We’re up all night to get lucky
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This bit of political “analysis” has become funny for a different reason than it was funny at the time:
Nuzzi: Yes, we’re forgetting or purposefully ignoring something rather important about this election: It’s not a two-man race. It’s a three-man race. A majority of Americans say they are unhappy with another “lesser of two evils” contest, and they’re in luck, as they have a range of third-party candidates to choose from. One of those candidates, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is polling competitively, especially among young people, and he’s steadily gaining ballot access across the country. Last Tuesday, the campaign announced it had collected enough signatures to qualify in Arizona and Georgia, crucial swing states.
The punchline is that “hoping it would make RFK Jr. ask for more demure nude selfies” is the most charitable explanation for why somebody making an extremely good living writing about politics would assert that Americans should be grateful to be so lucky as to have a vanity campaign by a reactionary conspiracy theorist whose main political platform is bringing back polio.
Speaking of analysis that, ah, reads differently now:
Aged well! https://t.co/yIXahvbEiV— Erik Loomis (@ErikLoomis) September 20, 2024
To state the obvious, “Bloomberg had to cave in the face of mild criticism from Democrats” is one of the least plausible explanations ever. I mean:
it's really lucky for Trump that, right around when he got hacked, the US news media decided to completely reverse its position on the ethics of covering hacked documents https://t.co/Nb2MRitfuo— The Great El Wokismo (@canderaid) September 20, 2024
It is pretty obvious that word of the trouble in NuzziLizza paradise had began to leak into the Beltway media ecosystem. Having said that, I also strongly suspect that the rumors also helped executives at Bloomberg figure out that investing a lot of marketing resources in a video podcast series feat. Chris Sununu and Lisa Murkowski would be throwing good money after bad.