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By HOWIE CARR<\/a> | howard.carr@medianewsgroup.com<\/a> | Boston HeraldMarch 3, 2019 at 12:39 am<\/p>\n\n\n\n Have you ever noticed how differently Republicans are treated in the media than Democrats?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every newsroom in the country used to have what was called the \u201cAP Stylebook\u201d to use in writing news stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now you need two AP stylebooks, one for Democrats, about whom seldom is heard a discouraging word, and a second for the GOP, with a hundred different pejoratives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two parties, two vocabularies. One positive, one negative \u2014 very bad, evil in fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Consider the testimony by Michael Cohen last week in front of various Congressional committees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, since he worked for Donald Trump, Cohen was described about a million times as a \u201cfixer.\u201d Democrats, on the other hand, have lawyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To prevent the release of embarrassing information, Democrats\u2019 lawyers negotiate NDA\u2019s \u2014 nondisclosure agreements. Republican fixers\u2019 NDAs are \u201chush money,\u201d or \u201cbribes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hillary Clinton paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrat operatives who then bought or made up false Russian dirt on Trump \u2014 that was opposition research. Republicans, on the other hand, \u201ccollude!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Republicans lie, Democrats misspeak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Democrats plan, Republicans scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Republicans hire lobbyists, Democrats use advocates. Republicans employ operatives or hired guns, Democrats prefer community activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If a Democrat changes his or her position on an issue, they have evolved \u2026 grown. Republicans \u201cflip-flop.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Whenever an unfamiliar politician is ensnared in some scandal, you naturally wonder which party he or she is a member of. If the \u201cembattled\u201d pol is a Republican, affiliation is usually noted in the headline, or at the very latest in the first paragraph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If, however, you reach the third paragraph of the story without his party being identified, you can be absolutely certain you are reading about a Democrat miscreant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Likewise, accusers are handled differently depending on who exactly they\u2019re accusing. Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s nomination to the Supreme Court was almost derailed by the not particularly credible \u201cDr.\u201d Christine Blasey Ford. One of the women who\u2019s accused Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of Virginia of sexual assault likewise has a Ph.D., but how often does the alt-left media refer to \u201cDr. Vanessa Tyson.\u201d Fairfax, you see, is a Democrat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Was Jussie Smollett\u2019s fake hate crime ever referred to as \u201calleged?\u201d Of course not. But all the real, documented, videotaped attacks on conservatives \u2014 invariably they are alleged, or \u201caccording to police reports.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Republican tax cut is a \u201ccorporate giveaway\u201d for the rich, a boon to \u201cone percenters\u201d that the government \u201ccan\u2019t afford.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Democrat-proposed tax increase, though, is an \u201cinvestment in the future.\u201d It\u2019s for the children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When there\u2019s bad news about Republicans, Democrats \u201creact.\u201d But Republicans \u201cpounce\u201d or \u201cseize.\u201d Often, in fact, the only way any Democrat woes get mentioned at all in the media is when Republicans seize and pounce, not to mention \u201cweaponize\u201d Democrat scandals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let\u2019s talk about legislation. When a Democrat solon finds a way to stop some GOP initiative, it\u2019s because the brilliant parliamentarian (Nancy Pelosi?) has come up with a master stroke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But when a Republican, say Mitch McConnell, does exactly the same thing, he is invariably called an obstructionist, relying on \u201carcane\u201d tricks to produce \u201cgridlock\u201d and overturn centuries of \u201cCongressional tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n When Democrats in Congress hold oversight hearings, they are never less than \u201chistoric\u201d \u201cexplosive,\u201d full of \u201cbombshells.\u201d The Cohen hearings were so explosive, in fact, that I was expecting to see footage Wednesday night of the Capitol in smoking ruins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Republican-run Congressional hearings are always described as grandstanding, sideshows, overreach and a total waste of taxpayer money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, the word of the day is \u201csmirk.\u201d Remember January\u2019s first big fake-news hoax \u2014 the Covington Catholic high school students at the Lincoln Memorial. The kid in the Make America Great Again hat that day was Nicholas Sandmann, and he\u2019s now suing the Washington Post for $250 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every Social Justice Warrior on Twitter said the 16-year-old had it coming because of the \u201csmirk\u201d on his face. That was the smart word of the day \u2014 smirk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So last week the illegal immigrant from Brazil who assaulted \u2014 allegedly \u2014 the 23-year-old MAGA-hat- wearing American in the bar in Falmouth was grabbed by ICE for being in the country illegally for 25 years. She got a big-time lawyer and he said, basically, that after getting boozed up, the illegal immigrant went all Third World on the American taxpayer because of his \u201csmirk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n So now apparently it\u2019s OK to assault anyone wearing a MAGA hat \u2026 if they\u2019re \u201csmirking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n No wonder half of America is beyond smirking at the alt-left media\u2019s agitprop on behalf of the Democrats. The deplorables aren\u2019t smirking anymore, they\u2019re sneering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Order Howie\u2019s new book \u201cKennedy Babylon Vol. 2\u201d at howiecarrshow.com.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By HOWIE CARR | howard.carr@medianewsgroup.com | Boston HeraldMarch 3, 2019 at 12:39 am Have you ever noticed how differently Republicans are treated in the media than Democrats? Every newsroom in the country used to have what was called the \u201cAP Stylebook\u201d to use in writing news stories. 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