Joshua Monnington writes for the Federalist about the New York Times’ open ideological bias.
As riots raged in Los Angeles on Sunday, The New York Times rushed to reassure readers that Mexican flags being waved by protesters were symbols not of insurrection or lawlessness, but of “pride in their heritage.” The Times’ sympathetic view of anti-law-and-order rioters is hardly notable, but comparing its glowing review of the symbolism and meaning of the Mexican flag’s use in the L.A. upheaval to its screeching hysteria over the Alito flags a year ago is a sharp reminder of just how biased the paper is.
Unlike many of the rioters in Los Angeles, Samuel and Martha-Ann Alito didn’t foment social unrest, throw rocks at police cars, hurl incendiaries, burn cars, or generally embroil themselves in more or less serious dust-ups with law enforcement. (Maybe they would have drawn a more favorable review from the Times if they had.) But the Times used Martha-Ann’s flying of an upside-down American flag (an age-old distress signal) in Jan. 2021 and an “Appeal to Heaven” flag (a banner with roots in the Revolutionary War) in mid-2023 as the launching pad for manufactured controversy aimed at destroying Justice Alito’s credibility — and the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
Times reporters presented the most extreme and egregious aspects of the Jan. 6 protests as the only context in which the Alito flags could be understood. The flags represented (and endorsed) all the most objectionable elements of the MAGA movement — 2020 election denialism, violent insurrection and overturn of constitutional norms, white Christian nationalism, and voracious and mindless loyalty to Trump — all clearly and unequivocally embodied in the banners, at least according to the Times. …
… In stark contrast, the Times ascribed all the best motives to protesters displaying Mexico’s national banner at riots in L.A. — or simply took their stated motives at face value, quickly brushing aside the possibility that “demonstrators waving the Mexican flag” could be “insurrectionists.”
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