When leftists are losing an argument, they first smear their opponents as racists or extremists, then they try to ignore them and, when that doesn’t work, they try to shut them down — censor them, muzzle them, take them off the air (or off the Internet).

CNN’s chief legal analyst, 61-year-old Jeffrey Toobin, a Harvard Law grad, was fired from The New Yorker and took nearly a year off from CNN because he was caught masturbating on a Zoom call with co-workers. Yet, this apparent exhibitionist had the nerve to describe Kyle Rittenhouse as an “idiot.” Rittenhouse was on trial for shooting three left-wing activists in self-defense at a violent protest in Kenosha (and was found not guilty on Nov. 19).

If we sat in a boardroom and tried to decide the kind of story that the liberal media are the most hostile to covering — hostile to the point of wishing it had never existed — it might be this: teenage boy describing himself as “gender fluid” accused of raping a girl in a high-school bathroom.

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