{"id":644902,"date":"2021-08-14T17:06:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T21:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=644902"},"modified":"2021-08-14T17:06:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T21:06:10","slug":"graham-cable-news-death-cult-craziness-goes-unpunished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-cable-news-death-cult-craziness-goes-unpunished\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM: Cable News \u2018Death Cult\u2019 Craziness Goes Unpunished"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fgraham-cable-news-death-cult-craziness-goes-unpunished%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=644902&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\/08\/38073083-C342-494B-9521-659E7CE5F297-scaled-e1628874466221.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>One of the regular tropes of liberal cable news in recent weeks is how Big Tech is censoring any politicians or other leaders who are spreading misinformation about the coronavirus. They cheer when Sen. Rand Paul gets blocked by YouTube, for example, for questioning the effectiveness of masks.<\/p>\n<p>But these same liberal cable networks are spewing wild misinformation about COVID-19 \u2026 when it comes to smearing conservatives and Republicans. You can call them murderers and terrorists, and the \u201cindependent fact-checkers\u201d and the social media sites yawn and do nothing. These wild-eyed lies are somehow considered fair game.<\/p>\n<p>For example, on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d on Aug. 9, co-host Mika Brzezinski used the word \u201cdeath cult\u201d eight times to talk about governors like Ron DeSantis. She sneered that the delta variant was the \u201cDeSantis variant.\u201d DeSantis has encouraged vaccines and worked to protect senior citizens from dying of COVID much more effectively than, say, Gov. Andrew Cuomo.<\/p>\n<p>But Mika implied DeSantis was comparable to Jim Jones, who forced 900 followers into mass suicide in the jungles of Guyana in 1978. On Aug.1, CNN\u2019s Brian Stelter explicitly compared former President Donald Trump to Jones, and no one curbed Stelter on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, \u201cMorning Joe\u201d turned to its regular guest, Eugene Robinson, a columnist for The Washington Post who suggested DeSantis was killing his own supporters as a strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSickening and killing your political supporters, (it) seems to me is the stupidest and most shortsighted political strategy I\u2019ve ever heard of. Yet, that\u2019s what DeSantis is doing,\u201d he claimed. \u201cHe\u2019s insisting that pediatric wards fill with COVID patients. It is outrageous to say the least, and frankly, it\u2019s criminal. It should be criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was their 2020 playbook on Trump, that he was killing his own supporters.<\/p>\n<p>It happened again on Aug. 11, as Joe Scarborough repeated the \u201cdeath cult\u201d smear and attacked \u201cparents saying \u2018we\u2019re going to ignore doctors, we\u2019re going to ignore science and Jesus is going to take care of our children.\u2019 So we can act reckless medically,\u201d he sputtered. \u201cDo they think that Jesus decided to kill over 600,000 people with the COVID virus?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joy Reid unloaded the same garbage pail at MSNBC. On Aug. 10, she smeared DeSantis: \u201cWhat is the strategy behind killing children in your own state and letting children die of COVID?\u201d She condemned \u201cGov. DeathSantis\u201d alongside \u201chis partner in carnage, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Reid\u2019s Aug. 11 show, her guest Malcolm Nance insisted the Republican Party were terrorists like ISIS, Al Qaeda and the Irish Republican Army.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not only MSNBC that\u2019s claiming Republicans are a pack of killers. CNN put on a Democrat strategist named Michael Starr Hopkins who proclaimed Republicans \u201cbasically want to turn Florida into a morgue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>None of these targeted conservative leaders is someone who\u2019s merely taking a position contrary to some public health consensus. They are painted as consciously killing people, as murderers and terrorists. If you said anything like this about President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama or House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, you\u2019d be \u201cfact-checked\u201d and censored.<\/p>\n<p>But no one thinks an \u201cindependent fact-checker\u201d like PolitiFact cares about these lies. Reid hadn\u2019t been checked since 2018, and that was rated \u201cMostly True.\u201d The same goes for Scarborough. Brzezinski earned one check, a \u201cPants on Fire,\u201d but that was 2014. Robinson has two \u201cMostly True\u201d ratings. Stelter has one \u201cTrue\u201d from 2015. Nance and Hopkins have no page.<\/p>\n<p>All this underscores that the word \u201cmisinformation\u201d is applied only to speech that liberals don\u2019t enjoy. Wild smears about conservatives do not match the definition. Feelings trump facts.<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the regular tropes of liberal cable news in recent weeks is how Big Tech is censoring any politicians or other leaders who are spreading misinformation about the coronavirus. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644902","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=644902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}