Vox is known for hot takes, but note how you don’t even have to read past the tweet to be told that the deadly Fast and Furious gun-running scandal, Hillary Clinton’s off-the-grid homebrew email server, and the 7,000-person migrant caravan intent on overwhelming our Southern border are all “unimportant nonsense.” (Don’t worry, we’ll get to Benghazi.)
From Fast & Furious to "lock her up" to the caravan, conservatives have mastered the art of dominating the news agenda with unimportant nonsense. https://t.co/6r7Gkcf9lj
— Vox (@voxdotcom) October 23, 2018
So now Vox is going to tell us that Republicans shape the news, even after every liberal on Twitter has confirmed that Fox News is the only cable news outlet with a conservative bias?
Blame this hot mess on Matthew Yglesias:
The hack gap has two core pillars. One is the constellation of conservative media outlets — led by Fox News and other Rupert Murdoch properties like the Wall Street Journal editorial page, but also including Sinclair Broadcasting in local television, much of AM talk radio, and new media offerings such as Breitbart and the Daily Caller — that simply abjure anything resembling journalism in favor of propaganda.
The other is that the self-consciousness journalists at legacy outlets have about accusations of liberal bias leads them to bend over backward to allow the leading conservative gripes of the day to dominate the news agenda. Television producers who would never dream of assigning segments where talking heads debate whether it’s bad that the richest country on earth also has millions of children growing up in dire poverty think nothing of chasing random conservative shiny objects, from “Fast & Furious” (remember that one?) to Benghazi to the migrant caravan.
As a matter of fact, we do remember Fast and Furious. We even remember the name of the Border Patrol agent killed because of that botched operation: Brian Terry. Remember the name of the ambassador killed in Benghazi? We do: Chris Stevens. Better yet, remember the YouTube video that started it all?
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OK, and the idea that CNN and the New York Times are “bending over backward” to avoid accusations of liberal bias? Please.
The dumbest piece I’ve read this year. Surpassing all other dumb pieces by the absolutely hapless Yglesias.
— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) October 23, 2018
THE LEFT:
Benghazi = "unimportant nonsense"
Hillary breaking the law = "unimportant nonsense"
7000 migrants violating our national sovereignty = "unimportant nonsense"
Obama selling guns to drug lords = "unimportant nonsense"
Kanye hugs Trump = END OF OUR DEMOCRACY! https://t.co/ZRrLBvDnW8
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) October 23, 2018
It's telling that you think the migrant mob is unimportant.
— Deplorable EricD ?? (@TheMotleyMind) October 23, 2018
Concerns about thousands of people marching towards our border is “unimportant nonsense?!” Smh
— Madison Morris (@madisonc_morris) October 23, 2018
I prefer "Invasion" over "Caravan"
— John Brown (@Aintnoseats08) October 23, 2018
Good to know that you think @BarackObama running illegal guns into Mexico is “unimportant nonsense” #WhatMediaBias
— Gregimus (@murgatr0id) October 23, 2018
Do you know how many people died because of Fast & Furious?
— Rusty Weiss ??? (@rustyweiss74) October 23, 2018
Brian Terry is unavailable to comment on what you perceive as "nonsense"
— Sandy appreciates you! (@RightGlockMom) October 23, 2018
I guess none of Brian Terry's Family works at VOX?
— Jim Cooper (@JimCoopr) October 23, 2018
Border agent Brian Terry was gunned down by one of the guns from the F&F. I guess that's unimportant to you. Wow.
— Jennifer Lingle (@Iron_Jingleen) October 23, 2018
So the deaths of Americans at the hands of the @BarackObama administration is unimportant nonsense. Got it @voxdotcom #sickreporting
— JC (@JCtothe3rdegree) October 23, 2018
So dead Americans and lawlessness are now unimportant nonsense? ? #FakeNews
— ROME ツ (@romanmestas) October 23, 2018
Fast in the Furious was about delivering THOUSANDS of (ultimately) untraceable weapons to Mexican drug cartels. The party of gun control thinks that's NOT important, "Lock her up" was to her use of a private server,against the law to handle TOP SECRET & classified data.
— A.B. Sak (@ABSaks) October 23, 2018
1) selling guns to cartels 2) unsecured classified info on server (felony) All major issues to Americans who believe in the rule of law.
— Preston White (@PrestonWhite12) October 23, 2018
Mitt Romney is going to strap a dog to a roof and then fire Big Bird though, right? https://t.co/jPPI40fxJl
— Orange Muppet Energy (@sunnyright) October 23, 2018
I guess we should start talking about trans gender bathrooms or how many diet cokes Trump drinks?
— Chris ?? (@HuntingOregon) October 23, 2018
Here’s a great mini-thread:
This whole piece shows how left-leaning outlets don't see their viewpoint as a viewpoint, but as the default position. To say "progressive media is more infused with the values of journalism," I say — have you read your own piece or anything on outlets like Salon and Slate?
— Lecture Cloak (@mediascaper) October 23, 2018
1. Yglesias's article reduces to this: whatever conservatives say they care about, they actually don't. A perspective that is rather convenient if you're a liberal who doesn't want to engage in hearing out ideas to which you're opposed. Yglesias looks at a study that says…
— Lecture Cloak (@mediascaper) October 23, 2018
2. …Repubs would lose more if not for Fox, and he thinks this is an indictment of Fox rather than of the mainstream media and it's monolithic approach to the realm of ideas.
— Lecture Cloak (@mediascaper) October 23, 2018
3. Watch CNN or MSNBC and its lineup of editorializing shows that feature a single guest conservative among a panel of three or more, directed by a moderator who promotes the left-leaning viewpoint, and you'll see what it means to control the context and limits of a discussion.
— Lecture Cloak (@mediascaper) October 23, 2018
4. Yglesias can't see this because it's all normal to him. He doesn't realize that MSM jumps on right-wing talking points not because of self-consciousness over "liberal bias" but because those positions are seen as bizarre and indefensible to them. So they bring heat and viewers
— Lecture Cloak (@mediascaper) October 23, 2018
Considering this "unimportant nonsense" is why Trump won. You've had 2 years to figure that simple point out, yet here you remain, smug and obtuse to it all. Amazing.
— Jeff Adams (@JeffAdams82) October 23, 2018
Oh, Vox. You're just… awful.
— Ghosts Of Home (@SteelerChris) October 23, 2018
This is bad, even for Vox.
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Matt Yglesias: Trump 'hopes that his fans will murder journalists so that he won’t be criticized as much' https://t.co/QaKfHsUBNa
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 20, 2018
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