little schadenfreude going on? BIG DEAL.
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Didn't hear anything about this UNTIL NOW. And frankly, I don't really care about this. How many times have conservatives blatantly lied about women to undermine them and try to shame them? Years of lies from some of the biggest hypocrites ever. Years of such vitriol that we end up with things like Pizzagate, and CNN employees being threatened by right wing wackos. So look to your own behavior and see what it has resulted in. This is nothing compared to death threats and innocent people being threatened because they went out for pizza.
Sorry, Nikki, but when you lay down with dogs...
I bet Trump loved that part of the book.
You get in bed with "The Donald" literally or figuratively and you are going to get slimed. Buck up Ms. Haley. it's only four years.
Reading the comments confirms that many of my fellow leftists are so blinded with hatred that they will excuse inexcusable sexism and unsubstantiated character assassination. Our hypocrisy is laid bare for all to see. The Trumpists must be ecstatic
I thought the Grammys awarded winners, but it ended featuring the biggest loser ever.
If the left is looking for trashy tabloid stick to the facts: Stormy Daniels, by her own account, in 2006.
Pretty obvious Wolff was referring to Hope Hicks, one of Trump's countless unqualified aides. She is on Air Force One with him all the time, certainly more than his wife. But this thuggish imposter, who claims to be "the greatest president, ever," certainly has not stopped his porn-star activities. His sex life seems to parallel his eating habits: lots of junk food, little nourishment, a good deal of gluttony and greed.
did we all just figure out that liberals are a bunch of hypocrites?
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I think we already knew that about the Trumpsters, so I think we're just confirming that we're all human. And angry, and childish.
Perhaps time to grow up - in using self-control when inspired to make comments like yours, and in using underhanded tactics to undermine those with whom we disagree.
There is so much to criticize in the Trump administration's actions, including those of Ms. Haley; suggesting that they are sleeping together without proof (or, frankly, with it) is irrelevant, childish and should stop.
Oh, good grief, Bari. Was this worth a column in the NY Times?
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"Smeared with a lie"? With a rumour. Don't overegg your pudding, Ms Weiss.
That blue dress may yet show up.
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“the fundamental complaint of the right in the culture wars has been that the left is hypocritical,” and now the shoe is on the other foot? Porn Stars and President Trump, Evangelicals and pedophiles, Russians and Conservatives, Deficit hawks and tax cuts, 80%, for the rich, racists and fine people aren’t we just too overwhelmed by the disgusting tsunami of sewage to parse anything in favor of a sycophant of Donald Trump. Slut shaming? Why?
Does any person who takes a knee to Trump, like his Cabinet and the entire Republican Congress who kissed Trump’s... on the steps of the Capitol deserve anything close to polite treatment? Isn’t associating with and supporting Trump worse than “slut shaming”? Guilt by association may not be fair unless the associates witness daily evidence of the aberrant character of this President?
I give this Nikki Haley story about as much credence as the rumor that Hillary Clinton killed Vince Foster, or whatever his name was.
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Or - I don't know - the Grey Lady could have decided that it was a 'story' not deserving of print.
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When she agreed to be part of the Trump administration, aligned herself with the best example of corrupt America, aligned herself with the best example of racism in America (you don't have to be a member of the KKK to be a racist folks), aligned herself with someone who doesn't care about the poor in America, aligned herself with someone who doesn't care about the opioid addiction crisis in America, aligned herself with someone who cares not about the Gun problem in America, aligned herself with the face of narcissism, aligned herself with an overt womanizer & misogynist....she lost me there. What book?
This column is pointless. Of course, both parties are hypocritical. And all interviews I have seen with Wolff make it clear that the interviewer has a healthy amount of skepticism about the 100% veracity of this book. Did you even see SNL? And the Grammy moment with HRC was a joke. A joke. As for Haley, the smear is WRONG and the source(s) should be called out. The truth is that she aligned herself and her reputation with Trump and for better or worse, she has to live with that albatross.
If you want to talk hypocritical, if F&F is "fake news", then so was the entire Trump campaign, including his vow to be "so presidential."
What? Who cares about who is sleeping with whom?Her threats to many at the UN is what is offensive.Life long Democrat here.Sick of the Republicans AND the Democrats bringing up HRC. She's done.,I, like lots voted for her, to try to keep Trump out.But hopefully, that is not where the party is headed again.
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No one should be alone in a room with Trump. He's a bully and a liar. And lets face it after he leaves office he's going to say he did her on Air Force One and then what will she say?
Donald Trump is credibly accused of sexual assault by over 15 women. He has 5 children from 3 women, one of whom (Tiffany) was conceived out of wedlock. Trump had an affair with a porn star right after his 3rd wife had a child, and paid off this mistress right before the 2016 election to keep her quiet.
Of course people will believe the worst about Trump having an affair with Nikki Haley. Who wouldn’t?
Haley enables and supports a racist regime. She has zero credibility to criticize anyone fro anything.
A decade ago when Mrs. Clinton handle the situation with her employee, she handled it appropriately for the times. She did much more than the NYT did about its own problems today.
Ms. Weiss is obviously so outraged that she took these spurious rumors from the 27 people who watched a late night interview on a subscription channel to the thousands of people that read the New York Times. Is this the Time's more gentile form of click-baiting?
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The Grammys? The "music" organization that never knew the Beatles? Yawn. I have never ever ever paid any attention to the actual program or awards.
Worthless BUNK
If Nikki Haley wasn't working for a man who boasted about grabbing women by their crotches and had an affair with a woman and then paid her a massive amount of money to keep quiet about it, she might have a better case.
And as to being the subject of what she says is a lie, it is front page news when her boss actually tells the truth about anything.
Apparently Ms. Haley believes that she should be the only one to expect the truth to be told about her.
I'm sorry, Nikki, but you have chosen to associate yhourself with a man who is a repeated, demonstrable: liar, sexual predator, philanderer, exploiter (not to mention narcissist, out-of-control vulgarian).
You get zero sympathy from me: you made your bed; now lie in it (as it were).
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1. Forcing the accused to go to training is not "doing everything to protect".
2. That is NOWHERE close to actually BEING the offender.
3. This article is based on one of the biggest false equivalencies I've ever seen attempted. I can't believe the Times even printed this garbage argument.
Spot on !!
Unfortunately , Trump carries a virus that defames all those who would lift him up. Ambassador Haley is suffering from the guilt by association of consorting with a known narcissistic serial sexual predator, avowed chauvinist/bigot/racist and pathological liar who is our 45th President. Given Trump's history and predilections, Wolfe may be on to something but I think he has the wrong raven-haired woman in mind.
Give me a break. The Republicans are the worst and the biggest liars. They can dish it out but they can’t take it. They are all on the same narcissistic continuum as trump. Anybody that works in his administration is suspect if the same lowly character.
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Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Haley has been falling over herself to toady up to her master and propagate his lies and unhinged views
If you can't stand the heat kiddo,get out of the kitchen/sewer.
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Samantha Power wouldn't be caught dead on Trump's plane. Haley has sold out her integrity and credibility by working for this clown of a President. Whether it's a sexual relationship hardly matters.
Everyone knows it's Kellyanne, not Nikki Haley...
This article is a joke. It ignores that Breitbart wsj and fox consistently lie about obama and liberals. It further ignores that those outlets and the times consistently promote the spread of the racism of the odious Charles Murray. So now there are crocodile tears for Haley who has chosen to be a cat’s paw for various trump retrograde policies. And at the same time the author gets to sneer again at hilliary. I don’t doubt that Haley has not slept with trump but I know she is a trump enabler. The times would do better to expose that.
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A snake is invited into the White House to puff up an incompetent. It turns out the snake/wolf is a snake and tells instead the story he sees unfolding in front of him. The fact he's there with all of that permission is enough proof to speak of incompetence and naivete. That he then tells a story about another women on Air Force One is no different then is told regularly by comics on left and right for eveyone from JFK to Clinton to GWB but where are the stories about Obama? Remember Condi Rice and Whoopi Goldberg and Air Force One in her Broadway one woman show? Women weren't afraid of Hillary or Laura but Michelle's another matter. When is the American People and the Media going to grow up and stop this embarrassing blood letting? But this we know. It was a Wolf/snake in the house let in by the new owner and not a Democrat who did it. Also Mueller is a Republican.
I have hopes for the Slovenian Princess. She seems to have backbone. Maybe as much as the former lady she plagiarized for her speeches. Some people are not to be toyed with. She might just turn out to be one of them. She may have learned something from being the daughter of a Communist management expert. It may even beat being the son of a member of the KKK and a rumored Fascist. As for Haley? She seems be doing alright at the UN thus far. That's enough. We need at least some competence out there.
Trump is dirty and Nikki Haley is a climber. No one should be surprised when the dirt rubs off. This has nothing to do with hypocrisy.
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Wolff sounded downright presidential (cf. Trump's tweet about Kirsten Gillibrand).
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Ms. Haley is going down in history as the enabler of a racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, racketeering fraudster, compulsively lying, habitually sexually assaulting, unhinged and wildly incompetent vulgarian president. It doesn't matter what she tweets, what she denies, or what she hasn't done in private: Publicly she's propping up the monstrous 45 administration.
And she has the unmitigated audacity, the unthinkable nerve, and the incomprehensible gall to call a book "trash"! We're supposed to care about her Grammy watching comfort?
You're an enabler of the vilest administration in modern times, Ms. Haley. Don't expect sympathy.
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You've got to have a case of extreme anti-left bias to project weird sex thoughts into the bland statements introduced by the writer of this article as evidence of a liberal plot against Ms Haley.
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I hate everything Donald Trump stands for,but I never for a moment thought Nikki Haley was sleeping with him. I think this article makes a very good point. We can hate Donald Trump and not have to applaud every move of everyone else who hates him, too.
Methinks thou protests too much, Bari Weiss.
Why presume that non-Trump-defending Americans care what Michael Wolff says on television while he's shilling for ever-higher sales of his book?
By doing so, you don't give the thinking, reading, public any credit whatsoever. And now you've made millions of us who were blissfully unaware of ANY of this, complicit in what is still just a base rumor teased up to sell more books. I thought the NYT was better than this.
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The fake president slanders anybody in his way, and this is the article you choose to write?
Liberals don't be shamed by this nonsense. Doing whats right will have no effect on the cult of Fascism that the republican party has become.
What religion embraces lying, slander, perversion and hate? Apparently born again christianity.
Fair enough.
Nicki Haley is a bright, articulate woman who was a Trump antagonist until they neutralized her with this great job. This is the first I have heard of this outlandish claim from that trashy book. She is above such garbage. The network shouldn’t have the author on, The columnist is lending credence to this theory by writing about it and the Times is helping by publishing it. I am a liberal Democrat who admires Ms. Haley, not all of her positions, just her persona, just as I admire Condoleeza Rice. It is time for this sniping to end and our country to move forward. Gossip is harmful to all parties, it’s a lesson I have learned myself the hard way.
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Watched the Grammys. Yawn. Something oddly off about white roses and #MeToo in this midst of scantily clad writhing female bodies put forth as eye candy.
As much as I loathe everything this President represents the 'Fire and Fury' reading didn't work for me either. There is something reprehensible and slimy about the self promoting author shilling himself. Nothing in that behavior was redeemed or amusing by the Grammy skit. Aside from that, there are other excellent books worth the effort - think David Frum or David Cay Johnson as two examples.
The insinuation about Nikki Haley is offensive. Unfortunately we may be a parallel universe. There is so much denial and refutation of what this President has actually done, what appears to be coming, that what appear as surreal falsehoods are more easily believed.
I don't respect Nikki Haley for signing up to ride in this clown car, but she doesn't deserve to be smeared.
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This piece does expose liberal hypocrisy in the much the same way that the SNL skit on Ansari did.
But there is a caveat. Since the Trump Administration has constantly demonstrated that there is no moral depth it cannot plumb, a lot of people are prepared to wait to see if there is any truth to this - not because they don't respect Nikki Haley but because Trump is capable of anything.
And while two wrongs don't make a right, conservative hypocrisy constantly exceeds that of the liberals. If Hillary Clinton had slept with a porn star and then bought his silence, imagine the righteous indignation of Fox and their friends. Instead, we have "so what".
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The Left is disgusting. Finally they are getting exposed for what they are. Just one more fantastic thing that is happening during the Trump administration.
So, Hillary Clinton is "the left" now? You are making Joseph P. Overton very, very happy. I think the real left would have something else to say entirely.
I'm sorry, the rumor may revolt but it doesn't surprise since we're talking about Trump. Any woman who accepts something from him (a job) is indebted to him (in his mind). He is a sexual predator. If woman is halfway attractive he might want to cash in. This is where we are as a country. Not hard to figure out why.
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While I can understand Nikki Haley's feeling of offense and disgust, I feel offended and disgusted every time I hear her speak. Yep, Ms Haley, talk of nuclear weapons and escalating threats of war are also offensive and disgusting.
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America would be a better country if no one used Twitter.
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In the imperfect world we live in where there are very few absolutes perhaps Miss Haley's transgression is not so much in whether she is sleeping with the president but the fact that she is willing to work for a president so despicable and disgusting on so many levels.
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Samantha Power? She's the former US Ambassador to the UN.
Wolff is just an extension of the relentless Democratic Party's hysterical propaganda machine. Their standard of truth? If you can imagine it, and it reflects badly on Trump or anyone associated with him, it is true!
We all know that Republican or conservative women do not deserve the same courtesy as those of the left. It began with Sarah Palin and continues today. I'm only surprise to see someone at the NY Times recognizes it.
"For years, the fundamental complaint of the right in the culture wars has been that the left is hypocritical..." You won't find me arguing that the smear on Ambassador Haley is nasty, uncalled for, and hyped by people who should know better. But, really, the bit I just quoted from the piece? I mean, really? The "right in the culture wars" has collectively gotten down in the mud with the pig in the White House, and their willingness to rationalize the worst imaginable behavior by a president of the United States after the most disgusting, nasty, shockingly awful words and rumors about the last president and his wife and family is exponentially worse.
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Character assassination, especially with unsubstantiated sensationalism, outright lies and sly insinuation, is junk thinking. Intellectual rubbish. Mindless self stimulation. It should be beneath anyone who has anything to say regarding the current state of affairs in our democracy. The stakes are just too high to give in to hateful and unfair personal innuendo. Anyone, like Trump, Nunes, Ryan, McConnell, Mulvaney, Miller, and others, including their cheerleaders, Pence, Cornyn, Hannity, Alex Jones, Fox News, leaders of the religious right, to name a few, who engage is such trash talking must be held to account. The folks who continue to consume questionable news items and posts on Twitter and other social media platforms with poor or negligent oversight will be the first ones whining when our country is brought down by by the demented people responsible for this corrosive and destructive activity. And the cheerleaders? They are the ones who will be scrounging through the rubble and ruins for personal enrichment. With the same mindset of the creatures who have scurried through every destroyed civilization for thousands of years.
I wrote off Fire and Fury as trash before it ever came out. It just tells us the sordid details of what we already knew to be a deeply dysfunctional administration.
While reading this editorial I had to look up twice to make sure I was on the NYT website. Well done Bari Weiss.
This is what you can expect when you take a job in the Trump administration.
As my grandma used to say, when you lie down with the dogs, you get up with the fleas.
Weird. Read the book and Halley's maneuvering (like all politicians) is obvious. Sleeping with Trump? That's a rightwing attempt to tar the book.
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Character assassination, especially with unsubstantiated sensationalism, outright lies and sly insinuation, is junk thinking. Intellectual rubbish. Mindless self stimulation. It should be beneath anyone who has anything to say regarding the current state of affairs in our democracy. The stakes are just too high to give in to hateful and unfair personal innuendo.
Anyone, like Trump, Nunes, Ryan, McConnell, Mulvaney, Miller, and others, including their cheerleaders, Pence, Cornyn, Hannity, Alex Jones, Fox News, leaders of the religious right, to name a few, who engage is such trash talking, in such thinking, must be held to account.
The folks who continue to consume questionable news items and posts on Twitter and other social media platforms with poor or negligent oversight will be the first ones whining when our country is brought down by by the demented people responsible for this corrosive and destructive activity.
And the cheerleaders? They are the ones who will be scrounging through the rubble and ruins for personal enrichment. With the same mindset of the creatures who have scurried through every destroyed civilization for thousands of years.
Haley is a cipher who has thrown her lot in with Trump. That's all we need to know. She's an amoral careerist who shames herself.
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“Lie down with dogs, rise up with fleas.” Ms. Weiss draws a false equivalency here, and relies on suspension of disbelief. If such a book had been written about President Obama (and there’s a reason one wasn’t, as Ms. Weiss knows), and a rumor about an affair with Ambassador Powers had been hinted at, it would have been ignored because there was nothing else to show for it.
Nikki Haley chose to squander a career of service by tethering herself to a pig of a man. She took the job post Access Hollywood, post Trump’s entire career in fact. To team up with such a lowlife, and then clutch her pearls when some of that slime ends up on her silk and taffeta, well, bless her heart!
That aspersion by Wolff came out the same week we were deep in Trump and Stormy Daniels’ news — the biggest headline being no one was surprised, shocked, or even much cared. Work for a guy like that and this is what you get. Protest that they are coming after you in that way because you at a woman — ask yourself Nikki Haley if your service to Trump makes that less likely for other women, or more likely, and then you’ll see why we don’t care.
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The innuendo and immediate coverage that carried this message across many other papers is typical of the lack of ethics in the journalistic community. Anything that one paper publishes is immediately picked up by the others and repeated as if it is fact. When it goes sour, they all claim "well, the _____ published it, and is the source" but the damage is done.
Has this group of so-called professionals accepted YELLOW JOURNALISM as the norm? Not unlike what happened to Wall Street and bankers in decades past - when ethics took a huge hit.
I don't care for Ms Haley's politics, but I will admit that she seems to be a woman of integrity. As far as The Book, I have no intention of reading it. But, there are two problems - for me, anyway - with this op ed. First, I question any one, woman or man, who will work for and be the mouth piece of the most inept and dishonest, downright bigoted president during my long life. Second, I am sick of the relentless impugning of Hillary Clinton. Allow this lady some peace and rest. And rather than dredging up every misdeed of her past, why not point out all the good she did during a long life of public service?
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Working in the Trump administration is way more shameful than sleeping with him.
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I had not heard of any innuendo regarding Haley and Trump, until Weiss brought it up. Interesting, how this exemplar of “liberal hypocrisy” seems to have had an almost non-existent public profile, until the right wing started bleating like the town crier about how terrible it was for liberals to be publicizing such slander . . . .
— Brian
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Does anyone honestly think that Trump has been faithful to Melania? What would make them think that?
It is disgusting that Nikki Haley has had to get dragged into this.
I disagree with her on most things, but this accusation is outrageous. I can't believe anyone would believe this. There is definitely a double standard going on here.
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Michael Wolfe's gossipy and tacky insinuation is not comparable to Matt Lauer's unprofessional interview with then Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton. What Matt Lauer was supposed to be a JOURNALIST monitoring a debate between two Presidential candidates. Instead he fawned over Trump and refused to let Clinton answer questions. His disdain and misogyny toward Clinton was palpable. What Michael Wolfe did on Bill Maher's program was simply showboating in order to sell more books. Was it sexist? Sure. I would say that any woman who works in this administration which is headed by a liar and self-admitted sexual predator better be able to handle some innuendo and gossip.
How about another reason besides lefty hypocrisy for the collective yawn we gave out about the horror the horror of this "smear:" Donald Trump, whose administration Ms. Haley is a big part of, smears more people, and does actual horrible things to them ... like scapegoating and deportation ... before lunch. Ms. Haley's sensitivities don't move me because she has yet to be moved to either resign her post or systematically stand up for our country. No sympathy here at all. You have to have some to get some.
Very well-written and hats off to the Times for publishing this thoughtful piece. I cringed at that Grammy's piece. The Dems need to shake off Hillary and fast or their tin-eared A-Lister Award-season supporters are about to drive them back into the same electoral desert they found themselves in just 18 months ago. The average citizen is not stupid; they can read this hypocrisy for what it is. I hate the expression, but until the Dems drain their own swamp, even this jerk of a President is going to lord it over them for a second term. They need to get back in touch with the people, not the celebs.
Ambassador Nikki Haley, Senator Timothy Scott, and Secretary Benjamin Carson, MD, are all people of color who make America great outside of the hypocritical plantation that is the Democratic Party. Kamala Harris, Corey Booker, both with minimal accomplishments outside of safe Democratic Party bastions like California and Newark, NJ, are celebrated as the future of politics in the United States by the mainstream (left-wing) media. Add to their number the Clinton's hand puppet Loretta Lynch, the former Attorney General and you have a trifecta of incompetents.
The public will realize that the Democrats and the media represent the lowest and most vile facets of society.
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There is no "left" or "right" in American politics that has any remaining substantive meaning, popular music has been for many years been depressingly bereft of originality and memorable melody, and the Trump administration is not located within any normal component of American society or traditions. Those minor caveats aside, the column makes a legitimate point about the stupidity and hypocrisy of the Grammys.
The Obama-Samantha Power reference is foolish and lame. Everyone knows Obama is not the kind of husband ( or human being for that matter ) Trump is. If this is how you assail Michael Wolff's book, maybe the book is unassailable, or maybe you not smart enough to do the assault.
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I think you're seeing no reaction to Bill Mahar's interview because no one paid much attention to it. No one with a brain would ever believe Nikki Haley would be with Trump and thus the story had no wings. Of course this op-ed may give it life. Neither Bill Maher nor the author speak for Democrats.
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Harvey Weinstein is the poster boy for the left; so where is their higher moral ground? Double standards are merely the DNC norm. However, the tar paper attire adorning DNC darlings and their handmaiden media is beginning to stick and attract a swarm of flies, revealing a deeper truth.
It needed to be said and you said it well. Wolf is a worm and the book deserves to go by the grocery checkout line. The Dem echo chamber can be dead wrong, and they seem to go on way too long fanning dead flames without being called out. It costs them the last election and they really need use restraint and discretion.
What, if any, was then Governor Haley's reaction to the release during the presidential campaign of the notorious "Access Hollywood" video? Why would any self-respecting person, particularly any woman, wish to be associated with this misogynist creep, now our Fake President.
You unfortunately, but not unexpectedly, became collateral damage to the amorality of someone you eagerly hitched your wagon to, Ambassador Haley, probably with dreams of a higher office. Caveat Emptor.