The Atlantic
A far-left magazine that occasionally lets a good article or two past their woke staff.
~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2018-04-05 |
Examples
Here's some examples of their bias:
In "Comparing Hillary Clinton to Russ Feingold, Whose Record Is Better?" the Atlantic would think that Hillary's problem is that she's not left wing enough for the Dems. And in a way they're right, she's an old and incompetent opportunist, that was too unethical for the Watergate Investigation -- but is now in the middle of the Democrat Party? That says something.
Greenville, Mississippi church was set on fire and spray painted with the words “Vote Trump”, by a Black Democrat (Andrew McClinton), trying to frame Trump Supporters for the Race Hate. The Media had fostered it, and in reponse outlets (Atlantic, NYT, CNN, SPLC) ran sensational headlines about how bad Trump and his white supremacist supporters were to do it.
Trump criticized European Countries for doding their responsibilities to NATO, they startled slacking on their obligations slightly less, and came up with more money. The Press, Left and EU blamed Trump for hurting NATO by pointing out their failures and demanding they do better, white NATO confesses they got $100B and stronger because of it.
"The Cruelty Is the Point: President Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear" is a perfect example of Atlantics biases, claiming Trump supporters like hurting people. Yet it does what it claims the other side does, and ignores the real motives; the these policies stop hurting people and help more than the status quo.
Jemele Hill (of ESPN and the Atlantic) made a tweet (now deleted) saying AOC should interrupt Trump's next State of the Union address, with the following quote, "GETCHO HAND OUT MY POCKET". This was what one of Malcom-X's killers said before murdering him. Jemele deleted the tweet and apologized, but few believe it was a joke. Without consequences.
The Mueller Report showed that there was no hint at collusion by Trump or his team, it was a Hillary funded hoax, that was used to obstruct Trump and undermine our Democracy, start illegal investigations and wiretapping, distract from helping America and our interests, and keep the media occupied repeating criminal disinformation.
AOC claimed that Trump's America is running concentration camps, with direct comparisons to the Nazi's. This immediately polarized the rational against the Democrats and their media (her water carriers).
The Left-Wing Atlantic wrote an opinion hit-piece wrapped up as a fake Study to imply that "Nothing Will Persuade White Evangelicals to Support Impeachment". A delusional headline, and a worse article. There's lots that would persuade them to support impeachment, but it would require evidence of doing something wrong/immoral, which they don't have.
While discussing the final demise of Tom Brady and the Patriots, Scott Stossel (The Atlantic National Editor) said, "He’s like Thor, or Superman, or Greta Thunberg—when everything looks lost, he arrives to save the day." So Brady is a whiney misinfomred little special-needs child being exploiting by far left handlers (like Thunberg)? Rather insulting.
The Atlantic's Peter Wehner wrote a hit piece against Trump and supporters over Trump's legal/ethical behavior with regards to Ukraine. Wehner is a never Trumper, the Atlantic is part of the far left resistance, and the piece omits major context (lie of omission) that kind of destroys the idea that Wehner is ethical or making an ethical argument.
A good example of Fake News is propagating a lie to scare your audience with falsehoods... like the article, "What Would Happen If Trump Refused to Leave Office? A peaceful transfer of power is necessary for American democracy to survive." Then write an article pretending to debunk that, but really use it as an excuse to both plant and fertilize that seed of doubt.
If I remain hopeful about the future, it’s in large part because I’ve learned to place my faith in... those of the next generation,... my book is for those young people — an invitation to once again remake the world, and to bring about, through hard work, determination, and a big dose of imagination, an America that finally aligns with all that is best in us.
FakeNews/idiots claim that the AR-15 bullets (the .223) are uniquely deadly. That they can do things like enter one place, and spin inside you body and exit somewhere else. The truth is the .223 is weaker than most varmit rounds, and it's advantages were weight (carry more rounds), not firepower. But anti-gunners and media without fact checkers won't tell you that.
Atlantic finds some far-left anti-American law professor talking head to ignore the thousands of people Obama drone bombed, and complain that Trump killed one, with far more justification -- and thus Trump was wrong to not get congressional approval first. Pick one standard please. If Trump was wrong, then Obama should be in gitmo.
I had some hope for The Atlantic they hired the prolific conservative intellectual, Kevin Williamson... then they fired him for the thoughtcrime of having once written a pro-life article, showing that they do not value diversity of thought at the Atlantic.
A black supremacist/racist polemic who blames all white people and the white race for everything bad that happened in America. It is all because of the white patriarchy oppressing the black man. Since he's a racist bigot, he's won many awards and accolades for his juvenile, poorly sourced, and erroneous writing and thoughts.
FakeNews tries to spin $14K in vandalism (according to the GAO), done by Clinton admin on the way out, as just a couple prank. No other administration was classless enough to ever do this before or since.
Derecka Purnell writes an unsupported fiction (“How I Became a Police Abolitionist"), claiming that police murder innocents with impunity. The public show evidence on how negligent they were in fact checking, and how dishonest this article's premise is. The Atlantic lack of standards means they turn a blind eye; left wing disinormation is OK on their pages.
"Smart guns" (safe guns) were a solution to a virtually imaginary problem; having your gun taken away and used against you. It does this by making a gun more expensive, less reliable (and more likely to get the user killed), and there are better solutions to the mostly non-existent problems. Gun illiterates think it's great, but informed gun owners see no value.
Ilhan Omar claimed anti-semitic CAIR was founded because "Some people did something", to avoid admitting that Islamic Terrorists took down the Twin Towers on 9/11. Oh and CAIR was actually founded nearly a decade earlier. Of course the far-left Press claimed Trump was endangering her, by retweeting a video of her saying that, in her own words.
A far-left magazine that occasionally lets a good article or two through. I had some hope when they hired the prolific conservative intellectual, Kevin Williamson, but then they fired him for thoughtcrime of having once written a pro-life article, showing that they do not value diversity of thought at the Atlantic.
Conclusion[edit | edit source]
So what did we learn?
I learned that while the Atlantic’s founding motto was, “Of no party or clique”, that dream is long dead. We also learn that anywhere that progressives get a voice, they will ruin it for others. They have the tolerance of complete intolerance: there is no party or clique at the Atlantic, because like California, Nazi Germany, or anywhere else the progressives rule, they demand complete and utter subjugation to the will of the collective: thus they are not "of" the clique, they are the clique.
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🔗 Links
- https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/the-sliming-of-kevin-williamson/
- http://reason.com/blog/2018/04/05/kevin-williamson-fired
- http://thefederalist.com/2018/04/05/ta-nehisi-coates-jessica-valenti-provethe-atlantics-hypocrisy-kevin-williamson/
- https://www.nationalreview.com/g-file/kevin-williamson-thought-criminal/
- http://babylonbee.com/news/the-atlantic-quickly-patches-echo-chamber-after-discovering-leak/
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