{"id":1458817,"date":"2022-04-30T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1458817"},"modified":"2022-04-30T08:01:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T12:01:11","slug":"ny-post-editorial-board-the-week-in-whoppers-joy-reids-ugly-slurs-wapos-scaremongering-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-post-editorial-board-the-week-in-whoppers-joy-reids-ugly-slurs-wapos-scaremongering-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Post Editorial Board: The Week in Whoppers: Joy Reid\u2019s Ugly Slurs, Wapo\u2019s Scaremongering and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fny-post-editorial-board-the-week-in-whoppers-joy-reids-ugly-slurs-wapos-scaremongering-and-more%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=1458817&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--><h2><strong>Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>This slur:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201c[Elon Musk and the right] want to . . . be able to punch people in the face . . . and laugh about it. . . .\u00a0 I guess [Musk] misses the old [apartheid] South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 MSNBC host Joy Reid, April 26<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>We say: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/27\/joy-reid-suggests-elon-musk-misses-south-africa-apartheid\/\">Reid blasts <\/a>Elon Musk and conservatives for wanting to \u201charass,\u201d \u201cpunch people in the face\u201d and spread misinformation on Twitter. But in making such an outrageous suggestion, she herself is engaging in precisely the kind of ugly, slanderous attacks she accuses Musk of waging. Do talking heads like Reid ever listen to themselves?\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<h2>This testimony:<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWe inherited a broken and dismantled system . . . Yet, we have effectively managed an unprecedented number of non-citizens seeking to enter the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/alejandro-mayorkas-immigration-border-biden-title-42\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em> testifying <em>before a House subcommittee<\/em><\/em><\/a><em>, April 27<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>We say: <\/strong>Hello? The number of \u201csouthwest land border encounters\u201d last month, per US Customs and Border Protection, was 221,303 \u2014 more than <em>six times <\/em>the number in March 2020, when Donald Trump was president. Team Biden\u2019s policies and rhetoric fueled a dangerous, historic surge, and<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/28\/mayorkas-to-face-grilling-from-republicans-over-title-42\/\"> Mayorkas &#038; Co. have done nothing but further <em>encourage <\/em>it <\/a>by welcoming migrants and even shipping them off to assorted destinations across the country. If they continue to deny their own role in this disaster, what hope is there of their ever fixing it?<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<h2>This report: <\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Whoppers-NYT-04-29-22.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>The New York Times suggested the economy is strong despite a shrinking GDP.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NY Post composite \/ istock\/ Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>We say: <\/strong>Like President Joe Biden, the Gray Lady bent over backward Thursday to downplay the worrisome <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/28\/us-economy-shrank-by-1-4-as-inflation-takes-toll-on-gdp\/\">1.4% drop in GDP over the first quarter<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/04\/28\/business\/gdp-inflation-news#americas-almond-farmers-are-getting-squeezed-out-of-the-supply-chain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paper claims <\/a>slowing inventories and a trade imbalance drove the decline but that the economy is strong nonetheless. Similarly, Biden blamed \u201ctechnical factors\u201d for the slow growth \u2014 just as he said inflation was going to be \u201ctransitory.\u201d In fact, many economists now believe a recession is likely some time soon.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<h2><strong>This warning:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cNot since an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs \u2014 along with half of all other beings on Earth \u2014 has life in the ocean been so at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 The Washington Post, April 28<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>We say: <\/strong>Hardly a day goes by without climate-change alarmists citing some new looming danger, in the absence of urgent, draconian action. Yet this absurd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2022\/04\/28\/mass-marine-extinction-event-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washington Post suggestion<\/a> (based on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abe9039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new study in the journal Science<\/a>) \u2014 that warming temperatures will be as disastrous as the asteroid that \u201cwiped out\u201d half of all life \u2014 is beyond priceless. Fact is, the earth\u2019s temperature and atmospheric make-up have been changing, with or without man\u2019s help, since the beginning of time. And, yes, some species have gone extinct. But the gradual impact of climate change, which helps some species even if challenges others, is nothing like the shock of an asteroid strike that caused the equivalent of a years-long \u201cnuclear winter.\u201d This kind of hype aims simply to scare and manipulate.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<h2><strong>This story:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Whoppers-WaPo-04-29-22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Whoppers-WaPo-04-29-22.jpg\" alt=\"A Washington Post column claimed that The GOP is a \" white Christian movement \/><\/a><figcaption>A Washington Post column claimed that the GOP is a \u201cwhite Christian movement.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NY Post composite \/ istock\/ Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>We say: <\/strong>How do Rubin (who once claimed to be conservative) and The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/04\/27\/gop-no-longer-a-party-movement-impose-christian-nationalism\/?utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=wp_opinions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">come up with such lunacy<\/a>? Earth to Rubin: The Republican Party is a political party. <em>Period.<\/em> That some Republicans are white Christians doesn\u2019t make it a white Christian movement \u2014 and if it is, it\u2019s one that\u2019s increasingly attracting minorities. In truth, Rubin\u2019s attack is aimed at white Christians themselves as much as, if not more than, Republicans. Yet targeting both is as unhinged as it is disgusting.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Compiled by The Post Editorial Board<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions This slur: \u201c[Elon Musk and the right] want to . . . be able to punch people in the face . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":1897354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","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":[],"class_list":["post-1458817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/28\/the-week-in-whoppers-joy-reids-ugly-slurs-and-more\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458817","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\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1458817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1458817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}