I apologize for that incredibly imbecilic blog title. But I am forced to use it, since both the Washington Post and CNN actually made this claim, while reporting that facebook had banned career racist, Black supremacist and anti-Semite louis farrakhan.
From kristine marsh’s article at newsbusters:
Despite the Washington Post making this same blunder yesterday and facing backlash for it, CNN went ahead and labeled Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan as a “far right” extremist Friday morning. New Day host Alisyn Camerota lumped Farrakhan in with alt-right conspiracy theorists who were banned by Facebook this week for their extreme rhetoric.
In a brief report, Camerota stated:
So Facebook is banning several far-right extremists from its services because it considers them dangerous. This includes the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Also banned, Paul Nehlen, an anti-Semite who ran unsuccessfully for Congress, along with fringe personalities, Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, and Paul Joseph Watson.
This is so bizarre, I don’t know where to begin.
Calling louis farrakhan a far right extremist is equivalent to calling david duke a hard-leftist.
There is no way to explain or justify this…other than by understanding that when your purpose in life is to go against “the right”, it can pervert your logic to the point where anyone you write negatively about, regardless of his/her politics, is going to be fantasized as part of the hated right. Even someone who proudly had his picture taken with Barack Obama…
…and has engaged in a mutual admiration society with al sharpton for decades.
In other words, it’s nuts.
Is this how CNN intends to try winning back the audience it has lost – which has put it in competition with cable cartoon channels instead of cable news?
Who’s running that outfit? Bugs, Daffy or Elmer?
After they finish banning everyone from centrist to right-wing the left will be able to report whatever they want, unchallenged.