Media Label Right as Hardliners But Rarely Use Same Terms for the Left– www.newsbusters.org
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EXCERPT:
Stephen Miller’s appointment as White House Chief of Staff came with one very routine adjective: “hardliner.” To elitist media operatives, that is defined as “anyone who dramatically disagrees with us.”
Take this November 7 Associated Press headline summarizing Miller’s positions: “In his words: Stephen Miller is an immigration hardliner and a bombastic critic of Democrats.”
It’s not inaccurate to call Miller a “hardliner.” The media-bias problem is obvious when considering the opposite position. You can call Trump “Hitler” and the Republicans “fascists,” but that doesn’t make you a “hardliner” or “bombastic.”
Someone who chants “Abolish ICE” is somehow not a “hardliner.” When Beto O’Rourke told Chris Hayes in 2019 he would take down the border walls in El Paso, he was not a “hardliner.”
Instead, take this NPR headline from September: “A new anti-ICE compilation album benefits immigrants rights organizations.” Marxist musicians like Tom Morello raised money for groups including Union del Barrio, which proclaims on its website “we need a political revolution, and the only way to make a revolution is by building a revolutionary organization.”
