I Can Remember When....

WATCH: John Fetterman hilariously crushes 'wingnut' GOP lawmaker's dream of a new PA election audit

"This is just one wingnut with Microsoft Word and stationery."https://t.co/ePuzOHjEtv

— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 10, 2021

We were all supposed to worry about these "audits" spreading, and PA was clearly next!

"Okay, so this push for an audit comes after your state already completed two other legal audits," host Whitfield began. "Do you believe that there will be a third?"

"No, there won't be a third," the Lt Gov. shot back. "It's already been shut down and I want your viewers to understand: this is just one wingnut with Microsoft Word and stationery -- there's nothing more to it."

"It's not going to go anywhere, it has no legitimacy, it never had any legitimacy," he elaborated. "This is simply an attempt by him [Mastriano] to endear himself to Donald Trump to get that rose, so to speak, in his run for governor and get his endorsement. This is not going anywhere."

"It would be no different if you were standing on a street corner with a sandwich board yelling that 'the end is near' or something," he continued. "Just one guy with some stationery isn't going to amount to anything and, again, the Department of State has already shut that down and no audit is going to be occurring in Pennsylvania."

Again, the 24/7 news cycle:  first your freakout before someone else does and beats you to it (that's now called a "scoop!").  Then, days later, somebody points out that's never going to happen and was never going to happen, but by then the sky is falling in some other part of the country, so who's paying attention to old news?  "Old" here being "not newer than the last 12 hours."

I'll retire to Bedlam....