Since Kevin McCarthy announced an inquiry into an impeachment of President Biden, the takes from the Left have been coming in fast and loose. Hardly an hour goes by without a reporter or columnist from our once august news papers and television news organizations dropping a tin eared hot take about the injustice of it all, never once stopping to consider how their words now make arguments that would have been just as accurate during the first impeachment of Trump but for some mysterious reason weren't said THEN.
This evening's example comes to us from Alexandra Petrie who dished out her most recent piece for the Washington Post to a less than enthusiastic reception.
Impeachment is something we undertake only for serious crimes and misdemeanors, or because the president is a Democrat and that makes us mad. https://t.co/64aQZswOFR
— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) September 13, 2023
How can anyone at WaPo write this sort of thing and not see the irony in it? Beats us.
— BikeHabibi (@bike_practicer) September 14, 2023
Yes, the Washington Post was VERY calm and measured after Trump was inaugurated, as we all remember.
Some immediately linked the article to the recent memo the White House sent out to media organizations asking for them to 'ramp up scrutiny of House Republicans.’
You live in the world you created pic.twitter.com/Z3dXV5D7gP
— Gabriel (@HammerxStone) September 14, 2023
Surely media organizations wouldn't be acting as mouth pieces for the Biden administration! Perish the thought!
Here’s your sign. pic.twitter.com/vi910SWvdY
— Will Collier (@willcollier) September 14, 2023
Of course the tweet got ratioed in the classic sense (more replies than likes on the tweet) …
I’m just here to contribute to your well deserved ratio. Such a partisan take, I’m feeling intense secondhand embarrassment on your behalf.
— RaeSM (@RaeSM3) September 14, 2023
It also got ratioed by Damin Toell in his classic fashion:
Impeach this ratio
— Damin Toell (@damintoell) September 14, 2023
Consider the ratio impeached, Damin.
Things will only get worse from here, no one can possibly expect these 'journalists' to pause and have a moment of self-reflection. If they haven't done it by now they're a lost cause.
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