{"id":118657,"date":"2021-10-18T11:41:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=118657"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:41:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:41:51","slug":"leftist-journalist-wants-the-media-to-criticize-republicans-like-they-do-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=118657","title":{"rendered":"Leftist journalist wants the media to criticize Republicans like they do Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jackie Calmes, former New York Times reporter, penned an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times. She claims that when journalists and writers talk about “both sides”, with regards to an issue, she stops reading the article or listening to the news segment. In her article, she complained about how the conservatives are “ignoring truths”, and how the Republicans have “radicalized”. She also complained about criticisms against the Democrats while there appeared to be a lack equivalent level of criticisms towards the Republicans.<\/p>\n

From the Los Angeles Times:<\/span><\/p>\n

To the extent, then, that journalists and pundits focus critically on President Biden and Democrats and give short shrift to Republicans’ obstructions — as if the cancer of Trumpism was in remission, if not cured — that indeed distorts reality and disserves readers, listeners and viewers.<\/p>\n

Democracy is literally at stake: As Republicans block federal voting rights legislation, those in red states continue to challenge the 2020 votes for Biden (but not their own), pass laws to suppress future votes in ways disadvantageous to Democrats, gerrymander legislative districts and replace nonpartisan election overseers with partisan ones.<\/p>\n

In Congress, the Democrats’ disarray, to use a favorite alliterative phrase of journalists, is real and merits dissection. But it must be said that it owes much to the fact that Democrats, with their minimal House and Senate majorities, can’t count on a single Republican vote for most legislation, while one Republican senator can routinely block action with a filibuster.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the scrapping between liberals such as Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and moderate Democratic holdouts Sens. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona over potentially transformative domestic spending proposals reflects the normal debate process.<\/p>\n

Numerous news reports suggest that Biden is politically liable for the persistence of COVID-19. Yet many are silent on Republicans’ opposition to his efforts promoting vaccines and masks, and the not coincidental fact that the rates of hospitalizations and deaths are highest in red states. Trumpists on social media seem to gloat over high case numbers. “COVID is raging out of control,” Trump himself said in an anti-Biden statement Wednesday. “Do you miss me yet?”<\/p>\n

This is a Republican Party that is not serious about governing or addressing the nation’s actual problems, as opposed to faux ones like critical race theory.<\/p>\n

Healthcare costs, child care, climate change, income inequality, you name it — Republicans don’t even acknowledge the problems, let alone propose solutions. Statewide candidates from Nevada to Virginia echo Trump in claiming that addressing (nonexistent) election fraud is, as he put it in another statement Wednesday, “the single most important thing for Republicans to do.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You could read the entire opinion piece at this Los Angeles Times link<\/a>. Fox News provided an article about this opinion piece here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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