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Really, Politico?
The “far-right New York Post”?
In a Wednesday news report, the site’s Jason Beeferman snarks about how “the influential, far-right New York Post” seems interested in Rep. Ritchie Torres’ likely run for governor.
We’ll take the “influential,” of course: Our last pick for president is headed to the White House; our last choice for mayor sits in Gracie Mansion.
But what in heck makes us “far right”?
Yes, we’re right of center for New York City; we mostly endorse Republicans and support Israel; our news coverage includes plenty of shocking stories about President Biden’s failures at the border, etc.
But absolutely nothing puts us outside the mainstream of American public opinion, and a professional in the biz certainly ought to know that.
It may be a passing phrase, but it’s part of a pattern — an effort to marginalize any press that disagrees with the liberal media majority.
Dismissing us as “far right” is part and parcel to being targeted by the partisan “disinformation” censorship machine (The World Federation of Advertisers and GARM went after our ad revenue), getting blocked on Facebook for raising the lab-leak theory (now endorsed by the federal government) and seeing our 100% accurate 2020 Hunter Biden laptop coverage suppressed.
Maybe Beeferman just meant to be cute: He wrote about Torres being “eager to trash the far-left flank of his party,” so invoking the “far-right” Post made for a giggle.
But the problem comes from a journalistic and Democratic Party elite that would rather silence critics than debate them, who want to label opinions they disagree with as radical.
It’s the first step to groupthink.
We’re not far-right, we’re common sense. Politico just doesn’t want to admit it.