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   From: tucker@fox.com   
      
   In what can only be described as a sorry excuse for journalism, NBC News’s   
   Kimmy Yam loaned her byline to an activist who argued that criticizing the   
   Chinese Communist Party is racist.   
      
   The target of the hit piece sloppily disguised as news is Tim Ryan, the   
   Democratic congressman from northeastern Ohio running for Senate. Ryan   
   released an ad claiming that it is “us versus China” and “capitalism   
   versus communism.” A 2014 report found that Ohio lost over 100,000 jobs to   
   China from 2001 to 2013, primarily in manufacturing, explaining the theme   
   of Ryan’s ad.   
      
   Yam then turned her news piece over to activists who whined that any   
   criticism of the Chinese Communist Party, by body count the most anti-   
   Asian organization in world history, puts Asian Americans at risk. Brad   
   Jenkins, the president of the AAPI Victory Fund, said, “Creating a   
   villainous country and claiming that that’s the reason why Ohio has lost   
   manufacturing jobs — not only is that bad policy, it’s racist.”   
      
   Gee, won’t someone think of China’s poor, genocidal regime?   
      
   The “boogeyman” of China leads to attacks on Asian Americans, according to   
   Jenkins. Yam quoted another activist who tried to claim that Ryan is   
   actually costing himself votes because Asian Americans apparently vote in   
   lockstep and are extremely defensive of China’s reputation. The solution   
   here appears to be never criticizing China.   
      
   Yam’s “news” piece is an activist press release — and an embarrassing one   
   at that. Yam has a track record of doing this, too, downplaying and   
   dismissing the idea that COVID-19 came from a Chinese lab. Yam has wanted   
   everyone to forget that COVID-19 came from China, a country whose   
   government lied about the virus repeatedly and left the world ill-equipped   
   to respond to the pandemic in the early days. And Yam has a track record   
   of creating news pieces out of frivolous activist complaints: She claimed,   
   through the lazy “experts say” framework she typically uses, that   
   discrimination cases against Ivy League schools were using Asians “as   
   pawns to uphold white privilege.”   
      
   Yam is a left-wing activist, not a journalist. NBC News’s racial news   
   sections, such as NBC BLK, are sections for activists, where nothing   
   matters except the liberal politics around race and skin color. The fact   
   that a few twisted people decide to attack Asian Americans doesn’t mean   
   China's genocidal regime should be immune from criticism from Ryan or   
   anybody else, even if a few activists want to complain about it to someone   
   at NBC with a sympathetic ear and a diminished conscience.   
      
      
      
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