Friday, January 20, 2023

History Doesn’t Repeat Itself

But newspapers do.

There’s no end of commentary on this NYT story.
Boebert doesn’t know she’s parroting Newt Gingrich from the 90’s, but that just establishes Baker’s Whitewater bona fides. Funny how these things repeat themselves. "The Usual" doesn’t have much marquee appeal, but it’s accurate.

This is still around because nothing has come along to displace it. That’s why we’re in the “it’s the public figure’s fault” phase. Newspapers, like cable news, need to fill empty space, and the GOP isn’t providing copy yet. When the story is flagging and nothing else has come along, gin up 2500 words on how the “cover up” started. 

Schooley’s not wrong. Trump flooded the zone with scandals not as a strategy, but out of incompetence and stupidity. Still, it kept the media from getting to the point of blaming Trump for their boredom.
It’s going to provide entertainment soon enough.
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1 comment:

  1. The Thought Criminal12:14 PM

    I despised the NYT before despising the NYT was cool. Caused much outrage at E-ton when I said the NYT was a journalistic brothel. And that was one of the less impolite things I said about it. I figured that Bill Clinton had pissed off Sulzberger like he had Christopher Hitchens (I think the Hitch never forgave him for being sexier than he was at Oxford).

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