On Wednesday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced she was calling in the National Guard to assist the NYPD in combating crime in the Big Apple's subways after a staggering 45 percent spike in violence in January sparked outrage and demands that city and state leaders do something.

"Ms. Hochul said a large show of force in the system, which is operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a state agency, would help commuters and visitors to the city feel safe," the New York Times reported.

The Times story, as we observed, was particularly interesting considering the previous meltdowns by woke reporters in the paper's news and opinion rooms over the infamous June 2020 op-ed from Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) they published. In it, he argued that then-President Donald Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act to quell the violence in Democrat-run cities (like NYC) that were seeing widespread rioting over George Floyd's death.

READ: Tom Cotton Has Last Laugh After Kathy Hochul Sends for National Guard to Combat Big Apple Crime

One Times media figure who kicked up a fuss over the Cotton op-ed was Mara Gay, who is a member of their editorial board. Among other things, Ms. Gay is noted for admitting how "disturbing" she found displays of the American flag to be, altering quotes from {Republican) elected officials who she doesn't like, and for having shall we say a "math problem."

Flashback:

NYT editorial board member Mara Gay agrees with MSNBC’s Brian Williams that Bloomberg could have given every American $1 million instead of spending $500 million on ads.

But the math doesn't add up.

It's $1.53 per person. U.S. population: 327 million.pic.twitter.com/4u0aG4pXC2

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) March 6, 2020

In reference to what Cotton wrote, Gay took to the Twitter machine at the time like many fauxfended Times employees to express how she felt his call for a National Guard presence to stem violent rioting and looting put members of the black community "in danger":

Running this puts black people in danger. And other Americans standing up for our humanity and democracy, too. @nytimes pic.twitter.com/MQAA2WJ6YG

— Mara Gay (@MaraGay) June 4, 2020

And yet now, nearly four years later, there was this piece written by Gay, informing New Yorkers that Hochul's move was "the right" one:

New York City cannot function without a thriving subway, and ensuring that the system not only is safe but feels safe is paramount.

So Gov. Kathy Hochul’s decision to deploy 750 National Guard members and 250 New York State Police officers to the subways after a spate of attacks is the right one.

[...]

Hochul could reduce those doubts [from civil liberties advocates] by making it clear that the mission of these officers and Guardsmen isn’t to harass any New Yorkers, but to provide a law enforcement presence that deters violent crime.

Talk about a 180! And just a friendly reminder, too, that their editorial page editor, James Bennet, was forced out of his job over the ensuing drama and tantrum-throwing by Gay and others over the publishing of Cotton's piece.

The hypocrisy at play here is simply staggering.

A large number of preening twits at the NY Times think you're too stupid to notice they're hypocrites who criticise everything done by Republicans and praise everything done by Democrats.

Even when it's the same exact thing.

Hi, @MaraGay pic.twitter.com/vaKikgvdkw

— Paul D. Thacker (@thackerpd) March 7, 2024

They're telling us who they really are once again, and we should believe them.

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