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The New York Times Treated Lindsey Graham Worse Than It Did A Literal Terrorist

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South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham died unexpectedly on Saturday from a heart condition at the age of 71. Graham, a retired Air Force officer who served more than two decades in the Senate, was influential in the Republican Party on foreign policy, election integrity, and national security.

The New York Times chose to remember him somewhat differently.

In its obituary for the longtime senator, Robert Jimison, Zachary Woolfe, and Amelia Nierenberg headlined their piece: “Lindsey Graham, Republican Senator and Staunch Trump Ally, Dies at 71.” Their subhead immediately included a line about his foreign policy, before returning to the subject at hand, that is, his death: “He consistently pushed for the use of U.S. military power overseas. The Washington, D.C., medical examiner said he died of an aortic dissection, a tear in the body’s main artery.”

It’s unclear why an obituary subhead announcing Graham’s death also needed to include a sentence summing up his legacy in a policy position that some have found controversial.

The Times then followed that coverage with a separate piece entitled “Lindsey Graham Had a Complicated........

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