I woke up this morning to the latest Twitter dust-up. Long-time journalist Howard Fineman (late of Newsweek and Huffington Post and now with MSNBC) sent out the below tweet:
Upon further investigation, I was able to track down the photo (because literally, nothing on the internet ever dies). It was a blurry picture of Speaker Pelosi and Senator Schumer arriving and being greeted by Maureen Dowd (she of the 200 plus Clinton hit pieces on the op/ed pages of the NYT). But wait, it gets better. The event was a party for the release of a book about Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court. But wait, there's more. Check out the guest list:
Yup, a bunch of politicians (a bi-partisan affair, in fact!), reporters from august publications like The Washington Post, The New York Times, and others, along with political consultants, all had a FUN TIME celebrating the story of how an accused sexual predator ended up getting a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
The guy who literally wrote the book on the fakeness of everything in Washington - Mark Leibovich (This Town) - was there, because irony needed to die another death. Fineman's lack of awareness is galling. At a time in our country where kids are being confined in cages at the border, rarely a day goes by without a story of some form of corruption coming out of the Trump Administration, and of course, the whole The-President-Is-A-Racist thing, it's what the kids call a bad look for everyone in D.C. having a grand old time at a Georgetown cocktail party spraining their wrists giving each other reach arounds. It just goes to show that politics is all fake. It is professional wrestling. Everyone goes out in public and plays their part, but when the cameras are off, they pal around with each other while the country burns.
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