[AC -- OK, but I'm about to get to Joe Scarborough for having the guts to tell viewers last year: "F--- you if you can't handle the truth. This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever."]
"The thing I admire most about liberals is their balls-to-the-wall bravery. This past weekend, for example, CBS's Scott Pelley called Trump a "felon," making him, quite simply, the finest investigative reporter working in journalism today.
"Innumerable news outlets hailed Pelley's reckless courage in headlines the next day, (here, Mediaite):
"' '60 Minutes' Airs Scathing Segment on 'First Felon in the Oval Office' Despite Pressure to Avoid Sensitive Stories About Trump"
[Editor -- Correction: Trump has been called a " felon" by every major newspaper, TV anchor, elected Democrat, blog post, overweight female protester and undiscovered Amazonian tribe. The New York Times alone has called him a "convicted felon" more than a thousand times. By now, Trump is insisting that "convicted felon" be on his headstone. Pelley's calling Trump a felon was not heroic.]
"In CBS's own write-up on Pelley's fearless decision to label Trump a "felon," the network reported that it "was nearly impossible to get anyone on camera for this story because of the fear now running through our system of justice."
"Miraculously though, "60 Minutes" somehow managed to lure Democratic activist lawyer Marc Elias out of retirement and onto its airwaves. Nobody's sure when he might appear on TV again, except continuously, until the end of time.
"Demonstrating the very real risk to Elias for criticizing Trump, the media crackled with encomiums to his courage the next day. The most enthusiastic admirer of Elias's bravery was Elias himself -- and, really, who's in a better position to judge? . . .
'People Warned Us About How Bad This Was Going to Be': Colbert and Maddow Spew Bile About Trump, GOP
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