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Merrick's avatar

GOOD THING: This morning, Joe Scarborough was hyper-excoriating Senate Republicans for not pressuring Trump to allow for daily intel briefings for Pres.-Elect Biden. I wonder how many of them are watching.

What Trump is doing is so anti-American, antipatriotic, anti-democratic, it goes beyond the pale, and, worse yet, his supporters, all who have reaped the benefits of the US Constitution for their entire lives, simply don't care, or have forgotten our country's principles.

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And now some in the media are helping Charles Koch with his “I regret being partisan makeover”. Compare the this WaPo article which helps Koch with PR makeover by just repeating Koch’s claims to be a reasonable, fair player but ignores all the evidence that he is lying:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/13/daily-202-charles-koch-congratulates-biden-says-he-wants-work-together-many-issues-possible/

to this one in Vanity Fair which gives facts about what Koch has been doing, instead of regurgitating what he says he believes:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/11/charles-koch-what-a-mess

Reminds me of when I was a teenager and read about how Nixon had hired PR experts to give him an image makeover and sell him as the new Nixon. I was shocked that the media bought it. They had reported on the artificial PR makeover but later began reporting about the “New Nixon” as if he really had changed. I was dumbfounded that journalists bought what was obviously only a change in style, not substance. It was years before I realized that appearance not reality is what matters most to our shallow political journalists and pundits. There is no way they would give an American version of an Angela Merkel the time of day.

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