{"id":61856,"date":"2020-11-16T15:38:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T21:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=61856"},"modified":"2020-11-16T15:40:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T21:40:01","slug":"61856","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=61856","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if they know the street they&#8217;re playing in is a &#8216;two way&#8217; street.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/tyler-o-neil\/2020\/11\/16\/cnn-gets-in-on-the-list-game-targeting-enablers-of-trumps-election-defiance-n1143576\">CNN Gets in on the List Game, Targeting &#8216;Enablers&#8217; of Trump&#8217;s Election &#8216;Defiance&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the past few days, Democrats and their allies in the #NeverTrump movement have started the ominous practice of compiling blacklists of Trump supporters or those who refuse to immediately trumpet Joe Biden\u2019s contested and as yet unconfirmed victory in the November election. CNN, perhaps afraid of falling behind, ran a report listing every single Republican senator who has refused to congratulate Biden so far. At the bottom on the screen, the outlet singled out the president\u2019s dastardly \u201cenablers\u201d who dared to stand up for Trump\u2019s right to raise legal challenges in response to serious concerns about potential fraud.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, CNN published a list of 49 Republican senators guilty of the unspeakable crime of waiting for the final confirmed election results. The chyron screamed, \u201cTRUMP\u2019S DEFIANCE FUELED BY ENABLERS LIKE BARR, MCCONNELL, FOX.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The list making at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CNN<\/a> has begun. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9vXDzYFgoe\">pic.twitter.com\/9vXDzYFgoe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Stigall (@ChrisStigall) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisStigall\/status\/1326225514462371842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Both Attorney General William Barr and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have rightly defended the president\u2019s legal authority to raise challenges. It remains unclear why CNN targeted Fox News, however, since Fox had long since called the race for Biden. In fact, many conservatives have faulted Fox for rushing to call the State of Arizona for Joe Biden. Some of Fox News\u2019s more outspoken conservative hosts have defended Trump\u2019s challenges, but the network as a whole arguably does not belong on such a list.<\/p>\n<p>As my colleague Victoria Taft reported, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin threatened to cancel any Republican \u201cmaking baseless allegations of fraud.\u201d She declared that any such Republican \u201cshould never serve in office, join a corporate board, find a faculty position or be accepted into \u2018polite\u2019 society. We have a list.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael Simon, a former Obama administration analytics staffer, started a \u201cTrump Accountability Project\u201d to keep a list of Trump supporters. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) asked, \u201cIs anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? I foresee [a] decent probability of many deleted Tweets [sic], writings, photos in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simon responded (in a now-deleted tweet), \u201cYes, we are. The Trump Accountability Project [is]. Every Administration staffer, campaign staffer, bundler, lawyer who represented them \u2014 everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blacklisting is a sordid American tradition, tracing back to the days of the Red Scare. Soviets used the tactic to exile their enemies from polite society, and many organizations in America used blacklists to target alleged communist sympathizers. The Southern Poverty Law Center uses a similar tactic to silence conservatives and Christians who dare question the far-Left\u2019s orthodoxy, placing mainstream conservative organizations on a \u201chate group\u201d list with the Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>\n<p>This totalitarian rush to exile dissenters from polite society is terrifying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if they know the street they&#8217;re playing in is a &#8216;two way&#8217; street. CNN Gets in on the List Game, Targeting &#8216;Enablers&#8217; of Trump&#8217;s Election &#8216;Defiance&#8217; In the past few days, Democrats and their allies in the #NeverTrump movement have started the ominous practice of compiling blacklists of Trump supporters or those who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=61856\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-enemies-foreign-domestic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61859,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61856\/revisions\/61859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}