That the mainstream media is obsessed with COVID shaming is not exactly breaking news.
There have been numerous, well-documented instances of media figures at “news” outlets from CNN to MSNBC to PBS and beyond giving “peaceful protesters” and Democratic election revelers a complete pass on taking to crowded streets to march and celebrate in the middle of a pandemic while at the same time accusing Reopen demonstrators, beachgoers, and people who want to gather with their families at the holidays of being “grandma killers” who want to spread the coronavirus.
But as is often the case when exposing media bias, sometimes the double standards they display are not always in what they do say but instead in what they don’t.
Case in point, Axios editor Dan Primack, who became triggered while taking a walk on Thanksgiving day at the sight of a large number of cars parked in front of a home, and one he says he “knows” has kids who attend a local school:
That feeling of rage when you walk by a single family house on thanksgiving with 12 cars lined up outside it. And you know they have kids in the local school.
— Dan Primack (@danprimack) November 26, 2020
Spectator contributor Stephen Miller took note of the tweet and did a scan of Primack’s Twitter feed. What did he find? Not a single instance where Primack had anything at all to say about the gathering limits hypocrisy of Democratic politicians like California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and others:
Scrolling back, this Axios journalist had zero rage about the governor of California, the mayor of Chicago, the mayor of Denver or the governor of New York's Thanksgiving plans.
That's why you probably need to re-evaluate you guys need to recalculate your industry. https://t.co/u8XE9pZCUJ
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 27, 2020
Primack responded by stating that he didn’t like what they did, either, as though that absolved him of any previous journalistic malpractice on the matter:
Every one of them was wrong to do what they did. Feel better?
— Dan Primack (@danprimack) November 27, 2020
But as Miller correctly pointed out, Primack – as has been the case with so many others in the MSM – didn’t see fit to comment about the hypocrisy of those politicians when it mattered. Instead, he only did so after being called out over it and only after the stories were already yesterday’s news:
And yet you work for a major media outlet and never said a word about it until I mentioned it on twitter.
See your problem now? https://t.co/B9tzpIqmry
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 27, 2020
Primack’s defensive reply spoke volumes as to just how badly Miller’s point flew completely over his head:
Oh, I’m supposed to publicly comment on every single thing or nothing at all. Got it.
— Dan Primack (@danprimack) November 27, 2020
Miller then proceeded to unload, ripping Primack for doing as so many others in the media have by COVID shaming private citizens on their respective Twitter feeds while failing to utter one damned word of criticism about the Democratic politicians who have actually dictated public policy on these matters:
You’re a journalist who chose to ignore COVID violations by elected officials in major cities but felt rage walking bu a private residence. Get fucked. https://t.co/BAv3VSPeFT
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 27, 2020
Governor of New York signs order directly leading to deaths of 11,000 people and gets an Emmy – nothing. Silence.
Walk by a house where normal people are having a meal – “feeling of rage”
The entire problem of journalism summed up absolutely perfectly. Perfectly.
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 27, 2020
If you’re a journalist and you’re going to walk by some random person’s house and then complain on Twitter about what you saw, you better make danged sure you’ve reported on/weighed in on the Democratic policymakers who don’t practice what they preach on following CDC guidelines and government mandates, because otherwise, you’ll be exposed a liberal hack who is okay with government “leaders” having one set of rules for the common folk, and no set of rules for themselves.
Primack 100% deserved to have his patootie handed to him here. The rampant virtue signaling and COVID shaming among journalists has gotten beyond tiresome, and they deserve to be called out on their double standards and liberal biases every single time.
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