Left-wing anger is cool now. Did you see all those photos of “brave” activists at the Women’s March?
Glamour Magazine dedicated their Instagram stories to highlighting marchers and praising their outspokenness. Vogue produced a video on the New York City Women’s March as if the participants were gliding down a catwalk and not crowding the sidewalk. Elle Magazine praised “All the Best Celebrity Instagrams from the 2018 Women’s March;” showing up with a witty sign is good PR for Hollywood stars.
The March for Life got no such treatment. I guess those dreadful pink pussy hats are just so stylish that the fashion magazines couldn’t stay away. I’m sure it’s purely incidental that the marchers in Vogue’s video were chanting “Hey hey, ho ho, Donald Trump has got to go.” (Y’all had a year to plan this, and you couldn’t come up with a better chant?)
Never mind that the co-chair of the Women’s March, Linda Sarsour, is a card-carrying Democratic Socialist, who joined the party officially last fall. She’s angry at the GOP, and that’s all that matters to the fawning press. In fact, that might make her even more appealing to the media.
The media is desperate to make socialism cool. This week, they fawned over the Women’s March. Last week, they tried to rewrite history by making Martin Luther King Jr. a socialist. Dr. King deliberately chose to keep his activism about policy, not politics. He never publicly endorsed any candidate, and he said that neither Republicans or Democrats had all the answers. Yet, CNN’s John Blake proclaimed MLK “was a socialist before it was cool.”
Was MLK really a socialist, though? Not quite. He was, however, passionately anti-poverty, particularly as it impacted the world’s poorest nations. In his “Let My People Go” speech, Dr. King said, “While millions enjoy an unexampled opulence in developed nations, ten thousand people die of hunger each and every day of the year in the undeveloped world.”
He prescribed foreign development aid in his Nobel Peace Prize address.
“The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed.”
No one — at CNN or anywhere else — could name a single socialist country that has enough wealth to conduct charity abroad. Yet, Blake implied that opposing poverty means favoring socialism. He should have fact-checked that one with the people of Venezuela. And still, CNN published this socialism nonsense as fact, not as opinion. It was a naked attempt to make MLK a socialist hipster to its audience.
Young people are especially vulnerable to the Left’s pro-socialism propaganda, simply because we went to schools run by the Left – so, of course, we don’t know the historical evils inflicted upon human history by socialism and its meaner younger brother, communism.
But the indoctrination doesn’t stop in schools. It continues in media produced for young adult audiences. Celebrities know they’ll get photographed and praised for showing up on the Left. However, if they show up on the Right, they’ll get bad press — if any press, that is. Glamour, Vogue, and Elle didn’t say anything about the March for Life, even though it drew a crowd of 50,000 people. None of them were reporters. Perhaps that’s why no stars showed up except Tim Tebow’s mom, Pam.
This is the rule the press follows: For a Left-wing protest, all the cool kids are doing it. For a Right-wing protest, pretend it doesn’t exist.
Angela Morabito (@AngelaLMorabito) writes about politics, media, ethics, and culture. She holds both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from Georgetown University and has appeared on “On the Record with Greta van Susteren” as well as “Cavuto: Coast to Coast.”
