The Federalist is a menace to public health that has regularly supported racists. @CBSNews and @FoxNews should be ashamed of giving its employees regular platforms.
Here's a background thread on who they are for those who are only seeing their ignorant and dangerous advice for handling #COVID19
It's a factory of bad takes that was founded by a serial plagiarist named Ben Domenech. He also for years was on the payroll of an authoritarian govt of Malaysia. Naturally, he never disclosed to editors who published his stuff.
I was one of those editors. I helped him out back when I was conservative and managing editor of the @dcexaminer. We ran dozens of pieces to help him get an audience. He never told us that Malaysia paid for the articles and he wasn't a struggling entrepreneur
Domenech's career was harmed so badly by the revelation that he had to start his own operation because people wouldn't have him. That's where The Federalist came from.
Since he started The Federalist, the publication has published a tremendous number of awful articles. They also had a "black crime" tag just like Breitbart
The Federalist is the classic example of how the Religious Right is really about Christian supremacism. They even published a piece from a guy saying he'd vote for Roy Moore even if Moore had molested his daughter
Domenech and all of the senior editors at The Federalist are dim-witted snowflakes who cannot debate. They block people who call the on their bullshit.
Here's a thread from @UrbanAchievr and others showing The Federalist being concerned about "black crime" https://mobile.twitter.com/AtticusGF/status/913451464244072448
Until it began promoting conspiracy theories about Russia, The Federalist was mainly concerned with promoting discrimination against LGBT people, especially transgender people. It has published literally hundreds of articles promoting bigotry https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&biw=1034&bih=553&q=gay+site%3Athefederalist.com&oq=gay+site%3Athefederalist.com&aqs=heirloom-srp..
For those who can't see the original "Black Crime" tweet, try this one https://twitter.com/UrbanAchievr/status/913450931706048512
. @CBSNews would not hire Breitbart writers to hold forth on the news. It should not do the same with anyone from The Federalist. But they'll only realize their error if enough people show them this thread.
Besides outright boosting white nationalists, The Federalist has claimed that celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day is a a glorification of "slavery, cannibalism, and mass human sacrifice" https://twitter.com/FDRLST/status/917415613676576768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Here's a top Federalist writer captured by @jbouie arguing that it's totally impossible to say that Donald Trump or anyone is racist https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1156310420854050816?lang=en
Here's The Federalist warning of the nefarious, evil, and dangerous "Transgender Mafia" https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/702966338986201088
As noted by @EricKleefeld, The Federalist has called for parents of transgender children to socially isolate them by withdrawing them from school and banning them from using the internet https://twitter.com/EricKleefeld/status/1174396208548368384
The Federalist has published so many stupid, racist, and bigoted articles that there's a popular Twitter account, @FederalistPitch dedicated just to collecting and mocking it all
Besides dispensing dangerous #COVID19 advice from unqualified people, The Federalist positively LOVES Trump's "Chinese virus" distraction campaign https://twitter.com/FDRLST/status/1240679425018138626
And of course, they publish articles lauding Trump's dangerous denouncements of the news media as the "enemy of the people." This is the outlet that @CBSNews has been promoting for months. https://thefederalist.com/2018/10/09/never-trumper-democrats-went-gonzo-kavanaugh-now-hand-red-hat/
The Federalist has published several items over the years tagged by the term "demographic winter," a white nationalist idea that white-dominated nations need to have more children and stop immigration to stop Muslims from taking over the world: https://thefederalist.com/tag/demographic-winter/
This is the sort of racist and bigoted material that @CBSNews promotes (certainly unknowingly) when it features people from The Federalist on @FaceTheNation.
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