The media were at it again this week, and I have the receipts to prove it.
1. NOW/THEN: Two veteran IRS officials testified before Congress that the Justice Department interfered in their probe of the president's son. After celebrating whistleblowers in the Trump administration—does Alexander Vindman ring a bell?—now we have "so-called whistleblowers" and a press accusing them of "insubordination."
Then:
Now:
Nicolle Wallace accuses the FBI whistleblowers of "insubordination." pic.twitter.com/gGkuNA5RcJ
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) May 18, 2023
2. WHAT’S RACIST TODAY: "Mass shootings in major metropolitan areas in the United States disproportionately affect Black people, and structural racism may play a role, according to a study published in the journal JAMA Surgery," CNN reported.
The researchers, to whose study CNN does not provide a link, do not appear to have looked at the race of the perpetrators of these urban crimes. No, they define structural racism as "the normalized and legitimized range of policies, practices, and attitudes that routinely produce cumulative and chronic adverse outcomes for people of color." Welcome to academia.
Anyhow, I bet Democrats will be concerned when they learn that the Democratic stronghold of Chicago "had the greatest number" of these racist mass shootings in the time period studied, "which led to 97 deaths and 583 injuries."
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