Buried at the bottom of a loooong puff piece in the NYT about the supposedly perfect resume of Mark Kelly as potential Kamala VP pick is this rather significant problem: pic.twitter.com/Omk0HLoiAJ
I’m just going to warn you … you are about to nuke several brain cells by watching this video.
Donald Trump recently called for term limits for members of Congress. It’s an idea that has become far more popular over the past decade than it used to be. The Founders always envisioned government service to be temporary, not a career. Americans have always been comfortable with the status quo because they thought they could just vote anyone they don’t like out. However, after decades of very unpopular politicians retaining their seats, people started to wonder how it was possible unpopular politicians could stay in office. Turns out, it wasn’t just tribalism. The party apparatus that exists disproportionately benefits incumbents regardless of popularity. Furthermore, the party leadership further impacts who will get money, support, and infrastructure for reelection.
If you vote the way party leadership wants you to vote, you’ll have their help in your reelection bid. If you don’t, they’ll throw you to the wolves, and replace you with someone who will fall in line with the establishment.
Enter the conventional media. They deem themselves the gatekeepers of knowledge. One must only look at ‘It’s not news, it’s’ CNN’s Chris Cuomo’s recent comments that only media was allowed to look at Wikileaks documents. He actually claimed it was illegal for you to read them. FYI, it isn’t, and he’s an idiot. It’s not all that unlike the old church doctrine that only the clergy were allowed to look at, read, and interpret the Bible. The media see themselves as your elites. They are better, smarter, more informed than you could ever hope to be.
The reality … often they are little more than eye candy devoid of substance, knowledge, or comprehension of the issues they discuss. They rely on AP wire service scripts, and guests to get through their shows.
Enter CNN’s Brooke Baldwin (yes, another CNN amoeba). She had a panel on to discuss Trump’s call for term limits. It’s at that point, I actually blacked out from lack of oxygen by laughing at her. It’s ok though, I watched the video several more times to ensure I really heard what I heard.
Keep in mind, she’s a featured face on CNN covering politics on a regular basis. This isn’t another example of bias media covering for Hillary, or a simple error while doing live TV (it happens to all of us). This is genuine confusion wrapped with a sanctimonious smirk of self-confidence. She had no idea she was making an idiot of herself.
Full credit goes to the other three panel members for not bursting out laughing at her on live TV. Dana Bash did the best she could to ramble on and on and on in an effort to both distract herself from what she’d just heard on her network, and cover for Baldwin.
Bottom left square looks like he’s not even cognizant of what’s going on around him, and bottom right square looks like it took all the effort in the world to hold back his laughter. Thus causing his face to look as if he was sniffing a brutal fart the whole segment.
