‘Free Beacon’ Montage: ‘Anti-Vaccine Crackpot Theories Live in Liberal Enclaves’

Anti-Vaccine Crackpot Theories Live in Liberal Enclaves (Washington Free Beacon)

An outbreak of measles has put a spotlight on the dangerous foolishness of anti-vaccine, liberal parents who tend to cluster together and buy into the pseudo-science that links autism with these safe and life-saving procedures.

Yet, as The Federalist‘s Mollie Hemingway shows in a bracing essay on media bias, the press has spun this vaccination “controversy” in hard-left California communities into an existential problem for the Republican Party based on the comments of Chris Christie and noted shusher Rand Paul:

For some reason, many in the media (as well as other liberal commentators) decided to try to make this story about a measles outbreak in California and a concern about vaccination rates in Hollywood, Marin County and Berkeley into an existential problem for — stay with me here because it makes zero sense if you’re not a hack — the Republican Party and conservatives.