They're Getting Ready to Do It Again
Today- the day that testimony in the House made it absolutely undeniable (unless you are a Republican) that Donald Trump is nothing but a two bit criminal who has sold his soul to a foreign dictator, the Washington Post feels it necessary to publish this "major" story:
Not "Anxiety rises among Republicans worried about their leader's prospects in 2020, now that we all realize that he is a corrupt traitor," no, that is not even worth discussing. It's the Democratic candidates that are weak, for advocating policies that three quarters of the public agree with, or for being damaged by Republican lies that the mainstream press obviously intends to promulgate between now and next November.
And who exactly are the Democrats who are so worried about the party's prospects in 2020? Well, here are the names cited in this miserable article: Oprah Winfrey, Elaine Kamarck, John Coale, the Rev. Joseph A. Darby Jr, and Steven Grossman, not one of whom you have ever heard of. Okay, okay, we've all heard of Oprah Winfrey, but she is not a Democratic leader, and I stand by what I said about the rest of them.
There is absolutely no excuse for this sort of article. The nation's attention needs to be focused on the criminality of Trump and the Republicans. Instead, this is what we are going to get: deliberate undercutting of the Democrats, no matter who they nominate, exactly like what happened in 2016.
I see so many articles about whether the press has learned its lesson from what happened in 2016. These articles totally miss the point: There is no lesson that the press has to learn, because what they did to elect Trump was not some mistake, but a deliberate course of action, to achieve a clearly defined goal: electing the most corrupt party, because that is the party that will do what they want.
I must restate what I have said for years: Despite all the talk about this problem, it is not about getting ratings or Beltway journalists being a bunch of middle-school heathers, or being too lazy to do anything other than repeat Republican talking points. Thanks to Ronald Reagan, virtually the entire mainstream press is owned by huge corporations, and they are playing a longer game than running after ratings. They use their TV stations and newspapers to advance the interests of their class, of other rich people like them, knowing the payoff from criminal Republicans is going to dwarf the cost. The people in the press are not the Republicans' dupes, they are their collaborators. And I repeat what I have also said many times: The Democrats could crush the Republican party out of existence without even hardly trying; what they cannot do is defeat the Republicans and the press working together.
"Anxiety rises among Democrats worried about party’s prospects in 2020
...after 10 months of campaigning and 15 hours of nationally televised debates, another emotion is rising: anxiety. Party leaders and activists are citing weakness in all of the leading contenders..."
Not "Anxiety rises among Republicans worried about their leader's prospects in 2020, now that we all realize that he is a corrupt traitor," no, that is not even worth discussing. It's the Democratic candidates that are weak, for advocating policies that three quarters of the public agree with, or for being damaged by Republican lies that the mainstream press obviously intends to promulgate between now and next November.
And who exactly are the Democrats who are so worried about the party's prospects in 2020? Well, here are the names cited in this miserable article: Oprah Winfrey, Elaine Kamarck, John Coale, the Rev. Joseph A. Darby Jr, and Steven Grossman, not one of whom you have ever heard of. Okay, okay, we've all heard of Oprah Winfrey, but she is not a Democratic leader, and I stand by what I said about the rest of them.
There is absolutely no excuse for this sort of article. The nation's attention needs to be focused on the criminality of Trump and the Republicans. Instead, this is what we are going to get: deliberate undercutting of the Democrats, no matter who they nominate, exactly like what happened in 2016.
I see so many articles about whether the press has learned its lesson from what happened in 2016. These articles totally miss the point: There is no lesson that the press has to learn, because what they did to elect Trump was not some mistake, but a deliberate course of action, to achieve a clearly defined goal: electing the most corrupt party, because that is the party that will do what they want.
I must restate what I have said for years: Despite all the talk about this problem, it is not about getting ratings or Beltway journalists being a bunch of middle-school heathers, or being too lazy to do anything other than repeat Republican talking points. Thanks to Ronald Reagan, virtually the entire mainstream press is owned by huge corporations, and they are playing a longer game than running after ratings. They use their TV stations and newspapers to advance the interests of their class, of other rich people like them, knowing the payoff from criminal Republicans is going to dwarf the cost. The people in the press are not the Republicans' dupes, they are their collaborators. And I repeat what I have also said many times: The Democrats could crush the Republican party out of existence without even hardly trying; what they cannot do is defeat the Republicans and the press working together.
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