RMJ listened to the "debate" so I wouldn't have to, though I've heard a large part of it in the process of listening to various comments on it. At one point he noted that the PBS NewsHour had more or less declared Trump's performance to be presidential. I listened to it and that is an accurate summary of its post-"debate" spewage. To get much of the American media, such as CNN to call a Republican-fascist "presidential" all he has to do is avoid pulling a chicken's head off and eating it raw on camera. Only I count on PBS to do it more consistently and more servilely. I listened to it and that was about the sum total of it. I think anyone who figures they need to be asked back on PBS knows they've got to present such "balance."
The most informative thing about it was the Republican hack from the WaPo Gary Abernathy who wistfully wondered what a Trump who could lie less bizarrely so as to scare off voters, who could do the "debate" act, who could do a good imitation of "presidential" while doing the terrible things that he's done, which he clearly likes. I think that's what the same crew who brought us Trump is hoping to find next time, Tom Cotton or whoever, and who they can package as "presidential" to rope in the suckers in 2024. I have no doubt that you will see venues such as the NewsHour and C-Span's morning programming doing what they've always done and help to sell Republicans' latest model to the more superficial among the American Voters.* I think anyone who trusts the NewsHour, C-Span's produced programming or CNN is probably about the most susceptible to that kind of thing. No doubt, in their research departments including many of those "suburban women" who the louche lounge lizard begged to like him last week.
PBS is a corporate whore house, literally, a more obvious whore house than a certain legal cult I've done my best to expose as one here over the past week. It is a whore house that has large numbers of suckers believing it's some temple of civic piety. The "PBS Newshour
* It's remarkable how we will capitalize "President" "Senator" "Justice" but we leave the real sovereign entities "The People" "The Voters" and the supreme authority in egalitarian democracy "The Vote" uncapitalized as if they, the only means by which there is any legitimacy in any of the rest of it, only deserves lower case. Hey, it's not my means of showing respect but if they're going to do it, nothing deserves it more than the only legitimate source of government. I think that's a good symbol of what's wrong with the American system, from Constitution to the government it produces and everything from the way we are encouraged to think about things to the mechanics of putting letters on a computer screen or a piece of paper. Maybe those should be put in all caps to make up for that.
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