(C) Daily Kos
This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered.
 . . . . . . . . . .



If you think Biden's speech was too mean to Republicans, see Jonathan Pie on U.K. Conservatives [1]

['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags']

Date: 2022-09-06  

Screen cap of the video opinion piece at The NY Times with fictional broadcast journalist Jonathan Pie, performed by Tom Walker. The video is at the link below in the diary.

Republicans are still butt-hurt about the mean things (AKA the truth) President Biden said about them last week. They don’t know what real butt-hurt is like. “Jonathan Pie” (a character portrayed by Tom Walker) offers up a rant on Britain’s ruling Conservative Party, their record, and their new Prime Minister via a video at The NY Times opinion page.

The link should allow passage through The New York Times paywall. WARNING: strong language.

….Caught in a swirl of crises and feeling abandoned by their government, Britons are angry. To capture this, we turned once again to the fictional broadcast journalist Jonathan Pie, performed by Tom Walker. In the satirical Opinion video above, he takes viewers on a tour of a broken Britain and argues that Ms. Truss is not well equipped to fix it. The video contains some strong language and adult humor you don’t normally see in The Times, but we think Mr. Pie is the perfect conduit for the frustration and desperation of millions of Britons.

Enjoy! The video may be a bit wonky, but it’s worth futzing through it. I’ve had some trouble trying to get the video to actually play — the closed captions appear at the bottom of the window at the least, but after reloading the page and starting again, it seemed to work. (Not sure, but it seems as though the video starts with Pie talking while the screen remains black.)

It would be nice if The NY Times could do something like this about the Republican Party in the U.S., but they would probably suffer a fatal injury trying to both-sides it….

[END]
---
[1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/6/2121115/-If-you-think-Biden-s-speech-was-too-mean-to-Republicans-see-Jonathan-Pie-on-U-K-Conservatives

Published and (C) by Daily Kos
Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified.

via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds:
gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/