“That is the president of the United States. That is the most powerful person in the world. We see him like an obese turtle on his back flailing in the hot sun, realizing his time is over.” — CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper, November 5
Can the partisan media transform itself from a pack of attack dogs against Donald Trump to the Praetorian Guard for Joe Biden?
Will any anchor of any network use any obese dying animal metaphors to describe President-elect Joe Biden? The public Face of CNN’s cruel imagery of Donald Trump says far more about Anderson Cooper as a mean person than it does the president.
What amazes Almost DailyBrett is that CNN and some of its viewers urged this type of hatred against one man. NBC and MSNBC even cut away from the president’s speech about the election.
Would they do the same with Biden?
The days of the partisan media on offense against the White House are coming to an end. The days of defending, explaining and rationalizing Joe Biden’s coming misstatements and gaffes are at hand.
Will CNN, MSNBC, NBC et al. become press secretaries for the largely unvetted 46th president of United States?
For a longest period of time, the elite partisan media blamed everything from Covid-19 to body odor on Trump. What’s next? The world keeps turning and the leader of the free world with all accompanying responsibilities falls squarely on Joe Biden.
Trump was a Nielsen ratings machine. CNN, MSNBC, NBC, New York Times, Washington Post and others built their profitable business models on publicly opposing anything and everything Donald John Trump.
As Almost DailyBrett has repeatedly lamented, the days of media objectivity, professionalism, fairness, and dispassionate reporting are long gone. The vast majority of anchors, editors, reporters and correspondents have become hyper partisans, ignoring anything positive about Trump and devouring anything negative about the president.
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“Do you think there is blood on the president’s hands, considering the slow response?” — NBC’s “Meet The Press” anchor Chuck Todd
Will partisan media now reverse course in January and gleefully “cover” anything positive from the White House, and dismiss and bury any or all negative news about Joe Biden? Do you think any network will cut away from a live Biden pronouncement to provide for their own fact checking?
The whole imagery of totally discredited MSNBC’s Brian Williams fact checking anyone else on the planet after his long-established record of embarrassing personal glorification falsehoods is beyond the pale. He is still a legend in his own mind.
In football parlance, the best defense of all is a good offense. Will the media not only defend their president, but launch salvos against any Republican (e.g., Mitch McConnell) who has the temerity to disagree with president #46?
Almost DailyBrett recognizes that CBS is not inclined to go back to the days of revered professionalism of Walter Cronkite or CNN will ever revert to the gravitas of Bernard Shaw.
Wonder what Bernard Shaw really thinks about Anderson Cooper?
Should Americans merely accept the sad reality of partisan media not only picking sides and becoming a powerful special interest for one side of the aisle?
Watching the US media demonstrating its agility in transforming itself from offense to defense will provide us with an answer, most likely an unfortunate answer.
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