With all the potential news stories out in the world, Steve Kornacki spent twenty minutes this morning on the possibility of a Joe Biden campaign and then came back to spend another five minutes on it later in the show. Twenty-five minutes on nothing? Really? Has nothing been happening in the Middle East? What about aggression in the South China Seas? Has the war in the Ukraine disappeared and what is happening in North Africa? Is none of this worthy of inclusion on a news program or is the remote possibility of yet another candidate in the already five deep Democratic field really that important?
Is MSNBC really saying that their researchers couldn’t find anything more real or more interesting than the remote possibility of Joe Biden running this year? That’s pretty pathetic. Then Kornacki spent another eleven minutes on the ever-popular Donald Trump. Try telling the world that Trump’s inadvisability as a president, isn’t trumped by his value as a blowhard bully to the media. The whores are in the streets people. They’re holding up their skirts and looking for business and their name is media.
Biden’s chief appeal as a presidential candidate is that he didn’t run when his presence was needed by his family. Unlike all the other candidates who would sell a baby to get a block of votes, Biden did the right thing and he will continue t do the right thing by taking over the reins of a grieving family that needs a father.
But the problem isn’t with Biden, it’s with a media that recognizes only one candidate out of 17 on the GOP side. Everyone trumpets the second debate that is coming up. And yet we know almost nothing about many of the candidates. It’s been weeks since we’ve seen anything about many of these men and women on the tube or in the papers. Some of would like to know:
- Is Rand Paul for anything except prison reform and staying away from the rest of the world?
- Who is Jim Gilmore and more important who cares?
- Is Carly Fiorina still trying to sell getting fired as a qualification for being president?
- Will the Republicans realize that Kasich is their best shot at getting a guy into the White House who can actually run the country?
- Does anyone care that George Pataki was once governor of New York and more important;
- Does anyone care that Scott Walker is still governor of Wisconsin?
- Is Mike Huckabee the least Christ like of all Christians?
- Could Bobby Jindal drive Louisiana further into the swamp?
- Will Marco Rubio continue to backstab his ancestry, or will he finally admit that Obama’s strategy for bringing Cuba back into the functioning world is the right one?
All of the above are questions that could be asked of these candidates, if they could be found anywhere in the media but they all seemingly have been abandoned to give air time to a few snippets of Bush and Cruz and a mountain of time for Trump. It seems that all it takes to get the media on its knees today is a loud mouth and a lot of empty rhetoric.
It’s obvious that Trump is more a candidate, of the media than of the voters. Sure he leads in the current polls but what will happen when those who take up votes but stand no chance of winning begin to drop out? How many of Carson’s voters will go to Trump? How many of Rubio’s? Trump has got the crazies. How will he do with the semi-crazies who fall away from Paul, Walker and Huckabee? These are the real questions. Who will pick up the extra votes?
The biggest loser in the debates, because of their format, is the Republican party. Why? Well, they didn’t display the stones to dictate to Fox how the format should have worked. It’s obvious that with 16 candidates the intelligent way, would have been was to have two equal 8 person debates instead of having an early second string debate and a later 10 man free-for-all. In order to keep them equal, they should have picked the even numbers in the poles for one debate and the odd numbers in the polls for the other debate. This makes sense. The Fox idea, like Fox, itself was thoughtless and mindless. This is, supposedly, a major network. They couldn’t figure out this simple strategy to give everyone an equal shot? Of course giving everyone an equal shot is anathema to the Republican Party, so now it comes back to bite them in the ass.