The semantics of kids in cages

In one scene of the 2019 film “Knives Out” the featured American family has a bit of debate about current events. Immigration is the topic of discussion in this particular scene. Predictably, the discussion displays a leftwing perspective but only a caricature of a rightwing perspective. The primary point raised, the one with the most emotional and moral weight the audience is supposed to identify with (the leftwing point, of course), is “they are putting kids in cages”. Perhaps the audience is supposed to feel vindication at the statement, given this movie was released during the Trump years, and obviously Trump is widely condemned for the problem. This should remind the audience that in recent years there was coast to coast outrage about putting migrant children in chain link cages.

But people actually familiar with the rightwing perspective know better.

The insane fears of the progressive left

What Do You Fear? Survey Shows Top Terrors for Democrats and Republicans

What is the number one fear among Democratic voters? It might be you.
Bill Whittle lists the top terrors for Democrats and Republicans according to a new survey.

article: Wait…These Are the Top Three Concerns for Democratic Voters? Yes, It’s Insane.
February 25, 2021 by Matt Vespa

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New York Times quietly retracts story about officer Sicknick’s death

original article: New York Times quietly retracts story about officer Sicknick’s death
February 15, 2021 by Star Political News

The New York Times has updated an initial report from last month claiming that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was killed due to blunt force truama from a fire extinguisher during the Jan. 6 riot; Mollie Hemingway reacts.

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NYT stealth edits the 1619 Project

original article: The 1619 Project is a fraud
September 21, 2020 by Becket Adams

New York Times Magazine staffer Nikole Hannah-Jones accused me once of rank jealousy. She said my criticism for her flawed 1619 Project stems from the fact that, unlike her, I do not “have good ideas and the talent to execute them.”

We apparently have different understandings of what constitutes a “good idea” and “talent.”

Bari Weiss resigns from the New York Times because of its bias

related article: Bari Weiss claims bullying led her to quit the New York Times
July 14, 2020 by Jonathan Berr

Dear A.G.,

It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning from The New York Times.

I joined the paper with gratitude and optimism three years ago. I was hired with the goal of bringing in voices that would not otherwise appear in your pages: first-time writers, centrists, conservatives and others who would not naturally think of The Times as their home. The reason for this effort was clear: The paper’s failure to anticipate the outcome of the 2016 election meant that it didn’t have a firm grasp of the country it covers. Dean Baquet and others have admitted as much on various occasions. The priority in Opinion was to help redress that critical shortcoming.

Blaming the Right for the sins of the Left

A few years ago Ben Shapiro made a remarkable comment at a speaking event at an American university. Well, he’s made many of those, which is one of the reasons his name is so widely known. It really doesn’t matter which university he was at on this occasion since this scenario would play out exactly the same at 99% of American universities. And it doesn’t matter precisely when since this scenario would play exactly the same this year, 5 years ago, or 15.

Revisiting a bad faith media narrative on the Covington Catholic story

original article: A Year Ago, the Media Mangled the Covington Catholic Story. What Happened Next Was Even Worse.
January 21, 2020 by ROBBY SOAVE

Journalists and pundits who frantically doubled down on their initial bad takes deserve more criticism.

(photo from YouTube)

On the weekend of January 18, 2019, a short video appeared on Twitter that purported to show a group of Catholic high school boys—one young man, Nicholas Sandmann, in particular—harassing a Native American elder named Nathan Phillips on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

Does AFP’s sloppy reporting reveal bias?

On Monday, November 18, the AFP published a “Breaking” news story about more than 100,000 migrant children being detained by US immigration services. By Wednesday, the story has been deleted. Why would the AFP scrap a story after two days? It turns out a vital piece of information was neglected in the original story: the main premise was wrong.

Searching online for an extant copy of the original AFP story (authored by Ben Simon and Nina Larson) shows the initial story highlighted a recent UN report on migrant children detained in over 80 countries across the world. But the AFP story focused on how the US handles these children, and more specifically, it blamed the sad situation on president Trump.

Does University culture think racism is sometimes okay?

The University of Alabama recently found itself undesirably in the spotlight again when an administrator of high standing lost his job at the institution. The essence of the matter appears to be that Dr. Jamie R. Riley, dean of students and assistance vice president of student life, resigned from UA in a mutual agreement with the institution after some allegedly racist social media comments of his publically surfaced.

The Tuscaloosa News has two stories about the incident published Sep. 13 and Sep. 18, both written by Ed Enoch. The earlier story focuses on student reaction to Riley’s resignation, the latter focuses on the UA Faculty Senate’s reaction. While some details on the initial comments are mentioned, neither story focuses much attention on the controversial comments that serve as the catalyst for the entire situation.

It was a ‘border crisis’ in 2014

original article: Media had no problem calling it a border ‘crisis’ in 2014 under Obama
January 10, 2019 by Eddie Scarry

Both Democrats and most news media are yelling as often as they can that there is no border “crisis,” even though they spent the last year telling everyone there was and even though they had no problem explicitly calling it a “crisis” in 2014, when the situation was the exact same as it is now.

“We now have an actual humanitarian crisis on the borer that only underscores the need to drop the politics and fix our immigration system once and for all,” then-President Barack Obama said in the Rose Garden in 2014. “In recent weeks we’ve seen a surge of unaccompanied children arrive at the border, brought here and to other countries by smugglers and traffickers.”

This is no different than what President Trump said from the Oval Office on Tuesday.