There’s one thing humorous in scandal politics when individuals accuse one another of pushing a “distraction.” So if Donald Trump tries to alter the topic to Russia collusion-hoaxing, it’s a “distraction” from the media’s energetic Jeffrey Epstein obsession.
All this actually proves is that the liberal media elites get sad every time anybody tries to supply a unique subject than the one they demand all of us be magnetically targeted on. The networks don’t need any opposite new info added to their narrative on how Trump gained in 2016 with Russian help — for those who’re not going to just accept their unique accusations of collusion.
Their framing is introduced as the one acceptable framing, the one based mostly in “actuality.” The general public is all the time presupposed to be targeted on Republican scandals. They’re the one ones that matter. Democrat scandals are reflexively dismissed as “no proof” nothingburgers, a smelly wastebasket of “unsubstantiated” junk.
It’s transparently partisan “information judgment.”
This offers you an identical giggle as when reporters complain this Russia factor is an “eight-year-old” story as they push “new” materials on Trump’s alleged birthday card to Epstein in 2003. They aerobically pushed unproven E. Jean Carroll allegations of Trump sexually assaulting her inside a division retailer someday within the mid-Nineteen Nineties. Which 12 months? Who must know? Simply slap Trump with some imprecise civil expenses of being “accountable for sexual abuse,” and transfer on.
Possibly we must always recommend that this complete Trump-and-Epstein scandal is a distraction from the way more intricate friendship and Epstein-Island-touring of former president Invoice Clinton. Whereas the networks dump hours of protection on Trump and Epstein, a search of Nexis transcripts of CBS Information within the final month discovered solely 4 cursory mentions of Clinton. [Editor’s Note: This was written before Tuesday night’s newscasts.]
Two had nothing to do with Epstein, and the opposite two have been on the identical morning, as reporter Nancy Cordes briefly talked about Invoice Clinton and designer Vera Wang have been “different massive names on the record” assembly with Epstein.
Or attempt the PBS Information Hour gang. They talked about Invoice Clinton of their David Gergen obituary, in a narrative on Trump besmirching Smithsonian impeachment displays, and only one transient point out a few Clinton-Epstein hyperlink from David Brooks. They’re all too “distracted” from deciding the query of whether or not Clinton has a more true affiliation with Epstein’s sex-trafficking than Trump does.
Naturally, CNN’s Brian Stelter channeled the anti-Fox, anti-Trump aggression in his publication as he attacked what he referred to as the “Fox Outrage-Industrial Advanced.” He claimed “Fox Information exhibits talked about Sydney Sweeney and her advert 766 occasions within the span of every week. Jeffrey Epstein’s identify got here up 53 occasions that very same week.” See? Epstein is the “actual” scandal, and the opposite story is a rip-off.
Then, flip it again on CNN. Let’s guess they talked about Epstein 766 occasions and Sydney Sweeney 53. Does anybody consider CNN’s remedy of Trump can’t be outlined as a “CNN Outrage-Industrial Advanced”?
For some time, it was the Avenatti Outrage-Industrial Advanced, and the Pee Tapes-Outrage-Industrial Advanced, and the Revoking Jim Acosta’s Press Credentials Outrage-Industrial Advanced.
The Epstein sex-trafficking aftermath is simply too horrible and tragic to make outrage jokes about. However a fast Nexis search of CNN discovered 92 Epstein-and-Trump entries within the final week, and simply ten mentioning Sydney Sweeney.
When ABC, CBS, and NBC mixed for two,284 minutes on Russiagate simply on the night newscasts over two years, one may stagger towards a “distraction.” How a lot is an excessive amount of? For this reason individuals flip to Wheel of Fortune. It’s a quick distraction from the grand distraction.
