If there is no coverage, there is no scandal
With the conclusion of the first year of the Biden administration, White House chief of staff Ron Klain sought to end on a high, or at least higher, note by retweeting a column saying that 2021 was not “all bad.” It was like bragging that a bad first date told you that the evening could have been worse.
However, what really stood out in the column by Albert Hunt was the key rationale: the first year was “scandal free.”
Calling 2021 “scandal free” is not merely an example of blinkered commentary, it is an exercise of willful blindness. This is why magicians often make audience members part of the illusion. Houdini did not actually make his 10,000-pound elephant Jennie disappear. It was there the whole time, but the audience did not want to see it. That’s the trick.
At his inauguration, President Joe Biden promised the return of good government and newspapers like the Washington Post heralded the end to Trump’s “scandal-plagued single term.” Now, at the end of the first year, readers are being asked to “think back four years ago: The Trump administration looked more like ‘The Godfather’ – without the skill.”
LGB!
Scandal free are they kidding between Joe & Hunter is was all about them Hunters left behind wife and relationship with brother Beau’s wife>. Hunter’s job with China and the Big Man meaning his Dad and all the billions they raked in for selling this country out and pocketing their donations. Hunter’s so called portraits raking in $500,000 each for his paint by numbers so called art! Joe’s mandates on masks while he and wife shop all over the east coast and California without them. The pulling out of Afghanistan and leaving our soldiers and people behind and leaving our military vehicles by the hundreds of thousands for our enemies to use. Get a grip Americans you are lied to on a daily basis.!!!!!!
AMEN TO THAT!!!