Article snippet: Zeldin lashed out at the New York Times in the wake of a Breitbart News investigation which found that the newspaper’s politics editor Tom Wright-Piersanti wrote racist and antisemitic comments on Twitter. The Times’ admitted Sunday that the comments were racist and antisemitic. The paper also admitted that Wright-Piersanti’s remarks were in “violation” of its standards. New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger issued a lengthy statement Sunday afternoon, stating that the Times will not be “intimated or silenced” by allies of President Donald Trump who expose embarrassing past comments that staffers have made. Sulzberger said in a statement Sunday: In reaction to the Times’ failure to hold their staffers accountable for past controversial remarks, Rep. Zeldin called on the publisher to hold themselves to the same standards as they hold others. “Hold yourself to the same standards you hold others! It’s all about double standards or no standard for @nytimes. It’s crushing their credibility,” Congressman Zeldin tweeted Sunday. “Very ugly response & bad look for Times trying to cover for their editor’s anti-Semitism & racism”: Rep. Zeldin called for the Times to fire Wright-Piersanti for his past racist and antisemitic remarks. “An editor from the New York Times is scrubbing his [Twitter] account, this guy Tom Wright-Piersanti, because he was self-describing himself as an antisemite and he was going after Jews and others,” said Zeldin, who is Jewish, Thursday... Link to the full article to read more