Times takes two tacks on Dems, GOP
Two stories, one agenda. Tuesday’s New York Times profiled Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat poised to indict Donald Trump, and James Comer, the Republican leading the House investigation of the Biden family’s influencepeddling schemes.
The contrast offers a lesson in partisan advocacy masking as journalism.
“Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, has insisted that he does not pay attention to politics when deciding whether to charge someone with a crime.
“But Mr. Bragg’s stated reluctance to consider the political ramifications of his office’s decisions has not quelled the storm brewing around him: He now appears poised to become the first prosecutor to indict a former president.”
As for Comer, “In his new role leading the Republican Party’s chief investigative committee in the House, Comer, 50, has himself become a promoter of sinister-sounding allegations against Biden and his family. This pursuit has propelled him to stardom in a party whose best customers — vengeful, hard-right voters — are bent on bringing down the Democratic president.”
Back to Bragg: “Still, as a candidate, Mr. Bragg was mostly focused elsewhere. His fundamental campaign promise was to balance public safety and fairness, following in the footsteps of a wave of recently elected prosecutors who pledged a new approach to crime. They argued that cracking down on minor infractions only led to recidivism, and that taking a more merciful approach to defendants made cities safer.”
Back to Comer, who “has transformed himself to command the Republican war machine in Congress — becoming a high-profile example of what it takes to rise and thrive in the Fox News-fed MAGA universe.”
And this: “It also underscores the cutthroat instincts of Mr. Comer, who presents himself as an affable country boy of limited abilities, but who has proved to be a methodical and transactional political operator, willing to go to great lengths to crush his adversaries.”
There you have it — All the News That’s Fit to Twist!