Somewhere in the afterworld, Grigory Potemkin is laughing like a crazed hyena, thanks to the way America’s Mainstream Media ( MSM) is extending its kid-glove treatment of President Joe Biden to his chosen successor, Vice-President Kamala Harris.
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Potemkin was a Russian military head and romantic partner of Empress Catherine in the late 18th century, if you’re not familiar with him. He reportedly constructed sophisticated building facades that were constructed, disassembled, and then constantly reassembled downriver while she was on a river trip to the Ukraine. Catherine was trying to deceive herself into believing that all the miserable rumors from the Tsarist government’s critics about farmer poverty, deteriorating casing, and spreading despair may be nothing more than harmful lies because everything she saw appeared to be in perfect condition.
There are legitimate concerns about some of the characters in that tale, but it is without a doubt that the Potemkin Village of the Stalin time ( and subsequent decades of Communist propaganda ) were far too true. As Sheila Fitzpatrick wrote , in her” The Potemkin Village:”
The Potemkin town was established to serve the educated Russian public, and even to some extent to serve the peasants. Like other socialist-realist images of the Stalin phase, the picture of the New Soviet Village but lovingly created in magazines, movies, social speeches, and official statistics was no life as it was, but life as good Russian citizens hoped it was be-coming. The Potemkin community served as a demo of socialism’s potential benefits.
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In other words, it was an idea, a lie, a tale intended to foolish.
In the United States of America in 2024, an identical process is taking shape. Biden’s 2020 campaign was almost entirely protected by the MSM, and it did so for the duration of his abdictory Oval Office career. As Harris approaches a month without an appointment with an independent blogger, they are now using up the identical protective process. The Potemkin Protective Press ( PPP ) is a more appropriate descriptor right now.
There are beginning to be thoroughly expressed annoyance and feigned anger with Harris ‘ refusal to carry a news conference or lay down for an appointment, which the PPP has been doing for three months. In the coming days, the PPP might perhaps feature disapproving editorials occasionally.
That’s all for certifications and CYA display. How’s how this process will continue until the election time: Harris may agree to meet with a big PPP store within a few days, look for it to be “60 Minutes” or perhaps ABC News with George Stephanopolous.
When that meeting happens, there will be a relatively strong issue here and there, but Harris did come unhurt. A short time after that appearance, she will also appear at a news conference with a group of ( carefully selected ) campaign reporters. They will ask some difficult initial questions, but they wo n’t hear any of the evasion-killing follow-up questions that were once so common when Mike Wallace or Brit Hume were in charge.
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The PPP will then be full of praise for Harris ‘ claims of toughness, honesty, and directness, as well as a dogged insistence that claims the vice president continues to avoid the media are “old news.” In other words,” See? She’s done what her reviewers demanded, but they keep criticizing her”.
For the stability of the plan, the PPP’s monitoring did present Harris as a joyful hero, a lord of the middle class, a defender of the poor, and a greatly feared international policy operator. She will be by vote time, at least in the thoughts, pictures, and terms of the PPP, the lord of politics against Orange Man Bad.
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If the Harris handlers were serious about discrediting her critics, they would put their candidate where Teddy Roosevelt said true political courage dwells:” the]candidate ] who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood …”  ,
That would mean they do present the vice president to a section of journalists who would unquestionably be tough and independent. I suggest five candidates for quite a section: Luke Rosiak of the Daily Wire, the now-independent Catherine Herridge, Matt Taibbi of Racket News, and Bari Weiss of the Free Press. Number five had been Glenn Reynolds, the University of Tennessee Law School professor and creator and chief editor of the Instapundit site, who has been a fixture of the Internet since 1997, to make things even more intriguing and educational for undecided voters.
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Finally, if you want to elevate this suggested event to one of enduring value, bring in Trump and RFK Jr. to be quizzed alongside Harris. Then the American electorate could make an informed choice.
