{"id":1970667,"date":"2023-07-12T11:42:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T15:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-french-joins-the-mob-to-smear-moms-for-liberty\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T11:45:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T15:45:54","slug":"david-french-joins-the-mob-to-smear-moms-for-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-french-joins-the-mob-to-smear-moms-for-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"David French joins smear campaign against Moms for Liberty."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fdavid-french-joins-the-mob-to-smear-moms-for-liberty%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=1970667&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--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>The other day, Media Matters spread a story about how the grassroots group Moms for Liberty had \u201cquoted Hitler\u201d in its local Indiana newsletter. That sounds really bad, right? The smear was, naturally, picked up by automatons at virtually every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/news-outlets-issue-major-corrections-after-botching-reports-on-december-phone-call-between-trump-ga-election-investigator\/\" title=\"News Outlets Issue Major Corrections After Botching Reports On December Phone Call Between Trump, GA Election Investigator\">major news outlet<\/a> whose job seems to be giving political oppo hits a patina of journalistic credibility. <\/p>\n<p>While one expects the con artists at the Lincoln Project to latch on to this sort of hit, we don\u2019t expect conservatism\u2019s most celebrated hall monitor to do so. Yet, there was New York Times columnist David French affirmatively <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidAFrench\/status\/1678820350702878721?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quote-tweeting<\/a> a user who not only shared a video clip of a speaker at a Moms of Liberty conference defending the Indiana moms, but also called their outlook \u201cChristofascism.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1559622491\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d678dd77692e37953c71966e448080c6 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d678dd77692e37953c71966e448080c6\"><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to believe any sentient human really believes that a gaggle of suburban moms \u2014 who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/david-french-joins-the-mob-to-smear-moms-for-liberty\/\" title=\"David French joins smear campaign against Moms for Liberty.\">oppose books celebrating gender dysphoria<\/a> being read by elementary school-aged kids \u2014 are readying for the next Beer Hall Putsch. Then again, the people who cynically spread this kind of smear rely on the credulousness of paranoid Trump-obsessed Democrats. You know what Stalin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/work\/quotes\/54884841-joseph-stalin-a-life-from-beginning-to-end-world-war-2-biographies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">probably<\/a> said: \u201cEverybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The smear makes literally zero sense. The quote in question \u2014 \u201cHe alone who owns the youth gains the future\u201d \u2013 was used to hyperbolically compare the outlook of Hitler with Joe Biden and other Democrats. Similar framing, though perhaps distasteful, is well within the norms of American political debate. French can find them regularly in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/10\/19\/opinion\/trump-isnt-hitler-but-the-lying.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">his own paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While Biden is no Hitler, like many of the left, he is something of an authoritarian when it comes to your children. Well not <em>your children<\/em>, exactly. The president <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/15\/no-democrats-these-are-not-your-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">believes<\/a> they\u2019re \u201call our\u201d children. And not only that the state has the right to trap them in schools, but that bureaucrats have the right to dictate what they learn and read against the wishes of parents. As the murderous dictator Vlad Lenin said, \u201cGive me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even when these parents use the mechanism of our democracy to elect people to enact change in those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-barr-militantly-secularist-government-caused-public-school-disaster\/\" title=\"Bill Barr: 'Militantly Secularist Government' Caused Public School 'Disaster'\">state-run schools<\/a>, they are labeled extremists and Hitler stans and book banners and censors. If they complain about the state of American education to their school boards, the federal government might label them a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/10\/the-biden-administration-is-trying-to-intimidate-parents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">terror threat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1c008d2e1166a40a1c9cc055e2e1b8b3 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1c008d2e1166a40a1c9cc055e2e1b8b3\"><\/div>\n<p>In any event, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/labor-board-dismisses-union-misconduct-complaints-following-biden-purge\/\" title=\"Labor Board Dismisses Union Misconduct Complaints Following Biden Purge\">local chapter<\/a> had already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2023\/06\/22\/indiana-moms-for-liberty-hitler-quote\/70349071007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">apologized<\/a> for using the quote by the time French was intimating the moms were Hitler fans. It was a national story. \u201cWe condemn Adolf Hitler\u2019s actions and his dark place in human history,\u201d the chapter chairwoman wrote. \u201cWe should not have quoted him in our newsletter and express our deepest apology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This too is gibberish, by the way. <em>Of course<\/em> a person can quote terrible people to point out the ideological similarities they share with political adversaries without endorsing their beliefs. I can quote Lenin and Stalin, and I challenge you to find a bigger anti-commie than myself. <\/p>\n<p>Yet, even after the workings of the smear had been pointed out to him, French doubled down. \u201cIf the quote was fine, in context, why apologize?\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidAFrench\/status\/1678836509280026625\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked<\/a>. Well, my guess is that some Hamilton County, Indiana branch members of Moms for Liberty were a bit shaken when giant legacy media organizations and New York Times columnists with hundreds of thousands of followers began throwing around accusations \u2014 or strongly insinuating \u2014 that they were Nazis. They\u2019re still new at this. That\u2019s just how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>French also seems to believe that stripping parents of the right to have a say in the curation of school libraries \u2014 so, for instance, barring elementary schools from carrying illustrated books of 10-year-old boys <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/13\/if-banned-books-are-harmless-joe-biden-should-read-them-to-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">engaging<\/a> in oral sex or pseudo-historical books about American history \u2014 is a censorious \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/15\/no-democrats-these-are-not-your-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">speech code<\/a>.\u201d He\u2019s wrong, but it\u2019s a perfectly legitimate debate. Smearing those who are involved in that debate is an ugly shortcut.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1ec35d714655553a095819e4bdec7496 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1ec35d714655553a095819e4bdec7496\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-809d783db89836cb7dc976466aa26111 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-809d783db89836cb7dc976466aa26111\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>credibility. However, upon closer examination, it was revealed that the quote was actually from a historical figure criticizing Hitler. Media Matters&#8217; attempt to tarnish Moms for Liberty&#8217;s reputation backfired, exposing their own biased agenda. This incident highlights the need for critical thinking and fact-checking in today&#8217;s media landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":1970668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"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\/1970667","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\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1970668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}