Tasteless NYT Columnist Uses Fox Tree Arson to Mock People Fleeing NYC

In her Recent columnPlease see the following: The New York TimesPublished Thursday night, Mara Gay, an editorial board member, used the Fox News Christmas tree arson (allegedly perpetrated Wednesday by a homeless person) to ridicule people who were leaving New York City because of, among others, the coronavirus, far-left state and local governments, rising crime and poor schools.

Of course, what Gay failed to mention amid her potshots was that she’s a paid MSNBC contributor, so she naturally has an ax to grind.

Gay — who’s shown a Basic math comprehension is lackingYou can also find out more about. American Flag: Fear — began with the Christmas tree burning down and how police are “investigating” the role of “drugs or mental illness,” but then engaged in some snark because Fox employees would dare be upset about what happened:

In the studio, news of the Fox Christmas tree’s demise struck a chord. “It is about everything that we stand for as a country,” an anchor said on-air on Wednesday of the tree. “It’s kind of all we have left.”

Painting “a few conservatives” as the grinches trying to steal Christmas, she fretted that they’re “not feeling festive this year” “in this largely liberal town” because “[t]heir neighbors keep voting for Democrats, and some of them are even protesting the police at regular intervals.”

“The de Blasio mayoralty was one long nightmare of wokeness. Liberals have even taken over the Metropolitan Opera,” she ironically added considering the grimaces and meltdowns liberals had in red states like Florida or during the duration of the Trump presidency.

Gay specifically took whacks at New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz and American Conservative editor Sohrab Ahmari for having decided to leave New York all-together, using small excerpts of their announcements to make them seem petty (click “expand”):

Famous conservatives wrote essays to explain why they were leaving New York because of the difficult challenges.

Karol Markowicz was a Fox News reporter and writer who wrote this week about her and her family’s departure. This is partly due to the fact that New Yorkers continue to wear masks out and insist on children wearing them to school. “We’re going to Florida, a state we’ve come to regard as the beacon of freedom in this country,” she wrote.

Then there’s Sohrab Ahmari, a contributing editor to The American Conservative, whose description of his near-decade living in New York just made me sad.

“New York City, to my mind, isn’t a megalopolis made up of five enormous boroughs,” he wrote. “Rather, ‘The City’ is a small rectangle with our apartment at its center. In one direction, its outer boundary touches the News Corp. building, where I used to work until recently; in the other direction, it spans the far side of Queensboro Bridge, which I often run across for exercise, barely landing on Long Island City before I race back over the East River to the familiar comforts of Midtown.”

Gay then argued they and the other expats were whimps because they don’t want to live a life where they (and their children) don’t have to face the threat of crime and a low standard of living: 

You hear it all. But there are some people who just don’t have what it takes. New York City is filthy. It’s loud. It’s also very expensive to rent tiny apartments. This pandemic hit the city hard. A shortage of cream cheese has caused a crisis in the national supply chain.

She asked Gay and her MSNBC pals to explain why they hate Gay. “wobbling on New York will tough it out with the rest of us”Please see the following: “the sake of diversity”And that “[t]he city’s recovery is an all-hands project”It is because it all adds up to it “makes us smarter.”

To be fair, she wrapped with two attempts at being unifying (which she should try to do more of), saying that the arson “didn’t help” bring out the Christmas spirit and “no one should ever light a Christmas tree on fire, even if it is tacky.”