The media don’t get to bounce back into the conversation and be taken seriously just by suggesting they’ve learned something meaningful.
In hopes of remaining relevant to the political discourse, some big-name people in the media are professing a change of heart or newfound enlightenment that, coincidentally, only arrived after the election, when it no longer matters.
The prime example of media members attempting to keep their prominent status was MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, rabid Trump haters, crawling to Mar-A-Lago because, they said, “It’s time to do something different.” In recent days there were a couple more cases, one less severe than the other.
ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith got loud on his podcast on Sunday after reading the Department of Justice inspector general report reconfirming what was already known (if not to such an extent) — that there were numerous FBI informants trolling through the Jan. 6 protest crowds (though supposedly only three of them were formally tasked with attending the event). “My big issue,” Smith said, “is that I’m really, really sick and tired of, every time I turn around, finding something else that the Democrats have lied about or downplayed or misrepresented along the way.”
It’s welcome news that the deafening sports talker is “really, really sick and tired” of being lied to by Democrats, but the timing isn’t so hot. He would have known about this months ago if he had listened to what anyone truly curious about Jan. 6 was saying — that something was off, that there was clear evidence of a setup (if even only by negligence), and that people in charge were lying about what actually took place that day. That DOJ report filled in some blank spaces but otherwise only lent greater authority to what had already been demonstrated many times. […]
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