Chinese nationals at Mar-A-Lago were not filmed so we could see it on the news. "Visceral importance" starts with visuals; then descends to R's yelling about it (much more interest in R's yelling about the "raid" on Full-O-Crappo).Might want to consider the physical intrusions at Mar-a-Lago that passed quickly from reporters’ collective consciousness and, in the same vein, how susceptible we all are to gauging what’s viscerally important by what Rs decide to yell about and what they choose to hush up on. https://t.co/i4ByzQPlEb
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) February 6, 2023
And yeah, the yelling is visceral, too. Which is why it intimidates journalists; but it's also news. "Man bites dog" is much more compelling copy than "Man talks about policy issues."
As Joe Scarbrough said this morning, back in the day the response to a Chinese balloon in American airspace would be Congresspersons and Senators on oversight committees calling the Pentagon or the Joint Chiefs and asking for sound information. Presenting, IOW, a united front to the world on a matter of foreign policy/relations. Now we have the clown car which has no idea what's going on (apparently specially equipped planes flew beneath the balloon and blocked it from either receiving or sending data, for it's entire transit across the continent. This is what we pay the DOD to do, and Congress used to understand that.) but go on TeeVee/Twitter/what have you, to blather and bloviate and scream like ignorant children.‘A serious breach’: Greene attacks the military for keeping Trump in the dark on Chinese spy balloons https://t.co/WDjemb7vVx
— Raw Story (@RawStory) February 6, 2023
Which probably convinces China the loss of the balloon was cheap compared to what they got out of it (if not from it), and to look harder at Russia's strategy of using social media to stir the US pot. Because aside from the POTUS, it seems we aren't really serious over here.
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