6 Times the
Mainstream DC Media Ridiculed Children of Republicans
by
John Nolte 23 Dec 2015
One
of the biggest lies told by our corrupt and rotting DC Media is the one that
states that the children of politicians are off-limits. Unwritten or unspoken,
there is no such rule. There is, of course, a strictly-enforced DC media rule
about the children of Democrat politicians being off-limits. The children of
Republican politicians, however, have always been fair game — and I’m not
talking about in the left-wing fever swamps, but in mainstream outlets such as
the Washington
Post, CNN, NBC News, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and Salon.
An
excellent example of this double standard occurred almost exactly a year ago
when Elizabeth Lauten, a no-name Capitol Hill staffer, took to Facebook to
criticize the behavior of President Obama’s two lovely teenage daughters during
the President’s annual turkey pardon ceremony.
As
documented by the Washington Free Beacon, the DC Media lost its
ever-loving mind over this. Network news vans camped outside of the
home of Lauten’s parents, the Washington Post “assigned one of its foreign
affairs correspondents to comb through an archive of columns Lauten wrote for
her college newspaper in 2006 and 2007. … Both ABC’s Good Morning America
and NBC’s Today show devoted segments to the controversy on Sunday and
Monday[.]”
Lauten
apologized but still lost her job as a Communications Director for a Republican
Congressman. And I am in no way defending her. Children of politicians should
be off-limits. They are civilians, bystanders, innocents who should be
allowed to live their own lives, enjoy their own opinions, and make their own
mistakes without being dragged onto the national stage and used as a billy club
against their parents.
It
is just a fact that the DC Media do not see Republicans as humans. We are worse
than Nazis to them, we are “things” that must be annihilated, grinded into
dust, and poured into an active volcano. Make no mistake, these people despise
us, and the ongoing attacks against our children are part of a rather ingenious
and coordinated DC Media plot to intimidate.
The
idea is to make things so nasty and so ugly, no decent Republican will enter
politics. Moreover, as you’ll see below, the DC Media is desperate to destroy
Republican families that might be appealing to voters. Granted, sometimes it’s
just venomous hate, but there is a bigger agenda at work here, and no doubt a
coordinated one.
Below
are some recent examples. Again, keep in mind that this is not “Saturday Night
Live,” or a comedian, or a partisan talk show host, or some website no one has
heard of. These examples represent mainstream outlets widely accepted as
such within the mainstream DC media.
Washington
Post Ridicules Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97%’s Young Daughters a Monkeys
The
Washington Post not only published this cartoon,
Republican Senator Ted Cruz was attacked by the Post for using his own young
daughters as “props.” A Post staffer has declared the daughters “fair game.”
Cruz’s
daughters, Catherine and Caroline are 4 and 7 years-old!
Keep
in mind, as I mentioned above, that this is the same Washington Post that
“assigned one of its foreign affairs correspondents to comb through an archive
of columns Lauten wrote for her college newspaper in 2006 and 2007,” after this
no-name staffer criticized President Obama’s daughters in a personal Facebook
post last year.
In
the DC Media, Republican children are fair game, but God help you if you
criticize the children of Democrats, even in a personal Facebook post.
Consequence
As
of now, the Washington Post is doing what it always does: lying. The cartoon
has been removed and replaced with an absurd editor’s
note that claims “I failed to look at this cartoon before it was
published.” Fine. Maybe Fred Hiatt did not look at the cartoon before it was
published, but no one believes the cartoonist has the power to self-publish.
Plenty
of WaPo staffers okayed the cartoon, and as of now all of them, including the
cartoonist, still have jobs.
CNN
Mocks Physical Assault On Bristol Palin
The
Attack
CNN
obtained audio of Governor Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol reporting an alleged
physical assault to the police. If you are anything close to a human being, the
recording is objectively harrowing,
a frightened young mother describing a brutal physical and verbal assault to
authorities.
Before
playing the audio, a delighted CNN told its audience to “sit back and enjoy”
the audio, and added that the recording is “quite possibly the best
minute and a half of audio we’ve ever come across, come across in a long time
anyway.”
The
Consequence
We’re
talking about CNN here, so obviously there were no consequences. Because the
orders to mock Bristol Palin probably came from CNN chief Jeff Zucker, the anchor is still
on the air. The network never apologized.
NBC
News Attacks Mitt Romney’s Black Grandchild
Almost
exactly two years ago, on its cable news outlet MSNBC, NBC News’s Melissa Harris-Perry
mocked Mitt and Ann Romney’s infant grandchild, Kieran Romney. His only sin is being black.
You
can hear panelist Pia Glenn singing the lyrics to the “Sesame Street” song,
“One of these things doesn’t belong here.” After finishing the ditty, Glenn
says, “And that little baby, front and center, would be the one.”
Dean
Obeidallah then attacks the child as token, “”I think this picture is great. It
really sums up the diversity of the Republican party, the RNC. At the
convention, they find the one black person.”
The
Consequence
Melissa
Harris-Perry still has her own show and Dean Obeidallah’s career took off as a
result. He is now a regular contributor at the Daily Beast and an on-air
contributor at — where else? — CNN.
The
Atlantic Serially-Smears Bristol Palin as the Mother of Trig Palin
The
Attack
Throughout
the 2008 presidential campaign, in order to freak-show Sarah Palin’s
attractive, everyday family, The Atlantic launched a
vicious and relentless smear campaign that claimed Palin’s daughter
Bristol was the mother of Trig Palin.
Trig
Palin is Sarah Palin’s youngest child.
The
Conseqeunce
None.
In fact, while pretending to debunk it, the DC Media gave the conspiracy a ton
of play.
The
Daily Beast Mocks Palin Children
After
describing Governor Palin as a “GILF” (Governor I’d Like to F***), in 2008, The
Daily Beast went on to mock the names of the Palin children before
singling out Bristol:
I
was eager to see whether Bristol would follow in her parents’ creative-naming
footsteps or pick the kind of mass-marketed name favored by other teenage moms:
Kayden, say, or Ashton. Tripp is, well, kind of trippy, and certainly
unfortunate in view of his paternal grandma’s recent drug arrest. But it’s a
more creative choice than those made by other famous young moms: Jamie Lynn
Spears’ Maddie Briann, for example, or Charlotte Church’s Ruby Megan.
Its
only real problem may be that it seems less like the independent choice of the
baby’s young parents and more like the continuation of an established family
dynasty.
The
Consequence
Nobody
ever faces consequences at The Daily Beast for anything.
Salon
Mocks George W. Bush’s Daughters as Drunks
The
Attack
The
2001 headline,
sub-headline, and photo say it all:
The
first family’s alcohol troubles
President
Bush downplayed his own drinking problem and hid a DUI. Now his daughters are
making news for underage drinking. Is there a connection?
The
Consequence
Joan
Walsh, the author of the attack, is a regular fixture on cable news.
ADDED
— 7. CNN’s Dana Bash Laughs at Senator Scott Brown’s Kids Being Called
‘Prostitutes’
The
Media Research Center’s Tim Graham was good
enough to remind me of this.
***
If
there was a button the DC Media could press that would destroy Republicans and
their children, the only fight would be over who gets to press it.
The Atlantic
James Fallows is
a national correspondent for The
Atlantic, and a director at the New
America Foundation.
Note:
Megan McArdle
was a senior editor for The Atlantic,
and a fellow at the New America
Foundation.
Jonathan Soros is
a director at the New America Foundation,
George Soros’s son, and was the vice
chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the New America Foundation, the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the International Rescue Committee, and Media Matters.
George Soros was
the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society, and is Jonathan
Soros’s father.
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace uncovered the plans for population control by involving the
United States
in war)
Warren E. Buffett
is an adviser for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), Howard G.
Buffett & Susan A. Buffett’s
father, and was a director at the Washington
Post Co.
Ted Turner is a
co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and the founder of CNN.
CNN Worldwide
is a division of CNN.
Jeff Zucker is the
president of CNN Worldwide, and was
an executive producer for the NBC
Nightly News.
Tom Brokaw was an anchor
for the NBC Nightly News, and is an
overseer at the International Rescue
Committee.
Samantha Power
was a director at the International
Rescue Committee, and a contributor for The Atlantic.
Harold E. Ford Jr.
was an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, is a political commentator at MSNBC, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).
International
Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE
Campaign.
Howard G. Buffett
is a director at the ONE Campaign,
and Warren E. Buffett’s son.
Susan A. Buffett
is a director at the ONE Campaign,
and Warren E. Buffett’s daughter.
Michelle Obama
was an advocate for the ONE Campaign.
Cindy Hensley
McCain was an advocate for the ONE
Campaign, and married to John S.
McCain III.
John S. McCain III
is married to Cindy Hensley McCain,
and Meghan McCain’s father.
Meghan McCain is John S. McCain III’s daughter, and a columnist
for the Daily Beast.
Sidney
Blumenthal was a contributor for the Daily
Beast, the Washington bureau chief for Salon,
a reporter for the Washington Post, a
consultant for the Bill, Hillary &
Chelsea Clinton Foundation, is a consultant for Media Matters, and Hillary
Rodham Clinton’s friend & confidant.
Hillary Rodham
Clinton is Sidney Blumenthal’s friend
& confidant, a presidential candidate for the 2016 presidential election, the candidate for the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential
campaign, was a director at the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Ted Cruz is a
presidential candidate for the 2016
presidential election.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
George Soros is the
founder & chairman for the Open
Society Foundations, a co-chair, national finance council for the Ready PAC (Ready For Hillary), Jonathan Soros’s father, and was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for Media Matters, and the New
America Foundation.
Ready PAC supported
the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton
presidential campaign.
Jonathan Soros is
a global board member for the Open
Society Foundations, George Soros’s
son, a director at the New America
Foundation, and was the vice chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Megan McArdle
was a fellow at the New America
Foundation, and a senior editor for The
Atlantic.
James Fallows is a
director at the New America Foundation,
and a national correspondent for The
Atlantic.
Samantha Power
was a contributor for The Atlantic,
and a director at the International
Rescue Committee.
International
Rescue Committee is a partner with the ONE
Campaign.
Howard G. Buffett
is a director at the ONE Campaign,
and Warren E. Buffett’s son.
Susan A. Buffett
is a director at the ONE Campaign,
and Warren E. Buffett’s daughter.
Michelle Obama
was an advocate for the ONE Campaign.
Cindy Hensley
McCain was an advocate for the ONE
Campaign, and married to John S.
McCain III.
John S. McCain III
is married to Cindy Hensley McCain,
and Meghan McCain’s father.
Meghan McCain is John S. McCain III’s daughter, and a columnist
for the Daily Beast.
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