Media Turns Its Back On Experts Who Blame GOP For Political Gridlock

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8. A topic no Sunday show will tackle

Last month, Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein wrote a piece for The Washington Post’s Outlook section that dared to suggest the unthinkable: Both parties aren’t equally to blame for what ails Washington.

They argued, and expounded on this point in their book, that the Republican Party — by allowing extremists to roam free and by wielding the filibuster to achieve government dysfunction as a political end in itself — were demonstrably more culpable than the Democrats for creating what is approaching a crisis of governance.

The op-ed has been a viral sensation online for weeks, yet neither man has been invited on to the Sunday TV talk shows to discuss this thesis. As some observers have noted, these are among the most quoted people in Washington — yet this topic is suddenly too hot for these Washington-centric shows, or it has been deemed not relevant at all.

Ornstein confirmed that the book’s publisher has tried to get the authors on the Sunday shows, with no success.

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