{"id":575578,"date":"2021-06-28T15:05:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T19:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=575578"},"modified":"2021-06-28T15:05:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T19:05:47","slug":"opinion-in-cable-news-its-better-to-be-a-pervert-than-a-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opinion-in-cable-news-its-better-to-be-a-pervert-than-a-conservative\/","title":{"rendered":"OPINION: In Cable News, It\u2019s Better To Be A Pervert Than A Conservative"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fopinion-in-cable-news-its-better-to-be-a-pervert-than-a-conservative%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=575578&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\/Jeffrey-Toobin.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>One day, we may look back and dub this month in cable news history \u201cthe return of the pervert,\u201d as CNN and MSNBC welcomed back commentators and contributors accused of sexual harassment or other carnal improprieties to their airwaves. Abusing their position to obtain sexual favors, exposing themselves, or racking up a years-long history of inappropriate comments to female guests and co-workers could not stand in the way of Leftists\u2019 return to the class of punditry.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone from former Rep. Katie Hill (D, naturally, CA), to Jeffrey Toobin, to Chris Matthews have shaken off the muck of scandal and plunged into the ranks of cable news talking heads.<\/p>\n<p>Katie Hill\u2019s \u201cthrouple\u201d with a young staffer exploded into public view after the Daily Mail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/katie-hill-democratic-ex-congresswoman-in-throuple-must-pay-conservative-newspaper-105k-after-lawsuit-backfires\">published photos<\/a> of Hill and her then-husband pawing a woman roughly half her age. The power differential between Hill and the employee raised questions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/katie-hill-sex-scandal-worsens-staffer-felt-abused-in-toxic-relationship-consent-questions-emerge-report-says\">sexual harassment<\/a> in the age of #MeToo. Still, CNN not only invited Hill, who spent less than a year in Congress, to offer commentary on a subject about which she clearly had no expertise, but CNN host Brianna Keilar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/3-democrats-the-media-are-thirsty-to-have-back-in-politics\">practically begged her<\/a> to return to politics.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile at MSNBC, Joy Reid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/i-did-something-wrong-chris-matthews-explains-his-abrupt-departure-from-msnbc\">ushered<\/a> her predecessor, Chris Matthews \u2014 who faced amorphous-yet-sustained charges of making inappropriate comments to female guests \u2014 back into his old time slot as a political commentator earlier this month. Days later, \u201cDeadline White House\u201d host Nicolle Wallace introduced \u201cmy friend, Chris Matthews\u201d to her viewers. (He went on to say that Donald Trump \u201cis up there with Benedict Arnold right now.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Most conspicuous by his on-air presence was former CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, whom CNN jerked back onto the airwaves after a suspension for exposing himself while masturbating during a Zoom call with fellow employees at The New Yorker magazine. \u201cLook, if you can\u2019t recover from masturbating on a Zoom in front of colleagues, is this even America anymore?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/curtmills\/status\/1403191579310018561\">quipped<\/a> Curt Mills of The American Conservative. Fellow CNN hack Ana Navarro covered Toobin (which is more than Toobin ever did), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/ana-navarro-defends-jeffrey-toobin\">telling<\/a> \u201cThe View\u201d that her colleague \u201cdidn\u2019t have the intent to sexually harass somebody. He was sexually harassing himself maybe.\u201d But flashing your penis in front of co-workers would fall well within the sexual harassment guidelines of any business. If a work-from-home employee accidentally exposed himself in front of others on a Zoom call during the pandemic, it is inconceivable that he would remain employed by the end of the day. The double standards of the left-of-center chattering class hardly confine themselves to sex, as Chris Cuomo\u2019s continued tenure at CNN proves.<\/p>\n<p>While Leftists get an endless stream of waivers, exemptions, and second-chances, conservatives get a pink slip. The lowest-rated cable news network has canceled its contract with every conservative commentator who didn\u2019t vote for Joe Biden \u2014 which is to say, every conservative commentator. It fired Jeffrey Lord because Lord, who is Jewish, used the phrase \u201cSieg Heil\u201d on social media; it now refers to disagreements about the 2020 election as \u201cThe Big Lie\u201d every 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>CNN hired, then <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/media\/369685-trump-supporter-ed-martin-out-at-cnn-after-4-month-stint\">fired<\/a>, conservative commentator Ed Martin, who hosts the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phyllisschlafly.com\/category\/ed-martin-movement-radio\/\">Pro-America Report<\/a>\u201d on the radio, within four months in 2017. While he held the position, Martin offended the network by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2017\/10\/02\/new-cnn-contributor-ed-martin-said-failing-cnn-is-fake-news_partner\/\">not changing<\/a> his views \u2014 something Ana Navarro could not defend. She once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/cnns-ana-navarro-loses-it-on-ed-martin-i-barely-know-your-name-i-have-no-idea-who-you-are\/\">exploded<\/a> at Martin, \u201cI barely know your name; I have no idea who you are. I never insult you.\u201d At the time of his hiring, Lord <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/conservative-ed-martin-as-cnn-contributor-1075782\/\">called<\/a> Martin a \u201csmart guy\u201d who \u201cwill say things that go against the grain. After a while it will add up, and there will surely be those pushing to get rid of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His prediction underlines that the only relevant factor in the networks\u2019 HR decisions is the approval of the network\u2019s uniformly Leftist hosts. Brian Stelter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/10\/media\/jeffrey-toobin-returns-cnn\/index.html\">explained<\/a> that Toobin came back to CNN, because \u201c[s]ome anchors and hosts at CNN\u201d had \u201cexpressed a desire to have Toobin back on their shows, since he has been a leading legal voice on television for decades.\u201d But why did former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/rick-santorums-firing-proves-cnn-doesnt-want-to-hear-anyone-who-sounds-like-you\">Senator Rick Santorum<\/a> get the boot at the network? A \u201cCNN senior executive\u201d told HuffPost that CNN took Santorum off the payroll, because \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-fires-rick-santorum-after-he-claimed-founding-fathers-birthed-a-nation-from-nothing\">none of the anchors wanted to book him<\/a>, so he was essentially benched, anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While welcoming Toobin back to the air, Alisyn Camerota warmly said, \u201cJeffrey, many of us have really missed having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jeffrey-toobin-scotus-decides-christians-dont-have-to-follow-the-laws-that-everyone-else-has-to\">your legal analysis<\/a> to guide us on our programs, so let me be the first to welcome you back.\u201d Who will be the first to welcome back Santorum, Martin, Lord, Lewandowski, or anyone outside the ACELA Corridor with the temerity to say that 74 million Republican voters were not motivated by racial bias against \u2026 Joe Biden?<\/p>\n<p>CNN insiders say subjectivity is the entire point: The network deliberately maintains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/former-cnn-employee-says-outlet-has-no-real-ethical-code\">vague ethical standards<\/a>, so that it can apply them selectively based on the person\u2019s political ideology. \u201cYou won\u2019t see any rules that are etched in stone so that a violation could be a firing offense,\u201d said Steve Holmes, who worked at CNN for more than a decade. \u201cThey can\u2019t say that [Cuomo]\u2019s violated any written policies because there aren\u2019t any, period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just a double standard. It\u2019s not merely bias. It\u2019s the networks\u2019 conscious moral decision that the acceptance, much less the expression, of conservative thought is worse than sexually boorish or utterly inappropriate actions; that Judeo-Christian morality is immoral and more sullying than the sexually motivated abuse of power, indecent exposure, or violating (admittedly ill-defined and ever-shifting) standards that make females express discomfort. But then any movement promoting transgenderism has long ago dispensed with the importance of women\u2019s feelings and safety. This was visible in a media that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/left-goes-nuts-over-reports-pence-will-only-eat-hank-berrien\">mocked<\/a> Mike Pence for refusing to have dinner alone with a member of the opposite sex, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/harris-is-co-hosting-a-womens-empowerment-event-with-bill-clinton-womens-groups-have-said-nothing\">remained silent<\/a> as newly elected Vice President Kamala Harris co-hosted an event on \u201cempowering women and girls\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/harris-to-go-one-on-one-with-bill-clinton-on-empowering-women-attend-event-with-ties-to-anti-semite\">with Bill Clinton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The media have adopted the inversion of Western morality. They have brought about what German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/19322\/19322-h\/19322-h.htm\">called<\/a> \u201c<em>[t]he transvaluation of Christian values<\/em> \u2014 an attempt with all available means, all instincts and all the resources of genius to bring about a triumph of the\u00a0<em>opposite<\/em>\u00a0values, the more\u00a0<em>noble<\/em>\u00a0values.\u201d In his book appropriately titled <em>The Antichrist<\/em>, he wrote, \u201cThis has been the one great war of the past; there has never been a more critical question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reemergence of Toobin, Hill, and others indicate that the media want to fight that war with as many allies as possible.<\/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>One day, we may look back and dub this month in cable news history \u201cthe return of the pervert,\u201d as CNN and MSNBC welcomed back commentators and contributors accused of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281539,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Jeffrey-Toobin.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"OPINION: In Cable News, It\u2019s Better To Be A Pervert Than A Conservative","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Jeffrey-Toobin.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"OPINION: In Cable News, It\u2019s Better To Be A Pervert Than A Conservative","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575578","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=575578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}