Tom Elliott:

 don’t blame us when you notice that most of this year’s most mortifying media moments are political. Their obsession is not something we’re able to cure.

So with that curtain-raiser out of the way, let’s meander back through this year’s most cringe-inducing moments of media failure.

  1.  One of the saddest parts of carrying water for the DNC is how the corporate media, by extension, also found itself having to carry water for Joe Biden. In July someone at the White House had the bright idea of labeling viral clips of Biden’s dementia as “cheap fakes.” Being cheap fakes themselves, the thought manipulators at CNN/MSNBC/etc. all dutifully began employing this term themselves.
  2. In an attempted “gotcha,” CNN’s British reporter, Donie O’Sullivan visited Trump rallies and interviewed MAGA voters about their thoughts on “democracy.” When Mr. Sullivan was corrected that the United States is a republic, not a democracy, O’Sullivan became incredulous, reaching to “experts” like Anne Applebaum to explain that anyone who disagrees with progressives’ contemporary notion of the United States being a pure democracy are themselves fringe cranks hellbent on “attacking democracy.”