Longtime Democrat hack Dana Milbank writes for the Washington Post. He sees life as a series of talking points issued, of course, by the Democrat National Committee, and his columns reflect that time and time again. Milbank's latest effort, however, outdoes nearly everything he has ever written when it comes to slavish devotion to the Democrat cause. It's Milbank's take (or more fairly, the Clinton campaign's take) on the latest Republican debate. According to Milbank, the GOP candidates are whiners who just complain and complain about the perfectly proper questions asked by the media at the debate. When John Harwood asked Donald Trump if he was running a "comic book" campaign, Trump was whining when he replied, in part, that the question was not asked very nicely. When Marco Rubio was asked about an editorial in the Sun Sentinel newspaper that criticized Rubio for missing votes, Rubio was whining in his response that pointed out that the same newspaper didn't care when senators Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry missed many more votes than he has during their runs for president. Milbank thinks that pointing out the bias and hypocrisy of the Sun Sentinel is peevishness by Rubio. When Chris Christie got interrupted for the third time by the moderator (in 15 seconds) and pointed out that the moderator was being rude, that was just too much complaining.
The truth is that this response by Milbank is intended for the inhabitants of the DC/NYC/Hollywood liberal media/politician bubble. The incredible rudeness and improper behavior of the CNBC moderators was demonstrated to everyone who watched the debate. That blatant media bias made clear to millions of Americans just how one-sided the media truly is. It is causing a firestorm that will change the ability of much of the media to help the Democrats in a meaningful way. The talking heads on TV won't change all that much, but millions more people will realize just how biased those people truly are. Milbank's column is designed to tell the people in the bubble that everything will be okay. They are being told that this new attack line against the GOP will calm everything down. Soon, the misbehavior by the CNBC moderators will just be another strike against the Republicans. But it won't. The people in the bubble have lost control, and fooling themselves with idiotic columns by hacks like Milbank won't change that.
The truth is that this response by Milbank is intended for the inhabitants of the DC/NYC/Hollywood liberal media/politician bubble. The incredible rudeness and improper behavior of the CNBC moderators was demonstrated to everyone who watched the debate. That blatant media bias made clear to millions of Americans just how one-sided the media truly is. It is causing a firestorm that will change the ability of much of the media to help the Democrats in a meaningful way. The talking heads on TV won't change all that much, but millions more people will realize just how biased those people truly are. Milbank's column is designed to tell the people in the bubble that everything will be okay. They are being told that this new attack line against the GOP will calm everything down. Soon, the misbehavior by the CNBC moderators will just be another strike against the Republicans. But it won't. The people in the bubble have lost control, and fooling themselves with idiotic columns by hacks like Milbank won't change that.
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