by Jeff Childers
Yesterday, I reported on Steven Crowder’s hidden-camera exposé about the sick pervert who ran New York City’s covid response. The story made the New York Times. Here’s the ridiculously watered-down headline:
Partied? It sounds like he just went to a disco. Social Distancing? What about getting people fired for not taking the experimental jabs? Preaching? How about bragging how unbearable he made people’s lives for public health purposes?
It was the driest article I’ve ever seen from the Grey Lady, who is no stranger to controversy and scandal. The author’s tone was relentlessly neutral, verging on clinical, seething with barely restrained resentment at being forced to report it at all. While the article did refer, several times, to Varma’s orgies and his deviant, drug-addled sexcapades, it was only unemotionally and remotely, consistently applying the dry, uncreative label, “sex parties.”
This time, the Times’ journalistic thesaurus was not in evidence.
Although the Times rounded up several people to quote for the story, none directly criticized Dr. Vermin, I mean Dr. Varma, except for his hypocrisy in imposing mandates and lockdowns while breaking his own rules:
Absent from the reporting was even a hint of moral concern over his ghastly conduct, his poor judgment, his pill-popping, or his swinging pediatrician wife, Melissa.
Nor did the Times report Varma’s gloating about how unbearable he made New Yorkers’ livers, to force them to get the shots.
The Times never mentioned vile Dr. Varma’s illegal drug use, not one single time. In a sane world, police would be investigating him right now. Astonishingly, the Times even edited out Varma’s own self-criticism, which would have made the story much more interesting, the admission his own behavior was “all this deviant sexual stuff.”
Again, in a sane world, verminous Varma would be permanently driven from polite society. The Times found nothing to condemn in Varma except his private inconsistency with his public policies. But the readers aren’t insane. You should see the article’s comments. Here’s one very telling example:
Yep, that commenter was wrong.
But at the end of the day, they had to cover the story. They didn’t trot out the time-worn “Republicans pounce” trope. And even if they only covered despicable Dr. Varma as just another ‘pandemic hypocrisy’ story, and even if it never appears in print again, they were nonetheless forced to cover it as straight news.
Crowder’s independent hidden-camera journalism broke through.
Also remarkably, Varma’s vile story —or at least its hypocritical angle— was widely covered by corporate media. The Atlantic’s was the worst take of all:
Relatable? Speak for yourself, Atlantic.
Like all typical Liberal Eltists he thinks of himself as Privaleged and with special rights which makes him feel superior