With the recent announcements from Republican Senators Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski that they would vote to confirm President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, you’d think the mainstream media and Democrats would be content. They should be saying that efforts by other Republican Senators to stall her nomination failed and then move on.
But journalists and their allies on the left are never content with simply acknowledging they “won” their fight. Instead, they work at a frenzied pace to coordinate their message and talking points a la the old “JournoList” days because they want people to believe their political opposition on the right are just awful people who stooped to gutter lows during the battle.
This week, such has been the case with an emerging narrative from The Usual Suspects. They seek to paint Republicans concerned about Judge Jackson’s light sentencing track record with child sexual predators and also championed the new “Parental Rights in Education” law in Florida as propagandists in a modern-day version of the “red scare,” where there is a child predator/groomer around every corner and a Democrat willing to coddle them.
Here’s a screenshot from Memeorandum of some recent pieces which alleged QAnon coordination among other bat-crap crazy conspiracies:
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ press secretary Christina Pushaw also pulled up several articles that have gone up in the last several days that had a similar theme:
NBC News editor Benjy Sarlin also alleged a “homophobia” component behind the support of Florida’s new law. It prohibits age-inappropriate instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity topics in grades K-3. It enshrines parental rights when it comes to discussions of such sensitive subject matters with children.
Naturally, that horrifies the liberal media and Democrats, who have been quite vocal over the past year about making sure people know they don’t believe parents should be telling schools what they should teach:
Most Republicans targeted in these pieces will likely do the smart thing and not dignify the accusations with a response. Sometimes, media smear campaigns speak for themselves without any more needing to be added by the targets of their ire.
But the ones who do need to point out that the last people on the face of this earth to lecture anyone about alleged gutter tactics are the same people who for decades have portrayed Republicans as racists, homophobes, misogynists, bigots, rapists, grandma killers, murderers, Nazis, etc.
One who (understandably) won’t keep quiet on it is Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who took to the Twitter machine Tuesday to provide an update on his attempt to strengthen sentencing guidelines for child sex predators:
Hey Democrats, don’t like the suggestion that you turn a blind eye to groomers and pedophiliacs in the interests of wokeness and not judging people? Then maybe you should, I don’t know, stop turning a blind eye to it. Just a thought.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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