Tue Dec 22, 2020 Principles are so 2006. The benefit of having a media that isn t just biased toward your side, but acts as a megaphone for your agenda, is that the most flagrant orgies of hypocrisy are not a problem. You can spend the worst part of a month shouting that challenging an election is an attack on democracy and that asking Congress to override a state is something only Franco or Darth Vader would do. And then you go ahead and do it anyway. A Democratic congressional candidate who fell six votes short of winning an open Iowa seat formally contested her loss with the U.S. House on Tuesday, setting the state for a partisan showdown in Congress next month.
Erin Burnett OutFront on Monday night. Retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson was his
usual unhinged self when he proclaimed that the 2020 presidential election was perfect before claiming (without evidence) “there was a little cheating” in Kentucky to reelect Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R). And completely ignoring the Russian collusion hoax, he claimed Republicans never get investigated for cheating.
And it all went uncontested by fill-in host Kate Bolduan.
It was a segment designed to criticize President Trump for accusations he s entertained from associates who ve been peddling the bonkers idea of invoking martial law to rerun the election. Wilkerson began by equating the President’s associates to “rats” and suggesting he would force General Michael Flynn (ret.) back into active service just to send him to prison: