Monday, August 26, 2019

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Their Rules: Conservatives Set to Expose Leftist Journalists as Hypocritical Activists



Their Rules: Conservatives Set to Expose Leftist Journalists as Hypocritical Activists
Over the weekend the New York Times reported on a new effort being undertaken by conservative activists against leftist members of the "mainstream" media.
"New front in the war on the press"? What?
Members of the press have indignantly paraded around for years as "objective" seekers of truth with no political agenda. That's a lie. One look at their Twitter and other social media feeds prove many of them are firmly planted on the left and regularly use their media platforms to advocate for leftist causes. They've actively worked to destroy conservative opponents. They've painted conservatives as racist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic cancers that must be eliminated. Further, these people have been going after conservatives and their families for years: tea party members, the Covington Catholic schoolboys, Brett Kavanaugh, Trump supporters, etc.
The people we spoke to, we interviewed them for the story, kind of uncovering the depth of this here told us that their template was Media Matters and kind of this exhaustive — basically what’s called opposition research that people do all the time.”
But it turns out, most of the moral preening has been projection. Just last week an editor for the New York Times was exposed for a series anti-Semitic and racist tweets between 2008 and 2010. MSNBC's Joy Reid filed a false report with the FBI after anti-Semitic and anti-gay comments resurfaced from her blog.
The complaints aren't going over well and have received little sympathy.
I'll leave you with this: