Media desk: An Obscene Equivalence
Lefty media figures like Rachel Maddow saw this past weekend “as a perfect opportunity to draw a straight line between the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and 9/11,” sighs The Washington Examiner’s Becket Adams. “Never let a crisis go to waste, right?” Of course, “Jan. 6 was bad. A person died. Hundreds were injured. Rioters caused thousands of dollars in damage. But it was not worse than the deadly political terrorism of 9/11, which resulted in thousands of deaths, the general deterioration of American comity, overreach by the federal government, distrust in government officials and the launch of the forever wars . . . . That these leftwing zealots can’t take a break from pushing this line for even the 20th anniversary of 9/11 is all you need to know about what really motivates them.”