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Minhaj makes a pretty compelling case in that video that the New Yorker article was dishonest, imo.
yeah it's really bad work from the New Yorker which is kinda disappointing. The writer (I can't remember her name) wrote that she, like Hasan, took her own liberties in writing it. It's a bad point point because obviously you have a much longer leash for that in stand up than journalism. Also, Hasan's liberties on the prom date don't change the main point of the story like the changes made by the article do.
I'm glad he took his time putting this out though. I probably would've rushed to twitter immediately trying to discredit it but you really only get one shot at it.
Minhaj makes a pretty compelling case in that video that the New Yorker article was dishonest, imo.
yeah it's really bad work from the New Yorker which is kinda disappointing. The writer (I can't remember her name) wrote that she, like Hasan, took her own liberties in writing it. It's a bad point point because obviously you have a much longer leash for that in stand up than journalism. Also, Hasan's liberties on the prom date don't change the main point of the story like the changes made by the article do.
I'm glad he took his time putting this out though. I probably would've rushed to twitter immediately trying to discredit it but you really only get one shot at it.
My read was that the prom story was probably too far by the New Yorker (it seemed that way on first read to me tbh), but everything else was accurate. He admits the Brother Eric thing didn’t happen (which struck me as the worst one), and that he didn’t rush his daughter to the hospital with anthrax.
It’s a persuasive way for him to present his story (that’s what he’s good at) but overall I’m not getting a “he vindicated himself” vibe.
yeah it's really bad work from the New Yorker which is kinda disappointing. The writer (I can't remember her name) wrote that she, like Hasan, took her own liberties in writing it. It's a bad point point because obviously you have a much longer leash for that in stand up than journalism. Also, Hasan's liberties on the prom date don't change the main point of the story like the changes made by the article do.
I'm glad he took his time putting this out though. I probably would've rushed to twitter immediately trying to discredit it but you really only get one shot at it.
My read was that the prom story was probably too far by the New Yorker (it seemed that way on first read to me tbh), but everything else was accurate. He admits the Brother Eric thing didn’t happen (which struck me as the worst one), and that he didn’t rush his daughter to the hospital with anthrax.
It’s a persuasive way for him to present his story (that’s what he’s good at) but overall I’m not getting a “he vindicated himself” vibe.
I was only referring the prom part there, it’s the only part of his video I posted and watched.
I kinda get the jist of his anthrax thing, the FBI one is prob too far.
Post by piggy pablo on Oct 27, 2023 18:21:59 GMT -5
FBI thing kind of bothers me because (according to the NY article) Minhaj presented himself in the special as too clever to be fooled by this informant, which is what bothers me about him in general, that he portrays himself almost always in a self-congratulatory way. I guess I generally don't like that in comedians. But also I could not care less about how this affects Craig Montieh, the FBI informant, which the writer seems concerned with.
Anthrax thing still feels emotionally manipulative because it involves a child.
But the prom thing seems super unfair and enough on its own to make the article look slanted.
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