McFaul-who is banned from traveling to Russia as an adversary of Vladimir Putin-told The Daily Beast: “When I woke up this morning, I wasn’t blocked…I thought it was odd that for one of the two people being featured in the story, her mother would become a source. Tanden likewise was unavailable, her spokesperson said. Vogel-who in the wee hours Wednesday, after McFaul’s complaint and much chatter on Twitter, reversed himself and unblocked the former ambassador-didn’t respond to requests for comment. Can someone from nytimes please justify this behavior? I find it unethical.”Ī Times spokesperson declined to weigh in on Vogel’s blocking of McFaul, who is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Vogel in the past, trying to help his reporting. 1st time ever,” McFaul complained on the social media platform. “A nytimesreporter, kenvogel, has blocked me on twitter. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul took to Twitter to criticize the Times’ use of Maya Tanden’s quotes about her daughter, Vogel blocked him-which opened a whole new line of attack. The dispute over the Times story became so toxic that after former U.S. “I didn’t slug him, I pushed him,” Tanden was quoted in the Times story headlined “The Rematch: Bernie Sanders vs. The Times story led with a 2008 anecdote in which then-Clinton aide Tanden, angry over ThinkProgress interviewer Faiz Shaikir’s confrontational question to candidate Clinton about her support for the Iraq war, allegedly punched Shaikir, who today is Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager. “Good summary,” Tanden tweeted over a post from Georgetown University law professor Rosa Brooks: “WTF, nytimes- Would you run an article about a *male* political leader’s relationship with a rival political campaign that relied mainly on quotes from.his mom? And would it be newsworthy for a male leader to be viewed as ‘aggressive’?” It’s one of those quarrels that probably could only have occurred among media, political and policy elites in the Beltway bubble of Washington, D.C., who have suddenly decided to impersonate scorpions in a bottle.įighting words such as “disgusting” and “pathetic,” along with allegations of sexism against the newspaper, have been part of a fusillade of invective launched by former Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama aide Neera Tanden, the president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, and an army of sympathizers who clearly hated Tuesday’s report, which focused on the think tank head’s mutual antipathy with the Bernie Sanders campaign. Mother’s Day is almost a month from now, yet already a bitter dispute has erupted over The New York Times’ decision to interview the mother of a profile subject for a front-page story that featured a liberal Washington think tank.
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