Boy, it is really infuriating to watch media types on Twitter try to equate every innocent move by President Joe Biden with his nefarious predecessor! Eric Boehlert s Press Run newsletter spells out the insane gyrations of the Beltway press to manufacture controversy in this administration:
Biden travels during the pandemic! Biden wears a Rolex! Biden hasn t given a press conference! Biden hasn t credited Trump for the vaccine! Biden hasn t united the nation! The breathless exercise is already tedious. And it s only March.
In a way this is the Beltway press returning to normalcy after Trump s four years of deliberate chaos. And normalcy for the D.C. media is pelting Democrats with gotcha stories about optics and how something the president has done doesn t look right, as determined by journalists. Not that the president has done anything wrong. Just that it doesn t feel right, and that now that gets treated as Important News, just months after a president who ran the White Hous