Now Comes Another One With the Same Talking Points

Earlier, I wrote about Ezra Klein and his wholly dishonest discussion of the GOP debate.  Klein announced that the questions were about substance and policy and to Republicans, that seemed like an attack.  Of course, the questions were just attacks without substance or policy (like asking Trump is he is running a "comic book" campaign.)  Now, I see that another card-carrying lefty, John Cassidy, writing in The New Yorker, has a column about the debate explaining why GOP candidates "don't do substance."  Cassidy complains that no one spoke at the debate about the Trans Pacific Partnership or certain other facets of the economy.  For that, Cassidy blames the candidates rather than the snarky personal questions asked by the moderators.  When senator Rubio gets asked "why don't you wait your turn" before running for president, a responsive answer is not going to involve trade policy, interest rates or the federal deficit.  The question is about his age even though he is not the youngest GOP candidate.  (By the way, can you imagine at the next Democrat debate the result were a moderator to ask Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders "Hasn't your time come AND GONE?")

Clearly, Klein and Cassidy are using the same talking points.  It reminded me of the Journolist.  A few years back, it was uncovered that Klein was among a group of so-called journalists who actually had a hidden website where they exchanged the planned story line for the day.  These liberals (and they were all liberals) were coordinating their stories in many different media outlets, so that the same pro-Obama talking points would appear across the media.  It was dishonest.  It was disgusting.  It was the antithesis of free speech.  It was the creation of pro-Obama propaganda by the very people who are supposedly fairly and honestly reporting the news.  Does this latest coordinated effort by Klein and Cassidy mean that the libs have recreated the journolist?