Ever since Tuesday night, much of the media discussion has been, correctly, about the journalistically stupid and bankrupt decision the hack suits at CNN made to let Donald Trump have a free hour to spew fascist lies and propaganda, and the shitty, fuckin' lazy job Kaitlan Collins did moderating the "town hall."
And just like clockwork, Beltway hack journalists who lost the plot a long time ago of what journalism is supposed to do surrounded poor Ms. Collins to assure her she had done a wonderful job with the Herculean, perhaps scientifically UNPOSSIBLE job of fact-checking Donald Trump in real time.
You know, as if she was the second coming of Maggie Haberman or something.
An example of the genre:
\u201cProps to @kaitlancollins who was in an impossible position but did a heroic job of fact-checking Trump throughout the town hall. No easy task given how many factually untrue things he said in such a short time. Collins was a true pro and showed what a stellar journalist she is.\u201d — Peter Baker (@Peter Baker)
Oh for God's sake.
We'll get back to him in a minute.
But first we want to remind everybody what Kaitlan Collins's job used to be, before she was a VERY SERIOUS CNN JOURNALIST who gets to "moderate" CNN town halls and do a "heroic job of fact-checking Trump throughout."
Let's visit the year 2015, when serious journalist Kaitlan Collins was ... [checks notes] ... writing sexist BuzzFeed-style listicles for the amusement of white nationalist Tucker Carlson, at the white nationalist Daily Caller website he founded.
Like this one, 13 Syrian Refugees We'd Take Immediately.
Note the byline.
Yes, this was when the Syrian refugee crisis was front page news, and this was Collins's and the Daily Caller's response.
The picture links are broken now — and were very soon after publication, perhaps because of the immediate backlash — but it was all Syrian women Ms. Collins wrote were "Syria-sly hot."
Isn't she such a journalist?
Collins was also responsible in 2014 for "Ice Bucket Challenge Hipsters: These Guantanamo Detainees Did It First." Surprise, all the pictures on that one are now missing as well.
In that article, Collins attempted to write jokes:
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Conservatives are getting better at humor, etc. Even back in 2014.
So that is the serious person all the hacks in DC are rallying around right now.
Now let's revisit that tweet at the top, where Peter Baker of the New York Times fawned all over what a wonderful job Collins had done with the journalistic feats of strength she had accomplished.
We responded on Twitter. You may click here to read the thread, or we will just reproduce the text below:
\u201cI am so tired of journalists patting each other on the back acting like factchecking Trump is such an impossible task, and that anyone who attempts it is some kind of hero. \n\nHe tells the same lies every time. He has a million of them, but they are always the same. \n\nEXAMPLE!\u201d — Evan Hurst (@Evan Hurst)
Text:
I am so tired of journalists patting each other on the back acting like factchecking Trump is such an impossible task, and that anyone who attempts it is some kind of hero. He tells the same lies every time. He has a million of them, but they are always the same. EXAMPLE!
Every word of that is true, except for we are too lazy to count up all of the five to 10 people who work at Wonkette to arrive at a precise number.
The mainstream media has not learned a thing in the last eight years — counting from Trump descending the escalator in 2015 and calling Mexicans rapists — and now we get to be subjected to all the media's explainings about how the American people deserve to hear both sides of whether the indicted authoritarian fascist serial sexual assaulter we mentioned (also a compulsive liar) should get to be the next president of the United States. You know, after he incited a terrorist attack against America in the process of trying to overturn the election and overthrow the government.
Because that's what journalism is. Showing both sides. Of all things. Because all things have both sides.
Goddamned fucking hacks.
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Need more inspiration for that?
Listen to this shit from Anderson Cooper last night.
\u201cCooper: You have every right to be outraged today and angry and never watch this network again. But do you think staying in your silo and only listening to people you agree with is going to make that person go away?\u201d — Acyn (@Acyn)
They will never, ever learn.
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