Jennifer Rubin is a columnist for The Washington Publish and commentator for MSNBC. As soon as upon a time she was thought of a conservative author—certainly, her hiring by The Publish in 2010 was met with controversy particularly as a result of the institution liberal paper had employed a right-leaning blogger. In 2013, WaPo’s former ombudsman wrote an open letter calling on Jeff Bezos, who had then simply purchased the newspaper, to fireplace her for being too pro-Romney and anti-Obama.
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Occasions have actually modified. Ever since Donald Trump burst onto the scene, Rubin has develop into a prolific By no means Trump author and commentator; if the dictionary had an entry for By no means Trump, her image would seem subsequent to it. She inveighs continuously towards Trump, together with everybody and every part that helps to normalize him. She lately known as for folks to boycott MSNBC, one in all her employers, on account of Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski deciding to fulfill with Trump. For sure, she now not identifies as a conservative.
In a latest episode of her podcast, she provided some provocative—some would say alarming—recommendation to Democrats to enhance their messaging. She instructed them to make pithy statements like “Republicans wish to kill your youngsters.”
“Republicans wish to kill your youngsters. It is truly true.” – Jennifer Rubin, Washington Publish columnist
Completely unhinged. ????
— Tiffany Fong (@TiffanyFong_) November 19, 2024
That clip went viral on social media for apparent causes. It is by no means sensible to put automated religion in quick, viral video clips, and so I went on the lookout for the remainder of the video. It is out there right here; the “Republicans wish to kill your youngsters” half begins at across the 4:20 mark.
It seems like she actually means it!
Rubin gives two examples to justify her blanket assertion that “Republicans wish to kill your youngsters”: conservative views on funding for medical analysis and gun management. On that latter entrance, she flatly states that Republicans wish to “permit minors and all kinds of individuals to get semi-automatic weapons that they use to shoot up faculties.”
It’s flatly unfaithful that supporters of gun rights need minors to get their fingers on semiautomatic weapons. Furthermore, gun management advocates need to grapple with various complicating particulars: Simply obtainable handguns quite than semiautomatics are the reason for most gun deaths within the U.S., and mass disarmament would contain vastly growing the variety of police interactions with residents. Is each particular person who balks on the concept of police stopping, detaining, and arresting many extra folks complicit in youngster homicide? Clearly not.
When far-right commentators make blanket, hyperbolic statements that Democrats are all attempting to kill, mutilate, or in any other case hurt youngsters, they normally earn mockery from the mainstream media. Rubin operates as a Mirror Universe model of this similar phenomenon, and does so from a plum perch at The Washington Publish. She should not be fired or in any other case disciplined—however she ought to, please, relax.
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I’ve lastly completed The Boys, which I began watching three months in the past. Whereas I used to be initially enthralled by the premise—a squad of vigilantes groups as much as take down a bunch of secretly evil superheroes—the present goes significantly off the rails in its later seasons. And whereas The Boys‘ ethical compass was at all times considerably left-leaning, the fourth season is over-the-top when it comes to the extent of contempt for nonliberal viewpoints. There’s parody, after which there’s this (Jennifer Rubin would match proper in.) Even so, Antony Starr’s portrayal of the primary antagonist, Homelander, deserves endless reward.
Subsequent up: I plan to observe both Penguin, Dune: Prophecy, or Agatha All Alongside.
