Despite the brutal bombardment Both Siderism has taken every day for decades by events in the Real World, within the impregnable mainstream media bubble the sanctity of the High and Holy Church of Both Sides Do It remains utterly untouched and slavish adherence to its toxic dogma continues to be the truest, surest path to media success and peer-group veneration.
On today's Both Siderist menu, a Triple W Sammich. That's thick slab of moldy, hackneyed Both Siderism from revered, Beltway media insider Bob Woodward between two slices of desperately-trying-to-claw-his-way-back-into-the-Beltway-media's-good-graces Both Siderism from Joe Walsh.
The first slice of Walsh from last week:
I shall summarize:
20 minutes of yadda yadda about the sins of the GOP and wondering where it all went wrong. Nothing that the Left hasn't been warning for the past +30 years.
Followed by five minutes of, But the real problem is the Extremes on Both Sides. There are millions of Murricans in Both Parties who are furious that their parties has been hijacked by the Extremes on Both Sides! We need an Independent party that...blah blah blah.
All the shit you have heard 10,000 times before.
Then comes the slab of ooey-gooey Both Siderism from Woodward, who I always find less stultifyingly boring when listened to at around 1.75x speed, but your mileage may vary.
Then, the second slice of Walsh, also from last week:
Which I shall once again summarize:
Bork, Bork, Bork.
Borkity Bork.
Both Sides are equally to blame but Dems started it.
Because Borkity Bork.
And if you don't agree with me you're in a cult
Bork. Bork. Borkity Bork.
If you'd like to know a little more about why bringing a Bork to a Ketanji Brown Jackson fight is so wildly inappropriate, I wrote about it last week ("Borkity, Bork, Bork, Bork!") when A.B. Stoddard and Charlie Sykes were pulling the same shit because it never fucking stops with these people.
Which is why we...
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