It turns out that the media misreported the "sycophantic Cabinet meeting" in precisely the same way.

I know..."Water is wet. Surprise!"

//The meeting did sound truly appalling, utterly icky. But then I started to think ... wait a minute. If the story was that every cabinet member was puckering up for Trump in public, why did the CNN reporter illustrate the point with a quote from Priebus, the chief of staff, who’s not a cabinet member? And I thought some more. Most of these cabinet secretaries are pretty self-possessed people, proud of their achievements in life, and cravenly kissing up to a boss, even when he’s president of the United States, doesn’t fit the profile.

And so I did what I, as a proud consumer of the mainstream liberal press, am not supposed to do. I second-guessed the mainstream liberal press. I watched the video of the cabinet meeting, all twenty-damn-five minutes of it, and I discovered that every story I had read or heard or seen that morning about the cabinet meeting was, as a whole, wrong or misleading, and in many particulars, just wrong.//

It's interesting that they all got it wrong the same way.  Like there was a message board or email list where group think could be communicated.

Islamofascist kills two in London...

...and the proper response is to worry about "right-wing movements."

The media has a finely nuanced view of who the enemy is.

Or is it just predictable and scripted?

Elite media, like most of our elites, is just the worst.

Reason magazine captures the flip-flopping of CNN quite nicely.


A Hero Is Born! Meet the daring A.G.
who won't enforce the laws with which she disagrees
Plus, Kim Davis, the mouth-breathing slob
Should we jail public servants who won't do their jobs?




In other news, the liberal FiveThirtyEight acknowledges that the media was biased in the 2016 election and offers some reasons about how that came about.