Dont let the leftists memory-hole their madness

Did the last five years, call it “the age of woke,” really happen — or were they just a fever dream?Apparently we all imagined a time where COVID and cancel culture collided to oppress us.No one was shunned for saying really obvious and true things, schools weren’t closed indefinitely under pressure from teachers’ unions, and race conflict wasn’t pushed on Americans from every direction.At least that’s what the left would have us believe.On Wednesday when National Public Radio CEO Katherine Maher testified in a congressional hearing, she stumbled on some basic questions ..

.involving her own opinions.“Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy?” Rep.

Brandon Gill asked her.Maher grimaced as if she found that belief ridiculous, but at last admitted, “I tweeted that.”“But as I’ve said,” she added, “much of my thinking has evolved over the last half decade.” That’s just five years — and Maher is no teenager, whose opinions change on a whim.She’s in her 40s and runs a media company with thousands of employees. Gill continued: “Do you believe that America believes in black plunder and white democracy?”Maher, feigning confusion that anyone could hold such a bizarre position, responded “I .

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.believe that, sir?”Yet Gill told her she had tweeted that very statement in 2020, in reference to “The Case for Reparations,” a lengthy polemic by Ta-Nehisi Coates.Maher denied ever having read the piece.

Gill noted that Maher’s own tweet claimed she was “taking a day off” to do so.It was a satisfying exchange for those of us who spent the last five years pointing out the insanity emanating from the left.We’ve gotten all too few of them.Mostly, we’re still just getting gaslighting and denials.American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten was a key villain of the COVID years.In blue areas where politicians jumped at Weingarten’s whim, schools stayed closed longer.

Where her ...