Hypocritical New York Times refuses to fairly cover conservative protests against mask and vaccine mandates and other overzealous pandemic restrictions, and continues to smear mandate protesters as extremist disruptors, as in this recent post: “Mandates are ending in the U.S., but protests outside officials’ homes continue.”
Alyssa Lukpat, a “reporting fellow” and breaking news reporter at the paper, sounded judgmental in her April 1 story, which focused on Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu of Boston, whose vaccine mandates have raised the ire of the firefighters union, among others.
Many pandemic restrictions in the United States and Canada have been relaxed, but that has not stopped protesters from gathering outside some government officials’ Homes and badgering them.
Though vaccination and masking rules have generally eased in the last few months, protests have continued outside officials’ residences in Massachusetts and other places in the United States, and in Nova Scotia and Alberta in Canada. Demonstrators disrupted traffic and disturbed neighbors, and in some instances, they targeted officials using racist or sexist language.
It’s far from the soft-soap TimesIn the summer 2020, reporters were asked to cover violent BLM demonstrations. The paper has not shown concern in the past for violence, threats and protests by leftwing protesters towards conservative politicians.
The Times ever reported on liberal protesters disrupting traffic or disturbing neighbors, or their use of ugly or threatening language against opponents? It’s uncommon.
Lukpat took the liberal Boston Mayor’s word:
Since November, Michelle Wu has been the target of protesters. Many protesters oppose Michelle Wu’s vaccination requirement for city workers, and others in indoor environments. However, a court ruling has held one mandate up. The men have been harassing her outside of her house for many weeks. calling her “Hitler” and shouting at her children that she was going to prison, she said on Twitter in January.
It’s a pity for them TimesTo call out one form of demonstrator is to celebrate leftist protests in the past few years, including those that turn into violence and harass conservative politicians. Republican Sen. Rand Paul has become a particular target by violent liberals, with little sympathy from the Times.
This paper always minimized the shooting of Republican Rep. Steve Scalise by Bernie Sanders supporters on a Northern Virginia baseball field. Numerous cases of harassment by lefty senator Kyrsten Sinema, a centrist Democrat from Arizona, were not investigated. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, both Republicans, faced sometimes disgusting and frightening protests outside their homes, but the paper didn’t insult the mob as extremist.
In June 2019 the paper even got into the game itself, running an op-ed by U.K. professor Kate Cronin-Furman calling for the “doxxing” – defined as revealing personal information on private citizens for the purpose of targeted harassment — of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agents.
The paper now worries about a peaceful demonstration outside of the home of an elected Democrat. Pathetic.
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