Anyone who watches the broadcast and cable TV networks all the time (like we do) knows how much they are still pumping a Trump outrage machine. On some days, it’s President Biden who is barely mentioned, while the former president’s indictments and scandals dominate. But The New York Times is channeling how “Democrats Want Trump Plastered All Over the News.”
On Wednesday, political reporter Reid Epstein summarized the Democrat mindset:
Criticizing the news media for giving Mr. Trump a platform is out. Quietly pining for major networks to again broadcast live coverage of Trump campaign rallies is in.
Behind the improbable longing for the former president to gobble up political oxygen again is Democrats’ yearslong dependence on the Trump outrage machine. Since his ascent, Mr. Trump has been a one-man Democratic turnout operation, uniting an otherwise fractured opposition and fueling victories in three straight election cycles.
Now, Democrats worry that the fever of Trump fatigue has passed, and that some voters are softening toward a man they once loathed.
So after two years of pounding away with a January 6 Committee, we're supposed to believe Trump's so-called authoritarian bent has been fading from media view?? They're actually trying to claim Trump is an absentee from the presidential campaign so far:
Mr. Trump, who has never been called a shrinking violet, has nevertheless skipped the three Republican presidential debates and stayed away from the major social media platforms. He is expected to spend large parts of next year in criminal trials that, except for one in Georgia, will not be televised.
Epstein worries that "it is far from certain that he will sabotage himself politically," and the trials may not damage his standing.
This is what happens when polls show Trump narrowly leading Biden. It must be the media's fault for underplaying the perils of Trump....and the Biden campaign since "His campaign has little to show for a $40 million advertising push promoting his economic record." Yeah, that's because it's like Jimmy Carter's economic record. Ads just put lipstick on a muddy pig.
We can all giggle a little when Epstein laments that "Mr. Biden and Democrats, of course, cannot control decisions that news organizations make or the topics that absorb voters in person and on social media." Compared to what? Well, Epstein finds voters who voted for Biden and are now favoring Trump, and downplaying the scandals. So the pro-Biden media apparently has been too weak on Trump, always too weak:
Those sorts of sentiments have left the Biden campaign this past week to engage in its own media criticism, publicly urging news shows on network television to follow New York Times articles about Mr. Trump’s plans for immigration and deportation policies if he wins the election.
So The New York Times is announcing in its own newspaper that it's so synonymous with the Biden messaging apparatus that Team Biden is urging the networks to copy them. Then the rest of the article is more Democrats pretending the media are barely covering Trump, like this one:
Donna Brazile, a veteran Democratic strategist, said Mr. Biden’s decision to stay quiet had allowed Mr. Trump to frame the cases against him as “a one-sided conversation.”
“We have not engaged on perhaps Donald Trump’s No. 1 Achilles’ heel, which is the 91 indictments,” she said. “We’ll see what happens when we do.”
Aside from the trials, Democrats are longing for the days when cable networks carried Mr. Trump’s rallies live. To watch a Trump rally live now, viewers need to find an online stream or a fringy far-right cable station like Newsmax.
Democrats and their media allies "have not engaged" on the indictments? WRONG! Rich Noyes found 320 minutes of coverage of Trump legal problems just on the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC. His rivals can barely get in a televised word edgewise! His coverage is 93 percent negative, and these people somehow believe the networks are going soft!
