Prevent me if you’ve already heard this story: A communist “news” reporter enters a traditional gathering and omits some crucial information from a popular article criticizing President Donald Trump and his supporters.  ,
Yet for New York Magazine, one of the bigger quips in American news, the fact-fractured account headlined,” The Cruel Kids ‘ Table”, is a session in the abuses of the Pravda media.  ,
The hit work, written by the magazine’s feature writer Brock Colyar, is supposed to become a first-person accounts of inauguration weekend parties filled with “young, comfortable, and lightly violent Trumpers who, after conquering Washington, have their sights set on America”. It’s the same tired — and false — screed portraying the MAGA movement as wealthy rednecks, even as the item laments” merely how big” the Republican Party’s yurt has become.
It’s another bitchy liberal narrative brimming with bitterness and angst, written by a DEI journalist whose “gender identity is not that clear” — , as the dress-wearing Colyar, “assigned male at birth”, wrote in another first-person account about pronouns.  ,
” From an aesthetic standpoint, this new class of conservatives is willing to top off a perfectly stylish outfit with a MAGA hat, which now comes in lots of colors: red, yes, but also yellow, green, orange, or black, the’ dark MAGA ‘ kind that Elon Musk wears”, the propaganda piece asserts. ” Almost everyone is white. The men look like Pete Hegseth, in bow ties and black suits, with clean-shaven faces”.
However, it turns out that the story had to be altered so that the image was inserted.  ,
” Cracked All the Black People Out,”
A number of black people were cropped out in the feature photo for the piece during the Black Lives Matter event held the evening before the inauguration day at the Power 30 Awards, a , TikTok-sponsored party.  ,
” New York Magazine literally removed all the black characters from this cover photo and then criticized the fact that” the entire room is white,” event attendee Christopher Barnard, president of the American Conservation Coalition, wrote on X.  ,
The gathering at Sax, a D. C. dinner theater and lounge not far from the White House, was packed with young conservatives. ” Keyboard warriors”, as described by Trump social-media strategy adviser Alex Bruesewitz, who reportedly told Colyar there would be no celebration, no joy in Trumpville, without the influencers ‘ amplification, particularly among Americans who as a rule don’t vote Republican.  ,  ,
Ben Shapiro, Riley Gaines Barker, boxer Bryce Hall, and TikTok power player Bryce Hall were among the audience members who were also mocked and made fun of. It omitted many others, like Terrence Williams, Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, professional boxer Gervonta Davis, and CJ Pearson, co-chair of the Republican National Committee Youth Advisory Council — black conservatives who basked in the celebratory glow of November’s sweeping Republican victories. Rapper Waka Flocka Flame, also black, performed at the party.  ,
An Accurate Impression
Pearson, co-host of the event, said the magazine reporter made no attempt to reach out to him.  ,
In an upcoming issue of” The Federalist Radio Hour” podcast, which is scheduled to air on Thursday, Pearson said,” They had an agenda and that was to slander the MAGA movement as some white supremacist cult. That claim “would have been undermined had they spoken to me”
” At no point did they reach out to me,” Pearson continued, noting that Colyar might have simply walked up to him. The young Republican was one of the few speakers at the occasion. Pearson admonished on social media that Americans “don’t hate the media enough” . ,
Rob Smith, a decorated Iraq War Veteran and Columbia-educated journalist and influencer who also happens to be black and gay, commented on Pearson’s X post that he was at the party —” as were MANY other Conservative media influencers who are Black, Latino, Asian, etc” . ,
New York Magazine spokeswoman Lauren Starke defended the piece as” an accurate impression” on the “new class of conservatives” . ,
” The magazine’s most recent cover story explores the new class of conservatives taking Washington by storm, through the lens of inauguration weekend”, she wrote in an email response to The Federalist’s questions. We think the cover and story give an accurate impression of the weekend because the image was cropped to the center of a picture that was published online in full.
Starke did not respond to The Federalist’s other questions:  ,
Mr. Pearson said that after the story published,  , he reached out to the reporter, who told him that there was no space available to include Mr. Pearson’s comments. Is that true? There was no space left on the Internet? New York Magazine, if I’m not mistaken, is published online.  ,
Colyar, the publication’s reporter, did talk to event co-host Raquel Debono, social media influencer of Make America Hot Again fame, who in the article — God forbid — criticizes DEI ( diversity, equity, and inclusion ), in an expletive-punctuated rant.  ,
When Your Enemy is Destroying Themselves
Unnamed sources, of course, frequently utter words that liberals find outrageously offensive, even as they give names to people they never wanted or don’t like.  ,
The most obvious political stance of this group is a response to what it perceives as the left’s puritanical obsessions with talking about identity and policing language. A pack of smokers outside Butterworth’s could be thrown into a gigglefest by a joke about Puerto Ricans, eugenics, or sleeping with Nick Fuentes, according to the article’s description of an inauguration night party. A woman recounts her time at one of the parties by saying,” She jumped the velvet rope into a VIP section like a little Mexican. Then she lets out a cackle. This attitude has drawn in newcomers to the cause. Later, a former Bernie supporter ( who looked like the most Bernie-supporting person one could imagine with long, curly hair and a plaid shirt ) told me the same: He wanted the freedom to say’ faggot’ and ‘ retarded.'”
Pearson claimed that the article and the decision to cut out a number of black attendees from the photo appeared to be a flagrant attempt to portray the Power 30 party as” some KKK light shindig.” That might pose a legal risk to New York Magazine.  ,
According to Daniel Suhr, president of the Center for American Rights, “false light” tort claims can be brought against news outlets, which are alleged to be spreading lies that the average person would find offensive.  ,
Calling a group of people essentially racist in violation of direct evidence sitting in front of you may well fall under that category, the attorney said in an interview.  ,
Suhr’s Chicago-based company is pursuing a number of complaints against corporate media outlets involving a variety of alleged abuses. The Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer were most recently sued by the center for allegations of consumer fraud in connection with a newspaper’s poll that showed Trump losing in deep red Iowa just days before the election. The poll wasn’t just an outlier, it was wrong by a whopping 16 percentage points. Additionally, it was used by media outlets to make the case that Trump might face problems in crucial swing states. The Republican easily won the elections.  ,
According to Pearson, Power 30 award organizers are considering their legal options.  ,
” Right now, honestly, I think the best thing is to apply sunlight to the situation”, he said in a separate phone interview with The Federalist. People are unable to ever trust someone when things like this occur. When your enemy is destroying themselves, let them do it” . ,
Matt Kittle covers The Federalist’s senior elections coverage. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
