{"id":1817741,"date":"2023-01-20T16:50:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T21:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1817741"},"modified":"2023-01-20T16:56:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T21:56:37","slug":"left-wing-group-says-opposition-to-bidens-old-white-lady-nominee-is-anti-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/left-wing-group-says-opposition-to-bidens-old-white-lady-nominee-is-anti-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Left-Wing Group Says Opposition to Biden&#8217;s Old White Lady Nominee Is &#8216;Anti-Black&#8217;"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fleft-wing-group-says-opposition-to-bidens-old-white-lady-nominee-is-anti-black%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=1817741&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-->\n<p>A left-wing media advocacy organization is standing by President Joe Biden&#8217;s Federal Communications Commission nominee, an 61-year old white woman. She claims she has faced discrimination. &#8220;anti-Black dog whistles&#8221; From critics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since Biden nominated public-interest champion Gigi Sohn to fill the fifth tie-breaking seat at the FCC, she has faced anti-Semitic, homophobic, and deceitful attacks,&#8221; Free Press stated in a Thursday fundraising email, &#8220;including anti-Black dog whistles from a police union.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-20-at-2.45.34-PM.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s nomination for Sohn was stalled by the committee in January 2021. After which, the president renominated Sohn for the position. For her comments, senators, including some Democrats have opposed Sohn <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/experts-worry-biden-fcc-pick-will-use-post-to-attack-conservatives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calling<\/a> FCC to investigate conservative network and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/republicans-slam-biden-fcc-pick-for-anti-conservative-views\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">describing<\/a> Fox News &#8220;state-sponsored propaganda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Fraternal Order of Police was founded. <a href=\"https:\/\/fop.net\/2022\/03\/gigi-sohn-fop-research-analysis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposed<\/a> Sohn&#8217;s support for calls to defund the Police and her role as a member of an organization that has fought against police access to encrypted communications. According to the union, Sohn&#8217;s track record shows her commitment to protecting the police. &#8220;serious animus towards law enforcement officers and the rule of law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Free Press claimed in its fundraising appeal that the union&#8217;s allegation was false. &#8220;anti-Black dog whistle that&#8217;s often levied against public-interest advocates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Free Press didn&#8217;t respond to our request for comment about whether the Fraternal Order of Police&#8217;s criticism of Sohn was a dog whistle.<\/p>\n<p>The media advocacy group was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/02\/26\/a-leading-net-neutrality-activists-neo-marxist-views\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">founded<\/a> in 2002 by socialist professor Robert McChesney, who praised Venezuela under former dictator Hugo Ch\u00e1vez and called for &#8220;remov[ing] brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.&#8221; Free Press also received millions of Dollars from George Soros, a far-left billionaire and founder of the Open Society Foundations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A left-wing media advocacy group is coming to the defense of President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled Federal Communications Commission nominee, a 61-year-old white woman, saying she has faced &#8220;anti-Black dog whistles&#8221; from critics.<br \/>\nThe post Left-Wing Group Says Opposition to Biden&#8217;s Old White Lady Nominee Is &#8216;Anti-Black&#8217; appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":1817744,"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":[544],"tags":[15842,4092,3706,4282,5129,4904,3760,3765],"class_list":["post-1817741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-anti-black","tag-beacon","tag-bidens","tag-lady","tag-left-wing","tag-nominee","tag-opposition","tag-white"],"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\/1817741","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\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1817744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}