Eric Boehlert: With Trump gone, CNN pulls the plug on White House press briefings

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33. They're free to program whatever they want.

I don’t understand the “Don’t look at him! Don’t cover him!” cheerleaders.

Except for your stress level in the run up to the election, would barring him from msm coverage have changed anything? He had outlets for his ‘message’ such that his base was still engaged and active without it. Do you want to wake up the day after the 2024 election and wonder how he managed to get re-elected?

From the perspective of not wanting to be exposed to a brash circus barker exposing himself and throwing shit on everyone that passes by, I get it. But because of the danger that he and his (quite large, let’s be honest) following pose, my perspective is “forewarned is forearmed”.

Make sure every damning thing he says gets put onscreen, so he doesn’t attract any more followers by omission.

I get it. He’s repulsive and makes me physically ill sometimes. I knew the stress of watching what took place on 1/6/21 wasn’t healthy for me, but I watched every second because I knew that I was watching history, and it would affect me as soon as tomorrow. As such, I’m glad it was available, it wouldn’t have been in a totalitarian state.

Yes, step away from the keyboard, the web, the TV/radio broadcasts occasionally. I just took a couple of weeks. Absolutely fantastic to have no input but a good old fashioned book, and the world can survive a week or two without your or my direct attention.

But the best offensive weapon we have is people like you and me, pointing out his lies, racism, absurdities, and flaws to our friends and family who are still susceptible to that kind of message. Because their message is going to get out there, whether he’s on CNN or not.