President Joe Biden’s denunciations of an emerging “oligarchy” and “tech-industrial complex” appear to be, beyond a ham-handed attempt at an Eisenhower moment of his own, a clarion call to the media in the waning days of his presidency. If network news is to serve as a guide, it appears that the media have heeded the call.
At the conclusion of our analysis of MSNBC’s fawning coverage of Biden’s farewell, we said:
With this “oligarchy” narrative, the media will finalize their shift from Regime to Resistance. Never mind that the narrative is fake and little more than a smoke bomb thrown by a failed president on the way out the door. They’ll run with it just the same.
The shift is now underway. Watch as the networks each amplified the “oligarchy” narrative, albeit from several approaches (click “expand” to view transcript):
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