Carol Platt Liebau: Calling Elite Media to Account

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Call it the “Chicken Little” election. According to the media, the sky was going to fall if the nation voted Republican in anything, God forbid, that could be considered a wave.

President Biden kicked off the apocalyptic party with his “red speech,” trashing MAGA Republicans as an existential threat to American democracy. His media sycophants faithfully picked up the refrain.

By late October, MSNBC personalities had used the words fascism or fascist more than sixteen hundred times this year.  The “View’s” Sunny Hostin compared suburban women who vote Republican to roaches. “Historian” Michael Beschloss wins some sort the prize, though. What’s at stake? He said: “whether we will be a democracy in the future, whether our children will be arrested and conceivably killed.” 

The press has become a laughingstock. What will they say a year from now?—when our children are still alive and we’re amid a routine presidential election season?

These people have jumped the shark. They’re responsible for the collapse of their own credibility—and it is richly deserved.

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