RNC Coverage

Fox News Channel refused to broadcast the Democratic National Convention. They played their prime time opinion shows instead.

CNN and MSNBC will be broadcasting the Republican National Convention this week.

Let this put an end to the notion that Fox News is “fair and balanced” or that CNN and MSNBC are left-wing equivalents of Fox. There is no such equivalency. CNN and MSNBC cover important political events regardless of which party hosts them. Fox News is a vehicle for right-wing propaganda.

I won’t be watching the RNC this week. I have watched every political convention since 1968. I watched the RNC in 2016, but I’m going to pass on this one. I’m not in the mood to listen to a bunch or lies, false accusations, and xenophobic rhetoric.

We don’t need speakers to describe what a Trump presidency will look like; we’ve lived though it. We don’t need to listen to his friends and family members justify his corruption, his ineptitude ineptitude in negotiating international trade deals, his disregard for democratic institutions, his flaunting of the rule of law, his incompetence in handling a deadly pandemic, or the unspeakable cruelty of his family separation policy. We have witnessed all of this day after day in graphic detail. No amount of rhetorical sugar coating is going to convince reasonable voters that the last three and a half years have been a success story, or that the guy who got us into this mess deserves another term. No one is that stupid. 

Nor do we need to hear a bunch of fear mongering about how horrible a Biden presidency might be. Why? Because we lived through the Obama years when Biden was a governing partner. And except for Moscow Mitch trying to block all progress at a congressional level, the Obama years were pretty darned good. The Obama White House did good things for a lot of people. They provided comfort and empathy in times of trouble. They punished Russia for their incursion into Ukraine. They hunted and captured our number one enemy, Osama bin Laden. Our country and our leadership were respected around the world during the Obama presidency, and we will regain that respect, which Mr. Trump squandered, under the leadership of Mr. Biden.

So, I’ll offer my apologies in advance to MSNBC and CNN. You’re doing the right thing by broadcasting the RNC - it shows that you take journalism a lot more seriously than a certain propaganda channel - but I’m not going to waste my time watching a disingenuous, xenophobic, white-supremacist clown show. I just don’t have the stomach for it.