4th Doctor: The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common – they don’t change their views to fit the facts. They change the facts to fit their views, which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs changing
Doctor Who: The Face of Evil part 4 1977
You might recall about four months ago (was it really that recent?) the absolute outcry when NBC signed former RNC chair Rona McDaniel as a commentator. McDaniel as you might remember had a success rate electing GOP candidates and promoting the conservative cause comparable with Luigi Vercotti attempts to get Ron Obvious to jump the English Channel or eat Chichester Cathedral and her popularity with the GOP base corresponded to that success making her seemingly the perfect choice as the GOP voice on NBC. But alas the NBC/MSNBC faithful were having none of it:
She’s no Douglas Murray but the slightest possibility that she might threaten the bubble of silence surrounding MSNBC viewers was simply too much for leftists to bear.
You see the MSM decided a while back that they were going to choose as their niche market the far democrat left and a problem with choosing a group of people who primary pushes are for abortion, homosexuality and transgenderism is such a group tend to shrink.
Furthermore when the loudest members of said group are the most radical you find yourself hitting demands to exclude anything that might contradict said groups thus moving farther and farther into a direction to satisfy them and becoming more and more niche till you find yourself locked in an every shrinking bubble unable to to deal with or even unable to acknowledge any reality outside of said bubble.
And when powerful people with a lot of money and influence you know the ones who decide who is welcome at the beautiful parties with the beautiful people who might give you advancement and on whose word your salary is based it becomes easy to rationalize life in the bubble let it harden around you to keep all that unwanted information out.
At least until June 27th 2024 at 9:05 PM EST when reality takes a sledgehammer to the bubble and the walls come crumbling down.
We’ve been writing about the sheer panic among those who saw, particularly among the media who have guarded the bubble diligently (Drew Holden has a detailed post showing HOW diligently) and are now trying to convince people that they were duped idiots rather than collaborators.
This has been punctuated by people suddenly coming out with a whole plethora of evidence of Joe Biden’s decline that they previous withheld.
All of this has become a problem, because now the niche is split and the media doesn’t know which way to go.
Now let me clarify one thing. The niche isn’t split about Joe Biden’s mental acuity all but the most fanatical or ignorant leftists know he is no longer fit to lead, that’s not in question but as I’ve noted that consideration which would be the primary one if they actually cared about American Democracy doesn’t matter. As Alex Berenson put it:
But that’s not the debate among the media trying desperately trying to retain credibility while serving their niche a niche which is now split between those who think the Democrat party’s chances of winning in November are better with Joe Biden on the ticket and those who think keeping him on the ticket will destroy their chances of winning.
THAT is the only thing that matters and the media is desperate to be on the “right” side of that argument, that being the side of the argument which will prevail.
This brings us to yesterday’s news conference.
What the Democrat left and the media really needed was either a commanding Biden demonstrating strength or a slobbering Biden unable to function which would give them a clear direction and reunite their niche. As Frank Fleming put it:
And that is what happened.
It was a lot like the debate, Biden started weak but got stronger and one of his answers on China and chips was actually not bad, however starting on a teleprompter didn’t help and had questioners pre-selected suggests he knew what was coming.
But there were two defining moments that everyone will remember. The first being this:
and after Trump responded online
a second moment when he actually took a shouted question as he was leaving:
Mart Margolas at PJ Media absolutely nailed it:
Make no mistake about it: this was not a great press conference, but it was better than his performance at the debate and his interview with George Stephanopoulos. And that’s a problem for the Democrats. From the perspective of Biden’s campaign, that’s good enough for him to stay in the race.
Joe Biden’s campaign is cratering, and this press conference won’t convince the naysayers that everything is fine — and it won’t convince the holdouts that Biden should go. The situation remains at a stalemate, which means the Democratic Party will continue to be divided over what to do about Joe Biden.
In short it’s the worst of all worlds for the media as every day this isn’t resolved is a day when they have to pick a side which is the worst possible situation for the democrats because as long as this election is about Joe Biden, Trump wins.
Prediction: As soon as one side or the other wins the media will pivot to that side and within a day or two of that moment and by end of whatever week it happens you will never know they thought otherwise.
#unexpectedly of course
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