Can the media ignore the nude nuttiness of the House GOP and Trump?

 Can the media ignore the nude nuttiness of the House GOP and Trump?

By Hal Brown

I was prompted to make the image above after reading this featured article on the MSNBC website by Noah Rothman:

How media should not cover Donald Trump

Attention alone doesn't keep Trump afloat in politics. Hate does.

It may be asking too much of the American media ecosystem that it approach this abnormal candidacy with dispassion. Trump himself makes that task all but impossible. But answering Trump’s heat with more heat has so far had the opposite of its intended effect. Perhaps it’s time to give coldness a try.

While Rothman writes about media coverage of Trump his points also apply to how much the media is going to cover the antics of the House MAGA Republicans who all aspire to be demigods devoted to Trump. They are slavering to  mount investigations into Beelzebub Biden.

Ancient artists weren't shy about depicting demons and their victims in the nude.

I wrote about the House slavering like rabid dogs to investigate Hunter Biden yesterday...

It will be interesting to see if the GOP decides to use nude photos of Hunter Biden to make their case that he was a dupe of Russian spies trying to steal his laptops, or something equally nonsensical.

We know they have a list of Democrat Demons.

We can expect that Trump will present an irresistible media coverage car wreck, you don't want to look but somehow it is difficult not to when you drive by.

 If Trump is a single car wreck between the Jim Jordans and Marjorie Taylor Greenes it will be the political pile-up to end all political pile-ups.

I think it is not a question of whether or not the media will cover these things. They will. It is how they will frame their reports. Even Fox News may have trouble making Trump, Jordan, Taylor Greene, and the clown crew look rationale and reasonable, let alone likable. 

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How the Hunter Biden probe can backside fire on the GOP

In this clip from Fox and Friend's Joe Concha in an Aug. 2021 show asks what if this story involved Donald Trump, Jr. without noting that the junior Trump was very active in the Trump campaign and an official of The Trump Organization.

While the they say they won't show images of a nude Hunter Biden they do include them online:

The Republicans are downright drooling over their plan to investigate Hunter Biden and try to tie him to then vice president Joe Biden and make the case that the vice president somehow colluded with his son in what amounted to treason against the United States.

The fly in this ointment is that all this all comes down to is that like with Benghazi there's no there there.

The more one looks at Hunter Biden's past behavior the more an objective observer with a modicum of empathy who is not blinded by a zealous quest to hurt President Biden the more they will feel sorry for the president.

The saying I am not my brothers keeper, shades of Billy Carter, can be reworded to say I am not my son's keeper.

Joe Biden lost his son Beau to brain cancer in 2015 when he was only 45. Most people don't know that Biden had a daughter with his first wife Neila. Their daughter Naomi passed away in 1972 after being involved in a car crash with their sons Beau and Hunter critically injured. 

To say Hunter had a troubled past fraught with bad decisions and a cavalier disregard for how they might hurt his father personally and politically is an understatement.

Currently there are no plans to call President Biden to testify but I think Hunter will be called. If I had a say in the matter I would make sure he testified without an attorney and answered all the questions candidly. The committee has no power to indict him if he admits to breaking the law, only the Department of Justice can do that. As the New York Times notes, "the Justice Department inquiry into the business dealings of the president’s son has remained active, with a grand jury seeking information about payments from around the world."

Hopefully he will come across as a sympathetic figure, especially compared to his GOP interrogators some of whom are likely to try to intimidate and badger him in their attempts to score points with their MAGA base.

I'd say to the rabid GOP MAGA representatives slavering to get to President Biden through his son "bring it on" because when it comes to a there being there all they have is a president unlucky enough to have a very troubled son. 

And then there this news:

It is a well timed shot across the bow of MAGA House zealots thinking they will have clear sailing as they go full-speed in trying to blow up President Biden though their investigations. This comes as the GOP is orgiastic over their being able to shot down the January 6th Committee.