There was some impressively dense anti-Republican labeling in the lead of veteran congressional reporter Carl Hulse’s Sunday New York Times story.
The online headline certainly delivered the flavor – not just “right,” but “far right,” not just “conservative,” but “ultraconservative”! “Revenge” isn’t exactly neutral either.
The Far Right Lost Badly and Wants Its Revenge
Bipartisan spending legislation approved by Congress represented a major defeat for ultraconservatives, who immediately turned on Speaker Mike Johnson.”
The labeling and tone got no less biased as it went. The story fits Hulse’s pattern of painting Republicans as extremists — a tactic he eagerly employed long before Donald Trump descended the Trump Tower escalator in 2015. In other words, one can’t blame it on Trump.
As 2023 opened with Republicans newly in…
