Michael Tomasky was again on Morning Joe right this moment, beating his dour, one-note samba: right-wing media is the foundation of all evil.
Final month, we caught New Republic editor Tomasky blaming conservative media for Kamala Harris’s defeat. He even claimed that right-wing media is extra highly effective than the MSM. As we wrote: “If solely!”
As we speak, Tomasky blamed right-wing media, singling out Rupert Murdoch for specific opprobrium, for Trump’s present reputation, as mirrored in majority assist for his dealing with of the transition.
Trump has nominated “unqualified extremists” throughout the board, and but the general public approves of the transition. He does not blame “folks,” he blames Fox. “At first, I blame Rupert Murdoch and, to a lesser extent, his imitators, whose media properties have injected a lot poison and so many lies into our discourse since 1977 that widespread civic settlement about primary morality in public life has change into unattainable.”
“Widespread civic settlement about primary morality.” Translation: when the liberal media set the agenda.
Look after an instance from the liberal media of that “widespread civic settlement about primary morality” and “what sorts of actions did and didn’t mirror our greatest values?”
Do that little bit of rank, rancid bigotry in an outline of the South:
“Reactionary, prejudice-infested, fetid, reject[ing] almost all the pieces that’s good about this nation, only one large nuclear waste web site of choleric, and very racialized, resentment.”
The creator? Michael Tomasky, as we caught him ten years in the past.
Tomasky approvingly cited John Dean asserting that if Fox Information have been round in 1973-74, Nixon would have survived Watergate. And but, although Fox Information was alive and properly in latest occasions, that did not forestall the Democrats from twice impeaching Trump and indicting him for 90-plus felonies in a number of separate prison circumstances.
Word: Tomasky, in each phrase and mien, must be essentially the most lugubrious man within the liberal media.
Here is the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
12/20/24
6:31 am ETJONATHAN LEMIRE: So, Michael Tomasky, in your newest article for the New Republic, which is titled, “The Actual Purpose Why Individuals Approve of Trump’s Disastrous Transition,” you write partly this. “How can it’s, it’s possible you’ll be questioning, that 55% of Individuals inform pollsters they approve of how Donald Trump is dealing with the transition? He has nominated nearly, however not fairly actually throughout the board, unqualified extremists. I do not blame folks,” you say. “I blame the bigger tradition, which has been nearly completely drained of widespread concern about our civic well being.
“At first, I blame Rupert Murdoch and, to a lesser extent, his imitators, whose media properties have injected a lot poison and so many lies into our discourse since 1977 that widespread civic settlement about primary morality in public life has change into unattainable.”
You go on.
“We had a primary understanding about what sorts of actions did and didn’t mirror our greatest values. And this was why Richard Nixon needed to resign in shame for committing far fewer offenses than Trump already has. Everybody, no matter their politics, agreed that Nixon had clearly crossed a line. However that impulse is lifeless in the US, and the right-wing media killed it.
Michael, a strong piece inform us extra about your argument in regards to the right-wing media. What it is completed, and do you see any manner that this civic bond, this civic concern will be repaired?
MICHAEL TOMASKY: Uh, I am not very hopeful about that, Jonathan, sadly. You recognize, John Dean famously stated a couple of years in the past that if Fox Information had existed in 1973-74, Richard Nixon would have survived Watergate. I believe that is most likely true.
