Thread by @airbagmoments

Important & terrifying article sufffering from a classic MSM flaw: the words "Republican," "Christian," etc do not appear in it.

It describes the nightmarish consequences of overturning Roe without once mentioning who is at fault.
@froomkin @jayrosen_nyu
washingtonpost.com/health/2022/07…

@froomkin @jayrosen_nyu Articles about the tragic results of Republican policies treat those policies as spontaneously generated, without authors.

Articles about the crafting of such policies studiously ignore the tragic results and treat them as the end points of a funny game elected people play.

@froomkin @jayrosen_nyu Museum-quality example:

Important story about the results of Republican policies that fails to mention the following terms:

Republican
Conservative
Christian
Catholic
nytimes.com/2022/08/01/us/…

They did mention the Supreme Court, but only in the most generic way:

"the U.S. Supreme Court had overturned the constitutional right to abortion."

Okay, but everyone who voted for it was a Republican nominee. Most of them are rabid Catholics. Not worth mentioning?

JINX!

LOL. WaPo vs. NYT. Same editor?

Different nightmares, same anonymous court.

As @fakedansavage would say of both the ruling and the articles, "How'd that happen?"

Another example, this time an article abt the Republican war on public education that fails to mention...checks notes...the Republican war on education.

Guarantee you there's a twin article about R education policy that doesn't mention teacher shortages.
washingtonpost.com/education/2022…

Oh look, here’s an article about the lack of paid family leave nd breast-feeding protections at work with exactly the same problem!

It never mentions that this is entirely the fault of Republicans! What a coincidence!

Oh look, here's a story about a woman Republicans, and only Republicans, want to force to carry a baby who can't survive to term that doesn't mention the word "Republicans," "Conservatives," "Christians," "Catholics," or "Supreme Court of the US." 🤔
wafb.com/2022/08/15/mot…

Oh look, here's the very avatar of the mental segregation of Republican policies and their results!

Another story about the nonviable fetus in LA that fails to mention Republicans, conservatives, Supreme Court, Christians, or Catholics, the groups responsible for the policies torturing this poor woman.

This is a dramatic pattern. @jayrosen_nyu @froomkin nola.com/news/healthcar…

Oh look, another story about the nonviable fetus in Louisiana that fails to mention the words Republicans, conservatives, Supreme Court, Christians, or Catholics, the groups directly responsible for the laws torturing this woman.
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/l…

Oh look! Republicans don't know anything about their party.

How'd that happen??!

@Mr_Electrico @bluegal @shoq
dataforprogress.org/blog/2020/12/3…

Oh look! Another article about the nightmarish results of conservative Christian Republican laws that fails to mention conservatives, Christians, or Republicans! (Or Catholics!)

It does mention the Supreme Court once, without mentioning who controls it.

Another article about the nightmarish results of Repug policies that fails to mention the word "Republican." It mentions conservative Christians, but not what they had to do with creating this situation. It mentions SCOTUS overturning Roe but not why.
texastribune.org/2022/09/20/tex…

Even liberal @Jezebel suffers from the odd practice of avoiding conservative causes of suffering.

Not found in this article: Republican, conservative, supreme court, christian, catholic, etc.

They claim to be "politics with teeth." Where are the teeth? jezebel.com/woman-with-sev…

Oh look! Here's an @NPR story detailing all the states that have now banned or severely restricted abortion that fails to mention the words Republican, conservative, Christian, or Catholic.

Apparently "states" ban abortion, not Republicans. npr.org/sections/healt…

Oh, look!

Another news story about the hideous suffering caused by Republican Christo-fascist policy that fails to mention the words "Republican," "Christian," "Supreme Court," or "Conservative."
azfamily.com/2022/10/04/its…

Oh look! Another article about the nightmarish results of conservative Christian Republican laws that fails to mention conservatives, Christians, or Republicans! (Or Catholics!)

It does mention the Supreme Court once, without mentioning who controls it.
news5cleveland.com/news/abortion-…

Oh look!

Another article about the hellish outcomes of Christo-fascist Republican policies that doesn't mention the words "Republicans," "Christians," etc.

It mentions SCOTUS overturning Roe, but with no context of how we got there.
wsj.com/articles/docto…

Oh, look!

The 2nd news story *today* about the hideous suffering caused by Republican Christo-fascist policy that fails to include the words "Republican," "Catholic," "Christian," "Supreme Court," or "Conservative."
@froomkin @jayrosen_nyu @bluegal @shoq
people.com/health/texas-w…

Okay, here's the wildest example yet of an article about the horrific results of Republican policies that fails to mention Republicans. It's written by a high-risk pregnancy doctor! 2wks ago, I DM'd her to ask abt the omissions but have not recvd a reply. slate.com/technology/202…

I'm sure she probably hasn't been on Twitter since then because she's a busy front-line physician, but below is what I asked her. I still hope to eventually get an answer about this inexplicable omission from the wonderful @ChaviKar.

@ChaviKar What you've done is anticipate bad-faith trolling from the right (aka "working the ref"), and capitulate to it. Too much of the media has this mindset. There are many inarguable generalizations we can make about anti-abortion forces. I don't care if they complain about them.

Here's one from the usually reliably progressive @NewYorker that nevertheless suffers the same bizarre omissions identified over and over in this thread.

Oh look! Another article about the nightmarish results of Christian Republican laws that fails to mention, Christians, or Republicans! (Or Catholics!)

It does mention the Supreme Court once, without mentioning who controls it.
huffpost.com/entry/supreme-…

Oh, look!

A 3,600-word @CNN story about the *horrific* torture of a woman with a non-viable pregnancy that doesn't mention Republicans until after 3,100 words, and only then in the words of the father.

"Ohio" makes bad abortion laws, not Repubs. 🙄cnn.com/2023/02/08/hea…

@CNN The story in the previous tweet is especially poignant because it contains a museum-worthy example of what I call "Republican hard-way learning."

Many Repubs are so empathy-challenged that they can only learn when something happens directly to them.

RE: Republican hard-way learning:

Oh, look!

Another news story about the hideous suffering caused by Republican Christo-fascist policy that fails to mention the words "Republican," "Christian," "Supreme Court," or "Conservative."
abcnews.go.com/US/texas-abort…

It. Never. F*cking. Ends.

I admire @ProPublica. I donate to them. They may be the most important source of journalism in America.

So, why the f*ck doesn't the word "Republican" appear in this article? I'm wildly serious about this. propublica.org/article/legal-…

Oh look, another story about a woman who Republicans, and only Republicans, want to force to carry a nonviable fetus that doesn't mention the word "Republicans," "Conservatives," "Christians," "Catholics," or "Supreme Court of the US." 🤔
jezebel.com/woman-with-can…

Yeah, I'm getting pretty fvcking sick of this.

Why does the word "Republican" appear nowhere in this story? What is wrong with American reporters and editors?
@AP
apnews.com/article/emerge…

Wow, even the liberal @NewYorker does it. Another story about the hideous suffering caused by Republican Christo-fascist policy that fails to mention the words "Republican," "Christian," or "Catholic." The Supreme Court is not described as conservative. newyorker.com/news/dispatch/…

Hot off the presses!

Another article about the hideous suffering caused by Republican Christo-fascist policy that fails to mention the words "Republican," "Christian," or "Catholic." The Supreme Court is not even described as conservative.
washingtonpost.com/health/interac…

Oh, look. (🙄 you know what's coming.)

Another story about the hideous results of Republican policies that doesn't contain the word "Republican."

"Texas" is torturing women? Don't they mean Texas Christo-fascists?
nytimes.com/2023/05/22/opi…

Oh look! An essay about how the fedsoc-packed Republican Catholic SCOTUS has no right to take away women's bodily autonomy that doesn't mention the words "Republican," Christian," "Catholic," "Leonard Leo," "Federalist Society," or even "conservative." nytimes.com/2022/06/26/opi…

Today's latest intentionally incompetent article about the hideous suffering caused by Republican Christo-fascist policy that fails to mention the words "Republican," "Christian," or "Catholic." The Supreme Court is not even described as conservative. abcnews.go.com/US/tennessee-w…

@ericowensdc @froomkin @jayrosen_nyu As you're *so* confident and supercilious, I recommend you do your own similar thread and we can compare. Send me a link when you're done!

Even @MSNBC does it!

@MSNBC Oh look! A @nytimes story that has no explanation for how a Republican might not know that Republicans are taking away the right to abortion!

How'd that happen?! (See every tweet in this thread.)

Also suffers from "SC did this." No, SC Repugs did it. nytimes.com/2023/06/23/us/…

@MSNBC @nytimes Oh look! Another story in liberal @Jezebel about the results of nightmarish Republican abortion policies that fails to mention the word "Republican." (Or "conservative" or "Christian" or "Catholic.")

What the fck is going on?
(by @SusanRinkunas)
jezebel.com/nebraska-mom-p…

This implacable and mostly unrecognized trend is slowly driving me into the mouth of madness.
@Sulliview

This is a full time job. Here's a new one, by @DCampoamor. No mention of "Republican," "Conservative," "Christian," etc.

She spoke about this story with real emotion on @DeeTwoCents' podcast, but also never mentioned the malefactors behind the suffering. today.com/parents/pregna…

Two stories a year apart by @CAKitchener profiling a couple whose lives were severely impacted by not being able to get the abortion they wanted. Between the two stories, "Republican" appears once, and not in a legislative context.

washingtonpost.com/politics/inter…
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…

@CAKitchener Oh, look! Another news story about the hideous suffering caused by Republican Christo-fascist policy that fails to mention the words "Republican," "Christian," or "Conservative." (In the liberal @Guardian!)

@LaurenAratani care to explain? theguardian.com/world/2023/aug…

Oh, look! Another news story about the hideous suffering inflicted by Republican Christo-fascist policy that fails to mention the words "Republican," "Christian," or "Conservative."

WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?
al.com/news/2023/08/a…

Here's a CNN version of the same story that at least identifies the villains as Republicans. It's just not that hard! cnn.com/2023/08/31/pol…

Just for a fun break from this thread, here's a story about terrible environmental policy forced by Republicans that doesn't mention Republicans!

I'm sure I could find as many of these as the abortion ones if I looked. npr.org/2023/08/29/119…

Here's the @AP version of the Alabama AG forced-birth story above.

If you've gotten this far in the thread, you can guess which words it never mentions.

Republican, conservative, Christian, Catholic. This one doesn't even mention the Supreme Court!
apnews.com/article/alabam…