Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions
This denial:
“I’m not on the left.” — CNN’s left-leaning Jake Tapper, Sunday
We say: Ha! Watch the three straight minutes of video clips in a @WesternLensman tweet: It shows Tapper blasting Republicans as “deranged,” claiming they’ve eroded “norms of decency” and charging them with “demonizing the other side.”
Tapper even once suggested Donald Trump “worked for the Russians against American interests” and insisted there was “no evidence of any wrongdoing by either Joe or Hunter Biden.” Not on the left? Please.
This praise:
“Cory Booker showed Democrats . . . what it means to have some real chutzpah.” — Ralph R. Ortega, in a City & State “editor’s note,” Tuesday
We say: The left can praise Booker all it wants for his record-breaking waste-of-Senate-time rant decrying the Trump presidency and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s decision to avoid a government shutdown.
But it didn’t do anything, any more than a toddler’s meltdown at Target. And only reaffirmed Spartacus’ rep as a dippy, desperate attention-seeker.
This analysis:
“We chose a felon . . . because we didn’t want to elect a black woman.” — Princeton Prof. Eddie Glaude on MSNBC, Monday
We say: In this telling, Biden-Harris inflation didn’t bother voters; Americans loved the flood of migrants bringing drugs and crime, swamping communities and siphoning public funds and were thrilled at Kamala Harris’ epic incoherence.
Yet voters couldn’t bring themselves to back Harris purely because she’s a black woman — so they elected “felon” Donald Trump instead.
What idiocy — and from a Princeton professor, no less. More proof of higher ed’s worse-than-uselessness.
This spin:
“[Tren de Aragua] arrests have primarily been for crimes like shoplifting, burglary and cellphone robbery. — Rebecca Hanson, David Smilde & Veronica Zubillaga, New York Times, Tuesday
We say: Leave it to New York Times writers to defend a vicious illegal-immigrant gang.
These authors admit TdA is “a dangerous group, responsible for horrendous crimes.” But, hey, no need to deport its members; their offenses in America, so far, have mostly been small-time.
Hmm: Just what America needs — members of a gang that’s pulled off real horror shows elsewhere but so far “only” a small share of their US crimes have been truly heinous.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board