The New York Times Softens the Knockout Blow to Trump

Last night's beat down during the presidential debate was not as bad as it looked, according to the New York Times

The New York Times walked into the flailing and bleeding boxer’s corner last night and said, “Don’t worry, kid, she landed a few blows, but you’re alright.”

Bloodied, beaten, and stupid, the boxer who thrives on bullying tried to stumble out of his corner, but he was up against Prosecutor Harris, who again immediately sent him reeling against the ropes.

The first body blow of the evening came when the prosecutor invited Americans to attend a Trump rally so they could learn about Hannibal Lecter and sharks. She urged Americans to attend his rallies so they could see America’s most dangerous dementia patient firsthand. She treated him with disgusted amusement like the rest of us do.

The bully stumbled backward, trying to explain that he had the largest crowds and that the prosecutor had to bus her crowds in.

When he ranted about how Democrats were overseeing the execution of babies after they were born, debate moderator Linsey Davis corrected him, stating the obvious fact that, “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born.”

The bully stammered and whined.

He tried to yell, “Immigrants!” several times through a mouth that political cartoonists frequently remind us resembles an overworked anus, but Prosecutor Harris punched him so hard he found himself unable to respond.

“ChYna,” he tried. “ChYna!” It was as if the methane that regularly comes out of his mouth was stuffed back into his esophagus by the prosecutor’s furious punches.

Pow! He was pummeled again with a mean roundhouse of policy wonkiness that left him screaming, “She’s a Marxist — everybody knows she’s a Marxist!”

Finally, there was this, as reported by The New York Times:

At points, Ms. Harris put her hand under her chin as she watched Mr. Trump’s answers with skeptical amazement, laughing out loud when he repeated false and outlandish claims that immigrants were stealing and eating their neighbors’ pets in an Ohio town.

But while there were plenty of flash points, there did not seem to be a knockout blow that could fundamentally alter the dynamics of what by all measures will be an exceedingly close election in November.

No knockout blow? Ask The Drudge Report, a decidedly conservative online rag:

Screenshot from The Drudge Report

Why does the New York Times insist on this kind of reporting? In paragraph A, they report the knockout blow, then in paragraph B, say there wasn’t one.

If a so-called presidential candidate is claiming immigrants are eating your pets, and that isn’t considered a self-inflicted knockout blow, what is?

Instead, like a boxer’s trainer armed with bandages and encouragement, the New York Times approached the delirious, defeated bully, lifted his chin a little, looked into his swollen eyes, and said, “You’re just fine. Get back out there. We’ll keep covering this like the horse race it isn’t.”

This is supposed to be a civilized country. Anyone who votes for a presidential candidate after hearing him talk seriously about neighborhood pets being eaten by immigrants should have their voter registration revoked by the always-vigilant anti-vote Texas governor.

Luckily, the foolishness of the New York Times has been upended by Taylor Swift, who followed up the debate with a well-timed endorsement of Kamala Harris. She signed the Instagram post declaring her support for Kamala, “Childless Cat Lady.”

Screenshot from Taylor Swift Instagram account

In her Instagram post, she spoke of her concern about AI-generated images of her supporting Trump, a concern that, if elected, should alarm anyone. It worries me enough that I’ve written about it:

Finally, a Swift boat we can all believe in.