Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The New York Times is a classy bunch

So New York's got an abusive boyfriend in its Senate. Hiram Monserrate (D-Queens) allegedly slashed his girlfriend with a piece of glass across her face when he found another man's business card in her purse. He then dragged her back to his apartment and refused to call 911.

They both told the police that he tripped while carrying a glass of water, and now he says he wants to marry her.

Clyde Haberman of the Times decides to respond to the story by writing about what kind of glassware to get them for the wedding.

Whether you think this is funny or not (I don't - it's a rather lame attempt at dark comedy), it's not the sort of thing one would expect to see in the New York Times, which is supposed to be a paragon of journalism, not a staging ground for potentially offensive op-eds.

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