When Nikki Haley joined the Trump administration and then pretty quickly had to resign amid Trump’s foreign policy scandals, it was obvious her career was over. Yet the media (on the left and right) hilariously insisted she’d be a major force in upcoming presidential elections.
Why does the media always get these kinds of predictions wrong? Haley is an absurd person with an odd mish mash of political views, so if she ran for President, the resulting controversy would have been great for ratings.
When Haley torpedoed herself by joining the Trump regime, the media didn’t want to just give up on the hope that it could get ratings out of her in some future presidential election. So it falsely claimed she had a big future when it knew she had none.
To be clear, major media outlets on the left (MSNBC in particular) were every bit as guilty of this. They were so disappointed she was finished, they tried to will her back into relevance by insisting she was extremely relevant.
Predictably, Nikki Haley has now been reduced to a mere twitter troll. She’s become so irrelevant, and misses relevance so badly, she tweets intentionally dumb things, because she prefers negative attention to her usual situation, which is no attention at all.
The media no longer pretends Haley is going to be a viable presidential candidate, because even they know they can’t sell that one. But no one in the media paid a price for insisting on the day of her downfall that she was going to be a frontrunner.
Because the media always gets away with chasing ratings by hyping a potential presidential candidate that nobody on either side wants, it just keeps doing it. These days the media insists that duds like Chris Christie and Mike Pompeo are the next big thing.
When Christie and Pompeo are nowhere near the 2024 race (or get 1% of the vote in the Iowa caucus and drop out), those in the media who spent 2021 and 2022 falsely hyping them will pay no reputational price. Being wrong, even intentionally, somehow doesn’t matter in this industry
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