The editorial board of Atlanta’s most prominent newspaper fired back at The New York Times after a writer took a swipe at the so-called “Peach State Plummet.”
Last week, Times opinion columnist Maureen Dowd lamented what she suggested was the destruction of Georgia politicians, showering praise on former President Jimmy Carter, who at 98 is now receiving hospice care, and trashing Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who Dowd declared “the nasty new face of Georgia politics.”
Drawing a contrast between the two, Dowd insisted “Georgians could be proud” of Carter while listing Greene’s controversial comments, calling the Democratic president a “brainiac” while labeling the GOP lawmaker a “maniac.”
“Greene is the apotheosis of those who love hating so much, they no longer have any interest in collaborating for the good of the country and the world. Carter is the apotheosis of the mantra ‘We’re better than this,'” Dowd wrote. “So who do we want to be? Marjorie Taylor Greene or Jimmy Carter? Destroyers or builders?”
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) did not take kindly to Dowd’s piece, which was titled “From Carter to M.T.G.: What a Peach State Plummet,” publishing its own piece titled “Sorry, New York Times. But you really don’t know Georgia very well.”
“We couldn’t believe it when we read it… A plummet? Really?” the editorial board began its piece Thursday.
The AJC acknowledged Georgia’s “bright spotlight” as of late and how its political landscape “continues to draw attention far beyond our borders.”
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“Much of the resulting commentary hasn’t been favorable. And it certainly doesn’t represent the 21st century kind of state that Georgia has worked so hard to become,” the editorial board wrote. “The narrative, as evidenced by that ‘plummet’ headline, paints a very different…
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