Ex-Clinton ally rips media for downplaying Dem civil war, calls MS NOW viewers basically illiterate and uninformed
A veteran Democratic attorney is putting the legacy media on blast for falling short in its coverage of the “civil war” that has broken out between moderates and far-left socialists with the Democratic Party.Julian Epstein, who served as the chief legal counsel for House Democrats during the Clinton impeachment hearing and later worked on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, made waves last week declaring his support for Republican Mike Rogers over progressive darling Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan’s Senate race.He laid out the case in a New York Post op-ed and later spoke to Fox News Digital.“If you rely on [MS NOW] for news, I think you’re basically illiterate and uninformed about what’s going on, Epstein told Fox News Digital.
“It’s less true for CNN, but also true.”He claimed the legacy media was covering the Democratic infighting while hinting at the possibility of a civil war down the road, when in reality, “We are in a civil war now.”“I think the news media is missing that, but I think more importantly, they’re missing the nature of the extremism that is happening with the left, and they’re missing the bigotry that is emerging on the left,” Epstein said.“We’ve seen critical race is basically a permission slip for more bigotries.
It’s to divide, tell people the most important thing about them is race and then to start building public policy around that.That’s what critical race is.”“And now that they have embraced Islamic extremism, they have gone one step further into a sectarian set of beliefs.
And I don’t think the news media is covering that, and they should be covering that,” he said.The media’s heads would be “collectively exploding,” he said, if a KKK movement took hold in the Republican Party in the same way “Hamas-aligned supporters” have among Democrats.Epstein continued, “But you see the most racist ethno-supremacist movement on the planet, which is the Iranian Axis, which includes...