Alternate headline: Will the Washington Post put the Babylon Bee out of business? We have barely moved off square one in the progressive push to eliminate internal-combustion engines (ICEs), and we’re already hearing about the upcoming systemic racism in their proposed replacement. Here’s the headline, which is almost a satire in itself of the old joke about media reporting on the end of the world:
Without access to charging stations, Black and Hispanics communities may be left behind in the era of electric vehicles
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If the term “charging deserts” doesn’t convince you, how about … “mobility justice”?
Answer: When the black candidate is a Republican, and the protester is a progressive. Had the affiliations been the other way around in this encounter caught on video, the media would have feasted on it for weeks, and reporters would have demanded answers for it from every GOP candidate for office.
However, since it happened to my friend and Salem Radio colleague Larry Elder while walking through progressive Los Angeles, the media instead reported it as a “hostile confrontation.”
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Er … shouldn’t the physical assault be the lead here? Elder and his team didn’t cut the visit short over angry protests — they cut it short over the political violence being committed by Elder’s opponents. And why does it take the LAT until the fourth paragraph to mention the gorilla mask?
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At least the LA Times got around to that point at all, or even reporting on it. The local ABC affiliate never even mentions the mask, although at least the egg shows up in the lead:
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Note well the passive voice here — “An egg was thrown,” as though the egg itself bears the moral weight of its journey toward Elder. There isn’t a single mention of the woman wearing a gorilla mask, even though she’s clearly seen in video throwing the egg and later attacking at least one member of Elder’s entourage.
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Now imagine if this had happened to a black Democrat touring a suburban district or the Central Valley. Would ABC and the LA Times retreat to passive voice in that instance? Would the New York Times bury it in the 14th paragraph of an election round-up? Nonsense. It would be headline news in every national news outlet, and people would be screaming at prosecutors to charge the woman with a hate crime.
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Addendum: Well put:
National news outlets and journalists who all swear they heard a baseball fan yelling the N-word at a packed stadium suddenly have nothing to say when a person in a gorilla mask throws an egg at a black candidate for governor,
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 9, 2021
Hey, remember when Democrats nationalized Todd Akin? Let's demand that Democrats in other races & the DNC condemn Davis over this ad.
— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) October 10, 2014
The GOP is still stinging from Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” comments back in 2012, which might as well have come straight from Mitt Romney’s mouth as far as the…
Hey, remember when Democrats nationalized Todd Akin? Let's demand that Democrats in other races & the DNC condemn Davis over this ad.
— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) October 10, 2014
The GOP is still stinging from Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” comments back in 2012, which might as well have come straight from Mitt Romney’s mouth as far as the…
Hey, remember when Democrats nationalized Todd Akin? Let's demand that Democrats in other races & the DNC condemn Davis over this ad.
— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) October 10, 2014
The GOP is still stinging from Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” comments back in 2012, which might as well have come straight from Mitt Romney’s mouth as far as the…
After having pursued the original hate-crime narrative on behalf of Smollett, CNN’s Don Lemon seems concerned about, er … the loss of the narrative. “Jussie has lost the battle in the court of public opinion,” Lemon declares, and then says it may be “not his fault. Maybe people were — I don’t know what they were saying to him, maybe because of his representatives — who knows?”
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Huh? Smollett’s problem appears to be that he set up a hoax, and got suckers like Lemon to bite all the way to the bone on it. That’s not his “representatives'” fault, whatever Lemon means by that. Smollett has bigger losses in front of him right now than any in the court of public opinion. You don’t hire Mark Geragos in order to wage a PR campaign.
It’s curious too that Lemon’s biggest concern isn’t getting hoodwinked or exposed as a journalistic dilettante. It’s all the pouncing that conservatives will do over the media’s latest utter failure and false narrative about conservatives
Pundit Ed Morrissey - The Tami Jackson Show - 7PM PT
Pundit Ed Morrissey – The Tami Jackson Show – 7PM PT
Another Tuesday night means another terrific guest for The Tami Jackson Show*! Tonight I’ll be spending the entire hour with my guest, Ed Morrissey. Ed Morrissey has been writing about politics since 2003, first in his blog, Captain’s Quarters, and now as Senior Editor at HotAir.com, where he blogs and hosts a talk show. He is a columnist for The Week and The Fiscal Times, and his writing has…
