Constructing Anti-Liberal Bias
by tristero
WaPo:
Going into the meeting, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) attacked the idea that Congress would provide billions of dollars in more funding to detain unaccompanied children apprehended at the border. She cited numerous recent reports detailing the poor conditions at U.S. facilities.
“That’s not due to a lack of resources; that’s due to a desire — an active desire by this administration to hurt kids,” she said. “We need to stop funding the detention of children under any and all circumstances.”
But other Democrats have struck a more measured tone…
Implying that Ocasio-Cortez is somehow not measured, i.e., that she is unhinged. I can imagine similar authors back in the 1930’s deciding after hearing Churchill sound the alarm against the Nazis to seek an oh so much more measured response from someone more level-headed. Somehow, WaPo’s finest think that there is something defensible about this.
Seriously, I can’t remember the last time I saw the condescending, patronizing phrase “But other Republicans have struck a more measured tone…” from any major media outlet.