‘Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like [news media] scorned’

In the flurry of “Joe Biden has withdrawn” news, Jerry Cobbs made this observation on Threads. As Jeff Tiedrich noted Monday, the pundit class was not amused at the timing and manner of the Biden announcement.

Sending out a press release on Sunday afternoon, after the morning talk shows, totally screwed the media. No video clips, no “breaking news,” no chance for pundits to comment on how he sounded, looked, walked, etc. No chance to schedule guests to pick him apart as he spoke. He totally starved them of clicks and eyeballs...