If you read only the mainstream media, you would have no idea that the Biden White House recently hired a staffer named Tyler Cherry who has a disturbing history of making radical and extremely anti-Israel remarks on social media. While the New York Times and the Washington Post have ignored the story, a number of outlets, including National Review, Fox News, the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Insider, JNS, the New York Post, and Newsweek have covered Cherry’s online statements, forcing him to delete the relevant tweets and insist that he is committed to the Biden agenda.
The lack of coverage of the controversy is unusual considering how such incidents have been covered in the past. In the modern era, a number of other White Houses have encountered instances when an administration aide has been caught saying something inappropriate and categorical about another group. In each of the incidents, the reaction has been more severe, and there has been more mainstream-press coverage, than in this case.
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