Just Why Are Washington Post, NY Times Obituaries Nicer to Terrorists Than Conservatives?

Newsbusters ^ | 02/20/2021 | Scott Whitlock

[SeekAndFind]

It’s amazing how nuanced obituaries can be for figures that liberal media types appreciate. The portrait is always complicated. But less so when it’s a conservative. Conservative radio star Rush Limbaugh passed away this week and The New York Times slammed him with an obit about “hate,” “mistrust” and grievances.” The online version featured a sub-headline sliming him as “pushing talk radio to the right with misogynistic and racist language and conspiracy theories.”

 

 

When conservative Supreme Court icon Antonin Scalia died, here’s the dour, negative headline from the February 14, 2016 print Washington Post:

 

 

As I wondered at the time, what was the most important thing for readers of Washington Post to see on the front-page of the paper? A big headline focusing directly on the legacy or impact of the life of Antonin Scalia? No, just that liberals didn’t care for him. Here's the front page when Ruth Bader Ginsburg died: 

 

 

When cruel terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died in 2019, the Post was much nicer to him than Scalia, calling the killer an “austere religious scholar." 

 

 

But when Fidel Castro died, The New York Times cheered, “A Revolutionary Who Defied the U.S. and Held Cuba in His Thrall.” The Post remembered how the “Revolutionary Remade Cuba." 

 

 

 

The lesson in all of this is that when you die, it’s better to be a liberal, a far-left dictator or a terrorist than a conservative. According to outlets like The Washington Post and New York Times anyway.

For more examples from our flashback series, which we call the NewsBusters Time Machine, go here.

[facedown]

Because they’re communists.

[EvilCapitalist]

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

[NJRighty]

After 9/11, the Times published many obituaries of those killed in the attacks. One such obit stated (as best I can recall) “He was a Republican, yet he gave to many charities.” Even innocent victims of a terrorist attack were not immune from their hate-filled bias.

[marktwain]

Because they deny God, and worship the State and power over all else.

[SoConPubbie]

Why do people keep asking questions they know the answers to?

[rellic]

It is a Democrat thing.
Never ask a question you don’t know the answer to.
You lose control if you do.
Democrats are all about control and not the
search for knowledge.

[Texas Eagle]

Because they don’t want to be beheaded.

[Menehune56]

Because they’re a bunch of evil bastards.

[simpson96]

I refuse to make time to for the likes of these lowlifes, and read obits about Rush in any left wing rag. I already know their kind, and the things they will say.

[CMailBag]

Just like Pravda

[frank ballenger]

Because they’re communists.
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Well said.

I remember Time Magazine picturing the aging Fidel Castro as The Lion in Winter. Rush spent part of a show on his murders and selfish tyranny after seeing that cover.

And their Time cover story obituary of the old head of China Deng Xiaoping at age 92 and how they purposely cropped the bottom of the portrait to take away the lit cigarette he had from chain smoking 10 hours a day.

[rlmorel]

Is it even a discussion worth having?

If there were ever a clearer delineation of the difference between me and people like me, and them, and people like them, it is who is admired in life and canonized in death.

And I am quite comfortable with that comparison.

Don’t even need to look any further.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Because liberals fear and hate conservative Americans far more than they could ever fear or hate any foreign enemy. That’s been true for decades now.

[NetAddicted]

He lives to 92? Astonishing.

[wac3rd]

EXACTLY.

The commanders of the gulags and the people who want a tech and military-centered spy state and TOTAL CONTROL of all the means of production...disarmed, broke, starving and most of all, loyal to the party, or else LOVE dictators, despots, jihadists and other people who hate freedom.

Commies adore Commies, the crueler and the more depraved, the beter.

For F’s sake they nominated CUOMO, OBAMA and ABRAMS for AWARDS!!!

I told my friend this, Jake Tapper, a Chinese soldier and a Syrian Terrorist are all the same to you. They want you dead.

[Personal Responsibility]

Because they believe but for conservatives, terror riots wouldn’t exist. Conservatives are their true enemies.

[antidemoncrat]

The New York Slimes and Washington Compost. Need I say more?

[sergeantdave]

The media whores are seeing a tsunami of hate directed at them. Why do you think the nazi media shut off all comments? They don’t want their sheep writers to know how much America hates their guts.

But what I find amusing is that the media whores begged for security, and all they could find is fat mall cops from temp agencies. And the deep state is ignoring the media’s call for security.

The media needs to look up the phrase “useful idiot” to understand where they stand in the fascist, deep state hierarchy.

[sitetest]

Professional courtesy.