Identity Politics’ Double Standards on Display
The disrespectful treatment of Sen. Ted Cruz by Bloomberg's Mark Halperin fits a well-established pattern of duplicity and double standards in the modern day practice of identity politics in the United States.
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Halperin Lamely Apologizes 'To Those Offended' by His Cruz Interview
Today, Bloomberg TV's Mark Halperin inadequately apologized for his conduct and line of questioning during an April 30 interview of GOP presidential candidate which came off as rude and racist to many who saw it — well, basically because it was.
As Tim Graham at NewsBusters noted on Sunday, and as will be seen in the video following the jump, Halperin engaged in a "prove-you're-a-Cuban" line of…
Latino Columnist 'Nauseated' by 'Racist' Halperin Queries to Ted Cruz
Bloomberg TV host Mark Halperin drew a serious rhetorical beating from columnist Ruben Navarrette over his prove-you’re-a-Cuban line of questioning to Ted Cruz on his program With All Due Respect. (The “respect” seemed to be missing, or as phony-sounding as it can be during an argument.)
The interview came on April 30, but the columnist just picked up the argument. Would a liberal Latino get…
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Jon Stewart: 'Let's Get Rid of Ted Cruz'
Jon Stewart of The Daily Show is no stranger to trashing conservatives, while hiding behind the guise of a court jester. This time, he set his set the tone of his show with a game he called “Let's get rid of Ted Cruz."
Stewart showcased a clip of CNN’s Dana Bash asking Sen. Cruz to provide examples of Obama’s racial tension. This was apparently so preposterous that the Daily Show host pretended…
Ramos: GOP 'Doing Something Right' With Two Latino POTUS Contenders
“For the first time in history, there are two Hispanic candidates running for president…the Republicans have been doing something right,” proclaimed Univision anchorman Jorge Ramos during a recent speech at Harvard’s Kennedy School.
The mainstream media has barely given any attention to the historic candidacies of Rubio and Cruz, unlike the constant attention they gave Obama in 2008.Ramos also…
Atheist Writer Gripes About Religious ‘Nitwits’ Running For President
Imagine a president of the United States proclaiming in his or her inaugural address, “I do not believe in God. I do not believe in a hereafter…There is no hope, save in ourselves.” If something like that ever happens, writer Jeffrey Tayler’s dream will have come true.
Tayler, who routinely trashes religion for the liberal online magazine Salon, complained in a Sunday article that several recent…
Will GOP Candidates Push Back Against Media Coverage of Hillary?
Will they just stand there and take it? Or will the Republican candidates for president push back against the fawning media coverage of Hillary Clinton?
NYT Tries Best to Make Major Cruz Donor Sound Sinister on Front Page
Eric Lichtblau and Alexandra Stevenson made the front of the New York Times by taking pains to make a major donor to Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, sound suspicious, even sinister, digging up unflattering (and irrelevant) details and finding two liberal Democratic congressmen to criticize him.
MSNBC's Thomas Roberts: We'll Take Our Cameras to Ted Cruz's Crazy Dad
Much like playground bullies, it does not take long for the liberal media to poke fun at the family members of candidates they don’t like – Republican candidates. The father-bashing began in earnest on Tuesday afternoon shortly after Rand Paul’s campaign announcement when MSNBC’s Live With Thomas Roberts decided to headline a segment of the fathers of Republican candidates with the phrase “GOP…
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Nets Skip ‘Conservative’ Tag for Rand Paul; Labeled Cruz 13 Times
On Tuesday, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul became the second Republican to officially enter the 2016 presidential race, following Senator Ted Cruz’s announcement on March 23. However, on the morning of their respective presidential announcements, the “Big Three” (ABC, CBS, and NBC) networks went out of their way to label Cruz a “conservative” 13 times, compared to zero conservative labels for Senator…
Writer: ‘Horrifying’ Ideas on Display in GOP Presidential Primaries
Conor P. Williams really enjoys watching the amazing race -- not the CBS program, but the race for the Republican presidential nomination, which Williams called “my favorite TV show” in a Monday column on Talking Points Memo.
For Williams, much of the “entertainment value” of the GOP contest lies in its right-wing extremism: “This is a show where the American conservative id fully unravels in…
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The Media vs. the "Radical, Right-Wing, Scary, Dangerous" Ted Cruz
This week liberal reporters welcomed Ted Cruz to the 2016 presidential race by blasting him as "hardline," "right-wing," "radical," "dumb," "scary," "dangerous" and "slimy" -- all in the first 24 hours. And: the networks hype the "growing outrage" over Indiana's religous freedom law, with one pundit saying that Republicans who came out in support Mike Pence were having a "premature intolerance…
NYT Reporter: Ted Cruz Calling Us a 'Leftist Rag' Is 'Badge of Honor'
Several GOP presidential contenders have insulted The New York Times in recent days, but not with the vigor of Ted Cruz. Politico's Dylan Byers reported that in an interview with a St. Louis talk radio station on Tuesday, Cruz said Republicans shouldn't listen to "The New York Times and other leftist rags" when picking their presidential nominee.
Times Beijing bureau chief Edward Wong (Twitter…
Blogger: ‘Journalistic Malpractice’ Not to Report GOP Is 'Demented'
Is the Republican party a political organization or “a terrarium of retrograde fauna”? Both, suggests Esquire’s Pierce, and if too few of the American people understand that, it’s in large part a result of, in his words, “the worst episode of journalistic malpractice that I can recall.”
What set Pierce off was a remark from a former Democratic congressional staffer, quoted in the newspaper The…
