So much for neutral journalism. Ishaan Tharoor, Foreign affairs reporter for The Washington Post, went on a tirade on Twitter Tuesday evening, bashing the GOP debate in multiple tweets, but perhaps his worst statement was calling the undercard debate “a bunch of old white men yelling at each other.”
Not exactly original coming from a liberal -- but neither is it something a reporter from one of the nation’s leading newspapers should be tweeting.
At what point can we just say the undercard debate is a bunch of old white men yelling at each other about things they have no control over?
— Ishaan Tharoor (@ishaantharoor) December 16, 2015
But maybe it’s not that surprising, considering Tharoor’s left-wing politics crop up in the Post as well. He tweeted out his own article, during the debate which slammed the GOP’s “obsession with radical Islam” was a “smokescreen for something else.”
The Republican obsession with "radical Islam" is a smokescreen for something else https://t.co/HtQTC42u0f
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 16, 2015
In his article, Tharoor quoted left-wing think tanks to call the GOP “bigots” for urging the administration and the media to call out Islamic terrorism for what it is, saying this rhetoric “has led to a crude xenophobia becoming more mainstream.”
Tharoor even retweeted a reporter from the vile New York Daily News, who claimed the GOP candidates were fear-mongers on Islam:
They want you to be really, really afraid. I know you're somewhat afraid, and you're not wrong to be, but they want you to be more afraid.
— Josh Greenman (@joshgreenman) December 16, 2015
Tharoor formerly wrote for TIME Magazine, where he romanticized Occupy Wall Street, in multiple articles, while throwing softballs while interviewing anti-conservative Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas.
