The New York Times endorsed Elizabeth Warren AND Amy Klobuchar for president. Photo: ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images On Sunday night, after meeting nine candidates for the Democratic nomination for president over the course of several months, the New York Times editorial board gave its rose to two of them. The endorsements of both Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar provided a fitting twist to the special episode of The Weekly that turned the process for choosing a candidate into reality TV.
The whole show was a contrived bit of drama meant to satisfy the demands of a TV show, which meant keeping viewers hooked until the end to find out who the paper would choose. While some took issue with treating an important election with such frivolity, others noted the irony of the Times criticizing Trump’s reality TV presidency while turning its own endorsement into reality TV. And then there were those, like Dan Rather, who didn’t want to sit through the drama.