If you ever needed any more proof that our media are simply the paid henchmen of the progressive movement and the Democrat party, you need look no further than the sorry and shabby spectacle carried out on the pages ob Bloomberg News yesterday.

A vicious, lackwit “senior reporter” named Ben Penn (presented as a “know your enemy” courtesy) posted a story, a story approved by Bloomberg mamagement, that accused Trump Labor Department appointee Leif Olson of anti-Semitic comments Trump Labor Aide Quits After Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts Surface. The anti-Semitic comments were actually clearly sarcastic commentary on Paul Ryan’s demolition of Pauh Nehlen in 2016.

This appears to be the most obvious sarcastic joke in the history of sarcastic jokes.

Calling it an "Anti-Semitic Facebook Post" in the headline is thus EXTREMELY disingenuous.

People like you are why Americans don't trust the media. pic.twitter.com/6v2EbTUDGH

— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) September 3, 2019

My new post on @VolokhC "Bloomberg Law's False and Misleading Report about Leif Olson." https://t.co/oVjCb07TEi

— Josh Blackman (@JoshMBlackman) September 3, 2019

Read the story by SisterToldjah for background.

By way of indictment, Penn trots out some of the pro-bono litigation that Olson has been engaged it. A notable non-conservatve and spastic-kneejerking anti-Trumper Ken White notes that Olson’s pro bono work didn’t really have a political tone:

Now that I look back, I see about a half-dozen times Leif responded to the Popehat signal offering to help people targeted with bogus claims. Funny, the people he offered to help don't seem to be conservative causes. Just consumers, writers, folks.

— ProfanityLadenTweetsHat (@Popehat) September 3, 2019

As media, left and right piled on to the feckless goof trotted out this by way of defending a action that is simply grotesque in its maliciousness:

https://twitter.com/benjaminpenn/status/1168962326340526081?s=21

Yep. Never mind that I lied. Never mind that I libeled a good man. Never mind that this calumny that I conjured out of thin air will forever be associated with this guy any time he is googled. He was a Trump appointee. Why are y’all so upset. Viva le Resistance.

Now that I look back, I see about a half-dozen times Leif responded to the Popehat signal offering to help people targeted with bogus claims. Funny, the people he offered to help don't seem to be conservative causes. Just consumers, writers, folks.

— ProfanityLadenTweetsHat (@Popehat) September 3, 2019

And, I think there we come to the true motive. Penn was pointed to the Facebook posts by someone in the labor movement who wanted Olson taken out. Penn cheerfully engaged in this deeply dishonest smear job and, thanks to an absolutely gutless response the Department of Labor, succeeded. Now he can’t understand why he isn’t being carried about the stadium on the shoulders of admiring throngs.

The Fake News Media has NEVER been more Dishonest or Corrupt than it is right now. There has never been a time like this in American History. Very exciting but also, very sad! Fake News is the absolute Enemy of the People and our Country itself!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 19, 2019

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