Michael Tomasky was back on Morning Joe today, beating his dour, one-note samba: right-wing media is the root of all evil.
Last month, we caught New Republic editor Tomasky blaming conservative media for Kamala Harris’s defeat. He even claimed that right-wing media is more powerful than the MSM. As we wrote: “If only!”
Today, Tomasky blamed right-wing media, singling out Rupert Murdoch for particular opprobrium, for Trump’s current popularity, as reflected in majority support for his handling of the transition.
Trump has nominated “unqualified extremists” across the board, and yet the public approves of the transition. He doesn’t blame “people,” he blames Fox. “First and foremost, I blame Rupert Murdoch and, to a lesser extent, his imitators, whose media properties have injected so much poison and so many lies into our discourse since 1977 that common civic…
