Trump-despising Republican TV fixture Rick Wilson best nailed Trumpworld’s response to Robert Mueller’s Friday indictment-palooza in a tweetstorm of invective:
Sweet Jesus the MAGAS, the clickservatives, and Gentry Breitbart think he’s exonerated. It’s freaking spectacular. SPEC-TAC-ULAR. No. Really. Their level of self-delusion, day-drinking, head trauma, and lead-paint chip ingestion is a miracle of medical science….His fans often say Trump is playing x-dimensional chess, projecting order on the stochastic lunacy of his dementia, lack of moral compass, world-class narcissist personality disorder, white-hot ignorance, and dry-drunk lashing-out.
Yes, reality-dwellers, Friday’s indictment of more than a dozen Russians for trying to rig American elections proves — in Trumpworld — that TRUMP IS INNOCENT! Don’t try to figure it out. It’s sort of like how, for Christians, the Trinity is proof that there’s one God. Once you kiss logic goodbye, anything is possible.
I pointed out the media’s complicity in keeping America mass-shooting obsessed the other day. I’m not the only person who finds this a problem. Here are some suggestions for how TV could help tamp this down instead of pump it up. I don’t agree with them all, but it’s past time TV execs stopped thinking with their pleasure centers. If they can ignore activity on the football field in the name of discouraging it, they can downplay this tendency to make famous every mass killer. No, this isn’t a substitute for gun control, but it’s something that can be addressed immediately. Gun control will take years.
Trying to capitalize on mass shootings never ends, though. Florida Gov. Rick Scott wants FBI director Christopher Wray to resign because the FBI didn’t follow up a tip about the Florida school shooter. Yeah, right. Just the way Scott did when the feds busted his hospital company for Medicare fraud — though of course, that was because he risked losing everything had he stayed on. Now Scott risks being exposed as just another treasonous Republican if Wray stays on.