This week’s Liberal Media Scream features MSNBC’s Morning Joe show hosting a top editor for the Financial Times suggesting that the United States has lost its authority to hold a democracy summit after four years of former President Donald Trump.
Discussing the meeting set for next year at the White House, to which Russia and China have been excluded while Taiwan and Ukraine have been invited, the U.S. editor for the influential outlet questioned “whether America is in the position today to really play host and to pick and choose.” His reasoning: “A lot of countries, including the United States, are now defined as less democratic than they used to be. As the term of art goes, ‘democratic backsliding.’”
Edward Luce, U.S. national editor of The Financial Times, on Monday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC:
“What will it achieve? That’s an open question. A lot of countries, including the United States, are now defined as less democratic than they used to be. As the term of art goes, ‘democratic backsliding’ and so there is some question whether America is in the position today to really play host and to pick and choose. So I suspect most of the attendees are coming out of politeness rather than any great expectation this will be a big advance, a sort of blow, for the advance of democracy.”
Brent Baker, vice president of research and publications for the Media Research Center, explains our weekly pick: “A sign of how deep Trump Derangement Syndrome has dug in, where a top editor at a major western news agency would give legitimacy to the view that, in comparison to China and Russia, the U.S. has lost its moral positioning as a democratic nation.”
Rating: THREE out of FIVE screams.
