The "mainstream media" is back to its old tricks, having learned nothing from 4 years of dystopia ending in a botched coup attempt:
With the COVID-19 vaccines starting to bring the pandemic to an end, former President Trump has stepped in to take credit for the feat.
What’s surprising is that he’s been aided in this by the Washington Post and New York Times, both of which have run articles this week arguing that the speed-up in the vaccine rollout under President Biden only builds off of a plan put into place by Trump. In short, they contend that Trump is right: he had a plan to distribute the vaccine that Biden was lucky enough to inherit.
That’s flat wrong. A look at what actually happened in the Trump administration’s last months shows that the White House lacked a plan for the “last mile” of distribution, leaving that to the states while lobbying Congress not to pass much-needed funding that would spur state and local governments to get the vaccine into arms.
On its own terms, the Trump administration did not have a plan to distribute the vaccine to Americans en masse beyond “let the states figure it out.” (our emphasis)
Here's NBC's Peter Alexander whining that President Biden didn't give credit to the former guy, basically providing laudatory words to put in the President's mouth:
For his tone deaf, ahistorical kumbaya efforts, Alexander gets rightfully dunked:
In the long history of dumb media dynamics, “why won’t Biden give more credit to the bleach drinking insurrectionist for his management of the pandemic that killed 500k people” may be the dumbest to date https://t.co/4Tdh7rYQKf
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) March 12, 2021
Then, we have the media "factcheckers":
Which doesn't sound like much of a plan---> https://t.co/mwocfi63de
— Ann Telnaes (@AnnTelnaes) March 12, 2021
There's more that could be dug up, but we're tired and it would just be redundant.
We expect (and are seeing) this revisionist history from the likes of Fox "News" and the various frothing right- wing Trumpist outlets. But when "mainstream media" seems to be taking its cues from them, it's deeply disheartening to say the least. The vaccine rollout has been botched in many states, thanks to the Trump "plan" noted above -- "let the states figure it out." It's causing delays and potentially unnecessary death. That's not cause for praise.
But at least it's a pause in their whining about Biden not holding a press conference yet.
