Taibbi: The Surrender

Has the Biden administration and its media minions been chastened a bit by their recent failures? From Matt Taibbi at Racket News via zerohedge.com:

The decision was announced at a White House briefing Monday morning. “In light of this weekend’s events, the president has directed me to work with the Secret Service to provide protection to Robert Kennedy Jr.,” was the quote from Homeland Security Director Alejandro Mayorkas.

It’s difficult to read the line “in light of this weekend’s events” and not see an admission on the part of the White House that Secret Service protection was previously being denied to Kennedy, Jr. for political reasons, or out of spite, if those are even two different things in this era. Whatever the original prerogative was for pushing the envelope with that denial, it seems to have been removed by series of paradigm-shattering news events, leading to a flurry of real and symbolic surrenders.

MSNBC likewise made an extraordinary decision Sunday night to pull Morning Joe, with CNN saying the network wanted to “to avoid a scenario in which one of the show’s stable of two dozen-plus guests might make an inappropriate comment on live television.” As with the Secret Service decision, MSNBC was making a major admission, essentially telling audiences its lead morning news show is either not really a news show, or that its format only holds up under something less than maximum scrutiny. I can’t recall a similar act of self-sabotage in media.

Meanwhile, in a move that went mostly unnoticed, Meta announced Friday that it was lifting restrictions on Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, with CNN citing company sources saying this was done “to ensure that Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, would have equal standing with DemocratPresident Joe Biden.” The next day, after the attempt on Trump’s life that left firefighter Corey Comperatore dead, Axios ran a story about Democratic reaction. Burying the lede, they quoted a “senior House Democrat” at the bottom, saying, “We’ve all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency.”

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One response to “Taibbi: The Surrender”

  1. Gandalf Carlin's avatar Gandalf Carlin

    PMSNBC had to give Morning Jo Jo the day off before he shot his pie hole off and yes that is Russophobe Zbigniew Brezezinski’s spawn.

    A potential PR disaster stopper for CPUSA (D) comrade Morning Jo Jo.

    Cold War uber alles is popular among the mediocre managerial maggots just as 1964/1973 forever is popular with the CPUSA (D) bottom of the barrel dreg minions.

    TDS is all they have and there is no self-awareness or awareness of the changing zeitgeist.

    When you ask what has DJT done to you the NPC gray CPU goes into blue screen.

    Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.

    Psalm 21:11

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