What's crazy is that @SarahLongwell25 spent 15 years working for the most notorious lobbyist in the country, Richard Berman; he even got a movie made about him, called "Thank You For Smoking." And she's never accounted for that.
The rule-of-thumb in DC has always been that it's ok to do the most antisocial kind of lobbying -- aside from tobacco and all sorts of other clients, Berman even lobbied to push pregnant women to eat more mercury -- but if you do that, you're a little less welcome in public, polite society. You can keep all your friends and go to private parties, in other words, but you're not gonna be invited to join the Kennedy Center board. No tobacco lobbyists need apply.
Yet Longwell spent the bulk of her career working for the most notorious, evil lobbyist in DC, has never explained it at all, and has just seamlessly transitioned into journalism and advocacy for Democrats. Here she is explaining how it was actually fine for Kamala Harris to not take a stand against the genocide in Gaza. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it.
I would QT her here but she blocked me.
the people who did this walk among us. we are rehabilitating those in the biden admin who facilitated this already. the trump admin is continuing it. the triggermen get to roam our streets and those who demand accountability for this heinous crime are treated like criminals.
Worth highlighting that this show hasn’t had on a Palestinian or Palestinian-American guest in over 7 years, and the last time they did it was Rashida Tlaib and Jake Tapper asked her if she believed in Israel’s “right to exist” three different times.
The insistence of cable news to focus so intently on Hasan Piker yet never interview him or ask him for comment is a fascinating rejection of a century of journalistic norms.
I’ve never seen a person be covered so relentlessly—including even Osama bin Laden—without any effort to interview him.
Declining to take that basic journalistic step effectively means folks like @DanaBashCNN & @jaketapper are forfeiting their claim to even be doing journalism.
They don’t even do the standard throwaway line at the end saying, “We reached out to Mr Piker for comment and he said…”
Genuinely bizarre from two people who for a long time prided themselves on being professional journalists.