Today’s paragraphs come to us from Jeffrey Lord, writing for American spectator (spectator.org).
Mr. Lord’s latest piece talks about the attacks on Laura Ingraham for daring to mention, in a mildly deprecating, way the rejections David Hogg got from various California schools – rejections she, and everyone else, knew about because Hogg himself mentioned them during a very public interview.
But he does not stop there, as you will see from the following:
Frankly? I have had it with the goons.
I hope you have too.
This time? This time it’s the campaign to shut down Laura Ingraham on Fox. The last time the target was Sean Hannity. Before that was the move to do in Bill O’Reilly, Stop Rush, Drop Dobbs, and Stop Beck. And oh yes… I forgot the end of my own time at CNN, when I was dropped because I had called attention in a column in this space to just this issue of free speech and a free press, and quite specifically had the nerve to point out the repeated flagging of Media Matters (by liberal Alan Dershowitz, among others) for anti-Semitism.
By now it should be crystal clear to every conservative — no matter whether they are Pro-Trump, Never Trump, pro-this or anti-that — what is happening in America. Any conservative on television or radio or in fact with any audience of any kind, as in a speech invite to a college campus — is now a target for silencing. Let’s take a look at some of the headlines — and note well the dates.
Lord then goes on to cite specific examples – all of them well referenced and well known.
Is he right about the concerted effort, with most mainstream media happy to stand back and let it happen, to silence all but the left in this country?
You’re damn right he is, which is why Jeffrey Lord wins Paragraphs Of The Day honors.
