What post-career comeback? What has A-Rod done post-retirement besides posing in a Vanity Fair spread with J-Lo (a move Deadspin of 5 years ago would have crucified him for until the editorial edict apparently became “Anything A-Rod Does Is Good Because He’s Not Derek Jeter”), and resurrecting his career as a slumlord?

Remember how Gawker has treated Michael Wolff:

You can tell a lot by what an outlet doesn’t cover. My post wasn’t specific to the fact that they did one on Clarke specifically, but Iranian protests made headline news for three days before Splinter or any of the other GMG sites got around to writing anything. Add in that places like The Intercept and Democracy Now…

Please tell me fellatio was an autocorrect.

Then you came to the right place.

I’m not from the South.

I agree. Liberals, as they’re traditionally defined, don’t. But there is absolutely a strain of illiberalism (or at least sympathy toward it) within the far left. Just look at their reaction to Castro’s death this time last year.

If protests against a brutal oppressive regime are making headlines across the media, save for one set of outlets very ideologically similar...that’s meaningful.

MLA or Chicago?

The evidence is that these outlets are not covering it.

Great. Don’t watch them generally, but I’m glad to hear that.

Something that is happening here, as well as other ideologically similar outlets. Not sure how you’re not grasping this.

An American blog that wants to be taken seriously completely ignoring a story that’s made headline news in many other places? Don’t we all rip on Fox News when they do this?

Intercept, Jacobin, a bunch of left-leaning outlets.

The protests have been going on for days.

Center-left isn’t leftist, and I’d classify every entity you described as mainstream or center left. Leftist is more Splinter, Intercept, Jacobin. This isn’t some right-wing screed about the “lamestream media,” but it is a question why certain outlets who never let up on certain countries’ perceived human-rights…

There’s a pattern of leftists defending or deflecting criticism of the Iranian regime that long predates this. Usually something to the tune of “what about Saudia Arabia”

Ideally, you get ungreyed if you make insightful comments. Apparently not always.

This gets taken out of the greys?

David Clarke is ridiculous, but every post that Splinter puts up without even referencing what’s going on in Iran makes the partisan hackery all the more obvious. Can someone please explain to me why leftist news organizations (Splinter and The Intercept) to name a few, carry water for an oppressive regime?