By Brad Slager
When the media cancel outrage failed them, WaPo attempts to repackage the Nazi story.
Over the weekend we saw the media go full Godwin when an asinine claim was circulated that the speaker’s stage in the main hall of the CPAC convention was created after Nazi imagery. It was so easily ridiculed that when the Chairman of The American Conservative Union, Matt Schlapp, took the stage to introduce President Trump yesterday he trolled, by making a comment about how nice their staging looked.
This morning Brandon Morse wrote about the attempt of reactionaries to go after the hotel with threats of boycotts, and how they were rebuffed by the corporate heads declaring they were not going to bow to the contrived outrage. As a result, the Washington Post decided to make another attempt at making the accusation stick — their third attempt at getting the story Reich, as it were. Note the fashion in which they present the case to make it appear as it is not.
Since Hyatt Hotels did not cave this time the writer, Jaclyn Peiser, took some of the boilerplate comments from the PR announcement the hotel gave within its response and used those to imply the resort chain had in some way lashed out at the conference.
“We take the concern raised about the prospect of symbols of hate being included in the stage design at CPAC 2021 very seriously as all such symbols are abhorrent and unequivocally counter to our values as a company,” said Hyatt, which had faced pointed criticism for hosting the event.
Of course, no company would come forward and say that images of hatred and intolerance ran parallel to their mission statement, and this was also delivered in conjunction with their announcement that the hotel executives spoke with CPAC organizers and agreed there was no Nazi intent. But that conclusion does not make for an accusatory headline, so it gets expunged in favor of the suggestive framing. Also not part of the click-bait: Matt Schlapp, chair of the American Conservative Union, saying how they also detest the content they were accused of displaying.
“We have a long standing commitment to the Jewish community. Cancel culture extremists must address antisemitism within their own ranks. CPAC proudly stands with our Jewish allies, including those speaking from this stage.”
This move by WaPo is a shallow effort, presenting partial information in just the right fashion to make it appear there are conflicts between the ACU and Hyatt Hotels.
How dare they make a profit, pay the employees and not cave to the DNC mouthpiece.
It is virtually the same stage was on The Masked Singer: a square on point, with twin walkways coming down from the wide parts toward the audience.
But we all learned that Producer and Star of The Masked Singer Nick Cannon, really is anti-Semitic because he made damn sure we all learned that fact.
And, while he apologized (sort of) to Jews but not to whites.*
If we had to cancel squares, diamonds, catwalks and straight lines just to appease the Cancel Culture, what we’d really be doing is kowtowing to folks who find Nazis under their beds every night.
There are no Nazis in power anywhere.
It belittles the real threats around us from communists and socialists to even pretend there are.
And who, pray tell, would want to do that?
Commies and socialists!
*Cannon called white people and Jews “true savages” who are “closer to animals” than humans.