A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times was caught on video bashing his colleagues as “f–king bitches” whereas ripping “the left’s overreaction” to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Project Veritas released footage Tuesday exhibiting Matthew Rosenberg, who covers nationwide safety for the Gray Lady, mocking coworkers who stated they had been “traumatized” over the riot final yr.
“But like all these colleagues who were in the building, and they’re young and are like, ‘Oh my God, it was so scary.’ I’m like, ‘F— off,’” Rosenberg, 47, who didn’t know he was being filmed on the time, tells an undercover journalist.
“It’s not the kind of place I can tell somebody to man up, but I kind of want to be like, ‘Dude, come on. Like, you were not in any danger.’”
In the closely edited footage, he then lambasted colleagues who “keep going on about their trauma.”
Rosenberg additionally appears to name two colleagues, Emily Cochrane and Nicholas Fandos, “f—ing bitches” and refers to different co-workers as “f—ing little dweebs,” the footage reveals.
He additionally described “a tug of war” on the Times “between the reasonable people and some of the craziest leftist s–t,” in line with the video.
Rosenberg added that he was “so over” Jan. 6 protection.
“The left’s overreaction — the left’s reaction to it in some places was so over the top,” he stated. “They were making it too big a deal … that gave the opening for lunatics in the right to be like, ‘Oh, well, nothing happened here. It was just a peaceful bunch of tourists,’ you know, and it’s like, but nobody wants to hear that.”
The Times, Rosenberg and Cochrane didn’t reply to requests for remark. Fandos declined to remark.
In one other video posted on Wednesday, James O’Keefe, who runs Project Veritas, confronts Rosenberg at a restaurant and asks for touch upon his assertion.
“This is me talking s—t at a bar. If you think that’s news, it is what it is,” Rosenberg tells him.
“I’m not gonna give you a comment,” Rosenberg provides, telling O’Keefe he’s “worse than a hit job.”
The Gray Lady journalist then says, “And yeah. Do I, will I stand by those comments? Absolutely,” although he additionally acknowledges he isn’t fully certain which feedback O’Keefe is referencing.
In the feedback captured by the conservative outlet recognized for its media sting operations, Rosenberg additionally talked in regards to the rumored “pee tape” of former President Donald Trump, calling it “ridiculous” and saying it “of course doesn’t exist.”
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