"A warning", upcoming book by anonymous White House official

Why would you accept the claims of someone who refuses to provide all the evidence to evaluate? Would you accept a claim in a physics journal that said it omitted information to prevent you from verifying it?
 
Why would you accept the claims of someone who refuses to provide all the evidence to evaluate? Would you accept a claim in a physics journal that said it omitted information to prevent you from verifying it?

This isn't a science journal with peer reviews, Bob. It's the experiences of a senior WH official as verified by the NYT.
 
This isn't a science journal with peer reviews, Bob. It's the experiences of a senior WH official as verified by the NYT.

I wouldn't accept a physics claim with hidden evidence. I'm not going to relax that standard for an editorial claim (by an editorial board. Not even by reporters)


Probably the biggest reason to not use a relaxed standard is the incredibly low stakes of these claims. Your acceptance of these claims likely has very little impact on your future actions.
 
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Show of hands, does anyone think it likely that the reporters and editors at the New York Times, don't know who the senior Trump Administration staff are or that they'd publish a letter from someone without confirming the author's identity as one of them?
 
Show of hands, does anyone think it likely that the reporters and editors at the New York Times, don't know who the senior Trump Administration staff are or that they'd publish a letter from someone without confirming the author's identity as one of them?

They deny knowledge of it

https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/09/media/new-york-times-op-ed-dean-baquet/index.html

Even the paper's executive editor, Dean Baquet, doesn't know. That is how closely guarded the Times is being about protecting the writer's anonymity.

"That is the strength of the firewall" between the paper's news and editorial departments, Patrick Healy, the paper's politics editor, told CNN's Brian Stelter on "Reliable Sources" Sunday.

Which, if you are right, it means that the NYT politics editor is willing to go on the record and mislead about politics.
 
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I wouldn't accept a physics claim with hidden evidence. I'm not going to relax that standard for an editorial claim (by an editorial board. Not even by reporters)


Probably the biggest reason to not use a relaxed standard is the incredibly low stakes of these claims. Your acceptance of these claims likely has very little impact on your future actions.

So don't accept it. I'm not going to lose any sleep over what you accept or not.
 
Show of hands, does anyone think it likely that the reporters and editors at the New York Times, don't know who the senior Trump Administration staff are or that they'd publish a letter from someone without confirming the author's identity as one of them?


"The reporters and editors" would include over 1,000 people. It's a safe bet that most of them do NOT know who it is. But it's a certainty that the editor who decided to print it and whoever brought it to him DO know. Beyond that, they would do whatever they could to protect their source.

The Times itself says:
The Op-Ed article was submitted to Times opinion editors last week through an intermediary, Mr. Dao said. “It was clear early on that the writer wanted anonymity, but we didn’t grant anything until we read it and we were confident that they were who they said they were,” he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/reader-center/anonymous-op-ed-trump.html
 
"The reporters and editors" would include over 1,000 people. It's a safe bet that most of them do NOT know who it is. But it's a certainty that the editor who decided to print it and whoever brought it to him DO know. Beyond that, they would do whatever they could to protect their source.

The Times itself says:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/reader-center/anonymous-op-ed-trump.html

No, but at the same time, I doubt only one reporter and/or editor made the decision.
 
I just skimmed (lightly) through the book. I could have written it (if I was a better writer). There just isn't much in there we didn't already know or could not have guessed. It ends with a campaign paragraph urging us not to reelect Trump.

I got a lot more out of "Plaintiff in Chief". That one had some detailed history.
 
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What a tease :mad:

IMO as reliable as the Hunter Biden laptop - unless anonymous throws off the cloak of anonymity.

Yes. I naively understood the tease to be that Anonymous will go public very soon, meaning today. If not, what's the point.

Even if (s)he goes public, unless it's a very big name, it won't have much effect.
 
Yes. I naively understood the tease to be that Anonymous will go public very soon, meaning today. If not, what's the point.

Even if (s)he goes public, unless it's a very big name, it won't have much effect.

Kellyanne ? :D
 
Yes. I naively understood the tease to be that Anonymous will go public very soon, meaning today. If not, what's the point.

Even if (s)he goes public, unless it's a very big name, it won't have much effect.

Pence's alternate personality, a drag queen by the name of Titsi Voluptua! She'll take control of their body and the vice presidency at midnight, announce it in a press conference, then spill all the incriminating dirt on Trump then and there, live on television! That would have several effects, I think, some of them fabulous.
 
Another rethuglican disavowing Trump in Orwellian style. Like with The Lincoln Project, I will accept their help... holding nose very, very tightly.
 
It's Miles Taylor. He already came out against Trump in August, so this changes ... nothing.


He was formerly a Trump administration appointee who served in the United States Department of Homeland Security from 2017 to 2019, including as Chief of Staff to former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Acting Secretary Chad Wolf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Taylor_(security_expert)?wprov=sfla1
 
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It's Miles Taylor. He already came out against Trump in August, so this changes ... nothing.


He was formerly a Trump administration appointee who served in the United States Department of Homeland Security from 2017 to 2019, including as Chief of Staff to former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Acting Secretary Chad Wolf.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Taylor_(security_expert)?wprov=sfla1

Who?

The kid from whiplash?


ETA: it looks like everyone made this joke.
 
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It is disappointing. Taylor has been outspoken for a while now about Trump. Someone bigger that also adds an additional voice would have been better.
 
At least Trump doesn't disappoint.
He tweets:

Who is Miles Taylor? Said he was “anonymous”, but I don’t know him - never even heard of him. Just another @nytimes SCAM - he worked in conjunction with them. Also worked for Big Tech’s @Google. Now works for Fake News @CNN. They should fire, shame, and punish everybody....
....associated with this FRAUD on the American people!

Here Trump with the guy he never heard of:
Screenshot_20201028-234603_Twitter.jpg
 
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