KC Defender Accuses Rep. Alford Of Genocide Amid Activist Ruckus

First . . . The offending line about Congressman Alford from activists: 

"He has backed Trump’s mass deportation campaign, which United Nations human rights experts have condemned as a violation of international law, calling on the campaign trail for the completion of Trump’s wall and the deportation of immigrants from Kansas City and beyond. 

"He has voted to keep arming israel through the campaign in Gaza that international human rights organizations have named a genocide."  

Brief aside, the capitalization "thing" with Israel is always funny inasmuch as we didn't know bad punctuation was part of the "resistance" or whatever . . .  

Meanwhile . . .   

CHECK THE KC DEFENDER ATTACKING ONE OF THE LAST KC STAR COLUMNISTS DESPITE HIS AVOWED PROGRESSIVE BENT!!!

It's classic progressive cannibalization which kinda proves why the "blue wave" for the midterms might be overstated . . . 

Also . . . From a "journalistic" point of view . . . This polemic provides one more reason why mainstream dead-tree outlets might want to rethink about aligning with leftists inasmuch as they'll NEVER be able to rationalize any ideology that's mostly about seeking power . . . To be fair . . . This callous fact of life also explains Ben Shapiro's current predicament. 

Check-it:  

"Hudnall’s column reports on a federal judge’s dismissal of Hartzell Gray’s First Amendment lawsuit against Kansas City and former mayoral Chief of Staff Morgan Said. The judge’s dismissal is a matter of fact. The judge’s language was indeed harsh. The procedural failings Hudnall describes are on the record. None of that is what is in dispute, and any honest response has to acknowledge as much. 

"Gray missed deadlines and canceled a deposition citing a family emergency and later appeared at a social event the same day. Whether a family emergency also existed that day is not established by the record.

"The lawsuit’s collapse is a story worth covering. 

"But there is a difference between covering a story and constructing one. 

"Hudnall did not write a column about a lawsuit. He took a procedural setback and used it to mount a wholesale dismissal of a congressional campaign. That last move, from procedural failure to political illegitimacy, is the leap that requires interrogation."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Mark Alford Voted to Arm a Genocide. The Kansas City Star Saved Its Hit Piece for Hartzell Gray. - The Kansas City Defender

On the same day the Missouri Supreme Court hacked Black political representation into three pieces along the line of Kansas City's racial apartheid, the Star aimed its opinion page bludgeon at the only Black candidate running against the man the map was drawn to protect.