Vice President Kamala Harris held a CNN Town Hall on Wednesday night. It was originally scheduled as a second debate with her opponent, who canceled out of fear of losing to her again. When offered his own Town Hall, the Republican nominee declined over concerns of being fact-checked on live global TV.
Immediately after the Vice President's unscripted Q&A with Pennsylvanians still on the fence about the election, CNN's panel tore down her performance as though she hadn't met the high bar set for her that doesn't exist for Trump.
Charlamagne Tha God went on CNN to talk about the election and nailed Anderson Cooper, who seemed astonished to be in the position of justifying the imbalance of CNN's political coverage. Not only is Cooper guilty of "sanewashing" Trump, he does it in his response to Charlamagne.
What makes it worse is when the corporate media is called out for their actions and are too obtuse to see that Trump is a problem that they created themselves.
MSNBC and Washington Post contributor Eugene Robinson appeared on Friday's "Morning Joe" to excoriate the media that he is a part of.
In another example of Trump-sanewashing, the Los Angeles Times editorial board wrote an endorsement for Kamala Harris, which was killed by the paper's Trumper owner. As a result, thousands of readers are canceling their subscriptions in the wake of the editorial editor's resignation.
The normalization of Trump and the diminishing of Kamala Harris echoes 2016 in all of the worst ways.