Reuters on Mastriano posing in Confederate uniform (SPOILER: It's different when Democrats do it)

Reuters broke an exclusive story today, revealing an April 9, 2014 photo of Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate, Doug Mastriano, posing in a Confederate uniform. Notice how they give the plot away immediately by calling him ‘Trump-backed’?

Look, we don’t like GOP candidates dressing up as Democrats either (we see you, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger), but what is the aim of this Reuters piece?

SCOOP – Three years before retiring from the U.S. Army in 2017, Donald Trump-backed Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano posed in Confederate uniform for a faculty photo at the Army War College, according to a copy of the photo obtained by Reuters. pic.twitter.com/xYDJiY4gFB

— Phil Stewart (@phildstewart) August 26, 2022

Typical of today’s left-wing media, the story presents the newsworthy part (the photo) but also insinuates a 30-year US Army colonel, combat veteran, and doctor (the Jill Biden kind, but for history) might just be a white supremacist. You’d think Reuters would do a little legwork to uncover Mastriano lamenting the loss of Johnny Reb and pining for the South to rise again, if such a thing existed. A simple Google search (so simple a Chimp could do it) would have revealed Mastriano narrating a video and commenting on the Confederate defeat at Gettysburg just three months after the photo in question was taken (source).

” … and it’s because of this we have a United States. Had we lost this day in Gettysburg on the first, second, or third of July 1863, there would be no United States as we know it today.”

It’s pretty clear the ‘we’ Mastriano is identifying with is not the South because the Democrats … er … Confederates lost the Civil War. Reuters has no interest in presenting information like this because their goal is to persuade voters to vote for Democrats. This is why nobody trusts the media anymore.

Oh, but the totally honest and not-at-all Democrat lapdog, Reuters, made sure to fact check that claim. They rated it ‘Partly false’ because ‘Byrd was never the grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.’ True. Byrd was an ‘Exalted Cyclops’, the leader of his Klan chapter and a KKK recruiter. Numerous other Reuters fact checks of Byrd’s racist past provide similar cover for the former Klan member who became a darling of the Democrats, including President Biden.

Democrat Senator Robert Byrd appeared in Confederate uniform, too. He was an official in the Ku Klux Klan and also associated with some other dubious characters. pic.twitter.com/e2I6a2YRSg

— Jim Maruschak🆒️ (@JimMaruschak) August 26, 2022

‘But Byrd was sorry, or the parties switched, or something, you racist!’

Let’s see him top this! pic.twitter.com/df81IsV5sC

— Patrick Eden (@PatrickEden11) August 27, 2022

Reuters also covered this gem in February 2019 with the headline Virginia governor apologizes for racist photo but resists growing calls to quit. The ‘calls to quit’ were coming from Democrats pouncing, not Republicans for a change, and Reuters played along. By May, Northam had denied being in the photo, after admitting to being in the photo, and Reuters toed the line again: Virginia governor’s role in blackface yearbook photo unclear, school says.

Hacks.

Can @JarrettRenshaw or @phildstewart please explain to us how Reuters was able to learn about this *before* the Pennsylvania governor’s election, but somehow Reuters didn’t tell Virginians that @RalphNortham posed in blackface or a klan robe before he became our governor? https://t.co/Ny38DNeuN6

— (((Aaron Walker))) (@AaronWorthing) August 26, 2022

Good question. ‘jOuRnaLiSts dOn’T piCk SiDeS!’ or something.