This week’s Liberal Media Scream features CNN getting in one of its last chances to smear Republicans with Trumpism, this time comparing GOP leaders to those who didn’t decry communist baiter Sen. Joe McCarthy in the 1950s.
“History will have no trouble finding a parallel between Mitch McConnell’s attempt to kind of look the other way and what so many Republican leaders did until Joseph Welch said, ‘At long last, sir, have you no decency?’” CNN senior political analyst Ron Brownstein charged on CNN on Sunday night.
The senior editor at the Atlantic added: “I think we are seeing a modern equivalent of that unfolding before our eyes now.”
Brownstein said on CNN Newsroom Sunday that President Trump’s effort to track down voting fraud was also racist because it focuses on urban areas where black people live, as do most voters.
BROWNSTEIN: “As his conspiracy theories, which start at a kind of a racist base, that this was stolen in primarily … heavily African-American cities, like Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Atlanta, even though he declined more in primarily white suburbs, where he is not alleging fraud, it starts with that.
“But as it gets more and more fantastical and far-reaching, implicating the Department of Justice, the FBI, Republican governors, the silence of Republicans in Congress, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, in particular, [House Minority Leader] Kevin McCarthy, in particular, who are allowing this poison to spread in the American political system, looks more and more like a modern analog to the silence of Republican congressional leaders during the rampages of Joe McCarthy in the early 1950s. I think history will have no trouble finding a parallel between Mitch McConnell’s attempt to kind of look the other way and what so many Republican leaders did until Joseph Welch said, ‘At long last, sir, have you no decency?’ I think we are seeing a modern equivalent of that unfolding before our eyes now.”
Media Research Center Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly pick: “Accusing someone of McCarthyism is the ultimate political smear for a journalist to hurl at a politician, an all-purpose insult those on the Left use to try to discredit those on the Right. Brownstein’s resort to it shows the weakness of his case.” Baker tweets often on the liberal media, and those tweets can be seen here.
Rating: Four out of five SCREAMS!
