I am fully admitting it's hard to call the media "good people."
For one thing, and this is no secret mind you, they lie. The media. And if they're not lying, they're shaping narratives that are caught somewhere between a lie and a half-truth.
It's been a long 8 or so years, folks. From the moment Donald J. Trump came down that escalator at Trump Tower to announce he was running for president to now, with Joe Biden as the sitting president. It's been one thing after the other, and constant.
If they weren't bashing Trump, or aren't bashing Trump now, they were giving praise after praise for Joe Biden—and outright lying to us about his health and fitness to be president. The untold lies about his record of successes notwithstanding.
Reality often hits the fan, so to speak. It happens to the best of us. And the media has finally come to terms with the idea that they simply cannot continue the lie about Joe Biden's health or fitness to be president anymore. The gig is up. It's simply undeniable after what can only be labeled as a complete disaster of a performance by Joe Biden on the debate stage.
There's a point when one can at least "get away" with the lie. Not that it makes it okay to tell the lie, but there's no real consequence for telling it. People will still afford you some level of credibility, and when you're in the media credentials are everything, right?
Regardless of whether you are telling the truth or not, you still have to appear intelligent and informed to a degree. Sort of like a salesman when you think about it. He might be completely full of shit, but you still feel like he mostly knows what he's talking about. He needs that. He needs you to feel that.
In the case of Biden and his debate performance, what was widely suspected to be, and that he was long-time accused of became so glaringly obvious it was simply impossible to ignore it. If this would have been a spin-room in a sales office, that performance would have been a firm acknowledgement, "There's just no way we can sell this anymore other than for what it actually is."
The media now has no other option, in order to maintain any sense of credibility, but to be honest. Joe Biden is just not fit to be president.
You saw it first, immediately following the debate from the panel on CNN. And instead of their initial thoughts quieting down, they are doubling down on the idea that Joe Biden cannot win, and especially that he shouldn't even be running at all.
Take the George Stephanopoulos interview, which was a one-on-one with Joe Biden recently. It was hard knocks. These were very direct and tough questions. I'd say probably some of the toughest questions ever posed to a sitting president, let alone a Democrat one.
There was no room in this one to sit back in one's chair contemplatively and ask the president what his favorite flavor of ice cream happened to be.
This is about the future of America, and everyone gets that.
There's also no foreseeable turnaround that's going to happen here either. I am not sure Biden gets that, or his team for that matter. The news media is not going to suddenly change their mind. Even if Biden somehow manages to pull off a good debate performance in September, I think it will be too little too late.
Suddenly all eyes will turn back to the State of the Union address, and the media will have to wonder—like so many of us already wondered before they ever would—what was he on? What did they give him? It's a rouse!
No one is going to buy it that if the president was a rambling mess on Monday through Saturday, but all put together well on Sunday, that it wasn't because of some reason. The reality is that the reality simply can no longer be ignored or brushed aside.
Why would the media turn their backs on their guy and not defend him to the hilt no matter what? Again, it's because they need to be at least somewhat credible. America is watching, and they are watching very closely. They are seeing what they are seeing, and there's no way to sell the story any other way than what's right in front of their eyes.
Granted, it doesn't mean we will start getting the whole truth from them. Come on. Get real. Look at how they continue to report on Trump. When Trump wins in November, and I think that's easier to predict now that he actually will, they're not going to give up on bashing him and telling lie after lie about him.
But see, the difference is they can still get away with the Trump lies. They cannot get away with the Biden ones. In an ironic sense, it means that what the American people at least get in the meantime is the truth we need within the other lies they'll tell.
The lies about Trump, in other words, don't matter as much as the truth about Biden does.
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