California Gov. Gavin Newsom gave a nationally televised tackle on Tuesday night time, straight rebuking President Donald Trump for abusing the ability of his workplace and assaulting democracy by sending in members of the Nationwide Guard and Marine Corps to Los Angeles to assist anti-immigrant raids by federal brokers.
“Democracy is under assault right before our eyes—the moment we’ve feared has arrived,” Newsom mentioned.
His speech mirrored the views of hundreds of thousands of People, and right-wing media retailers completely misplaced their minds over it.
Main the cost was Fox Information, essentially the most influential conservative media outlet. Newsom’s speech occurred throughout Sean Hannity’s prime-time present, “Hannity.” Apparently miffed concerning the interruption, Hannity selected to counterprogram Newsom’s speech in actual time.
Because the governor spoke, Fox Information scrolled a listing purporting to indicate the “criminal history of illegals in the state of California.” Fox Information, like Trump, has for years promoted the false narrative that migrants are a significant supply of crime.
Different right-wing media retailers additionally tried to counteract Newsom’s speech with mockery.
Breitbart Information, which constructed its notoriety in conservative media with a devoted “Black Crime” part years in the past, mentioned that Newsom “failed to launch” and mocked technical difficulties with the audio feed of the speech.
The conspiracy web site Gateway Pundit pushed the narrative that Newsom had “fake tears” as he spoke and gave a “dumpster fire address.”
Proper-wing information and social media aggregator Twitchy, which was began within the 2010s by conservative activist Michelle Malkin as a approach to direct ire at liberals, echoed Gateway Pundit. The location argued that the soundtrack to Newsom’s speech needs to be the track “Tears of a Clown.”
Whereas not as overtly derisive as conservative media, The New York Occasions revealed a bit the morning after the speech that might have been proper at dwelling within the right-wing pile-on. The article was headlined “Democrats Enter Risky Political Terrain as Protests Grip California,” which might give readers the misunderstanding that the Democratic Get together—and never Trump—instigated the unfolding disaster. It’s yet one more occasion of the Occasions carrying water for the precise, a campaign which has typically manifested as open propaganda.
In the actual world, early opinion polling has proven {that a} plurality of People don’t like Trump’s assault on the Golden State. Rounding up folks at faculties and Residence Depots whereas threatening a navy occupation of one of many world’s best-known cities shouldn’t be well-liked. That’s apparently information to right-wing media.
And to The New York Occasions.
