{"id":79230,"date":"2023-01-12T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=79230"},"modified":"2023-01-11T11:01:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T16:01:27","slug":"how-the-new-york-times-describes-the-congressional-republican-dissidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/01\/12\/how-the-new-york-times-describes-the-congressional-republican-dissidents\/","title":{"rendered":"How the New York Times<\/em> describes the Congressional Republican dissidents"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not the news, it’s the substitution of opinion for reporting<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Here’s the political journalist Mara Gay<\/a> \u2014 currently of the New York Times<\/em>, formerly of the Wall Street Journal<\/em> and The Atlantic<\/em> \u2014 explaining what the twenty Republican holdouts were up to in their maneuvering over the selection of a Speaker of the House:<\/p>\n

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It’s leftie Twitter in human form, with all of the slogans. Angry, hateful voters, disturbed by “diversity”, sent some dumb atavists to represent them in D.C., because they hate government and want to “burn it to the ground”. (“And really, that’s what these people were sent to do.”)<\/p>\n

Time<\/em> magazine, which apparently still exists, comes to much the same conclusion<\/a>, in a piece that I tragically can’t read in full without creating an account, which I wouldn’t do for a free steak dinner or a blanket future pardon from the governor of my choice:<\/p>\n

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So the twenty GOP holdouts hate government and want to sow chaos and burn democratic norms to the ground, mainstream political journalists calmly explain. Now, via RedState<\/em><\/a>, here’s a letter<\/a> from seven of the holdouts listing their actual demands as conditions for their vote. Sample demand:<\/p>\n

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So the monsters who hate government and want to burn it all down were demanding clearly written legislation that every legislator has time to read and fully debate before casting their vote on it.<\/p>\n