{"id":906036,"date":"2021-10-21T13:29:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T17:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=906036"},"modified":"2021-10-21T13:29:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T17:29:44","slug":"cruelty-is-the-point-why-the-media-continue-to-celebrate-deaths-of-the-unvaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruelty-is-the-point-why-the-media-continue-to-celebrate-deaths-of-the-unvaccinated\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruelty Is The Point: Why The Media Continue To Celebrate Deaths Of The Unvaccinated"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fcruelty-is-the-point-why-the-media-continue-to-celebrate-deaths-of-the-unvaccinated%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=906036&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>Since the American people began showing resistance to government lockdown orders, the media have gone out of their way to highlight \u2014 and sometimes celebrate \u2014 the illnesses or deaths of those who opposed draconian government mandates. The most recent example is former Congressman Allen West, a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of Texas, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/allen-west-vaccine-mandates-hospitalization\">announced<\/a> earlier this month that he had been hospitalized due to the effects of COVID-19. The moment his tweets hit, anchors in the legacy media could hardly contain themselves.<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid and her guests dedicated a full segment of an episode of \u201cThe ReidOut\u201d to attacking West who, as a black conservative, upsets the narrative that black voters\u2019 convictions uniformly mirror Reid\u2019s. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2004\/01\/frontpage-magazines-2003-man-of-the-year-col-allen-b-west\/\">Allen West<\/a>, the Trump candidate for governor of [Texas], goes full on anti-vaxxer even as he lies in a hospital bed with COVID pneumonia \u2026 and live-tweeting his disdain for vaccine mandates,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/transcripts\/transcript-reidout-10-11-21-n1281304\">gibed<\/a>. Reid\u2019s guest, former DNC Communications Director Xochitl Hinojosa, also seemed bemused that Allen West \u201cliterally hospitalized as we speak, because he\u2019s not vaccinated, and he has low oxygen levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reid proceeded to read the tweets West sent from his hospital bed in an over-the-top, mocking tone that made her seem at once ghoulish, juvenile, and unprofessional. West <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AllenWest\/status\/1447195963542679552\">tweeted<\/a> \u201cI can attest that, after this experience, I am even more dedicated to fighting against vaccine mandates. Instead of enriching the pockets of Big Pharma and corrupt bureaucrats and politicians, we should be advocating the monoclonal antibody infusion therapy.\u201d He <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AllenWest\/status\/1447195965606273035\">added<\/a>, \u201cAs Governor of Texas, I will vehemently crush anyone forcing vaccine mandates in the Lone Star State. There are far better protocols that individual citizens can utilize and decide for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">5\/ I can attest that, after this experience, I am even more dedicated to fighting against vaccine mandates. Instead of enriching the pockets of Big Pharma and corrupt bureaucrats and politicians, we should be advocating the monoclonal antibody infusion therapy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Allen West (@AllenWest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AllenWest\/status\/1447195963542679552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reid had company in the journalistic gutter. Later that evening. CNN\u2019s Don Lemon <a href=\"https:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/show\/cnnt\/date\/2021-10-11\/segment\/01\">said<\/a>, \u201cTexas Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen West, known for being an anti-vaxxer, comes down with COVID.\u201d Some criticism of West was manifestly inaccurate: Biba Adams of The Grio ran the headline, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thegrio.com\/\">Texas GOP figure Allen West vows to \u2018fight vaccine\u2019 from hospital bed with COVID\u201d; yet the words \u201cfight vaccine<\/a>\u201d \u2014 which are in quotation marks \u2014 do not appear anywhere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the American people began showing resistance to government lockdown orders, the media have gone out of their way to highlight \u2014 and sometimes celebrate \u2014 the illnesses or deaths of those who opposed draconian government mandates. The most recent example is former Congressman Allen West, a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of Texas, who announced earlier this month that he had been hospitalized due to the effects of COVID-19. The moment his tweets hit, anchors in the legacy media could hardly contain themselves.MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid and her guests dedicated a full segment of an episode of \u201cThe ReidOut\u201d to attacking West who, as a black conservative, upsets the narrative that black voters\u2019 convictions uniformly mirror Reid\u2019s. \u201cAllen West, the Trump candidate for governor of [Texas], goes full on anti-vaxxer even as he lies in a hospital bed with COVID pneumonia \u2026 and live-tweeting his disdain for vaccine mandates,\u201d she gibed. Reid\u2019s guest, former DNC Communications Director Xochitl Hinojosa, also seemed bemused that Allen West \u201cliterally hospitalized as we speak, because he\u2019s not vaccinated, and he has low oxygen levels.\u201dReid proceeded to read the tweets West sent from his hospital bed in an over-the-top, mocking tone that made her seem at once ghoulish, juvenile, and unprofessional. West tweeted \u201cI can attest that, after this experience, I am even more dedicated to fighting against vaccine mandates. Instead of enriching the pockets of Big Pharma and corrupt bureaucrats and politicians, we should be advocating the monoclonal antibody infusion therapy.\u201d He added, \u201cAs Governor of Texas, I will vehemently crush anyone forcing vaccine mandates in the Lone Star State. There are far better protocols that individual citizens can utilize and decide for themselves.\u201d5\/ I can attest that, after this experience, I am even more dedicated to fighting against vaccine mandates. Instead of enriching the pockets of Big Pharma and corrupt bureaucrats and politicians, we should be advocating the monoclonal antibody infusion therapy.\u2014 Allen West (@AllenWest) October 10, 2021Reid had company in the journalistic gutter. Later that evening. CNN\u2019s Don Lemon said, \u201cTexas Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen West, known for being an anti-vaxxer, comes down with COVID.\u201d Some criticism of West was manifestly inaccurate: Biba Adams of The Grio ran the headline, \u201cTexas GOP figure Allen West vows to \u2018fight vaccine\u2019 from hospital bed with COVID\u201d; yet the words \u201cfight vaccine\u201d \u2014 which are in quotation marks \u2014 do not appear anywhere in the story. (As noted, West said he would continue \u201cfighting against vaccine mandates.\u201d) The erroneous headline was picked up by Yahoo! News.One would be tempted to write this off as the media\u2019s longstanding bias against Colonel West, who, as a black conservative, poses a unique threat to their narrative. Reid went on to dismiss West as \u201cbasically to the right of Attila the Hun,\u201d as her guest, Jason Jones, smeared West as the physical embodiment of \u201cthe zeitgeist of the Republican Party\u201d base voters, who \u201cwant that sort of natural, all-natural flavor racism, but they want it in blackface with a 1990s flattop haircut.\u201dMSNBC\u2019s @DrJasonJohnson: @AllenWest gives Republicans \u201call-natural flavor racism but [in] blackface with a 1990s flat top haircut&#8221; pic.twitter.com\/PhrlZOhYIl\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 12, 2021The smirking media coverage meted out to Allen West fits into a long series of stories virtually dancing on the graves of anyone who questions (almost universally Democratic politicians\u2019) authority. \u201cSome people are literally dying to own the libs,\u201d said CNN senior political activist John Avlon. \u201cThey\u2019re thinning their own herd,\u201d cracked Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cDeadline: White House about Republicans.\u201d (Apparently, a producer clued her in to how callous her words sounded because the next day she insisted these deaths were tragic and said, \u201cI pray for them.\u201d Then, moments later, she repeated that \u201cthey\u2019re thinning their own herd.\u201d)Here are a few other examples of the media celebrating :Phil Valentine: Nashville talk radio host Phil Valentine died on August 21 after broadcasting his doubts about the efficacy and desirability of receiving the COVID-19 vaccination. As Phil continued to cling to life in the hospital, Alisyn Camerota attacked his brother, Mark Valentine, for daring to stray from the left-wing script. While Mark appeared on the network to encourage people to get vaccinated, Camerota seemed determined to wring contrition out of Valentine during their July 26 broadcast. \u00a0Things escalated when Mark mentioned that \u201cthere\u2019s blame to go around\u201d for the spread of COVID-19. \u201cNobody\u2019s discussing the fact that we\u2019re importing thousands of cases of COVID at the Southern border and placing them around cities all over the country.\u201d Camerota cut him off, replying, \u201cMark, don\u2019t you see that you\u2019re politicizing it right now?\u201d After the interview, co-host Victor Blackwell remarked, \u201cThat almost went in a completely different direction.\u201d (When CNN posted the video of the interview, they cut it before Camerota\u2019s testy exchange over the border.) The next day, CNN\u2019s \u201cNew Day\u201d host John Berman chided Mark, that his brother\u2019s illness \u201cbasically scared you straight, right?\u201d and asked, \u201cWhy do you think you and Phil got it wrong?\u201dBob Bryant served the poor as a minister of benevolence at Water of Life Community Church in Fontana, California. But the church held a service three months after Governor Gavin Newsom (D) ordered all churches closed \u2014 a ban the Supreme Court would strike down in February 2021. Media accounts imply that Bryant may have contracted the virus while on vacation in November 2020. Still, the Los Angeles Times gave this minister of mercy his comeuppance for violating the governor\u2019s orders last December in its story, \u201cPastor dies of COVID-19 weeks after Fontana megachurch reopened for indoor services.\u201dBob Enyart was pastor of the Denver Bible Church, a talk radio host, and the former director of Colorado Right to Life, but he died of COVID-19 last month at 62. Mediaite blasted Enyart for spreading \u201cinsane anti-vax conspiracy theories\u201d; for instance, \u201cfalsely claiming on his website\u00a0that the vaccines were tested \u2018on the cells of aborted babies.\u2019\u201d In reality, all existing COVID-19 vaccines involve the use of aborted fetal tissue. The Washington Post, \u201cConservative radio host who spurned vaccines, mocked AIDS patients dies of covid-19.\u201d (That\u2019s harsher treatment than the Bezos-owned paper gave the late ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, whom it described as an \u201caustere religious scholar.\u201d) The Daily Beast also commemorated Enyart\u2019s death with the headline, \u201cTexas GOP Official Mocked COVID Five Days Before He Died of Virus.\u201dBishop Gerald Glenn, the 66-year-old pastor of a Richmond-area African-American church and friend of Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), passed away from COVID-19 the day before Easter 2020. The former police officer continued holding church services \u201cnot to disrespect [officials] but to support those who were scared,\u201d said his daughter, Mar-Gerie Crawley. Frequent MSNBC contributor Michelle Boorstein wrote in The Washington Post, \u201cProminent Virginia pastor who said \u2018God is larger than this dreaded virus\u2019 dies of covid-19.\u201d The New York Times highlighted Bishop Glenn\u2019s refusal to abide by social distancing guidelines although, as the Post highlighted, he told his members not to shake hands during the service.Jimmy DeYoung Sr. was a relatively obscure teacher who offered his interpretation of Christian prophecy, and dared to ask, \u201cCould this vaccine be another form of government control of the people?\u201d The Daily Beast, which described DeYoung as a man \u201cwho trafficked in Christian prophecy,\u201d said that he \u201cspread disinformation about the coronavirus vaccines.\u201dThis antipathy toward stricken individuals pales in comparison to the media\u2019s disgust at the existence of organized opposition, which they identify with the Republican Party. In September, Reid branded the GOP a \u201ccreepy little COVID-loving death cult,\u201d that \u201clove[s] COVID so much you want it to spread into schools, at the office, in the Walmart, on the cruise ships and in the club.\u201d So, too, did her fellow MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski, who called Florida Governor Ron DeSantis the leader of \u201ca growing death cult\u201d and his opposition to mask mandates \u201cdeath cult material.\u201dDying cult members elicit little sympathy from the secular media, nor most people \u2014 but few Americans celebrate the illnesses and deaths of their fellow Americans the way the legacy media have. Avlon justified the coverage by saying, \u201cThis may seem cold, but it may also be that the lasting regrets of the unvaccinated are what fellow travelers need to hear.\u201d Then again, perhaps cold-hearted recriminations and thinly disguised schadenfreude are what the media want to hear, because \u201cthe cruelty is the point.\u201dThe views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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