The Media Research Center’s Kristine Marsh complains in a Nov. 16 post:
Friday on The View, the hosts slammed conservatives as racists that were “obsessed” with the media’s favorite Democrat socialist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. While they brought up the topic because of a stupid tweet from a conservative writer which mocked Cortez for her clothing choices, they used that tweet to accuse the entire conservative movement of having a racist agenda and obsession with the new congresswoman.
Notice how quick Marsh is to gloss over that “stupid tweet,” as if it merits none of the scrutiny the MRC would give a stupid tweet from a “liberal” writer. Even the video clip accompanied Marsh’s post omits any direct reference to the tweet.
Marsh won’t tell you that the tweet was from Eddie Scarry, a reporter for the conservative Washington Examiner — with whom the MRC has a deal that started in 2012 to promote a weekly “Mainstream Media Scream” through columnist Paul Bedard — who tweeted a picture of Ocasio-Cortez wearing a business suit and snarked: “I’ll tell you something: that jacket and coat don’t look like a girl who struggles” — an implication that she should not have dressed so nice for her new job, which goes well beyond Marsh’s claim that he “mocked Cortez for her clothing choices.” Scarry was pilloried for it online, and even his fellow Examiner co-workers distanced themselves from him. In the wake of the tweet, the Examiner pulled Scarry off the “news” side (raise your hand if you didn’t know that the Examiner had a “news” side where there there was purportedly not to be any bias exhibited) to the commentary side.
One can’t help but think that Marsh was protecting Scarry in order not to have to criticize a publication with which her employer has a promotional deal and, thus, jeopardize that deal.
But Marsh wasn’t done complaining, going on to insist that conservatives aren’t really obsessed with Ocasio-Cortez at all: “While no one at the table mentioned it, the media is far more obsessed with Cortez than conservatives are. Even the hosts of The View were enamored with her when she appeared on their show months ago.”
Actually, conservatives in general, and Fox News in particular, are very much obsessed with Ocasio-Cortez. The Ocasio-Cortez derangement syndrome is so prevalent among conservatives that Washington Times columnist (and former WorldNetDaily reporter) Cheryl Chumley ranted that politicians like her with socialist leanings “don’t belong in American politics” and that allowing her to serve in the House is “an abomination to the Constitution.”
That’s what you call obsession. Marsh simply doesn’t want to admit it.