Our biggest problem isn't Trump or Biden: The media is disconnected from reality

[Nevilledog]

https://www.salon.com/2022/12/08/our-biggest-problem-isnt-or-biden-the-media-is-disconnected-from-reality/

On Wednesday morning, I found myself driving down I-270 from my comfortable suburban abode to get to the White House.

It's a trip I've made literally hundreds, if not thousands, of times. This time was different.

It was rainy and foggy, and as I approached the cutoff that led to I-495, I was cruising along at a comfortable 75 mph. It was faster than the speed limit, but was commensurate with traffic flow. As I glanced in my rearview mirror after putting on my turn signal to change into the right exit lane, I saw a white sports car approaching at a high rate of speed. He passed me on the right, almost hitting me, then cut me off, passed another car, cut him off, and then was gone. He passed me as if I were standing still, and I knew he had to be going in excess of 100 mph — way too fast for surface conditions.

"There's an accident waiting to happen," I said out loud over the sound of "Kashmir" by Led Zeppelin on my car's sound system.

Fifteen seconds later the driver who passed me hit the Jersey barrier dividing the lanes of traffic, and spun out after hitting another car, whose driver managed to drive into the access lane only slightly injured — although his car was totaled. The driver of the white sports car who caused the conflagration? His car too was obviously totaled. With plastic, glass and bits of metal beginning to litter all six lanes of traffic, everyone had to slow down. That allowed me to see the driver who had caused all the pain. As I passed within 10 feet of him, his car was smoking, apparently smoldering. He had a gash across his forehead. He was still trying to drive the thing, pushing to get it into an access lane. "Your car is on fire," I shouted. He ignored me.

*snip*

[Just A Box Of Rain]

1. If anyone is disconnected from reality it is the relentlessly anti-Biden blowhard Brian Karem

at the relentlessly anti-Biden Salon website.

Brian Karem can go fuck himself.

[Mad_Machine76]

3. Yeah

He complains about Democrats losing the House without the context that they only have 9-10 seat majority and all or most of those gains were accomplished by gerrymandering, saying nothing about the quality of those candidates. Given the overall midterm results, I would call it a victory. We held on to all of our Senate seats and added one. We held on to governorships and won seats and other state offices in state legislatures, especially Arizona. IMHO that's a damned victory given all of the pre-midterms media hype of a "red wave".

[Mad_Machine76]

2. AOC is under investigation?!

Just googled her. It says pretty much nothing about what sort of allegations may have been lodged against her.

[Nevilledog]

4. All I've seen is its something stupid about tickets to the Metropolitan.

Have no idea about the accuracy of that, it's the only idea I've seen floated.

[Mad_Machine76]

5. Thanks

sounds totally worthy of the time the ethics committee (and Republicans and Fox News and Tucker Carlson) will undoubtedly spend on it.

[Just A Box Of Rain]

6. She is under an ethics investigation. Met Gala tickets are valued (IMS) at $35-50 thousand dollars

and accepting them without advance approval is an apparent violation of the House ethics rules.