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The NY Times overtly lied about Tom Cotton's Op-Ed and refuses to issue a correction.

Cotton explicitly rejected an "equivalence of rioters and looters to peaceful, law-abiding protesters. A majority who seek to protest peacefully shouldn’t be confused with bands of miscreants."

https://twitter.com/saletan/status/1269738391731658752

https://spectator.us/andrew-sullivan-new-york-column-riots/

What has happened to New York media? Just as the New York Times was experiencing its own Inner Mongolia Moment over the now notorious Sen. Tom Cotton ‘Send in the Troops’ op-ed, the Maoists at New York magazine were going after their best columnist, Andrew Sullivan.

Sullivan revealed on Twitter yesterday that his column wouldn’t be appearing. The reason? His editors are not allowing him to write about the riots.

Heads up: my column won't be appearing this week.

— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) June 4, 2020

Presumably Sullivan’s editors are frightened that he might make the radically bourgeois point that looting and violence are wrong. ...

Sullivan is not just forbidden from writing for the New York magazine about the riots; his contract means he cannot write on the topic for another publication. He is therefore legally unable to write anything about the protests without losing his job — at the magazine that, in 1970, published Radical Chic, Tom Wolfe’s brilliant and controversial excoriation of progressive piety. It’s the bonfire of the liberals!

Here's the terrible, no good, fascist screed that got the editor of the NY Times removed:

This week, rioters have plunged many American cities into anarchy, recalling the widespread violence of the 1960s. New York City suffered the worst of the riots Monday night, as Mayor Bill de Blasio stood by while Midtown Manhattan descended into lawlessness. Bands of looters roved the streets, smashing and emptying hundreds of businesses. Some even drove exotic cars; the riots were carnivals for the thrill-seeking rich as well as other criminal elements. Outnumbered police officers, encumbered by feckless politicians, bore the brunt of the violence. In New York State, rioters ran over officers with cars on at least three occasions. In Las Vegas, an officer is in “grave” condition after being shot in the head by a rioter. In St. Louis, four police officers were shot as they attempted to disperse a mob throwing bricks and dumping gasoline; in a separate incident, a 77-year-old retired police captain was shot to death as he tried to stop looters from ransacking a pawnshop. This is “somebody’s granddaddy,” a bystander screamed at the scene. Some elites have excused this orgy of violence in the spirit of radical chic, calling it an understandable response to the wrongful death of George Floyd. Those excuses are built on a revolting moral equivalence of rioters and looters to peaceful, law-abiding protesters. A majority who seek to protest peacefully shouldn’t be confused with bands of miscreants.

But the rioting has nothing to do with George Floyd, whose bereaved relatives have condemned violence. On the contrary, nihilist criminals are simply out for loot and the thrill of destruction, with cadres of left-wing radicals like antifa infiltrating protest marches to exploit Floyd’s death for their own anarchic purposes. These rioters, if not subdued, not only will destroy the livelihoods of law-abiding citizens but will also take more innocent lives. Many poor communities that still bear scars from past upheavals will be set back still further. One thing above all else will restore order to our streets: an overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers. But local law enforcement in some cities desperately needs backup, while delusional politicians in other cities refuse to do what’s necessary to uphold the rule of law. The pace of looting and disorder may fluctuate from night to night, but it’s past time to support local law enforcement with federal authority. Some governors have mobilized the National Guard, yet others refuse, and in some cases the rioters still outnumber the police and Guard combined. In these circumstances, the Insurrection Act authorizes the president to employ the military “or any other means” in “cases of insurrection, or obstruction to the laws.” This venerable law, nearly as old as our republic itself, doesn’t amount to “martial law” or the end of democracy, as some excitable critics, ignorant of both the law and our history, have comically suggested. In fact, the federal government has a constitutional duty to the states to “protect each of them from domestic violence.” Throughout our history, presidents have exercised this authority on dozens of occasions to protect law-abiding citizens from disorder. Nor does it violate the Posse Comitatus Act, which constrains the military’s role in law enforcement but expressly excepts statutes such as the Insurrection Act.

After thousands of whites rioted in Oxford, Miss., in 1962 to prevent integration of the University of Mississippi, President John Kennedy sent U.S. troops to quell the violence. For instance, during the 1950s and 1960s, Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson called out the military to disperse mobs that prevented school desegregation or threatened innocent lives and property. This happened in my own state. Gov. Orval Faubus, a racist Democrat, mobilized our National Guard in 1957 to obstruct desegregation at Little Rock Central High School. President Eisenhower federalized the Guard and called in the 101st Airborne in response. The failure to do so, he said, “would be tantamount to acquiescence in anarchy.” More recently, President George H.W. Bush ordered the Army’s Seventh Infantry and 1,500 Marines to protect Los Angeles during race riots in 1992. He acknowledged his disgust at Rodney King’s treatment — “what I saw made me sick” — but he knew deadly rioting would only multiply the victims, of all races and from all walks of life. Not surprisingly, public opinion is on the side of law enforcement and law and order, not insurrectionists. According to a recent poll, 58 percent of registered voters, including nearly half of Democrats and 37 percent of African-Americans, would support cities’ calling in the military to “address protests and demonstrations” that are in “response to the death of George Floyd.” That opinion may not appear often in chic salons, but widespread support for it is fact nonetheless. The American people aren’t blind to injustices in our society, but they know that the most basic responsibility of government is to maintain public order and safety. In normal times, local law enforcement can uphold public order. But in rare moments, like ours today, more is needed, even if many politicians prefer to wring their hands while the country burns

Tom Cotton (@sentomcotton) is a Republican senator from Arkansas. The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor.

Lol, that last sentence is hilariously false!

The NY Times is 110% committed to suppressing all dissent from The Narrative, as they have so abundantly proven with this fiasco.

Can anyone find any line in there that would justify firing the editor of the paper?

Here's one from CNN:

CNN reporter starts a live hit by saying it’s peaceful in the Seattle “CHAZ.”

An occupier crashes the shot and tries to organize people to interrupt the hit.

The reporter then says “no doubt some of these protesters are armed.” pic.twitter.com/CNXHanvxFm

— Alex Salvi (@alexsalvinews) June 12, 2020

https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/11/the-corporate-media-is-now-controlled-by-the-radical-left/

Top editors are rapidly resigning over allegations of racial insensitivity—most of which are correctable or forgivable if they’re accurate—legitimizing the radical left’s inane and counterproductive policing of our politics and culture. And it’s their own fault. They’ve used elite media platforms to embolden these irrational actors for years. They are failing to meet the standards they’ve promoted. The power transfer is now officially complete. That’s more than a little unnerving.

New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet resigned last week after employees publicly claimed his decision to publish an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) put black Times staffers “in danger.” The paper blamed him for “a significant breakdown” in its “editing process.” There was nothing dangerous about the op-ed. It calmly articulated an opinion held by the majority of the country. Jim Dao, deputy editorial page editor at the Times, was reassigned following the incident. ...

The culture of reflexive corporate genuflection is unjust, unproductive, and often insincere, but it’s now the dominant ethos. And it means a fringe minority now controls most of the media, which serves an audience that it will struggle to understand, cover, empathize with, appreciate, and communicate to going forward. You can bet the world feels upside down to a wide swath of Americans right now.

Certainly in the heat of national protests, corporations face heightened pressures, and consequently, are more responsive to critics. But none of these resignations are without precedent. Individual cases like these pop up all the time. This rapid string of reservations is unnerving because it indicates a firm industry-wide unwillingness to challenge the cultural left’s power.

Maybe the tide will turn. It would work out in everyone’s favor, fostering a robust, representative, and challenging cultural discourse, making space for disenfranchised voices, modeling tolerance and debate for younger generations. But the far left’s progressive-or-bigot binary is intimidating, and intimidatingly persuasive, and the media has been easily swayed.

https://spectator.us/federalist-banned-google-ads-nbc-news/

Federalist banned from making money on Google because of wrongthink.

Patrick says

https://spectator.us/federalist-banned-google-ads-nbc-news/

Federalist banned from making money on Google because of wrongthink.

You have to wonder what George Orwell would think if he were alive today.

Actually i watched an episode of Rising on YouTube and they said that the real scoop was that NBC news “called the manager” at Google on the Federalist, specifically about content in the COMMENTS section which is ridiculous. They tried to have the Google censor and de platform their freaking competition! But it didn’t work. Apparently after negotiations, Google is satisfied to not deplatform the Federalist and ad revenue continues.
We are in this situation where a few Karens can censor and destroy a legitimate news outlet because Google is so large and influential, garnering 73% of all internet ad revenue.
If the SJW cancel culture Left gets away with this sort of censorship it will be because federal regulators refused to do their job and break up the monopoly that calls itself Google and its parent company “Alphabet.”

richwicks says

You have to wonder what George Orwell would think if he were alive today.

I wonder what George Carlin would think. I wonder what Christopher Hitchens would think.

Shaman says

Actually i watched an episode of Rising on YouTube and they said that the real scoop was that NBC news “called the manager” at Google on the Federalist, specifically about content in the COMMENTS section which is ridiculous. They tried to have the Google censor and de platform their freaking competition! But it didn’t work. Apparently after negotiations, Google is satisfied to not deplatform the Federalist and ad revenue continues.

NBC was given a list from a FOREIGN NGO based in London, UK to boot.

Yeah, websites will be demonetized because a few Stormfags out of thousands in the comment section.

If this same criterion applied to Leftists, goodbye Democratic Underground, Instagram, Twitter, etc. because of all the LARPing PFLP/SDS types.

https://reason.com/2020/06/17/google-the-federalist-nbc-news-demonetize-ads/


Right on time. Now Google is claiming that NBC is fake news!
LOL!
Clown world!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8431737/Ted-Cruz-Tucker-Carlson-slam-Google-cautioning-Federalist.html

The row began with an NBC story written by a young British journalist who contacted Google with a report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a British think tank that had put together a list of 10 American websites it deemed racist.

The Federalist was listed along with ZeroHedge, Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, American Greatness, Moonbattery, American Thinker, Big League Politics, WND and The Washington Standard.

The think tank flagged that The Federalist had used a 'black crime' tag to categorize content. It also flagged a story in which a journalist claimed the media was 'lying' by reporting that white supremacists were involved in looting. It specifically singled out CNN and the New York Times.

ZeroHedge, a blog, was also flagged and has now been demonetized.

OK, we now know that we can get more honest reporting from ZeroHedge, Gateway Pundit, Breitbart, American Greatness, Moonbattery, American Thinker, Big League Politics, WND and The Washington Standard than from anything promoted by Google.

Nice of them to give us a reading list!

This is pure, unleavened, unalloyed, uncut Propaganda. Video footage of the entire incident exists: The police arrested the mob, not the driver after reviewing the tape. They were driving, came to a stop by a Marxist BLM barricade, then a small group berated them and began spitting through the driver's side window on her, then a larger group, descended upon her vehicle and they was trying to escape. The driver is described as having "Dreadlocks" so probably not White.

Here is the actual video:


The Arrest:
https://www.wave3.com/2020/06/18/protesters-arrested-following-altercation-with-driver-downtown-louisville/

Former NYT Reporter Alex Berenson Rips New Yorker For COVID-19 ‘Panic Porn’

Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson scolded The New Yorker this weekend for pushing more COVID-19 “panic porn” with hospitalization numbers the magazine later acknowledged were inaccurate.

As highlighted by Fox News, John Cassidy of The New Yorker published a piece last Friday arguing that parts of “Red America” were headed toward a COVID-19 disaster based on hospitalizations in states that relaxed lockdown measures.

“[In Florida], 12,673 people were hospitalized, compared to the 8,553 a month ago, according to the COVID Tracking Project,” reported Cassidy.

Berenson called out Cassidy on Twitter for misrepresenting the numbers because those total hospitalizations go all the way back to March and did not shoot up a full 4,000 in a month.

“It should come as no surprise that the most crucial and scariest fact in this New Yorker piece of panic porn is wrong: [Cassidy] reports that 12,673 people ‘are hospitalized’ in Florida with [coronavirus], up 4,000 in a month. Nope…” Berenson said. “12,673 HAVE BEEN hospitalized in Florida since hospitalizations began in March. The vast majority of those patients are home now. Florida has never had over ~2,000 people hospitalized with [COVID-19], 3.5% of its total hospital beds. Which presents a slightly different picture.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-nyt-reporter-alex-berenson-rips-new-yorker-for-covid-19-panic-porn

NoCoupForYou says

The driver is described as having "Dreadlocks" so probably not White.

Right, she has been identified as a BLACK WOMAN but NPR called her a "white supremacist" threatening protesters with her car, and apparently has not issued a correction.

But then, NPR lies all the time.

https://babylonbee.com/news/the-babylon-bee-purchases-competing-satire-site-cnn-for-12-billion

In Major Deal, The Babylon Bee Purchases Competing Satire Site CNN

U.S.—The Babylon Bee has been the world's best satire site for thousands of years, spawning dozens of secular knock-offs that just aren't quite as good.

The Bee announced a new acquisition this week, one that immediately made it the largest satirical site on the planet: a purchase of competing satire outlet CNN for $12 billion. The move more than quadrupled the site's catalog of hilarious, satirical articles.

"We've long admired CNN's ability to parody leftist media organizations so effortlessly, and we're thrilled to have them under The Babylon Bee's umbrella," said site CEO Seth Dillon. "When you can't compete with hilarious satire like CNN, you obviously look for ways to get them on your team, and an acquisition seemed to make the most sense."

The new conglomerate organization will be called BNN. CNN writers and hosts will be instructed to simply keep doing what they're doing.

"We don't want them to change anything since you don't try to fix satirical content that's already incredible," Dillon said. "They'll just keep churning out incredibly skewed content in order to satirize the leftist media's inability to report anything without bias or prejudice."

Brian Stelter will produce satirical videos for The Babylon Bee, moving the site into the realm of video content for the first time. Again, though, his show's content will remain unchanged.

CNN will also benefit, as their content will now be clearly labeled satire, protecting them from getting sued to high heaven for their skewed coverage.

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😂😂😂

These site's "media blindspot" feature is wonderful:

https://web.ground.news/

An article published by an NPR affiliate of Portland said that calling a riot a “riot” is rooted in racism. There have been various riots taking place in Portland for the last few months and there has also been a divided opinion about the situation, particularly in the way it’s portrayed by the media.

While CNN state that this week’s riots are “fiery but mostly peaceful,” others are claiming that there were no riots taking place at all. And then, we have media houses that declare “riot” a racially charged word.

CCP and alphabet agencies have convinced their groveling, employee Dems that once the press is entirely captured, they can rule entirely by terror, intimidation, lies and coercion just like their Chinese bosses.

Modern US leftists seem to believe that lying is a moral obligation.

There’s a leftist who stalks a local plain speaking politician. I’ve resorted to factually pointing out his lies and calling him out as such.

There is no honesty amoung thieves and that’s squarely what the BLM and Antifa clowns are.

Pointing out the msm lies and the dishonesty and lack of moral grounding of the leftists is almost like a sport at this point.

What happens when you run out of other people's money AND run out of useful idiots?