The Patriot Post® · Friday Opinion

Best of Right Opinion

• David Harsanyi: Newspapers Shouldn’t Act Like Super PACs
• David Limbaugh: Memo to GOP: Pass the Tax Bill
• Michael Reagan: ATT-CNN Merger Doesn’t Worry Me Like Sinclair
• L. Brent Bozell & Tim Graham: NPR and PBS, the Biggest Harassment Hypocrites
• Tony Perkins: Planned Parenthood’s Ark. Rival

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Opinion in Brief

David Harsanyi: “This week, The New York Times editorial board took over the paper’s opinion section Twitter account, which has 650,000 followers, ‘to urge the Senate to reject a tax bill that hurts the middle class & the nation’s fiscal health.’ To facilitate this, it tweeted out the phone number of moderate Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins and implored its followers to call her and demand that she vote against the GOP’s bill. In others words, the board was indistinguishable from any of the well-funded partisan groups it whines about in editorials all the time. … When consumers see a media giant engaged in naked partisan campaigning, fair or not, it confirms all their well-worn suspicions about the entire paper. You can grouse all day long about readers’ inability to comprehend the internal divide. But how could a Republican trust The New York Times’ coverage of a tax bill after watching it not just editorialize against it but run what could fairly be characterized as an ad that could have been produced by any of the Democratic Party’s many proxies? … The Times has long argued in favor of empowering the government to regulate or shut down corporations — just like The Times itself — that engage in this brand of campaigning by overturning Citizens United and, therefore, violating the First Amendment. This is worth remembering as we watch one of the nation’s largest editorial boards transform into the equivalent of a super PAC.”