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ICYMI: RIGGED.

AN IMPRESSIVE ACCOMPLISHMENT IN ITS WAY:

FRUITS OF MEDIA HATE: Stochastic Terrorism – A game of rhetorical asymmetry. “Because the game is one of establishing and maintaining asymmetry, not only was there a lack of analysis of Stochastic Terrorism from the experts who are so very concerned about the phenomenon — but five days after the shooting, while MSNBC was discussing Scalise’s appropriateness as a target, Vox published an article explaining why anyone taking issue with the choice of making Julius Caesar be Donald Trump was just too sensitive and didn’t get the play. None of the experts who are so very concerned about the subject they have studied for years, Stochastic Terrorism, made any comments of the subject after the attempted assassination of over a dozen Republican congressmen. Certainly never discussed Kathy Griffin’s severed head photo has possibly having any relationship to the climate that Stochastic Terrorism operates under. Nor did they discuss the Shakespeare in the Park production.”

The basic rule is that whatever the left accuses the right of, is what the left is doing. Much, much more at the link.

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#JOURNALISM:

Speaking of bigotry, the Times profiled Arab-American voters in Dearborn over the summer for a splashy piece about “How Joe Biden Loses Michigan.” A video essay asked, “Does President Biden realize how angry some voters in Michigan are—specifically, Arab Americans?”

What the piece didn’t tell readers was what several of the Arab voters profiled in the piece said off camera. Activist Amer Zahr urged Arabs and Muslims to “stop condemning anti-Semitism.” The imam of the Islamic Center of Central Detroit said of Israel last year, “may Allah eradicate them from existence.” Wissam Charafeddine, an employee of the Dearborn public school system, said on social media that “Israel deserves elimination more than Hamas.” And on and on.

What the Times can’t say to its readers is that a key, perhaps the key, Democratic voting bloc is composed of anti-Semitic nuts. The result is misleading coverage that hides the ball and deflects the blame.

This is the weaponization of anti-Semitism, but for once it is not the left that is doing the weaponizing, and it is not the Jews who are the target. We salute the Future Coalition PAC and acquit them of all charges.

What the Times can’t say to its readers is that a key, perhaps the key, Democratic voting bloc is composed of anti-Semitic nuts. The result is misleading coverage that hides the ball and deflects the blame.

To be fair, “misleading coverage that hides the ball and deflects the blame” is the NYT’s stock in trade nowadays.