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| Silverfiddle Rant! |
We touch on press bias quite a bit here, and awhile back our friend from across the pond Jez asked for examples. Chuck Schumer's red-faced, bellicose threat to two Supreme court justices provides us a simple case study.
What Senator Schumer, second most powerful Democrat in government, said:
"I want to tell you, Gorsuch; I want to tell you, Kavanaugh: You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer roared Wednesday to a crowd of protesters angry over a Louisiana case before the court that threatens abortion rights. "You won't know what hit if you go forward with these awful decisions."Chief Justice Roberts rebuked him in an official statement, and the press could not ignore it, so they dissembled and made excuses for him in a manner reminiscent of an abused housewife covering for her alcoholic husband to keep him out of trouble. A press that casts every presidential utterance in the worst light possible, did double backbend whataboutisms for Schmucky.
They claimed Justice Kavanaugh issued the same threat at the end of his hearings. Here is what Kavanaugh said, after being publicly savaged, smeared and slandered:
“Since my nomination in July, there’s been a frenzy on the left to come up with something, anything, to block my confirmation,” he told Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee. “You sowed the wind for decades to come. I fear that the whole country will reap the whirlwind.”Does that sound like a threat to you? Kavanaugh's lament for our nation is not even in the same category as Schumer's splenetic outburst.
Even those august news outlets that rightly condemn Schumer's comments cannot leave it at that.
They must balance it off with a "Trump does it too:"
Our nation is ill-served by a Democrat Party-biased press that shovels us editorials and propaganda disguised as news.
They must balance it off with a "Trump does it too:"
► He earned his own rebuke from Roberts in 2018 after labeling a federal jurist an "Obama judge" for ruling against the administration.None of those examples come close to a threat. His remarks against Judge Curiel were stupid, petty and un-American, but not menacing, especially coming from a candidate. Asking judges to recuse themselves due to their blatant, open bias is also not a threat.
► As a candidate, Trump made bigoted remarks about a federal judge of Mexican heritage handling a fraud case over Trump University.
► Last month, the president criticized a judge overseeing the trial of Roger Stone, a longtime Trump friend.
► And last week, Trump called on two liberal Supreme Court justices to recuse themselves from "Trump-related" cases.
Our nation is ill-served by a Democrat Party-biased press that shovels us editorials and propaganda disguised as news.

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