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September 08, 2020

Washington Post Interviews Clay Travis With An Incoherent Series Of Tween-Speak Questions [Buck Throckmorton]

Clay Travis of “Outkick The Coverage” was approached by the Washington Post to do an interview. The WaPo wanted to do a hit job on him because Clay is a rogue sports journalist who has angered the mainstream media for being anti-PC, and for mocking the left-wing herd mentality of sports journalists. In so doing he has built a huge following and a nice little sports empire.

Clay acknowledged to his readers that it was going to be a hit job, so in expectation of the upcoming slander, he recorded the whole interview. At his own web site, Clay points out that of the 2300 words in the story, exactly 94 were words alleged to have been spoken by him, but even those included one “quote” that he never said. The WaPo quoted Clay as saying “I have a lot of fans in the White House” but that quote is no where in the transcript of the actual interview. The WaPo made it up, but of course we expect them to engage in fraud. That is who they are and that is what journalism is nowadays.

The false pretense of the hit piece and the journalistic fraud are not the worst part of the interview however. What is truly awful is that the journalist conducting the interview speaks a form of English that might best be described as “California Tween.”

There’s really no reason to mock this journalist working for one of the nation’s most elite newspapers – his questions are self-mocking. These are real questions asked in a high profile interview by a journalist at the Washington Post:

So I guess before sort of like as we start, so you, I don’t like it’s totally your prerogative to record it. I’m just like, are you planning to then release it or what?

Are you like in regular contact with the White House Press Office at this point?
Jason Whitlock, speaking to Front Office Sports, described it as like, we’re gonna treat sports as like, you know, this masculine endeavor, that other places don’t. Is that right? And what is the sort of ethos of the site or sort of what is the audience for? Well, so bring in other sports sites, is it you know, going for, you know, the same audience what is, you know, sort of?
Yeah. Pretty, you know, out front on the NBA in China, I guess they think that there are people who wonder both about, I guess I’d put you in the category. But also, you know, some Republicans have been very critical of the NBA but perhaps not of President Trump for you know, his friendship with China. You know that he wasn’t going to press them on, you know, concentration camps because, you know, he’s working on a trade deal.
I guess I would say sort of right. Like when you think of sort of Republicans, I, you know, I have asked some people about the site and I think that there are, you know, are people who view it, you know, you’ve said, anybody on it, you know, there’s people who view it, you know, can this be the Fox News of sports? And I think somebody, you know, mentioned to me that it’s, you know, become Trump propaganda, essentially. And I guess that’s sort of what I’m asking about.
I feel like you’re more like, at least lately, like since the relaunch it’s been more politics that the site has been known for.

A common joke among conservatives is that despite the “layers and layer of editors” at newspapers, they still allow so much journalistic malpractice to get published. Reading these incoherent interview questions, it’s evident that newspaper editors are overwhelmed just trying to get the childish scribblings of their journalists to resemble some form of adult English. Asking them to also edit for accuracy would be too much.

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