PROCESS OVER SUBSTANCE

Misanthropic Boomer

It seems that we have turned a corner in the Trumpwellian multiverse...and it isn’t necessarily a good thing. Apparently the mainstream media has rolled over and has become more concerned with process than substance.

I listen to many Sunday morning, so-called, weekly political news recaps every week. I was particularly struck by the interviews with, and discussions of the most recent White House departure of Omarosa Manigault Newman. I understand that she was making the rounds to boost her book sales, however, it seems the media gave her much less leeway than say, Sean Spicer or Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Both Sanders and Spicer have lied and continue to lie for the President. And, while the media have acknowledged the two spokespersons propensity for prevarication, they have not gone after them the way they did Ms. Newman. Newman unlike the others, openly admits to lying in support of Donald Trump, yet the media treated her as a pariah while seeming to “ho-hum,” with no direct confrontation of the lies of Spicer and Sanders. Additionally, Hope Hicks admitted she told “white lies” (an expression I fail to understand, along with Kelly Conaway’s alternative facts) for the President and the media mentioned it once and gave Hicks a pass.

Additionally when Ms. Newman shared the tape she made of her exit interview with Chief of Staff General John Kelly, which, a) seems to contradict the administration’s public statement that she resigned, and b) reveals an heretofore hidden side of the brutish and power hungry Kelly, they were more concerned with the fact that she was able to get a recording device into the Situation Room. Most of the discussion of the tape ignored it’s threatening aspect in favor of frowning on its existence.

I don’t believe Omarosa is the most genuine person to have been part of the Trump administration, and she does seem to fit the mold of Trump’s propensity for cronyism. However, the tape reveals a truth that should not be ignored, especially in light of past remarks (lies) by Kelly, e.g., the still unrecanted lies about Congresswoman Wilson, or his statement that immigrants don’t assimilate...he is an inveterate racist.

It appears that currently! the media is willing to be selective in their acknowledgement and criticism of a racist Whitehouse.

This does not bode well for our electorate, or our nation. When the media allows the people who represent us to say they are “tired,” of talking about race relations without challenging them we are truly in the Trumpwellian world...and it doesn’t look as though we’ll be changing it any time soon.