(Well that’s constructive – Promoted by Colorado Pols)
Last month, Rocky Mountain Community Radio’s Bente Birkeland broke the news that Colorado Republicans are taking concrete steps, including more frequent press briefings, to improve their relations with journalists.
In response, I offered the free advice that GOP lawmakers should consider a halt to sweeping accusations of liberal media bias.
State Sen. Vicki Marble (R-Ft. Collins) didn’t take my advice–or she isn’t one of the three people who read my blog posts–because she hit reporters with the salvo in a recent Facebook post, forwarded to me by a source.
Marble apparently “liked” a meme that read:
THE MEDIA ARE THE ENEMY. FIGHT THEM, OR LOSE AMERICA.–Ben Shapiro.”
“Do you believe the lies of the liberal media? LIKE if you agree we need to fight back,” reads the comment atop the meme, sponsored by the Daily Wire, founded by Shapiro, who’s a former Breitbart editor.
Marble, the state Senate majority caucus leader, isn’t alone, as 1.5 million others also liked the meme, according to the ad, if you can believe that. You’d be excused doubting it, given that a Daily Wire headline last week read, “Trump Is 100% Vindicated On Wiretapping, and 7 Other Things You Should Know.”
It’s one thing to “fight back” with reporters over facts; it’s another to suggest that they are the enemy.
In any case, I can understand if you’re wondering why I’d bother writing this post about a small deep-swimming fish like Marble, when we have Trump regularly calling professional journalism fake news.
But that’s why I’m writing about Marble. Marble is the fish in our tank, and her colleagues, who seem to want to respect journalism more, should talk to her about whether suggesting the media are the enemy helps their cause or anyone’s. She didn’t return an email from me.
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Marble is a racist nitwit but I think in Facebook parlance, she liked Daily Wire, which is promoting itself with that meme, not necessarily that specific meme. Perhaps all of Daily Wire's posts are troublesome like this one — I don't know as I don't follow that page — but I think this is perhaps a stretch. Better to look and see if she did in fact like that specific meme.