Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered scathing criticism of The New York Times on Wednesday for its recent handling of a controversial opinion piece by Sen. Tom Cotton that led to the resignation of a top editor at the publication
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The Times faced an internal revolt last week after publishing Cotton’s piece, titled “Send In the Troops.” In the op-ed, Cotton wrote that “nihilist criminals are simply out for loot and the thrill of destruction, with cadres of left-wing radicals like antifa infiltrating protest marches to exploit Floyd’s death for their own anarchic purposes.
“The New York Times had erred grievously by making people confront a different viewpoint,” McConnell said sarcastically. “It hurt their feelings by making them confront a different point of view.”
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