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Emily J. Miller (born 1970 or 1971) is a journalist, extreme right-wing writer, gun nut, and a member of the Unification Church ("Moonie") movement. She works as a "senior editor of opinion" for the Unification Church-owned Washington Times (also known as "The Moonie Times"), who consistently advocates far-right fringe views. She is a native of Baltimore.
Investigative journalism position[edit]
Miller is the chief investigative reporter for WTTG, the Fox affiliate for Washington, D.C.[note 1] Her open, partisan advocacy on gun politics puts her journalistic objectivity in question.
In 2016, Miller joined One America News Network as a "Senior Political Correspondent".[1]
Homophobia, transphobia and racism[edit]
She frequently expresses extreme homophobic and transphobic views, and she claimed that Chelsea Manning's identification as a woman and request that she be referred to as "Chelsea" was an "absurd request.".[2]
She is also frequently critical of undocumented immigrants to the United States.
Gun nut[edit]
A die-hard gun nut, she published the conspiracy theorist anti-Obama book Emily Gets Her Gun ... But Obama Wants to Take Yours in September 2013. One has to wonder why the evil Obama wanted to let her have a gun but not others. Media Matters for America challenges many claims in her book about Obama's positions on gun policy and characterizes them often as distortions.[3] She also told a tall tale about her home being robbed by 15 men as a reason why she wanted a gun.[4]
Republican press spokesperson[edit]
Before her tenure at the Times, Miller worked as a press spokesperson for several Republican politicians. She implicated her former fiancé Michael Scanlon in a political scandal after he broke off their engagement; he was subsequently convicted on federal corruption charges and sent to prison. She also had a record as an unusually brusque press person, once shouting at a reporter: "We don't know you! You don't exist! You are dead to us!"[5]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ WTTG has no editorial relation to Fox News Channel, even though the station is owned and operated by the Fox Broadcasting Company, whose parent company also owns Fox News.
References[edit]
- ↑ Emily J. Miller Joins One America News Network as Senior Political Correspondent. PR Newswire. 1 June, 2016 (Retrieved 24 June, 2018).
- ↑ Emily Miller, AP calls Bradley Manning a ‘she’ and liberal media fall in line with PC agenda, The Washington Times, 29 August 2013
- ↑ 24 Distortions About Guns From Wash. Times Editor Emily Miller's New Book
- ↑ Additional document casts doubt on ‘home invasion’ of local Fox reporter
- ↑ Jason Leopold, How they got caught: After lobbyist broke off engagement, ex-fiancee told of illicit dealings to FBI, 3 January 2006