The media is purposely covering up Tlaib’s and Omar’s anti-Semitism…
…but even that is Trump’s fault.
Trump provides a convenient reductionist Theory of Everything Wrong With the World.
Excerpt:
…New York Times Opinion staff writer and editor Bari Weiss openly admitted to the Reliable Sources panel that the media was purposely ignoring the blatant anti-Semitism espoused by Democratic Congresswomen Ilhan Omar (MN) and Rashida Tlaib (MI) because of President Trump.
Weiss argued that “one of the problems of this moment” was how “everything [Trump] touches becomes toxic”. So, “it’s very hard to cover, sort of, complicated characters and stories like them because [of] the President…”
Her example for how the media abdicated their duty to report on topics they deemed “toxic” focused on the lack of coverage regarding the Congresswomen’s agenda on their trip to Israel.
She noted that Trump putting pressure on Israel to bar Omar and Tlaib was a “huge story” but it paled in comparison to the “scandal” that should have been the real story.
First, Weiss pointed out that the anti-Semites declared they were going to Palestine instead of Israel on their itineraries. She then dropped the bombshell that the trip “was being sponsored by a group that literally published neo-Nazi blood libels and said that it supported female suicide bombers. You know, hailing them as heroes. That’s a scandal.”
It was a scandal “that has not been covered by any mainstream paper or network …” she lamented. “If someone like [Iowa Republican Congressman] Steve King was going to Sweden or Norway and eating with neo-Nazi groups, that would be front-page news,” she added.
She then posed a question to the panel: “is the fact that Trump has lodged racist, horrible attacks on these women, has that made them sort of untouchable for us to cover in an accurate way?” She never got a real answer from anyone on the panel. Instead, fill-in host John Avlon quickly moved away from those facts and back to bashing Trump. Moments later, the segment was over.
Fascinating example of a person, Bari Weiss, struggling to tell the truth, but only managing a partial truth because Trump Derangement Syndrome and/or the need to prove to colleagues and the left in general that she has the requisite Trump-hatred is paramount.
She does this by blaming Trump for the entire thing, and by charging him with having launched “racist, horrible attacks” on the two women.
No, he has not. But that’s the media “narrative,” and they’re not giving it up, nor is Weiss. It’s part of the “Trump is a racist” cry that we’ll hear from now till at least the election and probably beyond.
[NOTE: Weiss seems surprised at what the media is doing here, and acts as though she’s only just noticed it, or only noticed it since Trump’s presidency. Just about everyone on the right noticed it a long, long time ago. Funny thing, that.]
Many conservatives have been keenly interested in the town hall held recently by the NYT in which it was obvious that the Grey Harridan has pivoted from obsession over Russia to obsession over racism (Trump’s racism and the racism elsewhere, which is ubiquitous and which explains everything). It seems as though the only real differences at Pravda-on-the-Hudson are the extent to which racism should be attacked all the time, in nearly every story, or only most of the time.
The Democrats were devastated by Mueller’s failure. They tried “Obstruction of Justice” but that did not get off the ground. Another problem is the coming indictments form Russiagate participants. Trump might be slow walking that to get closer to the election.
The racism 24/7 that the NYT seems to be hoping will fly is another libel on American History. Zinn’s history was battle prep to implement Gramsci’s “Hegemony” theories.
It just might be too much. My grandkids seem to have lots of classmates who think this stuff is BS.
At this point, complaining about media behavior is almost pathetic.
Like beating your ahead against a wall to make a point.
They are what they are.
Their readers expect them to be that way and will not tolerate less (as the NYT bullpen j e refers to points out).
There is little recourse to this behavior except to counter with the real news.
I simply don’t understand, though, why defamation, either libel or slander, is tolerated by our judicial system.
“Trump is a racist”.
Freedom of speech is one thing, this is a totally different thing.
There is only one other means to demand honor, and that too is frowned on.
I miss the ability to edit a comment.
There are two aspects of self-aggrandizing liberal discourse: the urge to assert that things are not as ordinary people see them (ergo, you need a liberal lawyer or human services professional to explain the world to you) and the urge to excuse liberals and their mascots (ergo the assertions and syntactical labyrinths that place the blame for problems on the pre-selected deplorable population). The enemy, as far as the bourgeois liberal is concerned, is the ordinary person’s understanding of moral agency.
A satisfactory discrete example of this would be the kultursmog around the Kennedy Assassination. It was the work of one rather strange, unpleasant, and incompetent man who fancied himself a capable human being (and Marxist revolutionary). Liberal blatherers put the blame on ‘hate’, on the City of Dallas, on all the world but the man who pulled the trigger.
At this point, liberals are so alienated from ordinary moral discourse, they haven’t a clue who is responsible for what; they just assume it’s someone on their list of bogies.
Bari Weiss is a curious figure; I’ve seen her conduct a couple of interviews, and read a bit of her writing on occasion (otherwise I reflexively avoid the NYT for just about everything for about 5 years now).
At some level, she seems to be someone who is capable of asking critical question, like a real reporter might once have done. But then she remembers the world she lives in, and thinks better of it.
If she ever chooses to leave the NYT, I’ll be very curious to see what she does. I think that’s an unlikely choice for her, though.
IF the reality of the Tlaib/Omar trip were ever properly covered (ie the “group that literally published neo-Nazi blood libels and said that it supported female suicide bombers.”) all hell would break loose. Dems now supporting the two squad members would be obliged to now attack them. This could destroy the Democratic party so it won’t happen. The media will all sweep it under the rug.
Bari Weiss wrote for Tablet before she joined the Woke World at NYT. Now she’s one of the Pod People.
“The media is purposely covering up Tlaib’s and Omar’s anti-Semitism…” neo
and in that cover up, they enable Tlaib’s and Omar’s hate.
In principle, what is the difference between those who unapologetically express hate and those who enable and protect hate? Have they not become fellows on the same journey?
“My grandkids seem to have lots of classmates who think this stuff is BS.”
Just this weekend, I ran across a series of comments primarily written by outraged Millennials (is there any other kind?) at how the kids coming up behind them don’t care enough about SJW issues. Not only is the next generation not properly obsessed with and outraged by Every SJW Issue Ever, apparently they are known to actively mock people who are.
Too little, too late? I can hope not.
It will only get worse in the next 15 months. We can hope that the Bobsie Twins will make such an outrageous statement that it will have to be covered, but I am not betting on it.
Will Mahar make a comment about the Palestinian Auth. attacking the LGBTandwhateverotherinitial community in the PA?
I cannot imagine living and working in a world — like in the media — where such blind obedience to the party line is essential. What a mental prison. Gross.
I am *not* wired that way. My dad was not wired that way. My kids are not, my grandparents were not, … just a completely foreign concept.
Stop dissing the Congresswomen From Palestine (™)
NYT: That hoax didn’t work. We need a new hoax.
Getting tired of this media garbage? Remember . . . decisively defeating the radical leftists is the best revenge.
Let’s do this!
Jeff Brokaw. You should read Whitttaker Chambers autobiography, “Witness”, his life as a committed undercover Communist. His description of how the party members behaved is exactly the way Bari Weiss and the editorial staff of the NYT behave, flipping the argument 180 as required by the party line instantly and arbitrarily. Nancy Pelosi is an expert at doing this and completely shameless about it.
Is this yet another case of President Trump playing four-dimensional chess while the democrats are playing Tic-Tac-Toe?
The vast majority of Americans – especially those of us here in the heartland – support Israel.
Yet seemingly all the democrats running for President have rushed to defend these two hard-core Israel-haters.
The press won’t bring it up.
But I imagine that no matter which of the clowns wins the democrat nomination they will be prominently featured in Republican ads showing their support of those two haters.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/08/19/digging-deeper-peter-beinarts-explanation-for-his-palestinian-terrorist-apologism-only-makes-him-look-worse/
Peter Beinart’s meltdown. One can imagine Martin Peretz saying, “Well, when I hired him, he wasn’t yet in the state where he had to be held together with psychotropics”.
It’s Bari Wiess. She’s always “openly admitting” that the Left is wrong. See here.
It’s like saying; “Max Boot openly admits that the Right does not know how to manage a global economy.” Max may be right or wrong. Bari too. But the statement in and off itself is not newsworthy.
“is the fact that Trump has lodged racist, horrible attacks on these women,…”
Um, where?
Remember, there were no scandals in the Obama administration. Our media know what to cover and what not to cover.
“If she ever chooses to leave the NYT, I’ll be very curious to see what she does. I think that’s an unlikely choice for her, though.”
She just got there, two years ago, from the Wall Street Journal. Before that she was with Tablet.
The NYT hired her at about the same time they hired Bret Stephens (also from the Journal). The NYT staff went crazy at the influx of these “conservatives,” although they immediately showed themselves to be no such thing.
Weiss calls herself a “left-leaning centrist.” I don’t know what Stephens calls himself these days. They are both good writers, but neither one seems to be standing up very well to their new environment. Sort of like when principled people get elected or appointed and go to Washington, D.C.; they almost always end up adjusting to the situation in ways that disappoint.
Talk about covering up. Take a look at this about China Joe Biden and his “lapses”.
See https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/six-times-biden-described-major-events-in-his-life-that-never-happened
Yet seemingly all the democrats running for President have rushed to defend these two hard-core Israel-haters.
Democrats do not have the sort of psyche which would permit authentic self-criticism and in addition you likely have a critical mass of Democrats who fancy this pair of gargoyles. I’d be interested to read the intramural memoranda sent to Pelosi by members of the black caucus; I’m wagering they’re running interference for these two.
OTOH, the Republican leadership threw Steve King under the bus for next-to-nothing. (Others treated this way were Roy Moore and Todd Akin; shivving someone the media considers outre is their default setting). The Democrats cannot identify their problems and the superintendents of the Fredocon Donorist Party identify non-problems as problems, ignoring their real problems. It all makes you wanna holler.
It’s Bari Wiess. She’s always “openly admitting” that the Left is wrong. See here.
Bari Weiss has an occasional commonsensical off-script thought, which enrages the rather loosely-wired crew of partisan Democrats on Twitter and which Martin Peretz’s daughter fancies means she ‘defies easy categorization’. Someone remind Evgenia Peretz that once-upon-a-time in American her father ran a publication that was a collecting pool of Democrats whose dissents from smelly little orthodoxies were neither trivial nor contrived. (If Bari Weiss actually did take Christine Blasey Fraud seriously, nothing Bari Weiss says about public life is worth reading).
“I miss the ability to edit a comment.”
It’s a hit or miss thing; sometimes editing is available for about 5 minutes after making a post. Other times, it isn’t.
This post argues that anti-Semites have now become a core part of the Democratic coalition:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/06/democrats_need_antisemites_to_win.html
Coverup is such a harsh term… we prefer something like, selective amnesia… leaving out facts which just aren’t supposed to be important. your not supposed to think on your own, from children, the ladies been dictating what words you can use, what thoughts you can have, even whether your real or not… OR ELSE…
happy happy joy joy…
William Voegeli writing at Claremont Review on the causes of the American left’s turn against Israel (hint, it seems they hate the national as such): The Chosen and the Woke
h/t Powerline blog
Second sdferr’s recommendation of Voegeli’s work.