The left's love affair with brutal dictators...and their sisters

"Hatred for Trump and fondness for leftist dictators is a toxic combination."  Ben Shapiro

The little sister from hell   "Over the last 72 hours, we've witnessed a media rush over a young woman from North Korea named Kim Yo-jong.  She is not a defector or someone who risked her life to leave the country.  She is the dictator's sister – someone who probably never had a day without her favorite cereal or croissant, fashion pleasantries, or whatever else the elite in North Korea get to do, beyond not starving." . . .

Concern has only grown for the three Korean-Americans – Kim Hak Song, Kim Dong Chul[,] and Tony Kim – since the death of American college student Otto Warmbier last June after the he spent 17 months locked away in North Korea.  And though advocates said they were given some hope during President Trump's State of the Union address, when the image of a North Korean defector defiantly holding his crutches in the air was met with rapturous applause, there's also a desire to see continued action and pressure applied against the rogue regime.

Why the Media Is Fawning over North Korea . . . "The most obvious explanation is hatred for the Trump administration. North Korea is being celebrated as a charter member of the international #Resistance — a regime unwilling to sit down for Trump’s militaristic bluster. And so Pence was ripped up and down for his decision to invite Warmbier’s parents to the Olympics, and he received a heavy dose of scorn for his refusal to stand for the United Korean flag — a flag that represents mockery of the notion of peaceful reunification, given that the North Korean regime continues to aim its weaponry at the heart of Seoul. The same folks who praised Colin Kaepernick for kneeling for the American national anthem fulminated against Pence for staying seated to avoid honoring the North Korean regime." . . .

Stop pretending the Olympics are about world peace . . . "But the heart of the problem isn’t the obsession with Trump or even the North Koreans’ clever use of the Olympics to soften the image of what is arguably the worst tyranny on the planet. The real problem is that the Olympics always lend themselves to bad actors and foolish notions about the majesty of sports and international cooperation. The Olympics are the United Nations of sports — high-minded principles and feel-good sentiments exploited by hypocrites to the detriment of the cause of freedom." . . .

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Triumph of the Shills  . . . "There could be many reasons for this embarrassing spectacle—ranging from outright complicity, to political malice, to plain old laziness. Most likely it’s that pre-existing biases and journalistic laziness are creating a witch’s brew that threatens to glamorize evil." . . .

What's a shill?  A person engaged in covert advertising. The shill attempts to spread buzz by personally endorsing the product in public forums with the pretense of sincerity, when in fact he is being paid for his services. Who are you shilling for? "Ignore him,"he's just here to shill."  Kind of like Marie Harf, Fox TV.

Before you praise Kim Yo Jong, remember how brutal the North Korean regime is

While media outlets fawn over Kim Yo Jong with headlines and news articles disturbingly similar to North Korean state-run propaganda, here are some facts to remember about the communist state. . . .

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