If the mainstream media’s coverage of the situation with Gov. Ralph Northam in Virginia or some of the recent extreme behavior by Democrats in Congress are any indications, the strategy is to somehow deflect the blame from the actual parties involved.
Instead, they blame conservatives and Republicans for … pouncing.
On this point, Ben Shapiro is doing the pouncing.
Basic law of the media: the worse the screw-up by Democrats, the more the Republicans are guilty of pouncing. See, e.g., the media’s coverage of Team AOC’s abject lies about her insane Green New Deal backgrounder.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 10, 2019
He’s not wrong.
THERE it is! Team AOC gets help spinning Green New Deal FAQ-fail thanks to the ULTIMATE ‘conservatives pounce’ headline https://t.co/EuV0h2xKqH
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 9, 2019
Should it not be sort of an indictment on the “fact gatherers” that it takes them several turns of the story before they can settle on a narrative?
That plan is the hottest piece of garbage in recent political memory, and many in the media first treated it as an aspirational call, then gave credence to the lie that it was a GOP prank, then bought into the lie that it was a giant accident.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 10, 2019
And the sad part is that too many of them actually believe the lies they report and espouse.
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It is truly amazing how credulous so many of our journalistic firefighters become the moment they are confronted with the obvious silliness of some of their political favorites.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 10, 2019
It is as if they dwell in an alternate universe.
Looks like Business Insider might have removed the ‘conservatives pounce’ angle from its headline https://t.co/f3VXc8OyUy
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 10, 2019
Journalists haven’t been practicing actual journalism for years, and it seems as if journalists are the last people on earth to figure that out.
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Oh honey, NO! AOC’s thread on Green New Deal doubles down on a bunch of STUPID and all we can say is HELLO backfire https://t.co/VxhnIdsXxW via @twitchyteam
— The?FOO (@PolitiBunny) February 10, 2019
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