I don’t write many diaries around here, although I’ve been around awhile (UID: 52395). Its not that I don’t like the site, am not passionate about Democratic politics, or even that I’m not a good writer. I simply don’t have time. I work my butt off to keep my family afloat and am exhausted by the time I can sit down to write. I tend to diary about local stuff or stupid little things that piss me off but are representative of bigger problems that got us into this fascist nightmare.
This is one of them.
The pretext of this piece from pompous a$$, Chris Cillizza, masquerading as a journalist at CNN, is that Nancy Pelosi made a mistake in earnestly trying to follow COVID protocols while getting her hair did and “gave Trump a gift”. Nope. The gift to Trump is people in the press corps like Cillizza, who claim to be presenting “both sides” but in reality are thinly veiled shills for the Republicans.
The problems with this piece ABOUND. ARE MULTITUDINOUS. AND PISS ME OFF. Let’s do a list, shall we?
1. Open blatant sexism. Where is Cillizza’s in-depth story of how Trump gets HIS hair done? Where? Anyone find it on CNN? You know Trump gets it done. Does he wear a mask? Is his hair done outdoors (per the “story” that’s the current protocol in CA)?
2. Where is the comparison in the story between what Pelosi has said and done to comply with COVID protocols versus what Trump has said about them? Do I even need to link to Mr. Fifteen-to-Zero, drink-bleach, going away after Easter, don’t need masks, doesn’t affect the young, hyrdoxychloroquine man?
3. And this is what boils my blood. Biden can not make a gaffe. Pelosi can’t make an error in trying to adhere to protocols. BLM has to act exactly perfectly. This is the built in conservative bias in the media after 30 years of right-wing barking. Democrats have to be angelically perfect to win. No mistakes are allowed! One small mis-step and its the end.
Republicans, however, can sell arms to Iran, lie us into a war in the Gulf, repeatedly crash the economy with voodoo economics, ignore a PDB with the title Osama bin Laden determined to strike in America, lie us into another war in the Gulf, ignore Katrina, steal our consitutitional rights to privacy, crash the economy again, obstruct a lawful Supreme Court nomination, fan to infiltration by far right hate group of both the police and military, openly call for the death of protestors, shoot and kill protestors, hand out ginormous sums of money to corporations repeatedly, collude with Russia, collude with Ukraine to undermine a political opponent, surround themselves with multiple, charged, indicted, and convicted criminals, but, but, but…
Nancy wasn't perfect.
F U Chris. F U.