Posted on 06/11/2025 1:14:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
To the media a flag is just a flag, after all — unless it can be used to destroy a conservative.
As riots raged in Los Angeles on Sunday, The New York Times rushed to reassure readers that Mexican flags being waved by protesters were symbols not of insurrection or lawlessness, but of “pride in their heritage.” The Times’ sympathetic view of anti-law-and-order rioters is hardly notable, but comparing its glowing review of the symbolism and meaning of the Mexican flag’s use in the L.A. upheaval to its screeching hysteria over the Alito flags a year ago is a sharp reminder of just how biased the paper is.
Unlike many of the rioters in Los Angeles, Samuel and Martha-Ann Alito didn’t foment social unrest, throw rocks at police cars, hurl incendiaries, burn cars, or generally embroil themselves in more or less serious dust-ups with law enforcement. (Maybe they would have drawn a more favorable review from the Times if they had.) But the Times used Martha-Ann’s flying of an upside-down American flag (an age-old distress signal) in Jan. 2021 and an “Appeal to Heaven” flag (a banner with roots in the Revolutionary War) in mid-2023 as the launching pad for manufactured controversy aimed at destroying Justice Alito’s credibility — and the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
Times reporters presented the most extreme and egregious aspects of the Jan. 6 protests as the only context in which the Alito flags could be understood. The flags represented (and endorsed) all the most objectionable elements of the MAGA movement — 2020 election denialism, violent insurrection and overturn of constitutional norms, white Christian nationalism, and voracious and mindless loyalty to Trump — all clearly and unequivocally embodied...
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“The New York Times rushed to reassure readers that Mexican flags being waved by protesters were symbols not of insurrection or lawlessness, but of “pride in their heritage.”
Grade “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA” Bulshit
“Media’s Seething Bias.”
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Says it all. They are all about manipulating the views and opinions of readers. They are propagandists, not journalists.
There’s a picture going around of two LAPD taking a moment to fold up an American Flag they found on the ground in piles of debris left by the ‘protesters’. Wonder if NYT would get the stones to run that picture.
I don’t understand what the problem is here. What we’re seeing is simply crowds of people having fun watching cars burn.
You do see the odd American flag here and there... What they don’t show you is these thugs burning those American flags after the riot party is over.
If they went back to Mexico, they could enjoy that pride all the time.
So those are PRIDE Flags!? No wonder the Times loves them.
Sorry, but that dog don’t hunt. If they are symbols of “heritage” then why are they burning US flags?
You don’t see Jews burning US flags at Israel day parades in fact we have our own flags that are half/half showing pride in both.
The irony is the Palestinian flags - are they showing pride too? The MSM must think people are stupid.
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