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January 2nd<\/sup> 2019<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s 2019, and the shameless hypocrisy, dishonesty and flat-out delusion that caused the insane right that took over the GOP to continue with a business-as-usual approach, even as their party leader plunges like a meteorite, loud, flashy, messy but doomed to end badly.<\/p>\n

A writer for the Tribune News Service, one Noah Bierman, wrote an opinion piece cleverly disguised as a news story, supposedly reporting on Elizabeth Warren\u2019s new year eve announcement that she was forming an exploratory committee, which is poli-legalspeak for announcing she\u2019s running for president.<\/p>\n

Bierman bothered with exactly one quote from Warren\u2019s 4\u00bd minute announcement: \u201cWe can rebuild America\u2019s middle class, but this time we gotta build it for everyone.\u201d Apparently none of the remaining 4:27 seconds was worthy of mention in Bierman\u2019s judgment.<\/p>\n

He begins with mention of Warren\u2019s age, and at this point, that\u2019s fine. He mentions that Trump, Biden and Sanders are all older, and that a lot of Democrats and Independents think it\u2019s time for a \u201cgenerational change.\u201d Nothing to take issue with there. But it was the first thing in Bierman\u2019s news queue after a perfunctory and uninformative two paragraphs on the announcement itself, followed by the usual vacuous horse-race \u201cprocess analysis\u201d of the race itself.<\/p>\n

But since Bierman couldn\u2019t be arsed mentioning it, it should be noted that Warren warned of a dark path America was on that meant \u201cOur government is supposed to work for all of us, but instead, it has become a tool for the wealthy and well-connected,\u201d and \u201cHow did we get here? Billionaires and big corporations decided they wanted more of the pie. And they enlisted politicians to cut them a bigger slice.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is important stuff. In fact, it defines the battle over who owns America.<\/p>\n

But Bierman thinks the \u201cPocohantas\u201d controversy is more important. It\u2019s a rallying cry against Warren that he takes from a loathsome, low-brow bigot named Donald Trump. He doesn\u2019t mention that for years, and in his alleged biography, Trump himself claimed to be Swedish, because he felt a German ancestry was disreputable. That\u2019s pretty vile compared to repeating a family legend that they had some Cherokee blood a few generations back. Now, if Warren had said she was of Hawaiian descent rather than Cherokees because she found a Cherokee background embarrassing, then people better than Trump might have had cause to criticize. But that isn\u2019t what she did. She wasn\u2019t ashamed of her family.<\/p>\n

Bierman thinks it was wrong of Warren to take a DNA test which suggested her family legend was correct. Ah, but it\u2019s been so long since a politician actually produced evidence to support a claim that poor Bierman had no idea what to do. In the GOP, politicians don\u2019t tell the truth, let alone try to demonstrate that what they are saying is true. \u2018Taint American! What\u2019s next? Science?<\/p>\n

While stopping to point out Warren\u2019s few legislative achievements, noting she was in the minority party without context, he then goes on to describe Warren\u2019s struggle with the banks without detailing any of what the struggle is about, but marveling that she can raise money even though she\u2019s critical of an industry that Bierman evidently thinks controls the political process. Bierman is curiously uncritical of that control, but seems to feel it\u2019s just a part of nature. Let us all worship the Invisible Hand.<\/p>\n

He goes on to note she got only 60% of the vote against an \u201cunknown\u201d in 2018 calling her support \u201ctepid\u201d and surmising that many of her own supporters don\u2019t want her to be president. It\u2019s true, in all likelihood, but omits the fact that most people think she can be far more effective and get more of her advocacy translated into law right where she is, in the Senate. She is minority chair Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection; and a member of these other powerful committees: Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Economic Policy; Securities, Insurance, and Investment; Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and Primary Health and Retirement Security. She can put a serious hurt on the Wall Street casino from there. Especially when you consider that whoever the next president is, or the circumstances under which that person becomes president, the office has been significantly weakened by the antics of the crazed fool presently residing in the White House.<\/p>\n

Continuing to ignore her platform, Bierman finished up by gleefully quoting the Boston Globe editorial board, which labeled her a \u201cdivisive figure\u201d. He didn\u2019t mention why the Globe said that, which is fair, because the Globe itself didn\u2019t seem to have a reason beyond the fact that she only got 60.8 of the vote, saying, \u201cThose are warning signs from the voters who know her best. While Warren is an effective and impactful senator with an important voice nationally, she has become a divisive figure. A unifying voice is what the country needs now after the polarizing politics of Donald Trump. \u201c<\/p>\n

At least they did mention Trump, the most divisive president since FDR or possibly Lincoln, and one of the new breed of Republicans who tries to be deliberately divisive.<\/p>\n

In this case, \u201cdivisive\u201d simply means \u201cstands for something the banks and other massive corporations don\u2019t want\u201d and \u201ceasy to smear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jess McIntosh, a former outreach coordinator for Hillary Clinton, spoke about a wider phenomenon in the media outside of the right wing smear machine: \u201cIn the very beginning, as we just start to see women candidates coming through, I want to be cautious that we don\u2019t fall into the sexist trap of talking about their likability exclusively,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s not about running for prom queen, it\u2019s about running for president, and we need to make sure we are treating the women in the race the same as the men.\u201d<\/p>\n

He could easily have been including Bierman in the list of reporters he was addressing. I don\u2019t believe Bierman is one of the raging sociopaths of talk radio, and nor is he one of the sleek and sophisticated liars of Fox News.<\/p>\n

I believe that he is a reporter who mistakes what corporations want for what America needs, and falls for the herd mentality memes that seem to attach themselves to any Democratic candidate. He mistakes process for substance, and criticisms of the person for criticisms of the policy.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an abdication of what he needs to be doing as a reporter, and it\u2019s the same family of omissions that made the Trump monster possible in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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