Bari Weiss: NY Times Editor Wanted to Check with Schumer on Tim Scott Op-Ed

Candace Ortiz of Mediaite reported former New York TimesBari Weiss, editorial staff member, shared a story with Sen. Tim Scott via her podcast.  

“I wanna tell you a little story that I’m not sure if you know,” Weiss began, discussing his proposed police-reform bill that was endorsed by a range of people including Senator Chuck Schumer. It didn’t get passed.

“Well, here’s what happened. “I was there. New York Times and you or your staff sent in an op-ed about the bill and why it fell apart,” Weiss recounted. “And this is the part I’m not sure if you know. The piece was brought up and discussed whether it should be run. And one colleague, a more senior colleague said to a more junior colleague who was pushing for the piece, ‘Do you think the Republicans really care about minority rights?’”

Scott exclaimed, “Wow!”

“And the more junior colleagues said, ‘I think Tim Scott cares about minority rights.’ And then, and here’s the pretty shocking part. The more senior colleague said, ‘Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it,’” Weiss added. The younger colleague thought that it was unethical and did not call.

Weiss asked “Are you surprised to hear that? Or does that story feel kind of representative of the way the media has treated you and maybe some of your colleagues?” Scott said he was “disappointed” but not “surprised.”

He concluded, “You need to keep that in mind.” The Washington Post“Fact-checked my Life” (The PostThe “Fact Checker” team dug through very old documents in an attempt to find evidence that Scott exaggerated the humble roots of his speech at 2020 GOP Convention. That was what we took apart.

“I can’t tell you how disrespectful and dishonoring that entire process was — went on for three or four months as they went through records to find out whether or not my grandfather actually dropped out of the school in the third grade, their records suggested he dropped out in the fourth grade, but still didn’t learn to read,” he recalled. “They wanted to know if I had somehow hidden my silver spoon and just was using a plastic spoon instead.”

“And the more they dug, the more they realized that there was no evidence that disproved the fact that I am, who I say I am and that I experienced what I said I’ve experienced,” he added.

“So there is something in national media that wants to frame any conservatives, particularly Black conservatives as being disingenuous or insincere or a tool for the conservatives. When in fact the Black community is consistently as conservative as any community,” he concluded.

Newsmax’s Spicer & Co.On Friday, I suggested that Scott’s opinion piece never appeared in the newspaper, so we could assume that Schumer was consulted. 

Talking on “Spicer & Co.” on Newsmax about Bari Weiss telling Sen. Tim Scott in a podcast that a New York Times opinion editor wanted to check with Sen. Charles Schumer before running an op-ed on police reform by Sen. Scott. It didn’t make it to the final cut. pic.twitter.com/4D2Kk3nKZq

— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) August 13, 2022