This should have been a story about a university professor who made an idiotic, malevolent comment — and, in this one case, is paying for it (these days it’s more likely for college professors who do this to be celebrated for it). But the Associated Press, having descended to its current state, could not resist tossing its overt partisanship as well.
Excerpted from Jocelyn Gecker’s article:
An American history professor at Fresno State University in California apologized Thursday for a tweet that said President Donald Trump “must hang” to save American democracy.
The professor, Lars Maischak, said he has temporarily left Fresno while the university is on spring break, after receiving death threats and hundreds of hate emails since the tweet was highlighted by far-right websites such as Breitbart News.
“I regret making these tweets,” Maischak said. “I wrote them to an audience of 28 followers on Twitter under the assumption they would be read by people I know.”
The tweet said: “To save American democracy, Trump must hang. The sooner and the higher, the better.”
Breitbart posted an article Saturday saying the tweet and others on Maischak’s account showed opinions that “explain why universities across the country are now viewed with disdain by the average, salt-of-the-earth Americans.”
Lars Maischak put up a malevolent, moronic comment about the President. His “excuse” – that he thought only 28 people would see it – is no excuse at all; the statement is what it is regardless of how many people see it. And now, because it was made public, he is reaping the consequences of that statement. That is the story here.
But the Associated Press couldn’t resist. It had to add that breitbart.com, which made its readers aware of Maischak, is a “far-right” website.
A request for the AP: define “far-right”, please. I read breitbart.com almost every day and think of it as conservative, not far right. So I need a little more explanation. What sends it into the “far-right” section? Certainly not the quote from this article.
And tell us, AP: do you ever call any websites far-left? Say, huffingtonpost.com which, in the past two days has published articles suggesting that White men should be denied the vote and that Trump supporters should be put to death?
No? You don’t? How come?
How sad that the Associated Press has devolved to this level of bias – a bias that barely, if at all, existed just a few years ago.
