The liberal media strategy of claiming something is “rare” so that you can ignore it is both dishonest and hypocritical. This has been proved once again when it comes to concerns about noncitizen voting.

The Washington Post is the latest outlet to complain about Republicans noticing things, using three reporters on a piece headlined “Noncitizen voting is rare. Republicans are focusing on it anyway.” You know the drill by now: According to the Washington Post, “experts say” Republicans are freaking out over nothing, “critics warn” that Republicans are being racist, and Democrats are, of course, right. If you read enough of these cookie-cutter pieces, you, too, could write one for yourself.

Aside from the “experts say” and “critics warn” opinion framing in a news article, the Washington Post embraced the trope of calling things “rare” to dismiss them. You may recall that this is most beloved by liberal media figures who want to dismiss GOP concerns about late-term abortions, which are labeled as “rare” even though they are approximately 32 times more common than deaths from “assault weapons” and other rifles and 3,705 times more common than police shootings of black people, two issues that liberal media never stop talking about and claiming are national epidemics.

Hypocrisy over what is too “rare” to be considered an issue aside, the Washington Post’s problem is that it is ignoring that this is something for which Democrats are pushing. San Francisco approved noncitizen voting in school board elections until the California Supreme Court stepped in. Washington, D.C., allows noncitizens to vote in local elections, as do various places in Maryland. New York, the largest city in the country, also tried to approve noncitizen voting, a concept supported by Mayor Eric Adams, until the courts struck it down as a violation of the New York State Constitution.

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Aside from noncitizen voting gaining popularity in some Democratic pockets, there also is the fact that several states and localities have had problems with noncitizens ending up on voter rolls. As my colleague Quin Hillyer detailed in 2019, Texas and Pennsylvania dealt with this to the tune of tens of thousands of noncitizens being registered and voting at least once. Registering voters automatically when giving them driver’s licenses contributes to these problems in Chicago and elsewhere, which becomes more of a problem when 18 states give driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.

Calling this “rare” and dismissing it out of hand is dishonest, aside from it being a lazy political tactic that goes out the window when outlets such as the Washington Post want to talk about something even rare, such as police shootings of black people. Perhaps the outlet should jettison its cookie-cutter framing and actually wrestle with a concern Republicans are raising, for once at least.