Rereading Michelle Wolf's brilliant monologue at the 2018 White House Correspondents Dinner is an eye-popping experience. Not just because of everything that's happened since (Roe v. Wade overturned, Biden elected, January 6, Mike Pence), but because her closing remarks are still so spot-on.
"You guys are obsessed with Trump," she said. "Did you used to date him? Because you pretend like you hate him, but I think you love him.
"I think what no one in this room wants to admit is that Trump has helped all of you."
Beltway journos were highly offended. So offended, in fact, that they're defiantly still doing what Wolf accused them of. They still love Donald Trump, covering him incessantly, portraying him in many cases as a normal candidate, allowing themselves to be distracted by dictator talk and more. They do it for eyeballs, likes and clicks — and to keep their Republican sources happy because they're perennially spooked about being labeled "the liberal media." It's sickening.
Yes, paying attention to any four-time-indicted, 91-felony-count-carrying politician who talks about retribution and vengeance if he gets back into power is important. But to be honest, his shtick long ago wore thin. We've had enough of him, and only parcel him out to ourselves in little pieces in order to keep up. We'll skim the headlines and maybe the first paragraphs in The New York Times and Washington Post, and then turn away. When the cable-news chyrons scream "Trump, Trump, Trump," the TV goes off. Deny him the attention he wants, refuse to watch the ads that pay for the drivel broadcast by CNN and MSNBC.
It's the only path for sanity on the eve of what's promising to be a crazy political year. But ironically, it's dawned on us that here we are, posting about him. Sigh. We cats HISS.
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