It's Too Windy For Trial Balloons

There was a Thanksgiving parade yesterday in Stamford, Connecticut.  Because of high winds, however, the big balloons were left out of the march.  I didn't attend the parade (although I got stuck in traffic nearby.)  For me, the parade was more a metaphor for the current political environment.  Each day, we hear a few more names of people being considered by President Elect Trump for his cabinet.  It's hard to tell where all these names come from.  Surely, some actually leak from the Trump transition team.  I suspect that others come from those named as possible candidates or their supporters.  It doesn't matter.  Each name is treated as a trial balloon.  The mainstream media dutifully attacks each new person.  You know the drill.  This one is a racist.  That one has a conflict of interest.  The third one failed to give proper change in one instance when he ran a lemonade stand on his front yard when he was eight years old.  The supposed potential appointees get bashed about as if they were in a tornado.

I have a suggestion for the media.  Stop it.  America doesn't really care about every possible appointee.  When the names are announced, you can focus your hate (excuse me, your investigation) on the actual people.  There will be plenty of time for character assassination.  In the interim, you might try covering policy issues.  We just went through an election in which policy was treated by the media as an afterthought.  That was enough.