The Media Research Center’s Tim Graham was in an especially whiny mood on the Fourth of July, spending his day spewing rage at People magazine for including allegedly liberal things on a list of “100 Reasons To Love America.” Oh, did he whine:
Number one was “Peaceful Protests” against police officers. Protests are American, but these journalists only celebrate leftist protests, and they left out any mention of looting, rioting and police being injured and killed. No, they could only accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative:
[…]Number two was“American Optimism,” by CBS This Morning host and Oprah Winfrey pal Gayle King. She, too, lauded the protests. “For the first time you see a very diverse crowd marching shoulder to shoulder, teenagers and twentysomethings challenging their parents….Young people are speaking up. Look at the best-seller list – nine of the top 10 are about race. There’s coast-to-coast solidarity.”
For the first time? Bunk. The Left ALWAYS celebrates their protests as “very diverse.” It’s nothing new.
People celebrated some seriously silly things as reasons to love America with a pandemic twist, including “Toilet Paper” and “Tie-Dye” and “Stress Baking,” but the magazine’s leftist tilt came throughout the list:
Graham went on to list 13 more purportedly “leftist” things like, um, “workplace equality” and home-based pandemic broadcasts. That leaves 85 items that weren’t”leftist” — meaning that Graham is whining about a decided minority of items on the list, which is much less than the “list of leftist-media talking points” he claimed it was. Since he proves no actual bias here, this falls well short of his insistence that the list is “biased.”
For Graham, apparently, any mention of something purportedly “leftist” renders the entire thing “leftist.” This is the MRC.