This is sort of a novel experience. Usually it is conservatives, real and self-proclaimed, who devote their efforts to attacking their own side while the left realizes you don’t win anything by attacking allies. It looks like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has taken a page out of the “muh principles” playbook and launched an attack on close Democrat ally, CBS News, for their racism.

CBS producer Ben Mitchell tweeted out the names and headshots of CBS’s team for the 2020 elections. Because, as we know, the reporters are actually the starts and the mopes you vote for are just the supporting case.

It's Official: The @CBSNews 2020 Election Team has assembled! https://t.co/0GBCw4mj7s pic.twitter.com/E0rUDAkzf7

— Ben Mitchell (@bfmitchell) January 11, 2019

This is how Ms. Intersectionality responded:

This WH admin has made having a functional understanding of race in America one of the most important core competencies for a political journalist to have, yet @CBSNews hasn’t assigned a *single* black journalist to cover the 2020 election.

Unacceptable in 2019. Try again. https://t.co/h7tmiBr9Fi

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 13, 2019

I’m not a big believer in bean-counting people and I think that when you think skin color = diversity you are missing the point. A black or Latino who grew up in an upper middle class neighborhood and went to a good college doesn’t bring diversity to your organization, it brings a racial quota, but the experiences and outlooks you have represented are going to be damned homogeneous. That being said, screw these people. The are part of the problem and it is only fair that they live under the #NewRules they have created for the rest of us.

National Journal’s Josh Kraushaar tried to intervene to defend white privilege in his own industry and got smacked down:

Or: maybe having powerful editorial positions awash in people from one race, class, or gender isn’t a good idea; since we get 1000% more takes on “brown lady says a curse word” than an actual white supremacist in Congress.

If you won’t look the mirror, people will do it for you. https://t.co/P0PVfsTE4t

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 13, 2019

Following the comments in this was hilarious because the media people defending Kraushaar and CBS were terrified of actually saying something that was going to imply they didn’t believe in quotas.

Then came a lame response:

For what it’s worth, the mix of 7 embedded campaign reporters looked racially diverse (at least based on last names), with the exception of lacking an African-American.

If there aren’t strict racial quotas for every batch of hires, does it mean a company is racist? https://t.co/T05hTagRby

— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) January 13, 2019

Sorry, but I don’t really know what “racially diverse” surnames look like as race and ethnicity are not the same thing. But, now that he’s mentioned it, let’s review those last names for diversity:

Bidar (Indian)
Brewster (English)
Erikson (Scandinavian)
Korte (Dutch)
Sganga (Italian)
Tin (possibly Chinese)
Turman (Dutch)
Ramirez (Hispanic)
Watson (English)
Hudak (Czech/Slovak)
Ewall-Wice (English)
Mitchell (English)

So, of the twelve people named, two had names that were not from Europe (actually one, because Ramirez is European, but you know what I mean).

Do you understand how fundamental the black experience is to American politics? And to American history?

One race isn’t substitutable for another. It doesn’t work like that.

It’s not about “quotas.” It’s about understanding the country you’re living in. https://t.co/sttXLoD4J3

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 13, 2019

On the whole, if you buy into the left’s racial identity politics, the Ocasio Cortez cleaned up the floor with Kraushaar. Partly because he was arguing, as a second language, in a language in which she is fluent. Partly because he was smart enough to know that if he got too uppity, that there would be consequences.

The real test of this will be when NBC and ABC lineups are revealed…or when CBS revises their staffing decision.

Regardless, this attack on CBS will resonate. Democrat candidates will break their necks to either line up behind her or to get to her left. The media may end up pining for the good old days when they were merely purveyors of #FakeNews and not a collection of racist oppressors.

Cheerleaders So White: My latest crush unloads on CBS News and their No Blacks Presidential election team.https://t.co/h0II6KYQyv

— Tom Maguire (@Tom_Maguire) January 14, 2019

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