WATCH: Hack Media’s Talking Point on Texas Abortion Law: ‘Uber Driver’
10th September 2021
Journolist is no more. In 2010, the online forum where leftist journalists congregated to decide on the liberal talking points of the day was shut down by its founder Ezra Klein when the group was exposed.
And yet, leftists still manage to spout remarkably similar lines. When it comes to the Texas abortion law, the liberal trope of the times is the poor, besieged, “Uber driver.” The notion is that Uber drivers who transport women to abortion clinics will be sued by private citizens under the law, seeking an award of up to $10,000.
On Friday’s Morning Joe, MSNBC liberal analyst Jonathan Lemire, who also poses as a “reporter” for the Associated Press, mouthed the “Uber driver” line. We’ve put together a mash-up of multiple liberal worthies, starting with Lemire, all trotting out the “Uber driver” trope. leftists prefer to focus on supposedly beleaguered Uber drivers even though very few are likely to be sued because they want to deflect attention from what the true target of the law would be: the abortionists themselves.
Nobody who objects to abortion is going to waste time on some poor Uber driver. They’re going to go after the abortionists, which are the chief target of the law.
On the other hand, I can see the sue-and-settle scam artists who currently prey on businesses that don’t have the appropriate Americans With Disabilities Act accommodation provided rubbing their hands with glee. I suggest that the legislation was poorly drafted if it will allow this result (presuming that the Wokerati are interpreting it correctly, which is never a reliable assumption).
UPDATE: A Tight-Knit Circle of Internet Troublemakers Convinced Professional Journalists