{"id":1678547,"date":"2022-10-07T15:54:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T19:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1678547"},"modified":"2022-10-07T15:54:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T19:54:12","slug":"analysis-the-mainstream-media-think-youre-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-the-mainstream-media-think-youre-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: The Mainstream Media Think You\u2019re Stupid"},"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%2Fanalysis-the-mainstream-media-think-youre-stupid%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=1678547&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> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">The so-called news articles attacking Republicans are getting dumber by the day<\/p>\n<p>   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 October 7, 2022 3:45 pm  <\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s happening<\/strong>: Mainstream journalists and their Democratic allies are getting increasingly desperate ahead of next month&#8217;s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The so-called news articles attacking Republicans are getting dumber by the day, many of which would never be published unless the media thought that you\u2014the typical American voter\u2014are very stupid and easily manipulated by partisan propaganda.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is CNN<\/strong>: The disgraced network on Friday published an article that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Brian_Riedl\/status\/1578416629192724480\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">critics<\/a> are <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattdizwhitlock\/status\/1578374755761020930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calling<\/a> a &#8220;silly partisan pro-Democrat hit piece&#8221; that reflects &#8220;the worst kind of coverage of government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The article suggests that Republican lawmakers who voted against the Biden administration&#8217;s controversial infrastructure package\u2014the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act\u2014are hypocrites for subsequently supporting efforts to direct federal funding to their home states and districts.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 CNN&#8217;s framing implies that American taxpayers whose representatives opposed a $1.2 trillion spending bill should not benefit in any way from that massive pile of (taxpayer) money.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters<\/strong>: The media treat Democrats and Republicans differently.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Did the Democrats (every single one) who voted against the Republican tax cut in 2017 stick to their principles and continue to pay higher tax rates?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 No, they didn&#8217;t. Does that make them hypocrites? No, it doesn&#8217;t. That&#8217;s a dumb argument. That&#8217;s why the media didn&#8217;t publish any hit pieces on Democrats who opposed the tax cut. Alas, there is a different standard when Republicans are involved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Par for the course<\/strong>: The CNN article ran several days after critics <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/journalists-against-ron-desantis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">denounced<\/a> a <em>Politico<\/em> hit piece on Gov. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.) as &#8220;the stupidest fucking thing&#8221; the Virginia-based news blog had ever published.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The <em>Politico<\/em> piece was similarly framed. It suggested DeSantis was a hypocrite for criticizing President Joe Biden&#8217;s policies while also accepting federal funding to address COVID-19 and the damage wrought by Hurricane Ian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The big picture<\/strong>: The mainstream media desperately wanted to manufacture a Hurricane Katrina moment for DeSantis to hurt his chances of defeating Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening: Mainstream journalists and their Democratic allies are getting increasingly desperate ahead of next month&#8217;s midterm elections.<br \/>\nThe post Analysis: The Mainstream Media Think You\u2019re Stupid appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"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-1678547","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\/1678547","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\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678547\/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=1678547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}