"Yes, you did."
"I'm sorry, I didn't ask your opinion on that.
And if I cared about you, I would ask you, but I don't care about your opinion.
Well, you're part of the system.
You're part of the problem.
You've been sitting here longer than I've even been alive.
This is your problem.
You should have fixed this a long time ago."
Here’s how they describe Eileen Gu in an absolutely fawning piece: “The scientist, politician, skier, model, and student is like a magician, the audience dazzled by her mastery but somewhat irked by how she does it.”
For real? “Scientist, politician, skier, model, and student”? Are you kidding me?
Maybe the audience isn’t “irked.” Maybe they think it’s an utter disgrace to be raised an American, to be granted all the benefits this great nation has to offer, then turn around and compete for our greatest adversary. Maybe they think competing for one of the globe’s worst human rights abusers is beneath contempt.
Compare that to how the same publication covered the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team, which brought home the gold and then covered themselves in American flags, telling the world in interview after interview how much they adore their homeland.
Here’s the New York Times: “The U.S. men’s hockey team won Olympic gold for the first time since the ‘Miracle on Ice’ 46 years ago, and for a time, the joy belonged to everyone. By the next day, it didn’t.”
Why? What happened? How did they manage to lose all that joy?
They took a call from the President of the United States, laughed at a dumb joke he made, and accepted an invitation to attend the State of the Union as his guests.
That’s it. That was enough to lose them the love and respect of the New York Times.
So just to recap: For the New York Times, if you are a traitor to your homeland and represent a regime committing genocide and jailing dissidents, you will get called a scientist, politician, skier, model, student, and magician who “irks” people due to your outrageous fabulousness.
But if you are the men’s hockey team of the United States of America, win an incredible Olympic gold medal in overtime, and unite the nation around this glorious win, you will get trashed as divisive losers by the New York Times for taking a call from the President of the United States.
It’s just appalling.
On Sunday, I wrote about a funny meme on the Left, where Leftists were mocking conservatives for praising women’s figure skater and Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu because Liu has liberal politics. “Don’t you know she’s woke?” they kept posting, incapable of even conceptualizing that to the Right, her politics just don’t matter, because she competed proudly for her country. In fact, I wrote, I love Alysa Liu even more if she’s woke—because she left her personal politics at home, outside the Olympics, so we could all cheer her on.
When the Left came out mocking conservatives for praising Liu, they were telling on themselves, I argued: The Left cannot fathom cheering on an athlete or really anyone who they know conclusively does not share their politics. Such people don’t get cheered—they get hounded.
This New York Times article about the men’s hockey team is exactly that: Having discovered that these guys probably like Trump, the New York Times turned on them.
That’s what we learned this week:
When the Right found out that Alysa Liu was a liberal, they celebrated her.
When the Left found out the hockey team liked Trump, they turned on them.
