{"id":1565797,"date":"2022-07-22T08:05:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T12:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1565797"},"modified":"2022-07-22T08:06:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T12:06:00","slug":"i-was-wrong-about-the-media-theyve-always-been-a-pretentious-gang-of-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-was-wrong-about-the-media-theyve-always-been-a-pretentious-gang-of-losers\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was Wrong About The Media. They\u2019ve Always Been A Pretentious Gang Of Losers"},"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%2Fi-was-wrong-about-the-media-theyve-always-been-a-pretentious-gang-of-losers%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=1565797&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>The New York Times on Thursday ran a slew of pieces by its full-time columnists wherein they purported to offer a confession of sorts about something each of them had gotten wrong in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Each headline began, \u201cI was wrong about\u2026,\u201d when they should have more accurately begun, \u201cIt\u2019s safe now to profess that I was dishonest about this thing because it\u2019s no longer a factor in my political pursuits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Goldberg\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/21\/opinion\/michelle-goldberg-al-franken.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">column<\/a>,\u201dI was wrong about Al Franken,\u201d is about how she regrets having called for the shunning and resignation of the former senator, who was credibly and accurately accused of sexual assault, an allegation replete with photographic evidence, multiple witnesses, and an apology from Franken himself. Goldberg writes that today she believes it was wrong of her to call for him to lose his job without first there being a Senate investigation.<\/p>\n<p>What she really means is that Franken was sacrificed so that Democrats and liberals could further use the so-often-absurd #MeToo movement as a political weapon against their opponents, but unfortunately it backfired.<\/p>\n<p>Gail Collins\u2019 piece, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/21\/opinion\/gail-collins-mitt-romney.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headlined<\/a>, \u201cI was wrong about Mitt Romney (and his dog),\u201d is her apology for so gleefully mocking and attacking the Republican senator when he ran for president in 2012. What she really means is now that Romney attacks the head of his own party, he\u2019s good.<\/p>\n<p>But the most awe-inspiring of the whole series is Bret Stephens, the former Wall Street Journal writer who identifies as a conservative despite calling for Republicans to lose every election of the past decade. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/21\/opinion\/bret-stephens-trump-voters.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">column<\/a>, \u201cI was wrong about Trump voters,\u201d is hysterical in its blatant dishonesty wrapped up nicely in a shocking degree of self-regard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I looked at Trump, I saw a bigoted blowhard making one ignorant argument after another,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWhat Trump\u2019s supporters saw was a candidate whose entire being was a proudly raised middle finger at a self-satisfied elite that had produced a failing status quo. I was blind to this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephens went on to use the opportunity to brag about how nice his life is. \u201cI belonged to a social class that my friend Peggy Noonan called \u2018the protected,&#8217;\u201d he said. \u201cMy family lived in a safe and pleasant neighborhood. Our kids went to an excellent public school. I was well paid, fully insured, insulated against life\u2019s harsh edges. Trump\u2019s appeal, according to Noonan, was largely to people she called \u2018the unprotected.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Definitely sounds like a man with his tail between his legs.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody buys for a second that Stephens is in any way genuinely reflecting on his contempt for the people who dared support Trump. (He literally says in the piece that he believed Trump\u2019s voters were \u201cmoral ignoramuses.\u201d) I can promise you this is not something he would have written had Trump won reelection in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Stephens even admits it. \u201cWould I be wrong to lambaste Trump\u2019s current supporters,\u201d he says, \u201cthe ones who want him back in the White House despite his refusal to accept his electoral defeat and the historic outrage of Jan. 6? Morally speaking, no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What Stephens is really trying to say is that it\u2019s one thing for him to tell you that it\u2019s too bad you\u2019re not doing as well as he is, after he\u2019s fought in every way to keep it that way. It\u2019s another for him to do anything that would actually have changed that.<\/p>\n<p>But in the same spirit of that Times series, I have my own confession: There was a period when I believed journalists in the national media were honest and decent people who were imperfect but always trying. I was wrong about all of that.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-comments mt-30 mt-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-comments-container d-flex flex-column align-items-center py-30\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"110\" height=\"106\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fdrlst-mark.svg\" class=\"img-fluid mb-20\" alt=\"The Federalist logo eagle mark\" \/>    <\/p>\n<p>Unlock commenting by joining the Federalist Community.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/plans\/pricing\/\" class=\"btn btn-on-white\">Subscribe<\/a>  <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times on Thursday ran a slew of pieces by its full-time columnists wherein they purported to offer a confession of sorts about something each of them had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":1897781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-1565797","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:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/22\/i-was-wrong-about-the-media-theyve-always-been-a-pretentious-gang-of-losers\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-was-wrong-about-the-media-theyve-always-been-a-pretentious-gang-of-losers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565797","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}