Impeachment was always intended by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to serve as a diversion from the freak show that’s taking place in the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. And, even though the whole thing has blown up in her face as far as public opinion goes, she has been successful in using it as a distraction.
According to a new study by the right-leaning Media Research Center, the first 100 days of the impeachment process, which started on Sep. 24 last year, saw an enormous shift of coverage to impeachment by the nightly newscasts of the three big networks at the expense of the presidential candidates and all other news.
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In that time frame, the networks dedicated more than 1,000 minutes of coverage to the impeachment. Among the 2020 Democratic candidates, by contrast, former vice president Joe Biden received one-tenth of that attention, and he got more than any of his Democratic rivals.
It’s a little counterintuitive. After all, why would Pelosi not want her party’s candidates getting airtime, where presumably their ideas and positions will be heard and seen by the public, becoming wildly popular?
Because their ideas are not wildly popular. They’re embarrassing. Their ideas, such that you can call them that, have been to decriminalize illegal border crossings, to give illegal immigrants free healthcare, to make sure transgender women can have abortions, and to let loose every convict in federal prison.
Biden is struggling to put a sentence together. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are knifing each other in the back as I write this. And the next debate for the Democratic Party, the party that obsesses over “diversity,” won’t feature any ethnic minorities, frustrating the social justice mob that now calls the shots.
Much of the public has forgotten about that, because we’ve been overwhelmed with impeachment news. Pelosi can at least take credit for that and for buying the Democrats running for president some time to maybe stop being so nuts.
