The Art Of Being Eternally Shocked: How The Press And Pundits Are Again Mystified By The Obvious

This week everyone seems to be eternally shocked by what has been obvious for years.

The press and pundits are coming off an embarrassing couple of weeks where the Hunter Biden laptop was authenticated in federal court as real.

For years, the press and pundits piled on experts who suggested that Covid 19 escaped from a Chinese lab.

For years, the press and pundits have repeated like gospel that Trump had called neo-Nazis "Fine people." At the time, most of us noted that Trump condemned the racists and neo-Nazis and made the statement about fine people on both sides of the controversy over the removal of historic statues.

For months, politicians and pundits have insisted that Biden is sharp and commanding in conversations even after Special Counsel Robert Hur cited his decline as a reason for not charging him criminally for the unlawful retention and mishandling of classified material.

Just seven days before the debate, the New York Times was running cheap fake articles on how Biden was being wrongly portrayed.

The only thing that would be more surprising is if pundits and the press started being a lot less shocked and more honest.

https://jonathanturley.org/2024/06/29/the-art-of-being-eternally-surprised-how-the-press-and-pundits-are-again-mystified-by-the-obvious/