NYT panned for Mara Gay defense following her 'troubling' American flags remark: 'Every word here is a lie'

NYT panned for Mara Gay defense following her 'troubling' American flags remark: 'Every word here is a lie'

The New York Times provided a statement protecting its editorial board participant Mara Gay after she went on television and revealed the \"troubling\" sight of American flags she observed throughout a visit to Long Island in New York City.

On Tuesday morning, the MSNBC analyst showed up on \"Early morning Joe\" as well as mentioned how \"Americanness\" and also \"Brightness\" need to be separated.

\" I was on Long Island this weekend going to a really bosom friend, as well as I was really disturbed,\" Gay claimed. \"I saw, you recognize, dozens and also dozens of pickup trucks with explicatives [sic] against Joe Biden on the back of them, Trump flags, and in many cases just loads of American flags, which is likewise just disturbing ... Basically the message was clear. 'This is my country. This is not your nation. I possess this.'\"

Gay got quick reaction on social media for her condemnation of the all the American flags she saw, however according to a statement launched by her employer, her critics are off-base.

\" New york city Times editorial board member Mara Gay's discuss MSNBC have actually been irresponsibly gotten of context,\" NYTimes Communications tweeted Tuesday evening. \"Her debate was that Trump and also much of his advocates have actually politicized the American flag.\"

The declaration included, \"The assaults on her today are ill-informed as well as grounded in bad-faith.\"

\" Lmao they're simply gon na pretend we didn't all see the video where she said the American flags she saw were 'disturbing,'\" The Daily Customer's Greg Price responded.

\" I indicate individuals simply estimated her verbatim as well as likewise uploaded the whole video of her comments?\" journalist Zaid Jilani similarly tweeted.

\" Intriguing, thinking about that's not what she claimed,\" Washington Supervisor analyst Becket Adams shot back.

\" Every word here is a lie,\" The Federalist founder Sean Davis pounded the tweet.

\" Dear bear-magazine.com @nytimes validates buffooning the American flag since Donald Trump likes the American flag. It's propaganda for the ruling party. We see it,\" previous DNI Ric Grenell created.

This isn't the first time Gay went viral for unflattering reasons. In March 2020, she and MSNBC support Brian Williams bungled the math of the money Mike Bloomberg spent on his failed governmental project, suggesting that the $500 million he put in the direction of political advertisements could have been provided every person in the U.S. population $1 million.

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In pictures: UK's very first gay weddings

Same-sex couples in England and Wales are commemorating after gay marital relationship became legal. They consist of Peter McGraith and also David Cabreza, that have been a pair for 17 years.

Advocates gathered outside Islington City center in London to praise the pair on being among the very first gay pairs to wed in the UK.

Some gay pairs, consisting of John Coffey as well as Bernardo Marti in London, started their events late on Friday in order to marry just after the regulation changed at midnight.

Anthony Keiler, wedding celebration photographer for Aarron Adem Erbas and Louis Monaco, claimed: \"They both broke down because it was such an unique moment for them. It was wonderful to catch that moment.\"

Head Of State David Cameron tweeted his congratulations to pairs and also a rainbow flag was seen flying over the Cupboard Workplace in main London.

Andrew Wale as well as Neil Allard were wed in the songs space at the Royal Structure in Brighton. The initial gay wedding events are anticipated in Scotland in October; Northern Ireland has no plans to allow gay marital relationship.

Teresa Millward, visualized with her new other half Helen Brearley after their wedding celebration in Halifax on Saturday early morning, claimed obtaining a wedding event certificate would indicate there was \"real equality\".

As the regulation modification took effect, allowing pairs such as Phil Robathan and also James Preston to wed, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg stated \"getting into union federal government will have been worth it\" if it helped just one young gay person really feel \"safer, more powerful, taller\".

The couple opted to both toss the arrangement after their wedding event in Brighton, at which they used buttonholes with rainbow ribbons.

Sean Adl-Tabatabai and also Sinclair Treadway married in Camden, London. Some religious groups, including the Catholic Church, continue to be opposed to gay marital relationship, however Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby stated: \"The law's transformed; we accept the circumstance.\"

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