The New York Times ran a frankly weird article on Sunday celebrating leftist internet streamer Hasan Piker, “A Progressive Mind in a Body Made for the ‘Manosphere.’”
If that wasn’t enough to quality for the Hasan Piker fanclub, the subhead continued: “Hasan Piker pumps iron, likes weapons and wears pearls. His brand of masculinity has won him many fans online — and has been a useful vehicle for his politics.”
Reporter Jack Crosbie’s actual profile matched. It was reminiscent of the paper’s bad old days of left-wing fan service, with alleged tech reporter Kevin Roose hyping censorious Marxist Twitter activists and accusing Christian satire site The Babylon Bee of purveying “misinformation.”
The paper devoted nearly 2,000 words to the obnoxious leftist of the so-called manosphere complete with pictures of his carb-friendly roast…
