Eric Boehlert: Good grief -- Washington Post marvels at all the things Trump "got right"

[babylonsister]

Good grief — Washington Post marvels at all the things Trump "got right"
The press misses him
Eric Boehlert
1 hr ago


On the same day that newly released phone call notes from the Department of Justice confirmed that Trump aggressively worked to overturn the results of an American election, demanding his DOJ cronies dub the November contest to have been “corrupt,” the Washington Post decided to look back fondly on the Trump years and to keep normalizing him.

Despite his dangerous, undemocratic and authoritarian ways, it’s clear the Post misses Trump and the media attention he generates. So, putting aside his ongoing and determined efforts to demolish free and fair elections in America, the Post rounded up ten writers who were willing to type up odes to all the things Trump “got right” while president. It was an exercise in bad judgement and only highlighted the Beltway media’s willingness to portray him as a savvy player who managed to surprise the experts.

“The bigger problem…is experts/scholars sitting around and analyzing what Trump got “right” as though he were a normal president; as though he got anything right through sober-minded judgement rather than chaotic happenstance,” author Shane Carrow noted on Twitter.

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Keep in mind that Trump ripped families apart at the border, colluded with a foreign power while in office, was impeached twice, did almost nothing to prevent 600,000 Covid-19 deaths, accused Obama of spying on his campaign, and spent months denigrating the integrity of American elections.

Trump long ago should have disqualified himself from receiving respectful news coverage. But as the Post showed, that milestone hasn’t yet been reached, as the paper eagerly wallowed in Trump revisionism. For the media, Trump remains a captivating topic who provides endless angles of intrigue and who is treated as a looming star of American politics. That, compared to the “boring” Joe Biden presidency.

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https://pressrun.media/p/did-washington-post-really-just-marvel

[EYESORE 9001]

1. There's your 'liberal media' on display alright

A retrospective composed while gazing through a proctoscope.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

5. proctoscope

Thanks - made my day!!

[Comfortably_Numb]

2. Since thinking folks get labeled with "trump derangement syndrome, is the media guilty of "trump

fetishization syndrome??

[modrepub]

7. Gets Eyeballs To Their Site

Simple as that.

It's all fun and games until the POTUS sends his minions to torch your house/business. If he did it to Congress, he could surely do it to anyone he perceives as a threat or as a payback.

[sop]

3. Excellent analysis of MSM's "both sides" journalism and normalizing Republicans:

"Both sides journalism isn't even journalism — at this point, it's Republican propaganda"

https://www.rawstory.com/both-sides-media/

"When journalists cannot honestly report what is happening, when they normalize the ongoing destruction of democracy, they become complicit in it. When their posture of balance makes the world more illegible, so that democratic self-governance becomes all but impossible, they're no longer journalists. They have become propagandists, and cannot be allowed to define the standards of a profession they no longer practice."

[North Shore Chicago]

4. As a former teacher....

Who comes front and center in your memories? The A students or the F students?

It is a tie between the students(s) who greatly excelled AND the worst of the worst students. The ones who disrupt, who were cruel and bullied others. The ones who sucked the life out of the classroom.

To me, this explains the fascination of some in the media who continue to revisit a legacy of horrors.

[Sibelius Fan]

6. The media obsession with tRump is like a sports reporter

obsessed with a batter who strikes out 99% of the time.

[North Shore Chicago]

8. Bingo!

[CatWoman]

9. K; R