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New York Times Tore Apart Cotton’s Op-Ed. Now Cotton Gets The Last Laugh.

Hank Berrien
New York Times Tore Apart Cotton’s Op-Ed. Now Cotton Gets The Last Laugh.
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On Wednesday, Senator Tom Cotton got the last laugh on The New York Times, which had precipitated a brouhaha last week when its staff revolted because a Cotton op-ed had been published in the paper, causing the editorial page editor to resign and the paper officially stating it “should not have been published.”

Cotton’s affiliated political action committee, using funds that were raised   from those who supported Cotton after the Times attacked him, ran an ad attacking former Vice President and current prospective Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden — on the Times’ website.

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