{"id":1544595,"date":"2022-07-08T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1544595"},"modified":"2022-07-08T12:50:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T16:50:24","slug":"npr-smears-assassinated-shinzo-abe-as-divisive-arch-conservative-after-glowing-obit-for-fidel-castro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/npr-smears-assassinated-shinzo-abe-as-divisive-arch-conservative-after-glowing-obit-for-fidel-castro\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR Smears Assassinated Shinzo Abe As \u2018Divisive Arch-Conservative\u2019 After Glowing Obit For Fidel Castro"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fnpr-smears-assassinated-shinzo-abe-as-divisive-arch-conservative-after-glowing-obit-for-fidel-castro%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=1544595&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--><p>When NPR used the assassination of conservative former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to smear him as a \u201cdivisive arch-conservative,\u201d it reminded readers that its name might be more accurately spelled out as National Propaganda Racket than National Public Radio. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFormer Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a divisive arch-conservative and one of his nation\u2019s most powerful and influential figures, has died after being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, hospital officials said,\u201d NPR tweeted before <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hraleighspeaks\/status\/1545403501261504512?s=21&#038;t=_9UTEeI5W1N3Xizx5uNMSA\">deleting<\/a> it. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"445\" height=\"792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-8.png 445w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-8-169x300.png 169w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>It then replaced the tweet with a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NPR?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">different one<\/a> calling Abe an \u201cultranationalist.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"667\" height=\"643\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-7.png 667w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-7-300x289-1.png 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The story highlights Abe\u2019s long tenure as prime minister but conveniently omits that far from being a fringe radical, Abe was voted in three times with a majority of votes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/japans-abe-re-elected-prime-minister-after-big-election-win-121711\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the third by a sweeping two-third \u201csupermajority.\u201d<\/a> Thus, Abe was only \u201cdivisive\u201d to the left-wing corporate media who didn\u2019t like his devotion to a strong economy and military, as well as his rapport with Trump. Abe held the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/shinzo-abe-dead-japan-longest-serving-prime-minister-conservative-kingmaker-strengthened-us-ties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">longest tenure<\/a> as prime minister in Japan to date. <\/p>\n<p>The article briefly cites his accomplishments, noting that the Japanese economy \u201cunexpectedly returned to a healthy growth\u201d in the hands of the conservative PM, before quickly closing with his alleged negligence in not closing down the country during the pandemic, which was a policy preference shared by mainstream conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>The article stands in sharp contrast with one NPR published on Fidel Castro\u2019s death, celebrating the despot. \u201cOne of the most prominent international figures in the last half of the 20th century, Castro inspired both passionate love and hate,\u201d the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/11\/26\/6631562\/former-cuban-leader-fidel-castro-dies-at-age-90\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">read<\/a>. \u201cMany who later lost faith in him can remember how they once admired the man who needed just a dozen men to launch the Cuban Revolution.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Dictators are better friends of the corporate media than economic conservatives. <\/p>\n<p>NPR wasn\u2019t the only outlet to go after Abe in his death. CBS Mornings <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/curtishouck\/status\/1545390720663576580?s=21&#038;t=09I46L2TmpQnju4-2c1BVg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">labeled<\/a> Abe a \u201cpolarizing figure\u201d and \u201cright-wing nationalist,\u201d whose \u201cpolitical opinions were controversial.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"W1rQh2Nbycgq4Y8HPwjiJ\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSMornings?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CBSMornings<\/a> trashes Shinzo Abe hours after his assassination, calling him &#8220;a polarizing figure,&#8221; &#8220;right-wing nationalist, and conservative&#8221; whose &#8220;political opinions were controversial&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XAUXAkqKu2\">pic.twitter.com\/XAUXAkqKu2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1545390720663576580?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Beth Whitehead is an intern at The Federalist and a journalism major at Patrick Henry College where she fondly excuses the excess amount of coffee she drinks as an occupational hazard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When NPR used the assassination of conservative former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to smear him as a \u201cdivisive arch-conservative,\u201d it reminded readers that its name might be more accurately<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":845,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1544595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544595","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\/845"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}