Posted on 02/12/2021 6:25:31 AM PST by Kaslin
One of the easiest things to predict about the end of Donald Trump's presidency was that anti-Trump journalists would eventually feel a heated rush of nostalgia about their heroic crusade to keep democracy from dying. But it came earlier than expected.
Alexander Nazaryan of Yahoo News wrote a piece for the Democrat-endorsing website The Atlantic that was originally headlined "I Miss the Thrill of Trump." He unintentionally caused laughter when he wrote: "Covering the administration was thrilling for many journalists, in the way that I imagine storming Omaha Beach must have been for a 20-year-old fresh from the plains of Kansas. He hadn't signed up for battle, but there he was, liberating France. ... This was our Omaha Beach. I, for one, would have rather been in Hawaii."
Critics were quick to mock the idea that zinging Trump at a briefing was like the Omaha Beach scene in "Saving Private Ryan." CNN host Jim Acosta and the rest were all GI Joe with a kung-fu grip on the microphone. Reporters do risk their lives in war zones, countries with dictatorships and terrorist neighborhoods. That's what makes this kind of prose from Washington-based reporters sound so wildly exaggerated. But it ably illustrates the liberal media's overwhelming self-regard.
The article headline, which was probably not a sentiment in line with the Trump impeachment crusade, was transformed by The Atlantic into "I Was an Enemy of the People," surely meant with a wink, since The People should always be grateful for heroic journalists.
For a moment, Nazaryan expresses a desire to hold President Joe Biden accountable and laments how the new team is "crushingly on message." But mostly, there are more ridiculous historical metaphors.
"(O)utside of North Korea," Nazaryan wrote, a journalist's job is not "to lavish a country's leader with hagiographic rhetoric, although the conservative media did its best."
Somehow, Nazaryan slept through the dominant liberal media's eight years of Obamagasms. Just recall when then-CNN host Piers Morgan felt pity for then-President Obama's uglier successors. "After the perfect Barack Obama, who's a perfect physical specimen to many people's eyes, does it matter?" he asked.
Then turn back to Nazaryan, who said Trump is like Osama: "To simply point out that Trump had improbably managed to alight on the correct course of action was to have written a favorable profile of Osama bin Laden."
And like Stalin: "We should be grateful that Trump energized the profession. Is that sort of like saying that Stalinism energized interest in Siberia? Maybe, I guess."
Nazaryan is leaving these rhetorical road apples all over the internet. The Los Angeles Times assigned him to review Andy Ngo's anti-antifa book "Unmasked," and he leaped for the Nazi-propagandist metaphor: "Every act of violence by antifa, meanwhile, is described so meticulously and ominously that Herr Goebbels would have been proud."
This is nothing new for this writer. In 2016, he tweeted a black-and-white picture of Nazis with the caption "Ted Cruz has a strong ground game in Iowa."
Liberal journalists sometimes act befuddled as to why they are portrayed as wildly opinionated partisans who shouldn't get to pose as The People's representatives at press conferences. Alexander Nazaryan is making that argument very easy. No one needs to storm a beach to prove that.
These cowards are afraid of their own shadow.
Of course you need a magnifying glass to see the conservative media in the US.
These people were schooled by the 70’s Marxists. They lived in their parents homes, sheltered from the real world and nurtured on computer war games. Their “Reality” is a frat house beer bust discussion.
I guess it’s our turn.
The game is afoot.
How incredibly puke-inducing...
The Mainstream Journo-lists who collude to frame the daily talking points and discuss who will ask what questions at a press conference have much much more in common with Lord Haw Haw or Joseph Goebbels if they are looking for a “war” analogy.
The media is proof that democracy is dying propaganda over rides truth.
Comparing themselves to the poor men who stormed Normandy Beach, my God the hubris of these people. For one, not a single journalist who asked Trump a question was ever in danger of losing his life or recieving a life-changing injury. The men at Normandy had a fairly certain chance that they were not going to live 10 minutes after leaving the landing craft. Most of them died. I won’t get in to the foolishness of such an invasion, it was like they needed to get rid of a bunch of young American men.
Even journalists in China face danger when asking the wrong questions. Mr Zinping, what did you know about Wuhan Lab? Haha! You please come with us.
In America, you get praised for disrespecting President Trump. Try disrespecting President Obama. We won’t be needing your services any more. It’s not downsizing, it’s rightsizing.
Comedians couldn’t even make jokes about Obama. “That Obama! He’s just so cool? How cool is he? Really really cool, like ice cubes. I hope I didn’t offend anyone.”
Same with Biden. You might want to ask a difficult question, just make sure that it isn’t toooo difficult, or you will be reading the newspaper on an Obamaphone in the unemployment line, as you take night classes learning how to code.
No modern "journalist" would storm Omaha Beach because no modern "journalist" believes in freedom enough to fight for it.
Media presstitutes for the democrat party.
Liars all. They overlook the mass murder from the democrats by locking down Americans, throwing millions out of work.
BLOCKING HCQ medicine that would have saved thousands and thousands of people. Praising killers like Pelosi and Cuomo, obama, Clinton etc, who left wrecked lives around the world.
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