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Media types had already begun to circulate an image of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a few years back at an event with a Confederate flag in the background. Among those attempting to make the photo a current news item were Washington Post Global Opinions Editor Karen Attiah and Northeastern University associate professor and WGBH gadfly Dan Kennedy, whose stock in trade is teaching aspiring journalists the tricks of the trade.

Kennedy’s smug caption: “In other news …”

But McConnell’s past optics missteps weren’t in the news until Kennedy and his ilk put them there. And doing so when the whole country is fixated on the outrageously racist PR disaster unfolding in Virginia can only be seen as an attempt to deflect from a news story that simply doesn’t fit their chosen narrative.

What a lesson for the journalism students at Northeastern.

1 posted on 02/03/2019 4:36:38 AM PST by calvincaspian
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Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is looking at the man in the mirror today, and the disgraced politician is a far cry from the progressive hero he was earlier this week.

While the opportunistic politicians scamper like rats from the scene, media activists are taking a stand for their man, deflecting and reshaping the narrative in a desperate attempt to save their hero.

The media’s love for Northam was earned. It started on a radio show as he mused about ending the life of unborn children in the third trimester if they were accidentally born alive mid-abortion.

He was cool as a cucumber as he described the baby’s last few moments. “The infant would be delivered,” he said in a singsong manner. “The infant would be kept comfortable.”

The “infant.”

Gross.

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Sickening, alright.

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Dan Bongino:

I was sent the disgusting photo of Northam in Oct, 2018. I was not able to independently verify that the photo was of Northam therefore I did not publish the story. But, this indicates that the photo was probably known about by others who may have squashed it for political reasons

* "Once his infanticide support came to light, decision makers in the Democratic Party probably leaked the photo to get him out of office after realizing the US isn’t ready for legally killing babies outside the birth canal quite yet." – Joshua Miller

* "This was my thought too. They had to get late-term abortion out of the headlines as soon as possible so they dropped the hammer on him. Now everyone is talking about the Dr. and blackface instead of the Dr. and infanticide. Having a Dem Lt. Gov. made it an easy decision." --- RockyMtnPatriot

2 posted on 02/03/2019 4:46:34 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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The Boston Herald, like the NY Post, is a rare example of a paper that is still worth getting. You would not hear this from the Boston Globe rag, or the NY Times rag.


3 posted on 02/03/2019 4:50:44 AM PST by I want the USA back (In any war between the civilized world and the savage support the civilized man. -Geller.)
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I hope he weathers the storm, and shows America that all of us may have done STUPID things in college, but that doesn’t define who we are today.


4 posted on 02/03/2019 4:53:19 AM PST by rovenstinez
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The Lord works in strange ways. First late abortions disgrace now this. IMO


5 posted on 02/03/2019 4:56:11 AM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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Not photoshopped---actual Clinton/Gore campaign items.


6 posted on 02/03/2019 4:57:35 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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GREAT ARTICLE!


8 posted on 02/03/2019 5:00:29 AM PST by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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Northam’s political career is defibrillating.


9 posted on 02/03/2019 5:02:03 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Trendy theory, wrong species)
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“The infant would be comfortable”?! How does that work exactly? Seely posturpedic mattress? Last meal? Lullaby’s? God does indeed work in mysterious ways.


10 posted on 02/03/2019 5:02:19 AM PST by albie
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Maybe Northam’s not far enough left for them and this is their way of putting Fairfax in.


20 posted on 02/03/2019 5:14:06 AM PST by ryderann
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https://bigleaguepolitics.com/watch-ralph-northam-refuses-to-shake-his-black-opponents-hand/


28 posted on 02/03/2019 5:25:51 AM PST by KeyLargo
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Just read a SF paper article sniffing around the reporter that started the controversy. Of course, the paper is sniffing around the reporter as a suspect, not the gov.

The nice thing about modern journalists is that they are not even in the closet, they’re bending over and doing it right on the 50 yard line of the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day.


44 posted on 02/03/2019 6:50:22 AM PST by Da Coyote
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50 posted on 02/03/2019 7:59:56 AM PST by HotHunt (Reagan was good but TRUMP IS GREAT!)
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