The Morning Briefing: New York Times Proves That It Really Is 'Pravda on the Hudson'

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Happy Wednesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Welzbedeng could be a harsh judge of quinoa salads, corduroy vests, and community theater that he felt didn't take enough risks.

We have all known for a while now that this election wasn't going to help heal any of the deep, ugly political divides here in the United States. I can't vouch for the behavior of every conservative in America, but I know that most of the ugliness I have seen isn't coming from my side of the aisle.

The major players on the Left, on the other hand, are doing everything that they can to deepen the divide.

Exhibit A is provided today by the drooling idiot who occupies the Oval Office. Yesterday, Joe Biden referred to those of us who support Donald Trump as "garbage," which my friend John Sexton wrote about over at HotAir.

The Democrats have spent the last ten days or so shrieking about Donald Trump's trip to a McDonald's and one line uttered by a comedian at a rally that went on for hours. This is one of the most important elections in the history of the Republic, and their closing argument is a temper tantrum.

That's all they've got.

Let us move on to Exhibit B, which comes to us from the propagandists in the mainstream media who many of us refer to as the enemy of the people. There is a lot to dislike (I try not to use the "H" word when it comes to them) about the hacks who do the bidding of the Democratic National Committee and they keep finding new lows in which to wallow. The New York Times is the 800 lb. gorilla of biased media, and the organization's Kamala Harris-induced desperation is really showing.

This is from Paula:

Censorship and demonetization of conservative media is nothing new. We've been dealing with it here at PJ Media for years. Today, our management warned us that we could even be demonetized ahead of the election—and no one would be shocked if that happened.
This week, we learned that the New York Times is planning a hit piece on high-profile conservatives, including Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson.

This story wastes no time heading down the rabbit hole.

Paula shares a tweet from Ben Shapiro in which he passes along a text message from the Times "reporter" which said that the Times was relying on "analysis conducted by researchers at Media Matters for America."

Media Matters for America (MMFA) is not a credible organization. It's a collection of radical progressive psychopaths who spend their pathetic days soiling themselves because they live in fear of opinions they don't agree with being expressed anywhere, at any time. The Times is so desperate to distract from the fact that Kamala Harris is a horrible candidate and a worse human being that it's scraping a public restroom toilet for a diversion.

On Monday, Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos wrote an opinion piece that blamed Americans' cratering trust in journalism on — SURPRISE! — journalists, which Mr. Sexton also covered at HotAir.

As Ed Morrissey wrote yesterday, the "Times stepped up to prove Bezos right." Here is Ed's assessment of Media Matters, which is a bit more generous than mine:

The New York Times isn't a newspaper, and Nico Grant isn't a reporter. It's an activist organization where actual reporters only occasionally work. Their real purpose is to silence the Left's critics, as well as their own, so that their preferred elite clique can rule rather than govern.
This is precisely why mass media polls below politicians by double digits among Americans when it comes to trust. If Bezos wants to restore trust in the Washington Post, perhaps he should assign reporters to dig into the NYT/Media Matters partnership on this attempt to deplatform independent media.

MMFA has been gunning hard for conservative media since the Tea Party days. They never had the clout of the nation's most powerful print and digital news organization backing up its witch hunts before, however. ALL of the leftists in media are coming together to destroy those of us in conservative media.

And they're hoping to have some help from some Democrats in the Executive Branch next year to speed up the process.

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