Tue, Jan 12th 2021 9:39am
Mike Masnick
Every year a few days after New Years we post some stats about traffic and comments to effectively close the books on the year. I know that lots of sites do this prior to the end of the year, but we always wait until the new year is really here to make sure we have all the actual stats. I had
meant to do this last week, but last week was a bit crazy and it kept me a bit busier than the average first week of January. So, we re running a bit late here. If you d like to see all such previous posts, they are here: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010.
tweeted. for those of you asking for the identity of the anonymous coward, she directed them to call the opinion desk of the failing new york times, which is a quote. and she gave out the phone number. is this a misuse of her position? it is a gross misuse of her position. we have an ethics rule about this. misuse, abuse of position. it s in 5-cfr-26-35. and the idea of it is it s a big problem. the trump administration has violated this rule again and again. you cannot use your public office to hurt a private party or to help a private party. the government can abuse it in so many different ways. and sarah sanders did that, don. it s not just an ethics problem. it s a first amendment problem because she s clogged the phone lines over there at the new york times.
law or an order even if it s wrong? i had a german general in there who had to make that choice. thankfully he made the same choice as anonymous. do the right thing. so, i think it s deeply ethical. okay. you mention what you tweeted. here s what sarah sanders tweeted. those of you asking for the identity of the anonymous coward it s longer. she directed them to call the opinion desk of the failing noshlg tim new york times. it s a quote. then she gave out the phone number. is this a misuse of her position? it is a gros misuse of her position. we have an ethics rule about this. misuse, abuse of position. and it s in 5 cfr 2635. the idea of it is, you can t it s a big problem. the trump administration has violated this rule again and again. you can t use your public office to benefit a private party or to hurt a private party because the
privately white house aides are on the hunt for the author. but sarah huckabee sanders tweeted the media s wild obsession with the identity of the anonymous coward is damaging the reputation of thousands who work for president trump. stop. let s bring in alex. this is written by a senior administration official. that could describe hundreds if not thousands of people. there are hundreds of them. for something like this you would imagine that it is someone who is a pretty significant player. since this was released washington has turned into a game of clue. was it kellyanne conway? everyone has their guess and their theories. 24 hours after the bombshell anonymous op-ed we are hardly closer to discovering the identity of its author. everyone is getting in on the speculation game. i m surprised by how good of
the new york times yesterday. sarah huckabee sanders taking the media to task for trying to do the same thing. saying the media s obsession with the identity of the anonymous coward is tarnishing the reputation of thousands of great americans who work for our country. if you want to know who this gutless loser is, call the opinion desk at the failing new york times and ask them, they are the only ones complicit in this deceitful act, we stand united together and fully support our president. in the op-ed the writer claims to be part of an internal resistance trying to save the country from president trump s misguided impulses and insists he and other like-minded administration officials don t want the administration to fail. effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military and more about these successes have become despite, not because of the president s leadership style which is petty