We’ve come too far to give up who we are
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Donald Trump is one lucky guy, benefitting from forces beyond anyone’s control, says Pamela Paul:
But Trump lucked out. The “Access Hollywood” scandal flamed bright and fast and died out just as quickly. About a half-hour after the tape was published, WikiLeaks conveniently began posting emails Russian hackers had stolen from the account of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair. The news cycle swiveled away.
Lady Luck intervened yet again in the form of James Comey, who reopened the F.B.I.’s investigation into Clinton’s emails over a new cache of messages, just two weeks shy of Election Day. The renewed investigation found nothing, Russian agents were later indicted on a charge of hacking Democratic computers, the reporter who spoke to Trump on the “Access Hollywood” tape got fired, and Trump got elected president.
Convieniently!
It was infuriating enough for elite editors and reporters to assert that they simply had no choice to not give Donald Trump confessing to sexual assault on a live mic the kind of all-hands-on-deck-for-as-long-as-it-takes coverage they devoted to Hillary Clinton’s compliance with email server management best practices, because if hacked emails contain blockbuster stories like “what were Chelsea Clinton’s real feelings about David Brock” and “what is John Podesta’s recipe for veal saltimbocca” the press is simply a passive agent with no choice but to devote more coverage to them, and also not to pay too much attention to who was hacking and distributing these emails and why. But to implicitly argue this during a campaign when the major political media has consciously chosen not to publish any stories about hacked emails provided by foreign ratfuckers is really too much to take.
As for James Comey, again, “luck” is not really the phrase I would use. I know it’s become trite to say, but once again we have a much, much, much, much more substantively important story about Trump emerge in October of an election year, so we can compare coverage to the five A1 stories in two days about the Comey letter:
My hypothesis: Any historian of our era will say that the Jack Smith dossier about Donald Trump is 1000x more important than HRC emails found on Anthony Weiner's cell phone.
My question: Do we detect any subtle difference in the way these two news breaks were played? pic.twitter.com/QvTjfZ982T— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) October 3, 2024
At some point one is compelled to conclude that it ain’t luck.
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…the top commenter on the linked article:
Trump doesn’t have luck. For reasons that require real examination he has benefited from *decades* of pit bosses at the casino handing him loaded dice.