{"id":571828,"date":"2021-06-23T14:21:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T18:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=571828"},"modified":"2021-06-23T14:21:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T18:21:49","slug":"confederate-soldiers-putin-and-chinese-state-media-3-people-the-legacy-media-compared-republicans-to-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/confederate-soldiers-putin-and-chinese-state-media-3-people-the-legacy-media-compared-republicans-to-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Confederate Soldiers, Putin, And Chinese State Media: 3 People The Legacy Media Compared Republicans To This Month"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fconfederate-soldiers-putin-and-chinese-state-media-3-people-the-legacy-media-compared-republicans-to-this-month%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=571828&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\/06\/GettyImages-1066836684.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The legacy media spend their time alternately accusing conservatives of demonizing their political opponents and \u2026 caricaturing conservatives as hate-filled extremists. Right-of-center Americans have been blamed for anti-Asian <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/548781-trump-looms-over-senates-anti-asian-hate-crimes-battle\">hate crimes<\/a>, covering up America\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/01\/us\/politics\/critical-race-theory.html\">legacy<\/a> of systemic racism, the continued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/peteraldhous\/delta-variant-vaccination-covid-surges\">spread<\/a> of COVID-19 variants, and <a href=\"http:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/2002\/07\/nday.04.html\">turning their backs<\/a> on the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Media commentators continued their name-calling bender over the last few weeks, adding the following smears to their collection.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Confederate soldiers<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Discussing Republican comments about the January 6 Capitol riot, Joy Reid opened the June 17 episode of MSNBC\u2019s \u201cThe ReidOut\u201d by likening Republicans to postwar Confederate soldiers and members of pro-Confederate terrorist organizations. \u201cIt\u2019s impossible to overlook the parallels to another insidious effort to mythologize a seditious undertaking, the \u2018Lost Cause\u2019 of the Confederacy in the years following the Civil War and the twisted logic and outright lies that laid the groundwork for the revisionist history found in American textbooks for generations, pushed by the United Daughters of the Confederacy,\u201d she said in a sweeping indictment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was the denial of the original American domestic terror organization, the Ku Klux Klan,\u201d she continued. \u201cAs the KKK terrorized and lynched black people throughout the south during Reconstruction, politicians denied the group even existed and argued that whites were the true victims. The same kind of denial and deflection and \u2014 call them what they are, lies \u2014 that Republicans have pedaled, that you have already heard time and time again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the Confederates and their postwar terrorist arm, the KKK, were so committed to the Democratic Party that after Reconstruction the region became known as the \u201cSolid South.\u201d The party\u2019s grip only began to wane when the Democratic Party embraced abortion-on-demand at the same time that the Southern Baptist Convention\u2019s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, under the leadership of Dr. Richard Land, became more outspoken in its support of the right to life.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Vladimir Putin<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Don Lemon is no stranger to wavering between playing the victim and assaulting his political enemies. When Lemon invited CNN White House Correspondent John Harwood to discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/media-deems-biden-putin-summit-the-most-successful-diplomatic-mission-of-the-century\">President Joe Biden\u2019s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a> last Wednesday, Harwood saw clear parallels between Putin and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).<\/p>\n<p>Harwood said Biden\u2019s hopes of passing an infrastructure bill through the evenly divided Senate \u201cactually is an analog to his hopes for dealing with Vladimir Putin. That is to say, you can\u2019t change another person\u2019s [character], but you can try to influence their behavior by the incentives that you give them. So, when Biden is dealing with Putin, he says, \u2018Let him know that we have significant cyber capability, and if he crosses certain lines that we have laid out for him, he knows that we have the ability to hit back.\u2019 He hopes that will have an effect. We will see,\u201d said Harwood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Mitch McConnell, what he is saying is, \u2018Yes, Mitch McConnell will want to block any Supreme Court nominee that I offer. The question is, is Mitch McConnell going to have the throw weight within the Republican caucus to make that stick?\u2019 He could with Obama in 2016. Could he do it against Joe Biden, who has been consistently popular? Maybe he can, maybe he can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the comparison of incentives being inapplicable \u2014 recent polls have shown even liberals find themselves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/most-liberals-are-totally-indifferent-toward-joe-biden-according-to-facebook-analysis\">indifferent toward Joe Biden<\/a> \u2014 comparing Mitch McConnell to an autocrat who has injected his political opponents with <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2019\/08\/01\/why-russia-keeps-poisoning-people-navalny-suspected-illness-protests-moscow\/\">radioactive chemicals<\/a> should be beyond the pale.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Chinese state-run media<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ratings-free-fall-cnns-brian-stelter-loses-72-of-viewers-in-2021\">ratings failure Brian Stelter<\/a> introduced his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-asks-jen-psaki-how-it-can-help-push-joe-bidens-agenda\">much-mocked interview<\/a> with White House spokesperson Jen Psaki by promising to reveal \u201chow Chinese and Russian state TV helped White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki prepare for her current role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki defended her decision to shut down conservative news outlets by saying, \u201cI also have a responsibility not to allow the briefing room to become a forum for propaganda, or a forum for pushing forward falsehoods or inaccurate information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy best preparation from that was actually serving as the State Department spokesperson, when there were representatives of the Russian and Chinese media in the briefing room asking me questions that were directed by their government,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u201cSo, we see that from time to time in the briefing room, not every single day at all, but I have a responsibility to the public to make sure they\u2019re getting accurate information. And the premises of questions that are propaganda-pushing are not giving them inaccurate information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Likening Fox News and Newsmax to state-run TV seems ironic, since the Chinese Communist Party \u2014 which had a famously antagonistic relationship with President Donald Trump \u2014 celebrated the advent of the Biden-Harris administration. The state-run Xinhua news service <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2020\/12\/beijing-curbs-fawning-airtime-for-biden\/\">referred<\/a> to Biden as \u201ca safe pair of hands to salvage and lift the world\u2019s most important bilateral ties\u201d on November 5. But accuracy hardly figures into media coverage, especially of conservatives.<\/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><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\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legacy media spend their time alternately accusing conservatives of demonizing their political opponents and \u2026 caricaturing conservatives as hate-filled extremists. 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