The galling cynicism of CBS News hiring Mick Mulvaney

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‘Access journalism’ takes the media to dangerous places when one side of the aisle is turning against democracy

“A lot of the people that we’re bringing in are helping us in terms of access to that side of the equation.”

But the question arises here: access to what? To those who will spout the “big lie” about the 2020 election? To those who will excuse and arrange for corrupt behavior?

Let’s recall, for a moment, some of Mick Mulvaney’s greatest hits.

There was the time he defended President Donald Trump’s withholding nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine, freely admitting that it had to do with his boss’s insistence that Ukraine investigate Hunter Biden to serve his own political ends. “Get over it,” Mulvaney told the press corps who questioned the “quid pro quo” nature of the demand.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/04/03/cbs-mulvaney-access-journalism/
 
In fact, Mulvaney was deeply involved behind the scenes in the infamous phone call on July 25, 2019, between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. You might recall that national security adviser John Bolton refused to get involved in “whatever drug deal [Ambassador to the European Union Gordon] Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up” on behalf of Trump.

That was the call in which Trump uttered the impeachment-worthy line, “I would like you to do us a favor, though.”
 
MSM is liberal? Every Sunday morning CBS, NBC, and ABC trot out right wing Republicans to fill up their political discussion programs.
 
Trump hung up from threatening Zelinskyy


91 minutes later the order was being given by phone to end the military support
 
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