The New Yorker Has 9,000-Word Conniption Over Dan Bongino’s Rising Media Influence

The New Yorker is uneasy about conservative radio host Dan Bongino’s rising prominence in conservative media, so it did an over 9,000-word smear of him. Talk about living rent-free in someone’s brain.

The profile, headlined “Dan Bongino andThe Big Business of Returning Trump to Power,” had the audacity to connect the radio host to the Capitol Hill Riot. “Spend several months immersed in American talk radio and you’ll come away with the sense that the violence of January 6th was not the end of something but the beginning,” staff writer and CNN contributor Evan Osnos groaned. 

After noting how Bongino’s Facebook page alone “has attracted more engagement than those of the Times, the Washington PostThe, Wall Street Journal combined,” Osnos cited Texas A&M University professor Jennifer Mercieca to attack Boningo: “Mercieca describes Bongino as ‘an important node in the amplification of propaganda.’” In other words, if you’re a successful conservative figure in the media, be prepared for leftist publications to throw mud at you in the hopes that something sticks and ruins your image.

Osnos continued to attack Bongino and charged him with helping create a culture of violence in the fans.

It was the moment that captured all of the dangers associated with living in a country beset by information war: January 6, 2001 made it clear that not only did the Americans lose their distinction between real and rhetorical warfare, but so too did the American people. Bongino’s business thrives in that borderland, the realm of thinking where the best way to stay safe is to buy the shotguns and holsters that he advertises on his show, [emphasis added].

But wait, there’s more! Osnos tried even to blame Ashli Babbitt’s death during the Capitol Hill Riot against Bongino. “[Bongino] wrote that conservatives were being ‘put on targeting lists’ and that his opponents were ‘tyrants, nothing more.’ Less than a week later, he wrote, ‘The mask is off. They’re not hiding anymore,’” Osnos wrote. Then came the kicker: “According to National Public Radio’s analysis, Ashli Babbitt was one of those who read. She is a passionate Trump supporter from Southern California. She was trying to storm Capitol Hill on January 6th when she was shot and killed by police. Babbitt had retweeted Bongino more than fifty times in her last year..” [Emphasis added.]

Bongino was said to have snapped back while Osnos was writing his article. After Bongino slammed a magazine memo as containing “obviously false material,” Bongino then ripped Osnos: “‘you ass-kissing-Biden, surgically-attaching-your-lips-to-the-ass-of-the-Administration piece of garbage.’”

Bongino certainly has reason to be angry, given Osnos’ sleazy attempt to make him look like an instigator behind the events of Jan. 6. Glenn Greenwald was also criticised by journalists The New Yorker’s Bongino character assassination in a tweet: 

CNN’s @eosnos profile of Dan Bongino at @NewYorker is so predictably written that you can write it without even reading it. It *laments* that the new online/media ecosystem Bongino uses is built to prevent censors like Media Matters from banning ideas — as if that’s a bad thing.

The @NewYorkerProfile of Dan Bongino from CNN @eosnosYou could easily write the entire thing yourself, without ever reading it. It *laments* that the new online/media ecosystem Bongino uses is built to prevent censors like Media Matters from banning ideas — as if that’s a bad thing. pic.twitter.com/AaZvRwDBFQ

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 28, 2021

Conservatives under attack Get in touch The New YorkerCall (800)444-7570 to demand that the magazine retracts its link of Bongino and the Capitol Hill Riot.