There’s a pattern in the mainstream media to normalize Republicans talking points. There are many examples of this, but since Trump, one of the main ones is the focus on everyone being “civil”. This is usually presented with a tacit acceptance that Trump is a boor, but transfers to a lecture to the “plebes” to be better. Jonathan Turley and Megyn Kelly are just two more recent allegedly “moderate” media creations to implore Dems to stop being so mean. But, and I’m just spitballing here, why is it they are never called out when they accept or do not call out their counterparts on the right or even themselves. The hypocrisy is most galling this week in an example from both. First, here’s Kelly in two Tweets back to back. The first responds to Turley’s whines about civility by imploring us “plebes” to “do better”...OK, rational enough, but wait, her next Tweet is a broadside attack on Jimmy Kimmel in support of Sean Hannity (who is always known for civility) attacking Jimmy Kimmel, for seemingly no apparent reason. Not very “civil” and it literally took one Tweet to prove it, yet there’s no mass media call for her to explain incivility, hmmm...
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But it gets better. As I stated in a comment. Is Turley’s call for “civility” really credible? One look at the comments on his own heavily moderated site would say “only if you believe calling Bill Clinton a rapist and Nancy Pelosi a prostitute” is “civil”.
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The goal of these calls by fake moderate conservatives, and their MSM supporters, isn’t to make this country more civil, it’s to silence anyone on the left willing to fight their lies and hypocrisy. It’s similar to the “free speech” movement that aims not to increase free speech, but silence the right to boycott, confront or call out speech of others who use their free speech abhorrently. Social media companies engage in this often, too. Listen, we may have disagreements on how civil we’re supposed to treat people who support the abhorrent criminality of Trump, and that’s understandable, but I’m frankly getting sick and tired of these folks getting away with this open hypocrisy yet still being considered serious voices in media.