Exiled NYT Staffer Vindicated After Journalists Insisted Chick-Fil-A Story Had to Be Fake

Earlier this week Adam Rubenstein, a former New York Times editor scapegoated in the Tom Cotton op-ed affair at the Gray Lady back in 2020, published a tell-all about his experiences at the paper.

In his lede, Rubenstein recalled being chided for identifying Chick-fil-A’s spicy chicken sandwich as his favorite after being asked a seemingly innocent icebreaker at his orientation.

According to Rubenstein, an HR rep replied, “We don’t do that here. They hate gay people,” and his new colleagues celebrated the rebuke by snapping. While Rubenstein provided many more serious examples of bias at the Times, it was this anecdote that attracted the most attention online. Many left-leaning journalists just outright denied that such a thing could have ever happened.