I was going to write this: i.e. "Why the Media Keep Getting It Wrong". Aka: "why the Dems keep getting it wrong."
Then Becket Adams did it for me. Link below.
What got me going was this clip from the ex Obama boys at Pod Save America, one of the most leftie of left wing podcasts.
Look at the bit I've highlighted in red. I gasped. Imagine being so in a bubble that you actually believe you're the party of "truth, facts and science, while the Republicans are the party of spin, lies and authoritarian delusion". Imagine!
I mean, this is the party that dreamed up the Steele Dossier, Crossfire Hurricane and the whole Russia Collusion thing, which their own man, Robert Mueller comprehensively debunked.... but which they nonetheless still cling on to. Russia delusion.
This was the party that believed that Donald Trump had said Nazis were "fine people", when he said the exact opposite: ".... I'm not referring to Neo-nazis and white supremacists, who must be condemned absolutely", he said in Charlottesville. Yet Joe Biden told us that that was the reason he entered the race for the presidency. On the basis of a lie.
This was the party that spun and lied about the Hunter Biden laptop and decided to believe -- whether or not they did -- that 51 intelligence officials had said it was "Russian disinformation", when we know and knew then that the laptop was real and had disturbing info about Hunter and his dad's dodgy dealings with dodgy governments.
That's the party that claims the moral high ground? Somehow I'd assumed that behind closed doors they knew something, at least, about the facts. The truth. But no, apparently. They were the ones in a delusion.
I let Adams take it further, more gracefully:
The corporate press’s greatest flaw is its willingness to believe the worst of its enemies and the best of its friends.
This inflexible posture, which overwhelmingly favors the left, is at the root of everything wrong with our modern news media.
CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson are on a speaking-slash-apology tour to promote their new book, which details how White House and Democratic officials conspired to keep Joe Biden’s physical and mental decline a secret from voters. Much of the tour has been dedicated to explaining and, in some instances, excusing how the press, a multibillion-dollar industry whose entire reason for existence is to notice things, “missed” what 86 percent of Americans saw plain as day.
There are no reasonable excuses for what happened, though. Worse yet, this shameful episode is merely the latest in a long string of journalistic failures, all stemming from the same instinct: Trust your allies, doubt your enemies. Or, put more simply: Left good, right bad.
Take the lab-leak theory of Covid-19’s origin. When conservatives such as Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas suggested the virus may have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, members of the press rushed to dismiss the idea as racist and conspiratorial. Today, a lab-leak origin is broadly accepted as not just plausible but, in the view of some intelligence agencies, likely.
Then there is the Hunter Biden laptop. The New York Post, a right-leaning outlet, was the first to break the story, revealing evidence that Hunter may have been engaged in an international influence-peddling operation implicating his father. Major outlets shouted the story down. Politico and others uncritically repeated claims from intelligence “experts” that the laptop bore the hallmarks of Russian disinformation.
The laptop and its contents are authentic, as Hunter Biden himself testified under oath. Covid may have escaped from a sloppily administered Chinese lab. Joe Biden was clearly in poor health even before his inauguration.
None of these stories were fake. These were not conspiracies plucked from the right-wing fever swamp.
