Arsonist heroically agrees not to light deadly fire? Let me rewrite that for you.

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://presswatchers.org/2021/10/arsonist-heroically-agrees-not-to-light-deadly-fire-let-me-rewrite-that-for-you/

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell is getting exactly the kind of coverage he had hoped for — and had every reason to expect — from a press corps that is incapable of holding the Republican Party accountable for anything.

After ginning up a fake political and financial crisis purely to confound Democrats, McConnell (as widely predicted by everyone who understands the Hill) came up with a way to let Democrats undo his chicanery rather than tank the economy.

But far from explaining that to readers and viewers, the corporate media is letting McConnell and Republicans share the credit for averting the disaster they threatened to cause. It’s like, as a Twitter wag put it, “Kidnapper, police help return abducted child to parents”.

I am so sick of the New York Times providing Exhibit A for me all the time, believe me. But under the headline “Senate Nears Agreement to Stave Off Debt Crisis Until December” on Thursday morning, Jonathan Weisman and Emily Cochrane wrote about both sides agreeing to “pull the nation from the brink of debt default” without any mention of how it got there:

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats and Republicans neared agreement as they met into the early morning hours Thursday to temporarily pull the nation from the brink of a debt default. The deal would punt their showdown on raising the federal borrowing limit to December after Republicans bowed to pressure to stave off immediate fiscal calamity.

With the threat of a default as little as 12 days off, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the minority leader, made a tactical retreat on Wednesday and announced that Republicans would allow Democrats to vote on a short-term extension. He did not, however, lift his blockade of a longer-term increase in the debt cap, demanding anew that Democrats eventually use a complicated and time-consuming budget procedure known as reconciliation to lift it into next year or beyond.

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[Hoyt]

1. Think most people understand exactly what he's doing. Some just don't care.

They like that junk.

If media hooked McConnell and other GOPers up to a BS detector that is pinned to Utter BS when they speak, 40%+ wouldn’t care.