Becket Adams writes for National Review Online about apparent ignorance among key members of the legacy media.
Members of the press increasingly have no idea what conservatives believe.
This is known.
What’s different now is that, apparently, members of the press also have no idea what the Democratic presidential nominee believes.
Take, for example, the treatment of Donald Trump’s performance last week in his debate against Vice President Kamala Harris. The former president lobbed several serious allegations at his opponent, including that she supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for illegal immigrants and abortion with no limitations, even up to the moment of birth. Trump also referred to an incident in which a chunk of downtown Seattle was overtaken by far-left agitators cut from the same cloth as the rioters Harris supported during the 2020 anti-police riots.
On each count, Trump was challenged and “corrected,” either in real time by the debate moderators, ABC News’ David Muir and Linsey Davis, or afterward by a national press that is about as ignorant as it is overconfident.
The funny thing is that on each of the above counts, Trump is correct. The journalists are wrong. Is this a display of ignorance or outright dishonesty? Take your pick.
“[Harris] wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison,” Trump said. “This is a radical left liberal that would do this.”
At the New Yorker, which boasts of an unusually thorough and rigorous fact-checking process, journalist Susan Glasser asked in her postdebate column, “What the hell was he talking about?”
“No one knows,” she declared confidently.
CNN, which reported last week on Harris’s support for sex changes for illegal immigrants, knows. People who read Andrew Kaczynski’s KFile on the CNN website or saw him on Erin Burnett’s show know. The news sites that piggybacked onto CNN’s exclusive reporting know. Most of all, the American Civil Liberties Union, to whom Harris professed her support for taxpayer-funded sex changes for illegal immigrants in custody, knows.
Other than that, a great question from the New Yorker, the home of the supposedly rigorous fact-check.
