The New York Times Executive Editor, Dean Baquet, was doing an interview at Recode’s Code conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, where he accidentally slipped up and admitted he’s a liberal.
Watch:
Here’s a partial transcript via the Daily Caller:
“I don’t understand how one can actually have an intellectual discourse in this country if you cannot have the opportunity to read thoughtful people with whom you disagree. We’re at a moment in the country right now which I think, you know, the Left should do some soul searching too, right?
We don’t want to hear anything — we’ve long said this about this about the Right — but I think the Left, we don’t — I’m not ‘we,’ I’m a journalist — but the Left as a rule does not want to hear thoughtful disagreement.”
What I don’t want to get lost in this moment is what he’s saying about the left, of which he’s clearly a patron. In this clip he’s basically arguing that the left has become intolerant of other views – something we all know very well – that they’ve become fascist in their thinking.
We see this at college campuses quite frequently these days, where Ann Coulter or Michelle Malkin or Ben Shapiro literally can’t speak on campus without the left trying to shout them down or threatening violence if they show up. It’s nothing new but it’s really gotten out of control in recent years.
Baquet says they have always claimed this about the right but I honestly don’t know what he means here. I can’t think of a significant time when the right refused to let someone speak with whom they disagreed, shouting them down or threatening violence.