Pack your bags, Sarah

As op-ed sage Holman Jenkins notes in the Wall Street Journal, Americans’ November 5 date with the ballot box draws ever closer, meaning Big Media lies about any and all candidates not of the Left will soon reach fever pitch:

A Democratic presidential campaign, representing the incumbent party, fabricated evidence that its Republican opponent and the eventual president-elect was a Russian agent, and the in-power party’s FBI legitimated the evidence in the eyes of the media so it would be widely reported and believed by the public.

To make sure it was believed, top intelligence officials of the outgoing administration went on cable television to call the new president a Russian mole and Vladimir Putin his case officer.

All this must surely be of interest to the ABC’s Sarah Ferguson, who did such a dutifully incurious job after Trump’s 2016 victory in pulling together a three-part Four Corners “expose” of the new president’s alleged fealty to Moscow. Surely she’s eager to round up the camera crew, book some nice hotels and once more roam the world to parrot the latest election year batch of furphies, misrepresentations and flat out lies. As Ms Ferguson demonstrated in 2017, that’s how to score a Walkley nomination.

Holman continues:

…2024 will see lies manufactured by agents and veterans of the national-security state, as in 2016 and 2020 … Those reporters and editors who are still capable of participating in the media business in good faith need to start thinking now about how they will deal with this…

It’s the “in good faith” bit that’s the problem.

Jenkins’ column can be read in full here.

— rf