Posted on 01/16/2021 4:50:15 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The suppression of any and all things conservative took an ugly turn yesterday when Politico staffers recoiled at the invitation to conservative writer Ben Shapiro to join the staff for the online publication’s popular “Playbook” section on Thursday.
One staffer said in a Politico company-wide Slack channel that Shapiro has a “long history of bigoted and incendiary commentary.” This is a baseless, false allegation. Shapiro may be a partisan, but he’s hardly a bomb-thrower. Shapiro wrote in his “Playbook” posting, “Republicans believe that Democrats and the overwhelmingly liberal media see impeachment as an attempt to cudgel them collectively by lumping them in with the Capitol rioters thanks to their support for Trump.”
This is self-evident. Besides, Shapiro was claiming it was what Republicans believe, not him personally. Democrats and the left may be uncomfortable being called out for their despicable politics but, given the attempts to stifle conservative thought on social media and elsewhere, what other conclusion can be drawn?
From Daily Caller:
“It has clearly generated a wave of negative attention, and I fear it’s already overshadowing a lot of great work being done by journalists across this newsroom,” the staffer said, according to the Daily Beast. Several dozen of this staffer’s Politico colleagues reportedly upvoted this comment.
Another staffer reportedly responded to this comment saying, “This is especially confusing given the newsroom’s welcome efforts over the last year to cover issues related to race in a more intentional, elevated, thoughtful way.’
A conservative can’t write about race in an “elevated, thoughtful way”? Says who? Because Shapiro doesn’t toe the BLM line of white hatred he can’t write about race? Do any of those staffers have any idea what Shapiro’s views on race are? They are judging him based solely on his ideology, which has been deemed “racist.”
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The schism between the woke staffers and the more rational editorial staff has been seen throughout the left media. The staffers want to ban or suppress conservatives. They don’t recognize their own partisan hatred of the opposition. They are oblivious to their own faulty assumptions and flawed reasoning.
What do you predict?
Here’s the author, Rick Moran’s prediction:
Politico will likely bow to the staff pressure before the grumbling becomes a revolt. But it’s a sad commentary on the media landscape in America in 2021.
Shapiro was and is an enemy of ours. He bashes Trump when the excuse is there and was an early Nevertrumper.
Consequently he’ll do fine at Politico.
The left is very proud of themselves because they “hate hate”.
The irony goes _way_ over their heads....
His Trump bashing has put him in a no man’s land, it seems. Or a no manlet land.
There was a time when an employee did what the boss required or risked losing the job. Now employees snivel, demand and whine, and management caves all the way up to the CEO.
Yep, it was a time for choosing, and he chose poorly. Being in the middle wasn’t an option.
RE: There was a time when an employee did what the boss required or risked losing the job.
There was a time when juveniles were told to shut up and their allowance withheld when they want their elders to do things their way.
Shapiro = golddigger. Why else write for the enemy?
RE: He bashes Trump when the excuse is there and was an early Nevertrumper.
He did vote for Trump last November. He said so in his radio program.
They're at their peak right now. Soon Biden will have to start performing.
Crazy how the left thinks
Petulant
And Shapiro is weak truly
Lite wing conservative
Shapiro is perfect for Politico.
“There was a time when “Liberal” used to mean “open-minded.” Not anymore.”
it never did. It always meant “progressives only”.
To keep confusion down, learn to use Left and Right, not liberals and conservative. The Left have always bee the Fascists, but have been labeled Right now. A quick watch of 1984 and "Newspeak" will explain this tactic.
NAZI in English means "National Socialist Workers Party". Does that sound like the "Right"? They believed in Government control of business, like Porsche and Messerschmidt. Remember Schindler's List? If you look at most dictators, they operate their country private and public from a central government body. Freedom = loose control from central government.
We can see what a Biden regime will bring already. Everything controlled from Washington, including speech, religion, assembly, and the ownership of weapons. Search and seizure will be 100% up to them. They even openly admit to wanted to house us in camps. You might think they would at least try to hide it. How confident must they be that they have a firm grip on us if they openly admit what they want to take from us?
When you read liberal, just replace it with bigot projectionist and all will be right with the world.
They should love him, he’s a never Trumper.
I always considered the politico staff revolting...
Orwell.
Living it.
Can’t stand Shapiro.
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