{"id":499278,"date":"2021-05-12T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=499278"},"modified":"2021-05-12T07:51:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:51:03","slug":"4-times-the-media-attacked-the-families-of-republican-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-times-the-media-attacked-the-families-of-republican-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Times The Media Attacked The Families Of Republican Politicians"},"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\">20<\/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%2F4-times-the-media-attacked-the-families-of-republican-politicians%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=499278&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1162581297.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>California gubernatorial hopeful Caitlyn Jenner told CNN on Monday that the famously media-friendly Kardashians \u201care scared of what the media\u2019s going to do\u201d to them if they get involved in a Republican campaign.<\/p>\n<p>During an extended interview on \u201cAnderson Cooper 360,\u201d the Olympic gold medalist revealed how the cast of \u201cKeeping Up with the Kardashians\u201d will handle the 2021 recall election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s the deal with them,\u201d Jenner told CNN. \u201cMy kids are not involved whatsoever with this \u2026 because they\u2019re scared \u2014 one, for my safety, and scared of what the media\u2019s going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jenner commented on the seeming contradiction of the stars of a long-running reality TV series \u2014 whose most intimate moments have been made public for decades \u2014 choosing to shy away from the cameras.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy family has certainly, you know, been out in the media, and they\u2019ve taken their shots, and they don\u2019t need to take any more,\u201d Jenner said.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 Republican hopeful revealed a secret conversation the family had about the election before formally announcing a candidacy:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><em>I said, \u201cI\u2019m not going to ask you for one tweet. I\u2019m not going to ask you for one thing. You guys go and live your life. This is my deal. This is my decision to do this. And I\u2019m going to tell the media, stay away. Don\u2019t ask them.\u201d And I told them, just [say], \u201cNo comment.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jenner\u2019s family is not wrong to be concerned. The media have so viciously and regularly dragged GOP candidates\u2019 families through the mud that even the Kardashians are turning down this kind of media coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Here are just a few examples:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong> Barron Trump is autistic<\/strong>. In 2016, then-cohost of ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View\u201d Rosie O\u2019Donnell started a whisper campaign that President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s youngest son, Barron, suffered from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/rosie-odonnell-barron-trump-autistic-amanda-prestigiacomo\">autism<\/a>. No confirmation has ever come that the boy is on the autistic spectrum. Still, the rumor eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/melania-trumps-son-barron-falls-autism-spectrum-fidgety-socially-awkward-journalist-2892815\">made it into print<\/a> in the Santa Monica Observer by Samuel Alioto. A year later, social media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/barron-trump-called-retarded-playing-most-popular-joseph-curl\">branded<\/a> Barron a \u201cspecial needs kid\u201d for playing with a fidget spinner.<\/li>\n<li><strong> Sen. Tim Scott\u2019s prosperous grandfather<\/strong>. Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) has frequently told the story of his illiterate grandfather dropping out of school in the third grade to become a cotton farmer. His family \u201cwent from cotton to Congress in one generation,\u201d Sen. Scott says with justifiable pride \u2014 and patriotism. That was more than The Washington Post would allow, as its fact-checker Glenn Kessler <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/23\/racist-washington-post-fact-check-calls-black-senator-privileged-for-family-history-of-picking-cotton\/\">attempted<\/a> to uncover inconsistencies in the Scott family\u2019s Horatio Alger story. Ultimately, he confirmed its major details \u2014 but not before slathering his findings with enough carefully worded questions to instill doubt in some readers.<\/li>\n<li><strong> Melania Trump, battered woman<\/strong>. In 2018, two well-exposed writers claimed in passing that President Trump probably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sick-media-speculates-president-trump-beat-melania-joseph-curl\">beat<\/a> his wife. Rolling Stone writer Jamil Smith speculated that \u201cthe prolonged, poorly explained public absence of Melania Trump could be about concealing abuse.\u201d David Frum asked whether it would break the law if President Trump \u201cpunched the First Lady in the White House\u201d and \u201cthen ordered the Secret Service to conceal\u201d his spousal abuse. The first lady was, in fact, recovering from a kidney surgery.<\/li>\n<li><strong> Sarah Palin\u2019s pregnancy truthers<\/strong>. 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin discreetly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-politics-palin\/palin-rebuts-rumors-says-daughter-pregnant-idUSN2944356420080901\">announced<\/a> that her 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, had gotten pregnant \u2014 after Democratic bloggers claimed the Alaska governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/sarah-palin-baby-hoax-2011-4\">faked<\/a> her own pregnancy to conceal Bristol\u2019s. To add insult to injury, David Letterman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/david-letterman-slammed-for-sex-jokes-about-palins-teen-daughter\">cracked wise<\/a> about her visit to a New York Yankees baseball game the following summer: \u201cOne awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankees game. During the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>On the other hand, the media studiously avoids engaging in negative coverage of Chelsea Clinton or Sasha and Malia Obama. During the 2008 Democratic primaries, MSNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/msnbc-anchor-suspended-pimping-comment-chelsea-clinton-article-1.308165\">suspended<\/a> host David Shuster for saying he felt as though Hillary Clinton \u201cpimped out\u201d 27-year-old Chelsea Clinton by having her call superdelegates on her mother\u2019s behalf. After he offered a heartfelt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/msnbc-reporter-begrudging_n_85706\">apology<\/a>, the Clinton campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/media\/2014\/07\/halper-book-clintons-lobbied-ge-to-get-rid-of-msnbcs-david-shuster-192542\">lobbied<\/a> NBC\u2019s parent company, GE, to fire Shuster. (NBC eventually terminated the host in 2010.) Although Malia Obama has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/video-malia-obama-caught-smoking-pot-amanda-prestigiacomo\">caught<\/a> on film smoking marijuana, the former first daughters have received the most media coverage for their mother, Michelle, publicly fretting that they will one day experience <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/walsh-when-will-america-stop-persecuting-michelle-obama-oprah-and-lebron-james\">racial profiling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Western media provide the negative PR of the Democratic Party. If the legacy media show up, the Kardashians would be well advised to follow Jenner\u2019s example and run.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California gubernatorial hopeful Caitlyn Jenner told CNN on Monday that the famously media-friendly Kardashians \u201care scared of what the media\u2019s going to do\u201d to them if they get involved in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896034,"comment_status":"close","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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499278","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","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499278","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}