Lingo update!
On today’s Morning Joe, a furious Mika Brzezinski accused the so-called “mainstream” media of “sanewashing” Trump — never confronting him with his alleged affronts to democracy as described by Dick Cheney in his statement explaining why he, like his daughter Liz, will be voting for Kamala Harris.
You knew it was going to be a tough morning for Mika and Joe Scarborough, having to deal with the new New York Times/Siena poll showing Trump with a one-percent lead among likely voters. Scarborough dismissed NYT/Siena polls as regularly being an “outlier.” In fact, Five Thirty Eight has rated it the #1 poll!
Any look at the 2020 polls demonstrates most of them were “outliers” compared to the actual vote totals.
Scarborough wondered Trump’s lead is due to all the “disinformation” that is leading almost half of Americans to support Trump. That led to this answer from an angry Mika:
MIKA: Well, it’s a mixture of that and a lot of other things, including, I think, the mainstream media that claims to be objective. They are, there’s some sort of instinctive sanewashing. Like, I wonder if he gets asked about any of this [Dick Cheney’s allegations] during the debate. I would be surprised. [Angrily] It should happen, but it never does. And they never ask.
The MSM never challenges Trump over his denying the 2020 results or the January 6 riot? What have the last three-plus years been other than a non-stop torrent of the media accusing Trump of being a “threat to democracy?” That’s an hour-by-hour cable-news talking point.
Googling that term just now returned . . . 20,300,000 results!
Somebody’s gonna have to “sanewash” me. If I hear anything more about the MSM not being objective, in the sense they go too easy on Trump, I might go crazy!
Here’s the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
9/9/24
6:01 am EDTMIKA BRZEZINSKI: Former Vice President Dick Cheney, the former Republican Vice President, following the warning we heard from his daughter: that it’s not enough just to not vote for Donald Trump. He will take the next step and vote for Kamala Harris.
In his statement released on Friday, he called Trump a threat to our republic and pointed to his repeated 2020 election lies. Quote, he tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again.
. . .
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Even if Kamala Harris wins. Even if Kamala Harris wins comfortably — which, which right now, it’s a tie. We’ve been telling you, it’s a tie. So, Democrats, if they want Kamala Harris to win are just going to have to work harder than Republicans.
But even with that, about half of Americans will be voting for a man who did all the things that Dick Cheney said Donald Trump did.
MIKA: Yeah.
SCARBOROUGH: All the things that we’ve listed. All the things that they know. And Americans, I think all of us, we need to, we need to sit back and try to figure out, is it really just the disinformation that these people see every day that are leading almost half of Americans to support that?
MIKA: Well, it’s a mixture of that and a lot of other things, including, I think, the mainstream media that claims to be objective. They are, there’s some sort of instinctive sanewashing.
Like, I wonder if he’s asked about any of this during the debate. I would be surprised.
SCARBOROUGH: I doubt it.
MIKA: It should happen.
SCARBOROUGH: I doubt it.
MIKA: It should happen, but it never does. They never ask.
SCARBOROUGH: They’ll probably start with monetary policy or quantitative easing, something like that.
MIKA: Yeah. Acting like it’s 1978.
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah.