NPR and Other Media Elites Are Election-Denier Deniers!
In the midst of reveling in the "debacle" of Republicans failing to promote House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy to Speaker, some leftish media outlets broadcast celebratory stories on House Democrats electing Rep. Hakeem Jeffries their Minority Leader.
On Jan. 4, NPR's "All Things Considered" did a story on McCarthy failing to win support alongside a story headlined "Looking back at a decade of GOP hard-liners in Congress." But they also spent almost three minutes touting Jeffries as the first black lawmaker nominated for speaker of the House.
Co-host Juana Summers touted how "Jeffries repeatedly earned the support of every member of his caucus -- the first time a Democratic leader has done so since 2007. That's the year when they elected Nancy Pelosi." Co-host Mary Louise Kelly added, "The symbolic torch-passing received a standing ovation from Democrats."
Then came a parade of happy Democrat quotes. From Pete Aguilar, the new House Minority Whip: "A Latino is nominating for leader of this chamber a Black man for the first time in our history ... We are unified behind a speaker who is an unapologetic advocate for protecting and expanding our freedoms."
The Democrats expand your freedoms?
Then NPR played Sheila Jackson Lee proclaiming, "In the spirit of Martin Luther King, John Lewis and Elijah Cummings, I'm Houston proud to cast my vote for the next speaker -- Hakeem Jeffries." Nikema Williams cast her vote touting the Lewis phrase "good trouble."
Rep. Al Green added the systemic-racism note: "And still I rise, and I proudly cast my vote on behalf of the enslaved people who built this Capitol. I cast my vote for the honorable Hakeem Jeffries." Rep. Yvette Clarke lauded Jeffries as the "bad, brilliant brother from Brooklyn."
Meanwhile, to represent the view NPR refuses to consider, Kyle Martinsen of the Republican Party's messaging team sent around a memo on how all 212 Democrats voted for Jeffries despite the small problem that his "record of election denialism is well documented -- and thoroughly unhinged." Among the claims:
1. Jeffries declared the 2016 election was "rigged," and a "hoax," and a "cloud of illegitimacy" hangs over Trump.
2. Jeffries called to "investigate (Trump's) so-called victory." He insisted "history will never accept" Trump "as a legitimate President."
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