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quick thread on how NYT has toasted McConnell's supposed genius for being able to orchestrated a sham impeachment trial.
right after acquittal a team of NYT reporters rushed into a detail what a "master" tactician McConnell was bc he was able to keep GOP from allowing actual trial with witnesses.
nytimes.com/2020/02/06/us/…
Largely ignored is the fact that any stranger off street could have done what McConnell did, which is to urge Republicans to act w/o any honor or ethics. This is a party that's corrupt to its core, but NYT doesn't want to acknowledge that so they pretend, OMG McConnell is amazing
The next day, the NYT followed that up w/ another McConnell puff piece, the entire premise was the GOP loves him. That was the "news" hook. The puff piece included not one quote from a critic assailing the Soviet show trial that McConnell just sponsored.
nytimes.com/2020/02/07/us/…
this is a key reason why the GOP has become so radical and corrupt—bc elite institutions like NYT toast the GOP for acting radical and corrupt.
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