Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy, CNN&#8217;s in-house cheerleaders for censoring or squelching conservative media outlets, celebrated a letter in which Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee pressed TV providers to punish right-wing spreaders of so-called &#8220;misinformation.&#8221;
California Reps. Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney asked, &#8220;What moral or ethical principles (including those related to journalistic integrity, violence, medical information, and public health) do you apply in deciding which channels to carry or when to take adverse actions against a channel?&#8221;
CNN exudes arrogance about its own performance, never worrying that TV providers will question the quality of its information or its journalistic integrity. One major provider is AT&amp;T, which owns CNN. Another is Comcast, which owns NBC, CNBC and MSNBC. So those providers dumping Fox or putting them in a more obscure tier would look like a crass commercial move, not some public-spirited stand.
Critics can easily assemble a pile of examples of CNN sloppily spreading misinformation during Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency:
— Nov. 16, 2020: CNN spent 23 minutes promoting a South Dakota nurse who claimed her coronavirus patients were so deluded that they denied the virus was real even as they were dying. That was challenged as &#8220;fake news.&#8221;
— Sept. 16, 2018: CNN spent 67 minutes promoting The New York Times&#8217; unverified tale that Brett Kavanaugh exposed himself to Deborah Ramirez in his college years.
The Times then sheepishly added an editor&#8217;s note saying that Ramirez &#8220;declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident.&#8221; CNN only spent three minutes on the correction. Anchor John King disparaged Republicans for pointing at this correction as an attempt &#8220;to steer you away from the substance.&#8221;
— July 26, 2018: CNN reported that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen would tell federal investigators that Trump knew of the controversial Trump Tower meeting to get dirt on Hillary Clinton from the Russians before it took place. A month later, Axios reported that Cohen didn&#8217;t actually know whether Trump had any knowledge of the meeting. Then, Buzzfeed exposed Cohen&#8217;s lawyer Lanny Davis as CNN&#8217;s secret source — after Davis lied on CNN that he wasn&#8217;t the source.
— April 16, 2018: In a sign of CNN&#8217;s aggressive exploitation of the unverified Steele dossier, NewsBusters reported that a review of five days of transcripts found 77 separate mentions of the absurd claim that there was a videotape of Trump paying prostitutes to urinate on one another — the alleged &#8220;pee tapes.&#8221; No tapes ever emerged.
— June 22, 2017: CNN&#8217;s Thomas Frank reported that Congress was investigating a &#8220;Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials,&#8221; especially Anthony Scaramucci. The report was later retracted. Frank and two other CNN employees resigned in the fallout.
— June 6, 2017: CNN reported that in impending congressional testimony, former FBI Director James Comey was going to refute Donald Trump&#8217;s claim that Comey told Trump three times he was not under investigation. Instead, Comey did the opposite and confirmed Trump&#8217;s claim.
We won&#8217;t even go into all the wild CNN talk of Trump being like Hitler or Stalin, or Brian Stelter&#8217;s guest who said Trump would kill more people than Hitler, Stalin and Mao combined. CNN pretends this is vital, democracy-saving information, not garishly cartoonish garbage.
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GRAHAM: CNN Should Shut Up About ‘Misinformation’

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The liberal-Democrat media celebrated Valentine&#8217;s Day a traditional way: gushy tributes to the new first lady. On Feb. 12, Jill Biden tweeted on her @FLOTUS Twitter account a photo of herself, with a scrunchie in her hair, at a Washington, D.C., bakery picking up &#8220;Valentine&#8217;s treats for the weekend.&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t tell Joe,&#8221; she joked.
Glamour magazine posted an article titled &#8220;First Lady Jill Biden Wore a Scrunchie While Shopping and People Felt So Seen.&#8221; New York Times reporter Claire Cain Miller tweeted, &#8220;Loving the scrunchie energy.&#8221;
A Washington Post &#8220;PowerPost&#8221; headline read, &#8220;Scrunchies and dog walking: the country gets a taste of Jill Biden&#8217;s radical normalcy.&#8221;
On Twitter, I asked the author of this puffery, Jacqueline Alemany, &#8220;What is &#8216;radical normalcy&#8217;?&#8221; No reply.
Alemany boosted the PR stunt, writing: &#8220;Biden&#8217;s scrunchie that really lit up the Internet. Leave it to a scrunchie to capture the zeitgeist of President Biden&#8217;s promise to &#8216;return to normalcy,&#8217; a stark departure from the &#8216;I don&#8217;t really care&#8217; message sent by Trump.&#8221;
She&#8217;d begun by mocking Melania Trump and the &#8220;$51,000 Dolce &amp; Gabbana multicolored floral jacket&#8221; she wore in Sicily in 2017.
The most ludicrous line was this: &#8220;Jill Biden&#8217;s laissez-faire approach to her public image and affectionate relationship with her husband may foreshadow a different approach to the traditionally staid and formal office of the first lady.&#8221;
There is nothing &#8220;laissez-faire&#8221; in &#8220;Dr.&#8221; Biden&#8217;s public image. The tweet itself is carefully curated, down to the selection of a black-owned bakery. This is the way the Bidens and the Obamas use social media: to sell themselves as loving and &#8220;relatable&#8221; people. It&#8217;s informal poses. It&#8217;s campaign work. Alemany&#8217;s article was just more of the sales job.
Alemany turned to her Post colleague Mary Jordan, who authored a negative book on Melania called &#8220;The Art of Her Deal&#8221;: &#8220;She&#8217;d be unlikely to ever be caught dead in a scrunchie — &#8216;unless it was Chanel,&#8217; Jordan joked.&#8221; Jordan also crowed that &#8220;Melania Trump was the most put together person and Jill comes across as a relatable mom, teacher, wife and woman — she&#8217;s relatable in a way that Melania never was.&#8221;
She echoed that with author Kate Anderson Brower: &#8220;Dr. Biden has already been out and about in Washington more publicly than her predecessor was in four years,&#8221; she boasted. &#8220;Biden has had decades of experience being herself in public and she&#8217;s obviously much more comfortable holding her husband&#8217;s hand and being a demonstrably loving mother and grandmother when the world is watching. &#8230; I think we need that right now.&#8221;
Who, precisely, is &#8220;we&#8221;?
Melania Trump began her tenure as first lady behind the eight ball. First, the liberal media always adores first ladies who are Ivy League-educated lawyers or career educators, not just — ick — wives. Second, her beauty was deployed against her: She was seen as &#8220;arm candy,&#8221; a &#8220;trophy wife.&#8221; She resisted any attempt at public affection for the cameras. Comedians mocked their marriage, insisting it was like a prison and that she wanted to claw out of it. She didn&#8217;t go for magazine cover articles or go &#8220;out and about in Washington,&#8221; for fear of all the poison pens.
The same media outlets who treated the Trumps&#8217; marriage as a cynical ongoing negotiation lunged to portray Bill and Hillary Clinton as an inspiring romance, a baby-boomer Belle and the Beast.
The Bidens may be great lovers. But everything at the White House has a large degree of calculation in it. Everyone should know the gushing liberal newspapers and magazines are aggressively engaged in the politics of humanization.
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GRAHAM: Melania Haters Now Loving Jill Biden

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One of the easiest things to predict about the end of Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency was that anti-Trump journalists would eventually feel a heated rush of nostalgia about their heroic crusade to keep democracy from dying. But it came earlier than expected.
Alexander Nazaryan of Yahoo News wrote a piece for the Democrat-endorsing website The Atlantic that was originally headlined &#8220;I Miss the Thrill of Trump.&#8221; He unintentionally caused laughter when he wrote: &#8220;Covering the administration was thrilling for many journalists, in the way that I imagine storming Omaha Beach must have been for a 20-year-old fresh from the plains of Kansas. He hadn&#8217;t signed up for battle, but there he was, liberating France. &#8230; This was our Omaha Beach. I, for one, would have rather been in Hawaii.&#8221;
Critics were quick to mock the idea that zinging Trump at a briefing was like the Omaha Beach scene in &#8220;Saving Private Ryan.&#8221; CNN host Jim Acosta and the rest were all GI Joe with a kung-fu grip on the microphone. Reporters do risk their lives in war zones, countries with dictatorships and terrorist neighborhoods. That&#8217;s what makes this kind of prose from Washington-based reporters sound so wildly exaggerated. But it ably illustrates the liberal media&#8217;s overwhelming self-regard.
The article headline, which was probably not a sentiment in line with the Trump impeachment crusade, was transformed by The Atlantic into &#8220;I Was an Enemy of the People,&#8221; surely meant with a wink, since The People should always be grateful for heroic journalists.
For a moment, Nazaryan expresses a desire to hold President Joe Biden accountable and laments how the new team is &#8220;crushingly on message.&#8221; But mostly, there are more ridiculous historical metaphors.
&#8220;(O)utside of North Korea,&#8221; Nazaryan wrote, a journalist&#8217;s job is not &#8220;to lavish a country&#8217;s leader with hagiographic rhetoric, although the conservative media did its best.&#8221;
Somehow, Nazaryan slept through the dominant liberal media&#8217;s eight years of Obamagasms. Just recall when then-CNN host Piers Morgan felt pity for then-President Obama&#8217;s uglier successors. &#8220;After the perfect Barack Obama, who&#8217;s a perfect physical specimen to many people&#8217;s eyes, does it matter?&#8221; he asked.
Then turn back to Nazaryan, who said Trump is like Osama: &#8220;To simply point out that Trump had improbably managed to alight on the correct course of action was to have written a favorable profile of Osama bin Laden.&#8221;
And like Stalin: &#8220;We should be grateful that Trump energized the profession. Is that sort of like saying that Stalinism energized interest in Siberia? Maybe, I guess.&#8221;
Nazaryan is leaving these rhetorical road apples all over the internet. The Los Angeles Times assigned him to review Andy Ngo&#8217;s anti-antifa book &#8220;Unmasked,&#8221; and he leaped for the Nazi-propagandist metaphor: &#8220;Every act of violence by antifa, meanwhile, is described so meticulously and ominously that Herr Goebbels would have been proud.&#8221;
This is nothing new for this writer. In 2016, he tweeted a black-and-white picture of Nazis with the caption &#8220;Ted Cruz has a strong ground game in Iowa.&#8221;
Liberal journalists sometimes act befuddled as to why they are portrayed as wildly opinionated partisans who shouldn&#8217;t get to pose as The People&#8217;s representatives at press conferences. Alexander Nazaryan is making that argument very easy. No one needs to storm a beach to prove that.
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GRAHAM: Reporters Glorify Themselves Into GI Joe

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If the name Tatiana Schlossberg sounds like a brand for white privilege, you would be right. She&#8217;s not a top chef or fashion designer. She&#8217;s the 30-year-old daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg, the granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy. Like Maria Shriver at NBC News, Tatiana became an &#8220;objective journalist&#8221; for a while, covering the environment for The New York Times from 2014 to 2017.
When she wrote a book in 2019 called &#8220;Inconspicuous Consumption,&#8221; NBC put her on TV and pushed her to run for office. She deferred, saying she is a journalist &#8230; a political activist of a different stripe.
On Jan. 24, she reviewed three books on &#8220;environmental disaster&#8221; for The New York Times Book Review. One book had an especially provocative title: &#8220;How to Blow Up a Pipeline,&#8221; by a far-left Swedish professor named Andreas Malm. It was published on Jan. 5 by Verso Books, which calls itself &#8220;the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world.&#8221;
That was one day before the terrible, violent riot on Capitol Hill.
Verso&#8217;s promotional blurb for this latest version of a Unabomber treatise is really something. &#8220;In this lyrical manifesto, noted climate scholar (and saboteur of SUV tires and coal mines) Andreas Malm makes an impassioned call for the climate movement to escalate its tactics in the face of ecological collapse,&#8221; it says. &#8220;We need, he argues, to force fossil fuel extraction to stop — with our actions, with our bodies, and by defusing and destroying its tools. We need, in short, to start blowing up some oil pipelines.&#8221;
It seems intellectually incoherent for The New York Times to cheer social media platforms for squashing voices that promoted conspiracy theories about Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;landslide victory&#8221; because they might lead to violence &#8230; and then offer space to a book advocating property destruction.
Online, The Times promoted it with the headline &#8220;Three Books Offer New Ways to Think About Environmental Disaster.&#8221; When it comes to Big Energy (as opposed to Big Government), a few pipeline bombs offer &#8220;new ways to think,&#8221; an expansion of our ecological possibilities.
Schlossberg calls it &#8220;a compelling but frustrating treatise.&#8221; She says, &#8220;one of the most satisfying parts of his book comes when he brutally dispatches with &#8216;climate fatalists.'&#8221; (Perhaps when reviewing a book that endorses blowing stuff up, the words &#8220;brutally&#8221; and &#8220;dispatches&#8221; should be avoided.)
She loves how Malm writes that &#8220;climate fatalism is for those on top.&#8221; But here&#8217;s the poster girl for white privilege, a roving global correspondent born &#8220;on top,&#8221; promoting violence against energy companies, which provide jobs to Americans in flyover states much less privileged than she is.
This Kennedy princess insists Malm doesn&#8217;t offer &#8220;any actual instructions&#8221; for explosions. She concludes, &#8220;the problem with violence, even if it&#8217;s meant only to destroy &#8216;fossil capital,&#8217; is that ultimately it&#8217;s impossible to control.&#8221; That&#8217;s true.
Philosophically, one can ask whether it would be advisable or appropriate to publish a book titled &#8220;How to Blow Up a Book Publisher.&#8221; Did Verso Books ever consider that, or whether someone who&#8217;s hurt (or whose family members are killed) in a pipeline explosion could sue for damages?
And shouldn&#8217;t Biden&#8217;s Department of Homeland Security broaden its focus on &#8220;domestic terrorism&#8221; from merely the far Right to the far Left? The left&#8217;s attempt to place the entire terrorism narrative on the right is completely undermined by its promotion of noxious books like this.
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GRAHAM: How to Blow Up The Left’s Terrorist Narrative

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Pardon me if I laugh when reporters tout that some politician they like is posing as being &#8220;above the fray.&#8221; This fray is something reporters usually force politicians to confront. If politicians are effortlessly floating above it, reporters are allowing it.
The day House Democrats forced through a very rushed second impeachment of President Donald Trump, a New York Times front-page headline below the fold read, &#8220;Biden Stays Above the Fray To Focus on Mounting Crises.&#8221;
Translation: &#8220;Biden Allowed to Pose as Bravely Focusing on the People&#8217;s Business, With Our Help.&#8221;
Reporters Michael Shear and Michael Crowley were mere Mike-rophones for the Biden message. Biden &#8220;has maintained a studied cool, staying largely removed from the searing debate that culminated on Wednesday with President Trump&#8217;s impeachment and keeping his focus on battling a deadly pandemic, reviving a faltering economy and lowering the political temperature,&#8221; they wrote.
He had a &#8220;studied cool&#8221; as he spent the last week &#8220;honing policy proposals and introducing new appointees while delivering a carefully calibrated, above-the-fray message.&#8221;
That obviously includes The Times&#8217; own careful calibration into the Biden PR team.
Michael and Michael present Biden&#8217;s &#8220;cautious, centrist approach to politics&#8221; in contrast with &#8220;the seething anger of many elected Democratic officials.&#8221; Caution is &#8220;centrist.&#8221; Avoiding the press is &#8220;centrist.&#8221; With all the jokes about Biden having hidden in the basement during most of the campaign, perhaps the metaphor for his strategy ought to be &#8220;below the fray.&#8221;
The Times pulls quotes from Biden statements, because who needs to ask a question? There&#8217;s not a whisper of anonymous dissent, no hint of &#8220;senior Biden advisers shared opinions off the record so they could speak candidly.&#8221; To evaluate Biden and his path forward, The Times also helpfully quotes Rep. James Clyburn (an early Biden endorser) and his Team Obama colleagues Robert Gibbs and David Axelrod.
Gibbs is there to acknowledge that Biden won&#8217;t find it easy to be &#8220;above the fray&#8221; once he becomes president. Thanks, Captain Obvious.
But wait, someone might protest, is there a Republican quoted in there? There is! Stuart Stevens, one of Mitt Romney&#8217;s top presidential campaign advisers in 2012 and an &#8220;outspoken&#8221; Trump critic, agreed with the dominant Biden-boosting spin. &#8220;I think he looks calm,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Part of this whole moment is a return to normalcy.&#8221; He added that the &#8220;Biden people&#8221; have &#8220;been very patient.&#8221;
Really? Speaking of &#8220;calm&#8221; and &#8220;normalcy,&#8221; Stevens responded in the hours after the horrid rioting on Capitol Hill by spouting on MSNBC that Trump was &#8220;calling on American terrorists to attack the Capitol, which they did more successfully than 9/11 terrorists.&#8221; Stevens sounds exactly like one of those &#8220;seething&#8221; Democrats. He&#8217;s not a cautious centrist.
A colleague of mine was amused by a paragraph that is solely published in the online version of the column. It mentions when, in 2009, then-President Barack Obama dared to circumnavigate the &#8220;seethers&#8221; on former President George W. Bush. &#8220;Mr. Obama approved the public release of Bush White House memos authorizing the use of torture against terrorist suspects,&#8221; they wrote. &#8220;But in a long and Solomonic statement, Mr. Obama called for &#8216;reflection, not retribution&#8217; on a subject that had some Democrats calling for war crimes prosecutions.&#8221;
Obama apparently had all the wisdom of King Solomon. This neatly matches the time frame when then-Times reporter Jeff Zeleny asked Obama during a nationally televised press conference, &#8220;During these first 100 days, what has &#8230; Enchanted you the most from serving in this office?&#8221;
The Times is choosing Biden over the red-hot Democratic &#8220;seethers&#8221; as it seeks to &#8220;maintain his political viability within the system,&#8221; to borrow from an old Bill Clinton mantra. In The Times&#8217; book, Trump is cooked and Biden needs to promote his own liberal agenda. &#8220;The president-elect tries to project calm,&#8221; it writes, and it is the most cooperative projector.
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GRAHAM: Media Boost Biden As ‘Above The Fray’

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The Poynter Institute is a Florida-based journalism organization that runs PolitiFact. On Poynter.org, a daily media report runs by Tom Jones, who sounds like Brian Stelter&#8217;s identically thinking twin. Poynter says it supports &#8220;responsible news and fact-based information,&#8221; but its incessant party line of liberal-media cheerleading and conservative-media loathing really came through when Jones made a list of the &#8220;best and worst of news media in 2020.&#8221;
Best national news: &#8220;ABC&#8217;s David Muir, with his steady presence behind the desk, is leading what has become the best network evening newscast.&#8221; But he loves CBS and NBC, too! &#8220;All, however, are good, and that includes the &#8216;PBS NewsHour&#8217; with outstanding anchor Judy Woodruff,&#8221; he said.
Best Sunday-morning interview program: &#8220;Meet the Press.&#8221; Chuck Todd &#8220;isn&#8217;t beloved by all viewers, and often is beat up in the Twitter world, but I will never understand that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;His interview skills &#8230; are as good as anyone in the business.&#8221;
Most controversial op-ed: Sen. Tom Cotton&#8217;s New York Times piece. That&#8217;s probably true, but Jones said that &#8220;Cotton advocated sending in the military to break up those protesting police brutality and racism.&#8221; That&#8217;s misleading. Cotton advocated sending in the military to stop rioting . He wrote, &#8220;A majority who seek to protest peacefully shouldn&#8217;t be confused with bands of miscreants.&#8221;
Dumbest editorial: The New York Times, for endorsing both Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Sen. Elizabeth Warren for president. &#8220;Seriously? The whole point of an endorsement is to help voters by endorsing one,&#8221; he said. This crew was his only liberal target.
Biggest breakout star: Abby Phillip on CNN, for her &#8220;measured, yet provocative voice whenever CNN turns to her for commentary.&#8221; He added, &#8220;Put it this way: If I&#8217;m flipping by CNN and she&#8217;s talking, I stop and listen.&#8221;
Worst excuse for news organizations: the &#8220;irresponsible, reckless and damaging programming that you see on One America News Network and Newsmax,&#8221; especially OANN&#8217;s eager transmission of the unsupported claim that President Donald Trump won the presidential election &#8220;in a landslide.&#8221;
Best show about the media: Brian Stelter&#8217;s &#8220;Reliable Sources.&#8221;
Best book about the media: Stelter&#8217;s anti-Fox News screed &#8220;Hoax.&#8221; (Twins!)
Most dangerous network: &#8220;Fox News people won&#8217;t like to hear this and they refuse to believe it, but no news organization does more harm than America&#8217;s most-watched cable news network,&#8221; he said.
Best debate moderator: Kristen Welker of NBC News. She &#8220;was in full command&#8221; of the third presidential debate.
Best changing of the guard: &#8220;outstanding&#8221; Joy Reid, who took over for Chris Matthews on MSNBC.
Biggest hurdle to a free press in the U.S.: President Donald Trump and White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. &#8220;With her lies and childish attacks, she is in the running for worst White House press secretary ever,&#8221; he said.
Hardest workers: &#8220;Did anyone work harder in journalism this year than Poynter&#8217;s PolitiFact and International Fact-Checking Network, CNN&#8217;s Daniel Dale, The Washington Post&#8217;s Glenn Kessler, The Associated Press&#8217; Karen Mahabir and anyone else who fact-checks for a living?&#8221; he asks.
Most versatile: Savannah Guthrie for her &#8220;solid work&#8221; on the &#8220;Today&#8221; show and her &#8220;take-no-guff town hall with President Trump. Her work grilling the president and keeping him on point was excellent.&#8221;
Things he really liked in the media this year: late-night hosts Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers. &#8220;Roasting politicians and commenting on politics have been late-night staples forever, but the commentary of Colbert and Meyers this year was hilarious and biting,&#8221; he said.
Things he really hated this year: &#8220;Pretty much everything said on Fox News&#8217; &#8216;The Five,&#8217; especially if it was coming out of Greg Gutfeld&#8217;s mouth.&#8221;
Oh, and Jones also hates Rick Santorum on CNN. Because all the liberals don&#8217;t want conservatives to, as liberal blog Crooks and Liars says, &#8220;muddy up their political panels&#8221; on CNN.
Liberals good, conservatives bad: That&#8217;s the Poynter Institute for you.
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GRAHAM: The Year In Favoritism Toward Liberal Bias

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Way back on Nov. 13, Washington D.C., radio station WASH-FM flipped the switch to its annual 24/7 Christmas music rotation. That&#8217;s about two weeks before the rest of America. After the severely limited year of 2020, it&#8217;s understandable more people would haul out the holly and get in the spirit early, but many on social media cried, &#8220;No Christmas music until after Thanksgiving!&#8221;
I love Christmas music, both secular and religious. I have boxes of compact discs, too many to play in one day. So much of the WASH playlist is composed of rock-era standards that celebrate the bells and the trees and the sleigh pulled by reindeer. &#8220;Jingle Bell Rock&#8221; and &#8220;Rockin&#8217; Around the Christmas Tree&#8221; seem like they&#8217;re scheduled hourly, followed by &#8220;Frosty the Snowman&#8221; and &#8220;Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer&#8221; and &#8220;Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.&#8221;
On Twitter, conservative Casey Mattox wrote that these festivities shouldn&#8217;t start before Thanksgiving and then noted that Catholics lecture, &#8220;Well, actually, Christmas BEGINS on Dec. 25. You&#8217;re thinking of Advent.&#8221; He then joked that these people are fussy and didactic, saying, &#8220;Catholics are the Neil DeGrasse Tyson of Christmas.&#8221;
As a Catholic, I know we can be very serious about the Advent season. Some refuse to get out the tree and decorate until Dec. 25 is nigh. While WASH-FM will go back to its mellow, middle-of-the-road pop music at about noon on Christmas, Catholics celebrate the 12 days of Christmas (starting at the birth of Christ and ending on the feast of the Epiphany), or continue one more week to the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord.
The best Christmas songs are saved for those 12 days. In Advent, there&#8217;s &#8220;O Come Divine Messiah&#8221; and &#8220;O Come O Come Emmanuel.&#8221; We have to wait patiently for &#8220;Silent Night,&#8221; &#8220;O Holy Night&#8221; and &#8220;O Come, All Ye Faithful.&#8221; It feels joyful and triumphant to arrive.
Just as we couldn&#8217;t have a church choir for Easter, there won&#8217;t be a choir for Christmas either. The lockdowns also prevented the annual controversy over bringing Christmas songs into public schools, with many bans in the name of &#8220;tolerance&#8221; and &#8220;inclusion.&#8221; Even the secular songs about a &#8220;winter wonderland of snow&#8221; are considered microaggressions.
Some are still active with macroaggressions. The Satanic Temple bought billboards in Dallas, Houston and Miami during the holidays to promote its &#8220;religious abortion ritual&#8221; to &#8220;sanctify the abortion process.&#8221; One billboard mock-up apparently shows a woman holding up a tiny Adolf Hitler with the words &#8220;What If Abortion Had Been an Option?&#8221;
This sounds precisely like the way Satan would try to tempt people into the sin of murder — by proposing it as the sincerest kind of know-it-all humanitarianism. It&#8217;s also egregiously satanic to divert attention from the birth of a savior to tout so-called &#8220;religious abortion rituals.&#8221;
For all of us who celebrate it, Christmas should be a joy, and a challenge. Can we try harder to live up to the idea of peace on Earth, good will to men? We might need a military solution for the Hitlers, but we can certainly try to be more peaceful to our fellow Americans &#8230; maybe starting with the temptations of righteous slams on social media.
The focus on cultivating our own faith and hope and charity brings me back to a favorite Bing Crosby song, &#8220;The Secret of Christmas.&#8221; Secular and religious themes combine into a very condensed sermon in the lyrics: &#8220;So may I suggest the secret of Christmas/ Is not the things you do at Christmastime/ But the Christmas things you do all year through.&#8221;
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GRAHAM: COVID Curtails The Comfort And Joy Of Christmas Music

Christmas

Coronavirus

COVID-19

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No media analyst believes Vanity Fair is a &#8220;news&#8221; magazine. It&#8217;s a glossy liberal rag. But on Dec. 16, it displayed some amazing partisan gymnastics on the offspring of Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
This headline by writer Bess Levin was certainly clickbait for the haters: &#8220;Ivanka Trump Faces Off With Father to See How Many People They Can Kill With COVID-19.&#8221; We can guess no &#8220;independent fact-checkers&#8221; will get involved to insist that, in reality, the Trumps aren&#8217;t plotting to kill hundreds of thousands of people.
Just a month ago, Vanity Fair ran a story by a purported ex-best friend of Ivanka Trump&#8217;s in which she claimed that Trump once asked, &#8220;Why would you tell me to read a book about f—-ing poor people?&#8221;
Levin&#8217;s Ivanka screed carried a subhead reading, &#8220;The first daughter, a noted epidemiologist, doesn&#8217;t think lockdowns are &#8216;grounded in science.'&#8221; That&#8217;s not exactly what Ivanka tweeted in response to a video of a businessman frustrated with the lockdowns. &#8220;These blanket lockdowns are not grounded in science,&#8221; she said. &#8220;These arbitrary rules imposed by callous politicians are destroying lives. It is just wrong for small business owners to have fight so hard to keep their American dream alive.&#8221;
Levin sneered: &#8220;Yes, that&#8217;s noted epidemiologist Ivanka Trump decrying lockdowns as the country hurtles toward an estimated 450,000 deaths by February 1, a figure that can largely be blamed on her idiot husband and father.&#8221;
Most government officials aren&#8217;t epidemiologists, but this is what liberals do to anyone who questions the most dramatic lockdowns. Ivanka is trying to say that the government rules are arbitrary — just like the liberal media&#8217;s rules. Massive leftist &#8220;racial justice&#8221; protests (or massive Biden victory celebrations) were somehow not so-called superspreader events. No one shuts down a government building or a press conference because of the risk of large gatherings. Some states impose strict limits on churches but not on strip clubs. That doesn&#8217;t look like &#8220;science&#8221;; it looks like politics.
But Levin quoted a tweet in which the liberal group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, expressed disgust, saying: &#8220;(R)ather than turning to doctors and scientists, the closest advisors to the president were his fashion-brand owning daughter and her slumlord husband. &#8230; This is why we need tighter nepotism laws.&#8221;
Just like Vanity Fair, CREW functions as a Democratic Party messaging machine. Search the name Hunter Biden on its website and you&#8217;ll see a flurry of anti-Trump actions it has undertaken.
In a dramatic nepotism contrast, Joe Biden&#8217;s most embarrassing child was rewarded with a Vanity Fair story by Emily Kirkpatrick headlined, &#8220;Hunter Biden Prepares for His First Solo Art Show Amid Ongoing DOJ Investigation,&#8221; with the subheading &#8220;The president-elect&#8217;s son revealed earlier this year that painting &#8216;is literally keeping me sane.'&#8221;
Kirkpatrick was quoting a New York Times puff piece from back in March. She avoided any mention of the more negative facts in that piece: that Biden admitted to having been addicted to crack for four years and going to rehab seven or eight times. She touted that this unemployed lobbyist is &#8220;reportedly in the midst of signing a deal to be represented as an artist by Georges Berges Gallery in New York City with a solo exhibition in the works for next year.&#8221;
Vanity Fair described Biden as a &#8220;venture capitalist turned artist, whose studio is in the pool house of his Hollywood Hills home.&#8221; He&#8217;s leaving the family business behind to work with &#8220;a metal straw he uses to blow alcohol ink onto Japanese Yupo paper, creating abstract layers of colors and concentric circles.&#8221;
In the midst of a historic pandemic, Vanity Fair has valiantly avoided any social distancing from the Biden propaganda bubble.
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GRAHAM: Ivanka, Hunter And Vanity Unfair

Hunter Biden

Vanity Fair

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The Hunter Biden scandal has reemerged the only way our Joe Biden-voting media will allow: through anodyne statements from Hunter Biden and President-elect Joe Biden&#8217;s transition team. Biden&#8217;s wayward son announced his &#8220;tax affairs&#8221; are being investigated by the U.S. attorney in Delaware.
The transition team said the president-elect is &#8220;deeply proud of his son, who has fought through difficult challenges, including the vicious personal attacks of recent months, only to emerge stronger.&#8221;
Repetition of these jejune statements seemed to be the bulk of the minimal television coverage this story received. The networks barely noticed. None of them featured a single critic of the Bidens. PBS offered 32 perfunctory words. NPR didn&#8217;t feature the story on its morning or evening news programs, but each program featured a promotional story on the new video game Cyberpunk 2077 featuring an &#8220;anti-corporate terrorist&#8221; played by Keanu Reeves.
Hunter Biden only survives &#8220;difficult challenges&#8221; and &#8220;emerges stronger&#8221; through the energetic strangling of his lobbying scandals by the mainstream media.
On the &#8220;Today,&#8221; show, NBC News reporter Kristen Welker replayed the weak-kneed question she asked Joe Biden while moderating the final presidential debate, on Oct. 22: &#8220;In retrospect, was anything about those relationships inappropriate or unethical?&#8221; Biden issued a blanket denial: &#8220;Nothing was unethical. &#8230; Not one single solitary thing was out of line. Not a single thing.&#8221;
NBC did not rerun the debate clip of Biden boasting that Hunter didn&#8217;t take a dime out of China. &#8220;My son has not made money in terms of this thing about — what are you talking about? China. The only guy who made money from China is this guy,&#8221; he said, pointing at Trump. &#8220;He&#8217;s the only one. Nobody else has made money from China.&#8221;
Shortly after the election, the liberal website The Daily Beast reported that Team Biden had data showing &#8220;there was more social chatter happening around the Hunter Biden story than there had been around stories about Hillary Clinton&#8217;s emails during the last month of the 2016 campaign.&#8221; The saving grace was that, while voters chatted about Hunter all over Facebook and Twitter, the story &#8220;had not crossed over into mainstream outlets.&#8221;
This is why Democrats and their media allies so aggressively pressured the Big Tech giants to squash the entire topic of Hunter Biden, especially when the New York Post broke the story about his laptop. They intimidated everyone into assuming the entire topic was off-limits. The Post&#8217;s Twitter account was shuttered for a week. Any dwelling on Biden was unsavory activity that should be reserved for Trump-loving freaks.
Add the spin in The New York Times&#8217; front-page headline the Sunday before Election Day: &#8220;Foiled Once, Giuliani&#8217;s Team Peddles More Dirt.&#8221; There were three photographs in the story: one of President Donald Trump&#8217;s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, one of former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and one of Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui. The story focused much more on their machinations than on Hunter&#8217;s.
One could just as easily demonize the daily output of The Times in a similar way by referencing The Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger in a headline: &#8220;Foiled in 2016, Sulzberger&#8217;s Team Peddles More Dirt on the Trumps.&#8221;
Our media elite pretend that they&#8217;re all for the free and democratic exchange of information, and for holding powerful people accountable. But the suppressed Hunter Biden scandal story underlines that they have been shaming anti-Democratic narratives by engaging in character assassination of the conservative media. That and using the rulings of &#8220;independent fact-checking groups&#8221; to shut down journalism they don&#8217;t like.
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GRAHAM: ‘Peddling Dirt’ On Hunter Biden

Big Tech

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USA Today has a &#8220;fact-checking&#8221; team that is run and weaponized by Facebook to limit or censor social media posts. But amazingly, the standard employed isn&#8217;t whether something is factual or nonfactual. It seems to be whether someone is a Democrat or not.
&#8220;Fact-checker&#8221; Abby Patkin penned a Dec. 2 article revolving around the claim that &#8220;Several Democratic politicians are urging social distancing and issuing stay-at-home advisories while hosting or attending gatherings themselves.&#8221; Patkin threw a penalty flag at the conservative Facebook page &#8220;Occupy Democrats Logic,&#8221; which included a Nov. 13 tweet from former One America News host Liz Wheeler about Democratic hypocrisy.
The politicians Wheeler criticized were hypocrites. Fact-check: true.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has enforced a three-household limit to gatherings, attended a rule-violating birthday party inside a swanky restaurant called The French Laundry. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot attended a large street party for Joe Biden a day after she urged Chicagoans to &#8220;stop having guests over — including family members you do not live with&#8221; and to &#8220;cancel traditional Thanksgiving plans&#8221; to &#8220;bend the curve&#8221; of the virus. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a large dinner for House Democrats, which was canceled a few hours later.
But USA Today wouldn&#8217;t rule these facts &#8220;true.&#8221;
Instead, Patkin ruled: &#8220;Based on our research, we rate this claim as MISSING CONTEXT. It&#8217;s true that some politicians have acted contrary to the social distancing and stay-at-home practices they are preaching, though Pelosi did not end up hosting a &#8216;giant reception,&#8217; as Wheeler&#8217;s tweet claimed.&#8221;
This isn&#8217;t fact-checking. It&#8217;s damage control.
The apparent &#8220;context&#8221; that USA Today demanded? &#8220;Ultimately, however, it&#8217;s not just some Democratic politicians flouting COVID-19 policies and guidance — such behavior has been seen on both sides of the aisle, including behavior resulting in a coronavirus outbreak at the White House,&#8221; Patkin wrote.
Calling out a Democrat as a hypocrite is somehow classified as a &#8220;fact&#8221; distortion because Republicans are more skeptical of COVID-19 lockdowns and &#8220;guidance.&#8221;
The proper decision here is to rule these actions &#8220;true&#8221; or pick another topic. Don&#8217;t smear conservatives with &#8220;missing context.&#8221; Don&#8217;t use a &#8220;fact-check&#8221; to say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t like your tweet/Facebook post.&#8221;
The &#8220;Occupy Democrats Logic&#8221; page actually removed its Facebook post on this topic, even as its administrator Will Ricciardella told Patkin there were more examples of Democratic lockdown hypocrisy, such as Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser &#8220;traveling out of state to celebrate Biden&#8217;s victory.&#8221;
The list goes on. San Francisco Mayor London Breed visited the posh French Laundry the night after Newsom. Pelosi and Lightfoot each got haircuts when their jurisdictions didn&#8217;t allow hair salons to be open.
But to USA Today, you&#8217;re &#8220;missing context&#8221; when you write about it on the internet.
The very same day, USA Today intern Camille Caldera offered another &#8220;context check.&#8221; Trump campaign spokesman Matt Wolking tweeted out a 2014 photo of Biden&#8217;s pick for press secretary, Jen Psaki, wearing a fluffy pink hat with a communist hammer and sickle on it and posing with her arms around Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and John Kerry, then her boss at the State Department. Caldera ruled, &#8220;The image is real, but claims that the hat was anything more a gift or that Psaki was with Russian officials in any capacity beyond her official role are MISSING CONTEXT.&#8221;
It&#8217;s just more damage control — after USA Today and the rest of the media spent four years applying the &#8220;context&#8221; that Team Trump was too dangerously close to the Russians. It can be hard to tell the difference between Democratic Party talking points and &#8220;independent fact-checking.&#8221;
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GRAHAM: COVID Damage Control, Not ‘Fact-Checking’

Fact Check

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President-elect Joe Biden came out with his first Cabinet picks before Thanksgiving, and the media were falling all over themselves with compliments. Oh, they are all so thoroughly professional, deeply experienced and manifestly competent. The media even tried to suggest with a straight face that this warmed-over pile of Obama administration appointees is &#8220;not going to be political.&#8221;
How ridiculous. Elected people — and their appointees — have to be political.
At least they&#8217;re not demanding Joe Biden be inaugurated early. In 2008, they were so deeply enchanted with then-President-elect Barack Obama that they wanted to slash the transition period in half and get those wonderful Democrats back in power. Al Neuharth, founder of USA Today, wrote in his Nov. 14, 2008 column: &#8220;We should move the President&#8217;s inauguration up to the first Tuesday in December, one month after the election. &#8230; People who elect a new president are eager for the change to take place. The sooner the better.&#8221;
New York Times columnist Gail Collins wanted then-President George W. Bush to do the patriotic thing &#8230; and quit. &#8220;Thanksgiving is this week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Seriously. &#8230; just to be on the safe side, the Vice President ought to turn in his resignation first. (We&#8217;re desperate, but not crazy.) Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would become president until Jan. 20. Obviously, she&#8217;d defer to her party&#8217;s incoming chief executive, and Obama could begin governing.&#8221;
Her Times colleague Thomas Friedman had to get in on the fun, writing: &#8220;If I had my druthers right now we would convene a special session of Congress, amend the Constitution and move up the inauguration from Jan. 20 to Thanksgiving Day. &#8230; Just get me a Supreme Court justice and a Bible, and let&#8217;s swear in Barack Obama right now — by choice — with the same haste we did — by necessity — with L.B.J. in the back of Air Force One.&#8221;
To be blunt, he was implying Bush had suddenly become as useless as an assassinated president.
After all this brouhaha, PBS &#8220;Washington Week&#8221; host and Obama superfan Gwen Ifill declared on Dec. 5, 2008, that a generic group of &#8220;people&#8221; wanted Obama sworn in pronto: &#8220;Maybe what people are beginning to say is that this president-elect should be president now?&#8221; New York Times reporter Peter Baker repeated after her, responding: &#8220;That&#8217;s right. Exactly. People voted for change, and this strange, odd 77-day waiting period that we impose, in effect, between our election and our inauguration &#8230; it&#8217;s such a long period &#8230;&#8221;
Disgraced former CBS anchorman Dan Rather refused to be outdone in throwing dirt on George W. Bush. On &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; that same day, Rather argued: &#8220;We can&#8217;t afford to waste an hour, much less a day or a week or a month. And this business of being a lame-duck president and saying, you know, &#8216;Adios. I&#8217;m going to the ranch. I&#8217;m just not going to do very much during this period.&#8217; We can&#8217;t afford it. &#8230; (W)e&#8217;re in possibly, possibly the biggest crisis we&#8217;ve been in since Dec. 7, 1941, and maybe since the time of the Civil War. So we can&#8217;t afford to have this interregnum.&#8221;
Remember, these are some of the same badly disguised Democrats who would later lecture us for four years about the importance of &#8220;democratic norms.&#8221; The only norm they seem to revere is having Democrats in power.
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GRAHAM: Biden: Not Quite As Adored As Obama

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Secular liberals have a serious problem with any commingling of church and state &#8230; at least when the church in question opposes their most precious and permissive causes, like the right to abort unborn babies, the right to subsidized contraceptives, and the right to invent your own genders and pronouns.
But when a church gives off a whiff of &#8220;progressive&#8221; ideology or theology, well, that&#8217;s a different matter entirely. Religion then becomes a qualification, not a disqualification.
This was encapsulated in a tweet by Sam Stein of the Daily Beast: &#8220;Why are Raphael Warnock&#8217;s faith and sermons fair game for attack but Amy Coney Barrett&#8217;s religious views not?&#8221; The Rev. Raphael Warnock, now a Democratic candidate in the U.S. Senate runoff election in Georgia, is hailed by the secular media as an inheritor of not only Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s &#8220;iconic&#8221; Baptist church but also his leftist causes.
This is a curious stance for Stein, since he wrote an alarm-bells article last month in which he claimed Barrett had allowed her signature to appear on a local ad protesting the &#8220;barbaric legacy&#8221; of Roe v. Wade. Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review found that this claim was inaccurate, that Barrett only signed a statement supporting an end to &#8220;abortion on demand.&#8221;
Stein surely feels other adjectives should be used for legal abortions, like &#8220;therapeutic,&#8221; and &#8220;empowering&#8221; and, for serious Orwellians, &#8220;life-saving.&#8221; But with an election looming, Senate Democrats felt pressure to avoid their innate desires to perpetuate the florid press angle that the traditionally Catholic Barrett is some kooky &#8220;handmaid&#8221; in a creepy religious group.
Now that Georgia has only the Senate races left for the media to cover, our &#8220;objective&#8221; media firmly placed any criticism of Warnock in the &#8220;Republicans Pounce&#8221; category. On Nov. 1, before the fall campaign ended, New York Times reporter Richard Fausset calmly acknowledged the radical so-called social gospel of Warnock.
Warnock&#8217;s mentor was Rev. Dr. James H. Cone, the Marxist father of black liberation theology. And he publicly defended another Cone-head, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., who says &#8220;God damn America&#8221; in his sermons and who preached after 9/11 that &#8220;America&#8217;s chickens are coming home to roost.&#8221;
On Fox News in March 2008, Warnock proclaimed, &#8220;We celebrate Rev. Wright in the same way that we celebrate the truth-telling tradition of the black church.&#8221; A lot of media said silly things like that about Wright&#8217;s hateful &#8220;truth telling.&#8221;
Republicans also &#8220;pounced&#8221; on Warnock&#8217;s hot take on President Donald Trump in 2016: &#8220;America needs to repent for its worship of whiteness!&#8221; And they pounced on Warnock&#8217;s 2011 sermon in which he said that &#8220;nobody can serve God and the military.&#8221; If that&#8217;s about violence, he hasn&#8217;t claimed nobody can serve God and Planned Parenthood.
But ABC, CBS and NBC have shown no interest in these extreme sermons. The majority of the Senate hangs in the balance, and Martin Luther King&#8217;s supposed heir is granted the customary partisan protections.
These journalists hate it when white Baptists or Catholics allegedly try the patience of God by supporting Donald Trump, but black churches ripping on the &#8220;worship of whiteness&#8221; and how America deserved 9/11 somehow never strains the bonds of Christian charity. This only underlines that most reporters are not religious people and just see religion as something employed to manipulate voters. Religion is considered virtuous if it manipulates voters toward the &#8220;right side of history.&#8221;
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GRAHAM: Going Soft On Georgia’s Rev. Wright Acolyte

Georgia

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GRAHAM: Going Soft On Georgia&#039;s Rev. Wright Acolyte

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