{"id":126420,"date":"2021-02-13T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=126420"},"modified":"2021-02-13T10:42:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T15:42:32","slug":"graham-reporters-glorify-themselves-into-gi-joe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-reporters-glorify-themselves-into-gi-joe\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM: Reporters Glorify Themselves Into GI Joe"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgraham-reporters-glorify-themselves-into-gi-joe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=126420&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ACC975B3-E15A-45B5-BDB2-47BAD8883A56-1200x800-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>One of the easiest things to predict about the end of Donald Trump\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Nazaryan of Yahoo News wrote a piece for the Democrat-endorsing website The Atlantic that was originally headlined \u201cI Miss the Thrill of Trump.\u201d He unintentionally caused laughter when he wrote: \u201cCovering 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\u2019t signed up for battle, but there he was, liberating France. \u2026 This was our Omaha Beach. I, for one, would have rather been in Hawaii.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critics were quick to mock the idea that zinging Trump at a briefing was like the Omaha Beach scene in \u201cSaving Private Ryan.\u201d 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\u2019s what makes this kind of prose from Washington-based reporters sound so wildly exaggerated. But it ably illustrates the liberal media\u2019s overwhelming self-regard.<\/p>\n<p>The article headline, which was probably not a sentiment in line with the Trump impeachment crusade, was transformed by The Atlantic into \u201cI Was an Enemy of the People,\u201d surely meant with a wink, since The People should always be grateful for heroic journalists.<\/p>\n<p>For a moment, Nazaryan expresses a desire to hold President Joe Biden accountable and laments how the new team is \u201ccrushingly on message.\u201d But mostly, there are more ridiculous historical metaphors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(O)utside of North Korea,\u201d Nazaryan wrote, a journalist\u2019s job is not \u201cto lavish a country\u2019s leader with hagiographic rhetoric, although the conservative media did its best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, Nazaryan slept through the dominant liberal media\u2019s eight years of Obamagasms. Just recall when then-CNN host Piers Morgan felt pity for then-President Obama\u2019s uglier successors. \u201cAfter the perfect Barack Obama, who\u2019s a perfect physical specimen to many people\u2019s eyes, does it matter?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Then turn back to Nazaryan, who said Trump is like Osama: \u201cTo 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And like Stalin: \u201cWe should be grateful that Trump energized the profession. Is that sort of like saying that Stalinism energized interest in Siberia? Maybe, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nazaryan is leaving these rhetorical road apples all over the internet. The Los Angeles Times assigned him to review Andy Ngo\u2019s anti-antifa book \u201cUnmasked,\u201d and he leaped for the Nazi-propagandist metaphor: \u201cEvery act of violence by antifa, meanwhile, is described so meticulously and ominously that Herr Goebbels would have been proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is nothing new for this writer. In 2016, he tweeted a black-and-white picture of Nazis with the caption \u201cTed Cruz has a strong ground game in Iowa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liberal journalists sometimes act befuddled as to why they are portrayed as wildly opinionated partisans who shouldn\u2019t get to pose as The People\u2019s representatives at press conferences. Alexander Nazaryan is making that argument very easy. No one needs to storm a beach to prove that.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the easiest things to predict about the end of Donald Trump\u2019s presidency was that anti-Trump journalists would eventually feel a heated rush of nostalgia about their heroic crusade &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893366,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6633,3803,3682,4738,6634],"class_list":["post-126420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-glorify","tag-graham","tag-into","tag-reporters","tag-themselves"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}