Posted on 01/22/2021 3:02:53 AM PST by sodpoodle
The media almost unanimously fawned over Joe Biden and the events of inauguration day with some crying over it, calling it America's 'happy ending' and gushing over new press secretary Jen Psaki who was given a remarkably warm welcome on her first day after years of hostility between the media gaggle and the person at the briefing room podium.
Since Biden was inaugurated on Wednesday and even before then, some media outlets have relaxed their impartiality to welcome him and his administration with open arms.
Unsurprisingly, many belong to the organizations that President Trump made enemies of throughout his presidency.
But there was a huge amount of gushing over Biden on Wednesday, the likes of which Trump's team - specifically his combative press secretaries - could only have dreamed of.
The outpouring will do nothing to restore any kind of trust in the media among Republican voters who have become turned off by the relentlessly anti-Trump coverage of the last four years.
Politico columnist Jack Shafer on Thursday called for 'a little sobriety' from his colleagues in the media.
'CNN glowed almost as brightly about the event as a state media would have.
'MSNBC worked from the same script, going gaga for not just Lady Gaga but the whole schmear.
'Everyone can all appreciate that the coverage was minted at the honeymoon pressworks journalists fire up for most new presidents, so in that sense the outbursts came as no surprise.
'But this doesn’t excuse the rhetorical overkill that the press flung so profligately,' he wrote.
WEEPING ON AIR AND MAKING FUN OF TRUMP STAFFERS
News anchors barely kept it together throughout the day.
Rachel Maddow, a well known Trump critic, confessed on her show that she worked through half a box of Kleenex while watching the day's events.
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There isn’t enough space to fit the names of them all.
Better question would be “Who are the ones who are not suck-ups?”
It’s the No Malarkey News!!!
RELAXED their IMPARTIALITY??????
Not in THIS world!
Rachel Maddow??? Crying? Who’da thunk it?
And those “open arms?”
Why, they are Joe Biden’s arms, the light around the Washington Memorial, encircling America!
“No Malarkey news,” delivered by the “dog-faced pony soldier.”
??? Don’t know if I remembered it right.
I vote Snake Wallace
Chris Wallace won this contest in the first hour.
They’ve traded in their face masks and dusted off their
knee pads.
Mollie Hemingway summed it up best when she likened the media coverage to a tongue bath or a Jeffrey Toobin ZOOM call.
If you want a real challenge, try identifying any media suck up to President Trump.
Media gives Biden a slobbering wet kiss like a $2.00 whore.
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