Media & Capitol Riots: Dishonesty Favoring the Left

During yesterday’s vote to impeach President Trump a second time, CNN host Jake Tapper described Congressman Brian Mast as “a Republican from Florida — who lost his legs, by the way, fighting for democracy abroad, although I don’t know . . . about his commitment to it here in the United States.” This sounds like pretty Trumpy rhetoric to me, the kind that I’m told corrodes the foundations of comity and civil society, etc.

Unlike many of Tapper’s critics, I don’t think veterans such as Mast, who was injured by an IED in Afghanistan, deserve any special dispensation from criticism during a political debate, especially this one. Then again, they probably deserve not to be slandered as a traitor by a television personality who spent four years undercutting public trust in the 2016 election.

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David Harsanyi

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at the Washington Examiner.

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During yesterday’s vote to impeach President Trump a second time, CNN host Jake Tapper described Congressman Brian Mast as “a Republican from Florida — who lost his legs, by the way, fighting for democracy abroad, although I don’t know . . . about his commitment to it here in the United States.” This sounds like pretty Trumpy rhetoric to me, the kind that I’m told corrodes the foundations of comity and civil society, etc.

Unlike many of Tapper’s critics, I don’t think veterans such as Mast, who was injured by an IED in Afghanistan, deserve any special dispensation from criticism during a political debate, especially this one. Then again, they probably deserve not to be slandered as a traitor by a television personality who spent four years undercutting public trust in the 2016 election.