Author Archive: Ed Driscoll

November 9, 2024

FLORIDA TRUMP SUPPORTERS WEARING THEIR SKIRTS TOO HIGH: FEMA Official Ordered Relief Workers To Skip Houses With Trump Signs.

A federal disaster relief official ordered workers to bypass the homes of Donald Trump’s supporters as they surveyed damage caused by Hurricane Milton in Florida, according to internal correspondence obtained by The Daily Wire and confirmed by multiple federal employees.

A FEMA supervisor told workers in a message to “avoid homes advertising Trump” as they canvassed Lake Placid, Florida to identify residents who could qualify for federal aid, internal messages viewed by The Daily Wire reveal. The supervisor, Marn’i Washington, relayed this message both verbally and in a group chat used by the relief team, multiple government employees told The Daily Wire.

The government employees told The Daily Wire that at least 20 homes with Trump signs or flags were skipped from the end of October and into November due to the guidance, meaning they were not given the opportunity to qualify for FEMA assistance. Images shared with The Daily Wire show that houses were skipped over by the workers, who wrote in the government system messages such as: “Trump sign no entry per leadership.”

FEMA has apparently confirmed this incident took place:

“FEMA admits this happened,” Ace writes. “They claim they took ‘extreme actions’ in response. I bet those ‘extreme actions’ consisted of one hour of ‘retraining.’”

Not even that. As the Daily Wire notes, “The employees say that Washington has not been punished for the guidance, but has been shifted to another county in Florida.”

UPDATE Ron DeSantis weighs in:

UPDATE (1:14 PM): Jennifer Rubin weighs in to defend FEMA, then deletes Tweet and vows to leave Twitter for Threads:

UPDATE: FEMA Fires Official Who Told Hurricane Relief Workers to Skip Trump Homes.

Posted at 2:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 9th, 2024

CHARDONNAY IS A HELLUVA DRUG: Nancy Pelosi blames President Biden for Trump’s victory.

Nancy Pelosi has blamed President Biden for Donald Trump winning the White House as a Democrat blame game intensifies.

The former House speaker, a party grandee who was instrumental in persuading the president to eventually step aside, criticised Biden for not dropping out of the race sooner.

She also said there should have been an internal process to decide on the candidate rather than the coronation of Kamala Harris.

Pelosi, 84, believes Harris would have “done well” in the primary and “been stronger going forward”.

Back in February The Hill was reporting: Pelosi says Biden ‘very sharp’: ‘He’s younger than I am.’

AP reported in July that the Democrats needed Kamala on the ticket to legally (read “easily”) transfer Joe’s war chest:

Vice President Kamala Harris has been one of President Joe Biden’s staunchest defenders following his shaky performance in last week’s debate, but she’s also emerged as a potential option to lead the party herself if Biden opted not to continue his campaign.

One big question is what would happen to the current campaign’s $91 million cash on hand, according to its most recent filings. (Combined with allied Democratic organizations, the reelection effort has access to $240 million cash on hand, the campaign said this week.)

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Since their campaign account was registered with the Federal Election Commission in the name of both candidates, Harris could use those funds for her own presidential effort if Biden were to drop out, according to Kenneth Gross, senior political law counsel at Akin Gump and former associate general counsel for the Federal Election Commission.

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What happens to the funds if neither Biden nor Harris is the nominee?

According to Gross, their campaign would have to give all the money back — sort of.

Any donations designated for the primary — which Biden won — would stay with the campaign, Gross said, something that technically could apply to any money taken in by Biden-Harris up until the Democratic National Convention in August.

“All contributions made prior to the August convention are deemed to be for the primary unless the donor designates in writing that the contribution is for general election,” Gross said.

According to Smith, if Biden left the race and Harris didn’t replace him as nominee, their former campaign could only transfer $2,000 of the money that had been collected to a new candidate.

No doubt, that was part of the calculus that led to the Sunday afternoon massacre in late July. About which, Jim Treacher writes:

By the way, we still don’t know why the president of the United States dropped out of the 2024 campaign on Twitter, during Sunday brunch, in the middle of a weeklong disappearance from the public eye. I want to know what happened to him that week, and who helped cover it up.

Maybe that’ll be Bob Woodward’s next book. He has nothing to lose now. The secret’s out.

In the meantime, America’s Newspaper of Record says that Pelosi has her eyes trained towards the horizon:

Posted at 1:44 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 9th, 2024

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: CNN’s Bill Weir Declares ‘Notorious Climate Denier’ Trump Will Let Earth ‘Go to Hell.’

Making several appearances Thursday on CNN to discuss the aftermath of Donald Trump winning the presidential election, CNN chief climate correspondent Bill Weir fretted over a second Trump administration’s climate policies, and declared that the President-elect is “the most notorious climate denier in history” who will let the climate “go to hell.”

This is the same Bill Weir who famously declared “even the seagulls” were “awed” with Barack Obama’s first inauguration.

Sadly though, the seagulls, along with the rest of us, didn’t survive the era:

Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama’s first administration, he added.

— President ‘has four years to save Earth,’ the Grauniad, January 17, 2009.

And alas, we didn’t survive this deadline, either: Al Gore’s January 27, 2016 Prediction is Coming Near: The Earth Will End From Overheating.

—Newsalert, November 21, 2015.

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 12:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 9th, 2024

OLD AND BUSTED: An Army of Davids.

The New Hotness? An Army of Crybullies! I’m both in stitches, and for the first time somewhat sympathetic to the Kamala campaign, knowing that so many of its staffers are in the vein of this young man:

As Josh Barro wrote in 2022 when the WaPo was going through a de rigueur 2020-style DNC-MSM struggle session:

We have seen in the tech industry what it looks like for a company to rein in a culture of freewheeling, chaotic fighting. Google stopped telling employees to bring their whole selves to work, started telling them not to have bitter fights about politics, and punished those who wouldn’t follow the new rules. “Activist” employees got frustrated and left the company — good.1 Basecamp, a much smaller firm, drew a lot of attention for its declaration that political fights wouldn’t be allowed anymore, leading to much garment-rending and the departure of left-wing employees — something that was for the best, as it was an opportunity for workers and their organizations to be better aligned on values.

There are models for newsrooms where employees behave in a normal and professional manner on social media, in Slack, and in their general communications with and about each other. You don’t see, for instance, Wall Street Journal or Axiosreporters criticizing each other in public or decrying management for failing to run the outlet in exactly the way they would like. You also don’t see them sharing tasteless jokes. There are expectations of professionalism set from the top, and they’re followed. Axios CEO Jim VandeHei explained on a recent episode of the Very Serious podcast how they keep newsroom drama to a minimum — it starts with a clear expectation that reporters won’t “pop off” about their opinions and won’t badmouth each other. And the WSJ is a union shop, so I don’t want to hear about how it’s impossible to develop a culture where reporters stick to their knitting if they are unionized.

It’s ultimately on Post management that they never set the expectations they ended up wanting to enforce. But it’s not too late to start.

I would finally note one thing: Organizations primarily staffed by conservatives have various problems, but they don’t have this one. And this phenomenon extends well outside the media, to liberal-staffed nonprofit and political organizations, where leaders are terrified of their employees’ potential outbursts and are therefore letting them run roughshod over strategic goals — and especially over prudent decision-making that might help win elections but do not meet every checkbox of the left-wing keyboard warriors who could cause so much trouble inside and outside the organization.

Add to the safetyism-obsessed themes of the addled young man in the video above the campaign’s apocalyptic rhetoric about Looming Orange Hitler, and imagine how schizophrenic the young staffers felt when it was all over, and hey, let bygones be bygones, and good luck to the next president!

UPDATE:

Good luck with that.

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 9th, 2024

KIMBERLEY STRASSEL: A Landslide Against the Media.

Democrats now face a choice. On one side are party grown-ups who are publicly acknowledging this defeat as a sharp voter rebuke of progressive policies. They are admitting that lawfare was a mistake, that the party is culturally out of touch, that lunatic interest groups are running the asylum. They worry about a growing political realignment that threatens the party’s future. That we are hearing these voices is an improvement over the past eight years.

Yet on the other side are the progressive architects of the mess, already rationalizing away the night as a function of racism, sexism and America’s supposed love affair with “fascism.” They mark the loss down to “tactical” errors—the failure to court pro-Palestinian voters, a misallocation of door-knockers, poor timing in ad buys. The party just needs better “messaging” of its “historic achievements.”

No surprise, the media is already running with this latter narrative, again providing the party a soothing alternative to the blunt reality of its ideological fail. Will Democrats be lulled again? If they really want to reconnect with voters, they will at some point have to break with what is proving to be a debilitating feedback loop.

The media itself was put on sharp notice this cycle, pushed aside by podcasters and influencers whom voters now trust more to provide reality. Nearly 50 million people have listened to Joe Rogan’s interview of Mr. Trump, as it provided a more accurate assessment of the GOP nominee’s positions and the concerns of the country than “news” articles about the “authoritarian” intent on destroying the climate, abortion rights, democracy—choose your obsession.

The DNC-MSM are always shocked when the candidate they went all-in on supporting loses, and invariably spend about ten minutes after the election publicly feigning introspection — and then nothing changes, and their bias and hatred of all politicians with an (R) after their names only gets worse. Why should this election be any different?

Related: Good news: The public has stopped listening to mass media.

Posted at 8:14 am by Ed Driscoll on Nov 9th, 2024

HOW IT STARTED: “Go for the Throat! Why if he wants to transform American politics, Obama must declare war on the Republican Party.”

—John Dickerson, future host of CBS’s Face the Nation, at Slate, one of the remaining media redoubts of the Graham family, the former owners of the WaPo, January 18th, 2013.

How It’s Going:

Posted at 7:45 am by Ed Driscoll on Nov 9th, 2024

November 8, 2024

NEWS YOU CAN USE:

Posted at 9:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 8th, 2024

LAST NIGHT’S POGROM IN AMSTERDAM:

As the Amsterdam Jewish community joined with local officials to commemorate the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht at the city’s Portuguese-Jewish synagogue—established by Jews who escaped the Inquisition—a pogrom was taking place outside. Following a soccer match between the Dutch club Ajax and the visiting Maccabi Tel Aviv, Jewish and Israeli fans of the visiting club were ambushed and beaten in the city’s streets and alleys. 

Footage shows an Israeli soccer fan being struck by a car, cartwheeling across the windshield. More footage shows the scene in downtown Amsterdam, where Israelis are pleading with their assailants, “not Jewish, not Jewish.” And they are beaten mercilessly.

In video of other attacks last night, a victim is struck and lays injured on the ground, seemingly unconscious. A father can be seen fleeing with his son. A man jumps into one of Amsterdam’s canals to escape his assailants. In the recording, where he is forced to say “Free Palestine,” his assailants laugh and jeer that he is a “cancer Jew”—a classic slur in Dutch, where both diseases and the Jewish ethnicity are deployed as put-downs.

Much about the origins of the attack are still unclear, but early reports suggest that it was carried out by youth gangs from the Dutch Moroccan and Dutch Turkish community, and was orchestrated in advance. Visiting Israelis report being ambushed by groups of 10 to 15 masked assailants in various alleys. Fleeing Israelis told Channel 12’s Elad Simchayoff that “Amsterdam police instructed [Israelis] not to go by taxis. Police officers told fans that taxi drivers in the city are helping organize the riots and assisting the gangs.”

Exit quote: “Dutch society repeatedly told its post-Holocaust Jewish remnant—and itself—that ‘never again’ was not merely a concrete promise, but a core concept of modern Dutch morality. However, the dominant culture of the country’s immigrant communities has proven manifestly hostile to that worldview—and to Jews.”

Posted at 8:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 8th, 2024

EZRA KLEIN: This Too Shall Pass. After quoting Klein on Dubya’s resounding win on 2004 eventually fizzling out paving the way for eight years of Barack Obama (arguably 12 years), John Sexton writes:

Republicans are celebrating this week and Democrats earned every bit of the despair they are feeling. And yet, this too shall pass. The other 48% of the country won’t disappear. They will take every opportunity to bash Trump every single day and over time it could work.

It certainly worked on George W. Bush. Bush won the 2004 election but by the end of his second term Democrats were turning out for huge anti-war rallies seemingly every couple of weeks, carrying signs about Chimpy McHitlerburtion. Not surprisingly, those rallies all vanished once Obama was elected. It was always politics not principle that animated them. But the point is, they got what they wanted. And let’s face it, they came very, very close to continuing Obama’s 8 year run in 2016. Trump won that election by a hair.

Republicans won convincingly this week, but the time to start thinking about winning the next election is right now. The left is already making their own plans. They are gearing up the street protests once again. The will fight Trump in the courts. They will fight him in the media, which they mostly control already. Tuesday’s victory only ushers us into the next uphill battle to make this into a lasting win, one that can benefit future conservative candidates.

Otherwise:

Posted at 8:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 8th, 2024

ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES: Toyota Executive Lashes Out at US Regulations Promoting EV Sales.

Toyota Motor Corp.’s North American chief operating officer criticized the US’s policies promoting speedy adoption of electric vehicles, calling them “de facto mandates” out of sync with consumer demand.

Noting government support for EVs has been a hotly debated issue in the US presidential election, Toyota North America COO Jack Hollis said sales of all-electric vehicle should grow organically, without rules penalizing gas-powered car sales.

“The whole EV ecosystem is ahead of the consumer,” Hollis told reporters Friday, pointing to tailpipe emission rules from the Environmental Protection Agency and California. “It’s not in alignment with consumers. It’s just not.”

The zombie version of the BBC’s Top Gear Website is even more explicit, with a satirical piece yesterday that was headlined: Report: all electric cars in the US to be retrofitted with V8s.

John Fetterman is succinct: “Green dipshits’ votes [are] helping elect the GOP.”

Posted at 5:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 8th, 2024

SCOTT JENNINGS OR BUST!

● Shot:

● Chaser: Can the on-camera briefings. Trump doesn’t need them. Neither do the rest of us.

—The Federalist, yesterday.

Which is the way forward?

Posted at 5:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 8th, 2024

‘RED-PILLED IN REAL TIME:’ Charlamagne Notices What Dems Are NOT Saying About Trump Since He Won.

Biden also said “we’re gonna be OK.”

Those words sounded bizarre after at least a year of the Left saying Trump is Hitler and America is doomed if he gets back in the White House.

Charlamagne tha God tried to reconcile the rhetoric he heard in the past to what’s going on so far since the election:

I think it may have started even sooner than that:

Not surprisingly, Charlamagne issued a cease-and-desist order over the ad in late October, lest his many Democrat guests think he was supporting the Bad Orange Man.

But why didn’t he point out that the Bad Orange Man wasn’t Hitler until after Tuesday? As Steve spotted earlier today in the replies to Charlamagne, “All of it was politics, and he was complicit.” In Soviet Russia, no one wanted to be the last man clapping when Stalin finished a speech, and in Soviet America, no Biden-Harris supporter wanted to be the first person to admit that the “Trump is Hitler” slurs are crazy talk, and a trope completely worn out after 80 years of reflexive use by Democrats at election time.

Related: Trump’s Hitler impersonation is just awful:

Posted at 4:45 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 8th, 2024

THE CRITICAL DRINKER: Dear Hollywood Celebrities, Nobody Cares (Video).

Posted at 4:30 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 8th, 2024

HBO’S VEEP REALLY WENT OVER BUDGET THIS SEASON: How Kamala Harris plowed through $1 billion.

Viva Creative, a marketing agency that has touted its work with Oprah, comedian Trevor Noah, the Washington Nationals baseball team, and American Express, scooped up $1.8 million from the Harris campaign for event production from September to October. A company called Production Management One in Maryland received $1.7 million, with large payments also going to Vox Productions, Temple University, Wizard Studios North, the Park Hyatt Chicago, and other entities for event production, filings show.

Then there was Majic Productions, a Wisconsin-based company, which has worked the NBA playoffs, the Super Bowl, and at the Bellagio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The Harris campaign paid that company $2.3 million.

A source familiar with the matter told the Washington Examiner that the Harris campaign spent six figures on building a set for Harris’s appearance on the popular Call Her Daddy podcast with host Alex Cooper. The interview came out in October and was reportedly filmed in a hotel room in Washington, D.C.

The Washington Examiner reached out to the Harris campaign on the podcast-related matter but did not hear back in time for publication.

“Money can’t buy you love or a good candidate,” one Trump campaign adviser said. To Republican political strategist Brad Todd, the story behind why Harris lost is not a lesson on money purportedly being irrelevant in elections.

I hope David Plouffe, who deleted his Twitter account yesterday, and the rest of the Obama consultants who worked on her campaign enjoyed setting all that money on fire one last time.

UPDATE: The catering must have been fabulous on Veep, because HBO sure didn’t plow any money into the production design:

Posted at 4:14 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 8th, 2024

JUSTINE BATEMAN OFFERS HILARIOUS FILM TIPS TO MELTING DOWN TIKTOKERS: #SocialMediaVideoCritique. “We can’t say she is a Trump supporter for certain, she probably isn’t, but her eyes seem to have been opened about how bad leftist politicians are. A Los Angeles resident, Bateman is hyper-critical of Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass, and recently ousted District Attorney George Gascón.”

Bateman offers her some thoughts on her worldview in a Twitter thread today that begins, “Decompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years:”

I am neither one extreme or the other, but am one of the millions of people who believe in common sense, and that everyone should be free to live their lives however they want, unless that freedom interferes with someone else’s freedom to live their own life.

That’s it.

That was fascist hate speech, particularly in Los Angeles, right up until Tuesday night.

Posted at 2:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 8th, 2024

SPRINGTIME FOR KAMALA: Kamala Harris Quoted One Of Hitler’s Favorite Writers In Her Concession Speech.

Carlyle’s original quote was less exact: “The eternal stars shine out again, as soon as it is dark enough.” Regardless, according to the website Quote Investigator, in a published paper Beard himself attributed his own take on the aphorism directly to Carlyle: “In conclusion we may say, with Carlyle, when it grows dark enough we can see stars.”

Why does this matter? Well, if you poke around you’ll see that Carlyle was reviled for much of the 20th century as the illiberal “prophet of fascism.” Oh and then there’s this:

In his waning days, defeated and surrounded only by loyalists in his bunker, Hitler sought consolation from the literature he admired the most. According to many biographers, the following scene took place. Hitler turned to Goebbels, his trusted assistant, and asked for a final reading. The words he chose to hear before his death were from Thomas Carlyle’s biography of Frederick the Great.

Now to be fair to Carlyle, like a lot of influential intellectuals, he was a lot more complex and nuanced than his critics make him out to be. He’s probably better known as the originator of the “great man of history” theory than for his supposed fascism, though a lot of people contentiously argue that the former leads to the latter. His reputation has been rehabbed somewhat since the mid-20th century when he was more reviled, but he’s exactly the kind of figure that woke academics extend almost no grace toward. (And that’s without even getting into his 19th century views on race.)

Anyway, the long and short of it is that, while Kamala Harris was graciously conceding her electoral loss to a man she had insincerely warned was dangerous fascist, she tried to soothe her supporter’s souls by, however inadvertently, quoting one of Hitler’s favorite historians. Absolute perfection.

It’s great to see the final episode of HBO’s Veep go out on such a brilliantly satiric note.

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 8th, 2024

THE PLUCKY SOCIALIST BRITS AT THE GRAUNIAD ARE TAKING THE NEWS OF TRUMP’S VICTORY REMARKABLY WELL. And when I say “well,” what I really mean is this: Guardian staff offered Trump therapy over ‘upsetting’ result.

While Republicans across the US celebrate Donald Trump’s victory and eagerly await his return to the White House, those that backed the wrong horse appear to be struggling to come to terms with it. Mr S is still waiting to hear whether certain lefty celebrities are going to follow through with their plans to leave the country over the result, and a number of pundits are still recovering from their fantastically inaccurate predictions about the race. But we should also spare a thought for some of those hit hardest by the announcement: Guardian journalists.

It now transpires that the newspaper has reached out to its employees to offer, er, Trump therapy. In a company-wide email, editor Katharine Viner sympathised with staffers saddened by the outcome of the ‘dramatic night’. Assuring journalists she knows ‘the result has been very upsetting for many colleagues’, Viner has encouraged UK workers to contact their American counterparts – as ‘they will be most directly affected by the result’. Going on the Grauniad editor gushed:

“If you’re not in the US, do contact your American colleagues to offer your support… It’s upsetting for many other

I want to say that George Orwell would be shocked by how far his fellow British socialists have fallen — but to be honest, based upon his low opinion of the typical socialist Brit in 1937’s The Road to Wigan Pier, he wouldn’t be at all. And today on both sides of the pond, the cognitive dissonance of leftists imagining themselves as being the second coming of the French Resistance intersecting with the level of safetyism they’ve had drilled into them is astonishing to watch.

Posted at 1:35 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 8th, 2024

MILTON FRIEDMAN’S REVENGE: Biden and Harris Got the Economic Policy They Wanted, and Voters Hated It.

“Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore,” said then-candidate Joe Biden in early 2020, and he got elected and proved it. Never mind that Milton Friedman was never running the show — the federal government has by and large ignored his policy advice for decades. The Biden years generated takes like “The End of Friedmanomics” at the New Republic in 2021, or the retrospective “When Milton Friedman Ran the Show” from the Atlantic in 2023.

Democrats’ economic agenda the past four years was about as anti-Friedman as possible, and they implemented it successfully. This is a key point — Democrats can’t accurately say that their agenda was not tried.

The key tenets were government spending and regulation. The spending was to boost demand. Sometimes it was to boost demand for specific goods, such as electric vehicles or higher education. Overall economy-wide demand was boosted by massive budget deficits. Even with a growing economy, soaring stock market, and low unemployment, Biden wanted — and got — budget deficits as a share of GDP greater than those during the Great Depression.

The Biden administration’s regulatory burden far exceeded even the Obama administration’s. According to Dan Goldbeck of the American Action Forum, at this point in Obama’s first term, final rules imposed by his administration had cost $490 billion. Final rules imposed under Biden so far have cost $1.7 trillion.

Joe Biden’s “Investing in America” agenda was epitomized by major legislation that has passed into law: the American Rescue Plan Act, the infrastructure law, the CHIPS Act, and the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. These included major industrial-policy components, giving government more power to direct investment in specific sectors deemed vital to the national interest.

These laws were self-consciously and proudly advertised as big-government efforts to counteract the alleged failures of the free market. They were branded “pro-worker” by politicians and the press and included a bevy of benefits for labor unions and the strengthening of “buy American” rules.

Democrats aimed to and were praised for wanting to “run the economy hot,” meaning maintaining tight labor markets through continuous expansionary monetary and fiscal policy. This was supposed to be “inclusive” economic policy that would benefit low-income and racial-minority workers and reduce inequality.

Democrats invented the word “Bidenomics” to describe this supposedly new economic paradigm, which was really reheated Keynesianism with some “diversity” sprinkled in for extra flavor. Then, they stopped using the term, and it was adopted by conservative-activist groups such as Americans for Prosperity to denigrate the administration’s agenda.

When Democrats replaced Biden with Harris, they had an opportunity to also replace their unpopular economic agenda. They did not take it. Harris essentially ran a controlled experiment to test the hypothesis that the only problem with Biden’s economic agenda was that Biden was too old.

As with recent pro-Jimmy Carter revisionists (inspired perhaps by Ezra Klein’s 2009 defense of Jimmy Carter’s “Malaise Speech”), I eagerly await the thinkpieces built around the premise that True Bidenomics has never been tried!

Posted at 1:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 8th, 2024

JOURNOLIST* MEMBERS LEARN NEW PHRASE: Legacy Media Indict Themselves When They Blame The ‘Right-Wing Media Ecosystem.’

Laura Barrón-López is the White House correspondent at PBS News and a political analyst at CNN. On a panel with Dana Bash and John King — the network’s chief political and chief national correspondent respectively — Barrón-López made a claim so objectively false is almost defies believability. Bash and King, of course, found it deeply compelling.

Reflecting on Trump’s success, Barrón-López mused, “Maybe it’s not so much Democrats policies or messaging or the words that they use specifically, but there is an entire right-wing media ecosystem doesn’t exist on the left, does not exist in center or mainstream, and people are getting their information in very different ways now.”

“Media ecosystem” was uttered on MSNBC’s Morning Joe today by former Timesman Anand Giridharadas:

In his piece yesterday on “Trump’s Podcast Offensive” in the Free Press, River Page asked, “Will Kamala’s refusal to go on Joe Rogan’s podcast be remembered like Hillary not visiting Wisconsin before the election?”

Based on the media’s freakout this week, the answer is a resounding yes. And just like Hillary losing to Trump in 2016, the DNC-MSM ecosystem (see what I did there?) is failing to learn all the wrong lessons from her implosion.

In December of 2016, Hillary blamed her loss on “fake news,” propelling that phrase into the vernacular (particularly when Trump picked up on it and threw it back into the left’s faces). Typing “media ecosystem” into Google and setting the tools function to “past week” brings up 11,000 results. And all because leftist establishment media made a concerted effort to abandon or belittle male viewers — until it suddenly decided it needed them:

* Or whatever they’re calling it these days.

Posted at 12:22 pm by Ed Driscoll on Nov 8th, 2024

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