Regime Propaganda, Ray Epps, and the New York Times
In order to understand what the Times is up to, one needs to approach its stories as one would approach those emitted by the Soviet Union or other totalitarian regimes.
By Roger Kimball
July 16, 2022
Is the New York Times playing four-dimensional chess?
Or is it only tic-tac-toe with a three-year-old?
I ask because I cannot quite fathom the Times’ latest intervention into the January 6 miniseries, its aromatic aria bewailing the fate of Ray Epps.
Who is Ray Epps?
We don’t really know—not yet.
In the immediate aftermath of the January 6 jamboree, he was on the Stasi’s—er, the FBI’s—list of most wanted “domestic extremists,” “insurrectionists,” etc.
He was also a star of several videos, a right-out-of-central-casting, MAGA-hat-wearing Trump nut telling anyone who would listen on the evening of January 5 that the next day they had to go “into the Capitol, into the Capitol.”
Into the Capitol, not “to” the Capitol. You see the difference.
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