That didn't take long.
After a four-year hibernation that was interrupted only when participation in the grand cover-up of Joe Biden's mental and physical deterioration was required, Washington, D.C., has seen a remarkable resurgence in the amount of thoroughly invested, diligent, adversarial journalists ready to do their part to hold America's leaders to account.
It used to be comical that the hounds of ABC, CBS, NBC, all wire services, and major newspaper conglomerates thought we didn't notice. Now, it's just embarrassing for them.
Take CBS Evening News' incoming co-anchor, and current Face the Nation moderator, Margaret Brennan. Brennan just sat down with Vice President J.D. Vance to discuss, among other things, the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration.
It went about as you'd expect:
I have no qualms with the way Brennan pushed Vance or conducted herself. She was largely outwitted and schooled by Vance at every turn, but I'm still a believer that the media should be informed of the issues and skeptical of those wielding power.
The obvious problem is the insanely one-sided application of that skepticism.
Here's what I mean: Brennan's questions of Vance were largely reasonable …until you remember this is the same Margaret Brennan that just a couple weeks ago was calling former President Biden's kooky, divisive, and cliché-filled farewell address, "extraordinary."
From MRC Newsbusters:
Face the Nation moderator and incoming CBS Evening News co-anchor Margaret Brennan boasted of how Biden didn't give a 'fond farewell,' but instead an 'extraordinary' message consisting of a 'number of warnings of the guardrails of democracy that he says are in peril, one of them, our very industry.'
'He said the free press is crumbling, pointing to social media, making that connection back to technology and lack of fact-checking. He talked about the need to hold accountable social platforms. All of this seemingly, in that space, framing around some of the political forces of the moment who are aligned with Donald Trump,' she added before later pompously concluding Biden really honed in on 'the threats to the forces that underpin our democracy' like 'fact-checking.'
Seemingly lost on her was the fact that Biden's presidency itself proved to be a threat to our so-called democracy.
This is all just the time-tested reality of our Democrat Media Complex. It's so entrenched not just in the American public's psyche, but also in the core code of conduct for all media personnel that most everyone has become numb to it. Journalists don't even realize they aren't supposed to act that way.
If you find that hard to believe, observe the nonsense that Axios's veteran reporter Jim VandeHei posted in the follow-up to the devastating Los Angeles fires:
Talk about saying the quiet part out loud.
The entire premise of the story begs the question. It assumes that Democrats have a duty to blame the Republicans for the fires, and it assumes that the media's job is to report on whatever the Democrats come up with. Nowhere in the post is there an honest assessment of what caused the tragedy to spiral so quickly out of control. No investigation, no inquiry, no curiosity. It's packaged as all media narratives are these days: how can this situation be blamed on Republicans?
And that's why I'm saying that the call has gone out, the alarms have sounded, and the journalists have wiped the sleep from their eyes after their long four-year vacation.
Over at The New York Times, the Old Grey Lady recently trotted out a classic piece of propaganda that shouldn't be missed. Hosted on its homepage was a video entitled, "Lessons on Authoritarianism From Around the World."
Yes, after four years of a politically weaponized Department of Justice, abuse of power, and levels of corruption and cover-up that will take years to unravel and reveal, The New York Times is suddenly wringing its hands how, "The rule of law doesn't break down overnight, and checks and balances don't collapse in an instant, tyranny takes time."
The video participants warned about things like media collusion, taxpayer financed propaganda, lawfare, and financial corruption. To any objective observer that would sound eerily similar to what we've experienced over the course of the last four years.
But not to the journalist class. They were MIA. It's so nice to have them back.
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