If you were paying attention in 2009, you remember that President Obama's stimulus package was greeted with an all-consuming attack from right-wing media.
I tried to get at why we aren't seeing the same thing now, as Dr. Seuss sucks up attention. mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co…
I tried to get at why we aren't seeing the same thing now, as Dr. Seuss sucks up attention. mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co…
It's not that they support the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that Democrats are enacting this week. They just... don't care about it as much as they do about Mr. Potato Head and their other culture war stuff.
Tucker Carlson, for example, last Tuesday described the bill as "an insult for the people who died and to the country itself.”
He didn't mention it again for the rest of the week -- but did find time for his second and third nights of Dr. Seuss coverage.
He didn't mention it again for the rest of the week -- but did find time for his second and third nights of Dr. Seuss coverage.
My guess is that as the GOP and right-wing press molded themselves to Trump, they adopted his lack of interest in policy relative to cultural grievance. Now the muscles have atrophied and their audience is addicted to it.
Anyway, read the whole thing: mediamatters.org/coronavirus-co…
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