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WaPo's Lorenz Shows Why Democracy Cries in Dorkness

Thanks to the American Thinker for running this piece. You can visit the website at: https://www.americanthinker.com/

Taylor Lorenz is a child.

The person who calls herself a reporter has – yet again – publicly demanded that people be nice to her.  And, sadly, it seems that some other people are taking her demands seriously, or at least some “news” humans on MSNBC – here she is explaining how “horrifying” the experience of being a reporter is: 

Jon Levine @LevineJonathan

NEW: Taylor Lorenz says she has "severe PTSD" from being a journalist and breaks down in MSNBC interview

Being mean tweeted at is a far cry from good old-fashioned reporter threatening.  For example, after a story I wrote (I was an actual newspaper reporter when actual newspapers were still a thing) concerning a local businessman appeared, he left a message on my voice mail in which he, after disparaging my mother’s character and questioning her choice of personal associations, threatened to kill me.  And he unquestionably had the temperament and means to do so.

Another story involved a messy mob divorce that, seriously, involved voodoo.  Astonishingly, the man of distinction in question agreed to discuss the matter on-the-record.  But at the end of the conversation he said “and I hope to never hear from you again.”  And then “click.” 

While his tone was not overtly menacing, the implication was quite clear.

These are the kind of stories that reporters used to laughingly tell one another over too many drinks at the local bar.  Of course you mention the incidents to your editor just in case something goes south, but you understand that risk comes with the territory.

And Taylor Lorenz – who by all accounts is an egregiously incompetent and aggressively unethical reporter - is made so sad that people are mean to her that she runs to an editor (remember the Tucker Carlson incident -https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/tucker-carlson-taylor-lorenz-new-york-times-harassment-1234927645/ ) or anyone else who will listen to demand that they tell people to be nice to her.

Lorenz’s history as an ethically challenged favorite player/Tik Tok shill/devious hall monitor/complainer about the arrival state of her delivered $22 avocado toast is well documented.  What is almost worse than her whining and deeply questionable “journalism” is that she keeps getting bigger and better jobs, presumably for more money each step of the way (as we see, toast ain’t cheap).

One is reminded of being a kid and mentioning to your mother that Billy called you a “dumb butt” on the bus ride home from school and your mother says that she should have a talk with Billy’s parents. 

The kid, if they are at all sentient, immediately realizes that they should have kept their mouth shut because nothing could possibly be worse than having your mother escalate the situation, for if that happens being called “dumb butt” becomes the least of your concerns as you stare into the abyss of the (even you admit well deserved) atomic swirlie you know you would be facing the next day in school if she actually did that.

But Taylor Lorenz is not only the kind of child that would actually actively encourage their mom to go talk to Billy’s mom to make him take it back, she would even make something up to get her to do so. 

And that is not the good kind of child.

And it is, as clearly shown in Lorenz’s case, the kind of child who never grows up.