Families are now fair game.
Via Breitbart:
The New York Times and Associated Press are aggressively targeting the wife of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, while CNN is targeting the wife of Bill Shine, the new White House deputy chief of staff for communications.
In the age of Trump, the establishment media have whined incessantly about protecting norms, about keeping in place the way things have always been done.
But even as the media bellyache about President Trump violating norms, in their own partisan zeal to destroy anyone of the political right the media are also violating all kinds of norms, including fomenting, excusing, and encouraging violence.
What’s more, this past week a number of far-left media institutions violated another cherished norm, the one about leaving families, including spouses, out of the political fray.
This, of course, is a good norm. Man and wife should be allowed to live separate lives, hold differing opinions, and pursue whatever careers they choose without it in any way affecting the other.
This norm has also aided many media elites. The number of media personalities related to or married to officials in the Obama administration were legion. Moreover, CNN’s Jake Tapper is married to a former Planned Parenthood official. Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd is married to a Democrat activist who was heavily involved in Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign.
Nevertheless, despite their own vulnerabilities on this matter, despite the fact they are changing the rules in a way they will soon come to regret (tee hee), the rules have changed and spouses are now … fair game.
Following the lead of the far-left blog Mediaite and HuffPost, CNN sleaze merchant Andrew Kaczynski, the bully who sends howling mobs after private citizens and threatens to, went after Bill Shine’s wife Darla, by “reviewing hours of audio” from a radio show she has not hosted in nearly a decade.
Apparently, she is some sort of monster for wanting to close the borders, questioning vaccines, and opposing women in the military; basically, the kind of boiler plate provocations that look nothing less than tame compared to the conspiracy theories regularly spread by CNN…