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without explaining the actual crimes. (My emphasis) Taibbi’s essay is well worth reading in full. He makes a reasoned case that the fawningly adulatory coverage of President Biden’s activities resembles the style of the old Soviet Media (about which he knows a great deal). And he has identified a crucial shift in the American MSM: Instead of appearing as props in a phony rendering of objectivity, Republicans in basically all non-Fox media have been moved off the legitimacy spectrum, and appear as foils only. Allowable opinion is now depicted stretching all the way from one brand of “moderate” Democrat to another…. reporters once had to at least pretend to be something other than courtiers, as it was considered unseemly to openly gush about a party or a politician. ....