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| The Truth Behind the Cheney Story |
| 2021-05-14 |
| Townhall Republican Rep. Liz Cheney is out as Republican conference chair in the House of Representatives. The story has dominated American news outlets over the past week. Most Americans are probably hard-pressed to care about the story, but to the political press in the United States, the story has mattered deeply. This past Tuesday night, as rockets rained down on Tel Aviv from Gaza, the press was focused on Cheney's pending ouster, which happened Wednesday morning. On Wednesday afternoon, while President Joe Biden was holding a press conference about the Colonial Pipeline shutdown, MSNBC was holding a panel discussion about Cheney and the future of the Republican Party. Chris Cillizza, CNN's regurgitator of convention hot takes, wrote, "The maneuvering to get Cheney out on Wednesday bodes very poorly for House Republicans." One would think the House GOP conference chair was an important position. It is not. One would assume Americans care. They do not. ...[Therein lies] the reason for the press's obsession with Liz Cheney. In the absence of the press's obsessive coverage, they might have to focus on the calamitous effects of the first five months of the Biden presidency. The border is overrun with illegal aliens. Inflation is on the rise above initial Federal Reserve estimates. The number of available jobs in the private sector grows as unemployment increases. The free market, it turns out, cannot compete against the government using taxpayer dollars to subsidize unemployment. There are gas lines and energy price increases. As the humor site The Babylon Bee headlines, "Biden Continues Rollback of Trump Policies Like Peace In The Middle East." There is also a crime wave in major urban and suburban areas around the country. ...Given the current state of affairs, the press has concluded it is better to amplify supposed divisions in the GOP as a way to turn off voters than cover what filled the American power vacuum in the absence of Donald Trump. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #1 I have a big dislike of background Political Puppet Masters. So I never have been a Dick Cheney fan. Because I suspect her dad was working her strings like he did Bush's. Or like Harris/Pelosi are working Bidens |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2021-05-14 06:20 |