by Tim O’Brien, American Thinker:
In an alternative universe, over the next four years the news media would run stories under the banner “Democrats pounce,” where its journalists would decide not to hold Republicans to account for any missteps, but rather shift the focus to the Democrats for the presumably audacious act of noticing.
What are the chances? Try less than zero.
In this universe, however, the long knives are being sharpened as the legacy media is preparing to unleash its most angry, bitter, and aggressive keyboard assassins on the Trump administration. Unlike Karine Jean-Pierre, Biden’s White House Press Secretary, Trump’s spokesperson Karoline Leavitt will face a room full of people every day who will see it as their job to take her and the administration down.
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“Republicans Pounce”
It’s important to remember the era of “Republicans pounce,” the strategy of attacking Republicans for noticing Democrat incompetence and corruption.
The recent Los Angeles wildfires gave leftists their latest excuse to pull out the messaging strategy. From Politico: “Republicans blame DEI for the LA fires. This fire captain disagrees.” Or this from the Wall Street Journal: “Los Angeles Fire Response Gives New Ammunition to Mayor Karen Bass’s Archrival.”
Perhaps the most egregious use of this journalistic three-card monte was when Newsweek posted this on X (and later deleted it) after then-candidate Donald Trump was shot at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania: “MAGA responds with outrage after Donald Trump injured at Pennsylvania rally.”
Examples of “Republicans pounce” are so plentiful and pervasive that casual media consumers may become desensitized to the approach and forget that sometimes, when the matter at hand is a serious Democrat failure or scandal, anyone’s reaction really should not be the focus of the story.
Politico seems to have liked the term so much that the literal words have shown up in stories and social posts from the latest news on Biden’s inflation (“Republicans pounced on the report to hammer Biden on inflation…”) to Politico’s coverage of Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter (“Republicans pounce on Biden pardoning his son, Hunter”).
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