Tag: Kevin McCarthy
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The Press Has A Dog In This Fight; “Both Sides Do It” Blinds Them To That Fact
Watching Jake Sherman (founder of the Punchbowl News newsletter) on MSNBC just now drives home the point: whatever talent Sherman might have as a journalist is totally undermined by his acceptance of “Both Sides Do It” brand thinking and journalism. The first thing “Both sides do it” does to any journalist thinking this way is […]
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Now That The Republicans Have Their Crown Jewel, They Have No Idea How To Keep It
Ya can’t blame Republicans for always making rookie mistakes. When it comes to being good humans, they’re rookies. At best. They’re an object lesson in what happens when you do things for all the wrong reasons. They’ve focused on ending Roe v Wade – and “privacy” as a “thing” in American jurisprudence – for fifty […]
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The Truth Is Elections DON’T Matter – Not To Republicans
Ever notice how the news media loves to taunt Democrats? They don’t taunt Republicans the same way because Republicans won’t be taunted by people – the news media – they dismiss. Republicans are fact averse because facts don’t support most of what they want the way their feelings do. The Trumpification of the GOP didn’t […]
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Lack Of Imagination Versus Failure Of Imagination
Why has our news media failed us at this, the most pivotal of moments in our and its history? Consider the string of events, all incredibly impactful by themselves: Vladimir Putin’s willful decision to wage cyber war on America’s 2016 election, the Brexit vote (and Russia’s direct influence upon it), Donald Trump’s entire presidency (and […]
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Do We Really Need To Connect ALL The Dots To Prove Trump Is A Traitor?
For the entirety of his presidency, our news media couldn’t fathom why Donald Trump seemed so unnaturally beholden to Vladimir Putin. I bet the actual number of times our press wondered aloud about Trump’s subservience is literally incalculable. Personally, I’m shocked most TV talking heads don’t have actual divots in their scalps from scratching their […]