The political media is in disarray
This is a tale of two news stories, both of which had been written about things that had yet to happen.
“The media is at it again. The media, for weeks now, have been ACHING to tell a story. The monster that is MOST media members has been foaming at the mouth, eyes aflutter, desperately, yearningly, waiting, pencils in grisly paws, eyes protruding, to tell the story of President Biden’s failure.”
The paragraph above was written by me — two to three weeks ago. You see, friends and readers, the media has become so utterly and tragically predictable that it wasn’t hard to understand where their poisonous little minds were heading.
On Tuesday night, President Biden won bigly in Michigan, creaming Dean Phillips and “uncommitted.” But hark, who goes there? It’s reporters! Reporters who, like myself, had written a story, a story they were determined to, (at any cost, even though it wasn’t true), make the narrative about Democrats in disarray.
It didn’t work. I KNEW — not because I have any superb knowledge, mind you, but because ANYONE who knows the media’s tricks would have seen clearly, that their Biden story had been written before the Michigan primary ever took place.
So I watched. The majority of the media covered the Michigan primary in such incompetent ways that the main question is: Have they no shame? (Rhetorical)
No, they have none. On and on they droned, the same record, playing its favorite song, on and on, they said lousy news for Biden. Just so we know where we stand — Biden won big. Trump did not. Trump has a voter engagement problem.
That did not seem to matter to Jake Tapper, who, tousled hair falling ever-so-charmingly across his forehead, eyes as big as quarters, relentlessly refused to stop talking about the UNCOMMITTED VOTE — A vote that was not so big, only slightly larger than former President Obama’s, a fact that many pundits seem to have developed amnesia on.
I watched as CNN’s Laura Coats, who to quote Don Henley “with a gleam in her eye,” refused to change the narrative, even going so far as to challenge Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who honestly (something the media has forgotten the meaning of) praised President Biden for knocking it out of the park.
Coats, wearing an annoying smirk that appeared to be etched in deep, almost sounded scolding. And it’s not just CNN. Nearly every media pundit seemed to have itchy fingers — fingers that ACHED to grab hold of the lie hovering in front of them.
It is not surprising. Remember back in 2016? Remember CNN’s relentless focus on Donald Trump’s plane? Remember how that camera, trained on that plane, seemed to settle into an eternal sleep as CNN became a laughing stock for spending so long focusing on an empty plane?
The media has learned nothing and are even worse than before. So yes, this has been a tale of two narratives written in advance. Mine is truth. The media’s is fake news. Perhaps the REAL story here is: “Media in disarray.”
