Fox News Panel Omits Mayra Flores’ Past Support for QAnon While Lambasting the NYTimes Labeling Her ‘Far-Right’
Fox News’ Outnumbered panel omitted Rep. Mayra Flores’ (R-TX) support for QAnon as it lamented an alleged double standard in New York Times coverage of her versus progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
The Times profiled Flores, who won a special election last month and flipped a Democratic district, in a piece headlined “The Rise of the Far-Right Latina.” When Ocasio-Cortez won a surprise election in 2018 defeating a powerful incumbent, the New York Times ran an article headlined “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Emerges as a Political Star.”
It’s subtle but let me know if you can spot the difference in tone here from NYT pic.twitter.com/62ehvgNGFl
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 6, 2022
“How do they know that Mayra Flores is far right? She doesn’t have a voting record. She won yesterday and she ran on a platform of saying she’s a daughter of an immigrant,” said Outnumbered co-host Carley Shimkus.
“She was born in Mexico, she’s the first Mexican-born congresswoman, she broke a glass ceiling, which usually the media loves spirit but for her it’s a very different story,” Shimkus concluded.
Fox News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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