{"id":2255147,"date":"2024-05-29T15:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T19:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/targeting-alitos-flags-is-more-about-the-boundless-misery-of-leftists-than-the-courts-impartiality\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T15:19:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T19:19:02","slug":"targeting-alitos-flags-is-more-about-the-boundless-misery-of-leftists-than-the-courts-impartiality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/targeting-alitos-flags-is-more-about-the-boundless-misery-of-leftists-than-the-courts-impartiality\/","title":{"rendered":"Alito&#8217;s Flag Focus Reveals Leftists&#8217; Pain Over Court Impartiality"},"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%2Ftargeting-alitos-flags-is-more-about-the-boundless-misery-of-leftists-than-the-courts-impartiality%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=2255147&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\u200c article discusses New York\u2063 Times journalist \u200bJodi Kantor&#8217;s coverage \u2062of Supreme\u200c Court Justice Alito&#8217;s flag collection, \u200brevealing \u200dbiases and conflicts within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/from-impeaching-incitement-to-canceling-conservatism\/\" title=\"From Impeaching Incitement to Canceling Conservatism\">political left<\/a>. It highlights the\u2064 petty behavior and confrontational nature of some individuals, shedding light\u200d on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-ticketed-7-times-for-flying-anti-biden-flag-scores-huge-victory-over-town\/\" title=\"Man with 7 anti-Biden flag tickets triumphs against town.\">divisive political \u200bclimate<\/a> in America, especially\u200c in\u200b affluent Democratic strongholds. The article delves into Jodi \u2063Kantor&#8217;s reporting on Justice Alito&#8217;s flag collection, exposing partisan tensions within the political left. It emphasizes the\u200b petty actions and\u200b combative \u2064attitudes of certain figures, underscoring\u200c the polarized political landscape in the U.S., particularly in wealthy Democratic enclaves.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>From the moment New York Times nag Jodi Kantor\u2019s first story about Supreme Court Justice Alito\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/28\/dems-alito-freakout-is-a-false-flag-operation-to-take-down-the-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">private historical flag collection<\/a> \u2014\u00a0there have since been another three, plus a podcast \u2014\u00a0hit the internet two weeks ago, it was obvious who was responsible for running to the newspaper with that piping hot scoop. As Kantor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/28\/us\/justice-alito-neighbors-stop-steal-flag.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">described<\/a> the niggling informants in her latest article: \u201cin their 30s, liberal and proud of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Setting aside that the multi-week Washington drama has mostly served as an inconsequential debate over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gadsen-flag-kid-slaps-colorado-school-district-with-lawsuit-alleging-first-amendment-violations\/\" title=\"Gadsen Flag Kid sues Colorado School District for First Amendment violations.\">historical symbols<\/a> and the nerds who love them, at its core, the story isn\u2019t about \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/17\/us\/justice-alito-flag-reactions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">questions of Supreme Court\u2019s impartiality<\/a>,\u201d activating my gag reflex. It\u2019s about the vindictive, petty, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israeli-defense-minister-gantz-under-fire-for-hosting-pa-president-abbas-at-home\/\" title=\"Israeli Defense Minister Gantz Under Fire for Hosting PA President Abbas at Home\">anti-social behavior<\/a> that has come to define America\u2019s political left.<\/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__b89e9-1718978189\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-76d25e4a2865d935a7d239c6b40b2433 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-76d25e4a2865d935a7d239c6b40b2433\"><\/div>\n<p>The \u201cliberal and proud of it\u201d couple that dashed to Kantor with a tip about the Alitos flying an upside-down American flag outside their Northern Virginia home in early 2021, laughably described as a supportive signal for the \u201cStop the Steal\u201d protest, is a perfect manifestation of how modern Democrats conduct themselves. They instigate a personal conflict, involving perfect strangers no less, and then with passive aggression mastered by only the morally rancid left, they set out to wreck the reputations of innocent people while claiming themselves to be the victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAside from putting up a sign, we did not begin or instigate any of these confrontations,\u201d the 30-something woman-half of the couple, Emily Baden, told Kantor, who further described Baden and her husband as having \u201cparticipated in Black Lives Matter protests in Washington\u201d in 2020 and also posting pro-Joe Biden signs in the yard of a home belonging to Baden\u2019s mother. (Not at all the type to instigate a confrontation over politics!) After the election that year was called in favor of Biden, \u201cthey displayed a political sign they had made from torn-up Amazon boxes, saying \u2018BYE DON\u2019 on one side and \u2018F\u2014 Trump\u2019 on the other,\u201d wrote Kantor.<\/p>\n<p>This is where some first-hand context is needed. The Alitos live in Alexandria, Virginia, a homogenous, largely wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C. Like most of the immediate area, Alexandria is a hotbed of Democrat government workers who hate middle-income and working-class people (especially black ones), and they see it as their birthright to antagonize and belittle everyone they deem to be sub-human (devout Christians and Republican voters).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the type of place where you can sleep soundly with an obnoxious \u201cIn this house, we believe \u2026\u201d yard sign, but the Lord be with you if you dare rock a \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d bumper sticker. Keys will find that vehicle\u2019s paint coat faster than Joe Biden can invent a new way that his son died.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-99e0428459407efd598d47ecba46c495 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-99e0428459407efd598d47ecba46c495\"><\/div>\n<p>All of that is to say, it\u2019s a place inhabited by average Democrats. I know this because I live here. My book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a><\/em>  is explicitly about <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/28\/how-democrats-made-themselves-miserable-and-want-you-to-be-too\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">people like the Badens<\/a>. They\u2019re the type to alienate family, friends, and strangers over minor political disagreements. They\u2019re the type to eagerly shrink their social circles if it means not having to associate with a Trump voter or someone who won\u2019t swear that Ukraine is democracy\u2019s last best hope. They\u2019re the type to act out among mixed company because someone said he didn\u2019t take the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a guess. It\u2019s a reality born out by countless <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/21\/data-show-conservatives-are-happier-than-leftists-is-anyone-surprised\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">surveys, studies, and data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <span class=\"TIRaDrp6sjm7oaLuP4en1KDQe1ClsBzFqN9wxClB96ip2qbTmw4Ag05ROcWJMEMg8yOk7v3rXZ2Ku8Itvo5VXfPb\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\ude20\ud83d\udeab <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nSmLs6i2WS\">https:\/\/t.co\/nSmLs6i2WS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kLtqPEsfgx\">pic.twitter.com\/kLtqPEsfgx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eddie Scarry (@eScarry) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eScarry\/status\/1543620524445761536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Kantor wrote in her story that the Baden couple in mid-February 2021 came upon the Alitos while on a neighborhood stroll. (Democrats are always on the hunt for fresh confrontation.) \u201cMrs. Alito addressed the pair by name, used an expletive and called them \u2018fascists,\u2019\u201d the article said, citing Baden\u2019s version of events. \u201cThat was when Emily Baden snapped, she said. She does not remember her precise words, but recalls something like this: How dare you behave this way. You\u2019ve been harassing us, over signs. You represent the highest court in the land. Shame on you.\u201d Oh, and Baden called Alito\u2019s wife the c-word.<\/p>\n<p><em>I said, How dare you, madam?! Then called her a c\u2014!<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2e524db944ae7145533e4270da4313c0 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2e524db944ae7145533e4270da4313c0\"><\/div>\n<p>Kantor would lead readers to believe that the details and timeline of the neighborly conflict matter because when the upside-down flag went up is somehow indicative of the justice\u2019s allegiance to Donald Trump \u2014 but I\u2019m not going to risk dignifying her hysterical conspiracy with a play-by-play rebuttal. Kantor and the Times simply want to undermine any upcoming rulings from the court that might favor Trump and Republicans. It\u2019s an election year and Kantor and the Times want Biden to win. That\u2019s the only reason they bothered at all to \u201creport\u201d this trifling comedy.<\/p>\n<p>And it was evident who inspired the story from the get-go. In her initial story published May 16, Kantor referred to \u201calarmed neighbors\u201d who \u201cinterpreted the inverted flag as a political statement by the couple.\u201d That\u2019s nag speak for, \u201cSome Democrats were hoping to do what they do best, which is cause unrest until they get their way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, when Kantor wrote in her latest update on the saga this week describing the Badens as \u201cliberal and proud of it,\u201d that was nag speak for, \u201cimposing, belligerent, and neurotic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nobody outside of Washington finds controversy or meaning in the flags. If there has been anything useful in this episode, it\u2019s the reminder of just how dark, depraved, and deeply troubled the mind of the political left can be.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-4e8e7543a0321a6b444109628207c0de fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-4e8e7543a0321a6b444109628207c0de\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times&#8217; Jodi Kantor&#8217;s initial article on Justice Alito&#8217;s flag collection sparked a series of follow-ups and a podcast. 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