{"id":89355,"date":"2025-03-05T08:53:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89355"},"modified":"2025-03-05T08:53:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:53:48","slug":"an-escalator-with-no-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89355","title":{"rendered":"An Escalator With No Top"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s become a bit of an easy trope on the right:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Star with &#8220;You think you hate the media?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Add some bit of loathsome leftymedia depravity<\/li>\n<li>Button it up with &#8220;You really don&#8217;t hate them enough&#8221;. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It&#8217;s a progression with no end; every day brings new loathsomeness.\u00a0 It&#8217;s entirely possible it&#8217;s a barrel with no bottom to scrape. <\/p>\n<p>But Nicole Wallace has to be getting close to that metaphorical nadir:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN: MSNBC\u2019s Nicolle Wallace politicizes young DJ\u2019s moment at Trump\u2019s speech, says she hopes he doesn\u2019t k*ll himself because of something like Jan 6.<br><br>Holy sh*t<br><br>\u201cI hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer, but I hope he never has to defend the United States\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2wHSzECggL\">pic.twitter.com\/2wHSzECggL<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1897139833803567442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So let&#8217;s break it down:\u00a0 Wallace:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Condescendingly snarks about a kid with brain cancer, in order to<\/li>\n<li>spread the fiction that &#8220;right wing terror is the <em>real\u00a0<\/em>danger facing the US&#8221;- a horse they&#8217;ve been trying to flog into a slow trot for sixteen years, now.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So maybe you <em>can\u00a0<\/em>hate Big Leftymedia more than you do.\u00a0\u00a0 But beyond this, doesn&#8217;t it all kind of blur together?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s become a bit of an easy trope on the right: Star with &#8220;You think you hate the media?&#8221; Add some bit of loathsome leftymedia depravity Button it up with &#8220;You really don&#8217;t hate them enough&#8221;. It&#8217;s a progression with no end; every day brings new loathsomeness.\u00a0 It&#8217;s entirely possible it&#8217;s a barrel with no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,321,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media","category-big-left","category-trump-derangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89356,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89355\/revisions\/89356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}