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New York Times reporter-at-large Sarah Lyall was granted the full back page of Sunday’s Arts & Leisure section to suck up to liberal voting activist and sore-loser Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. Lyall has pivoted from mocking UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, to commiserating with U.S. Democrats when they feared a replay of 2016, and finally to Abrams worship.
The enormous photo of Abrams looking thoughtfully into the middle distance suited the embarrassingly gushing text from Lyall, who didn’t deign to commit any journalism in this soft feature of a hard-edged liberal activist who is infamous for hurling unsubstantiated allegations of voter suppression after her 2018 Georgia loss: “A Star Multitasker’s Latest Chapter.” The underlying article, on Abram s newest novel, is just as hard-hitting as the headline implies: