Corporate media asks only one (Jewish) Republican about "Shylock" in the ongoing process of normalizing MAGA

 This is my Google News feed for President Trump's use of "shylock" in a speech the other day:

In addition, I looked at twenty-two other major media sources, domestic and international, and I discovered two key items about the coverage:

ONE: With the exception of Mediate askng Jewish GOP Representative David Kustoff about it, there is no evidence that ANY reporter for any corporate media posed this question to any Republican leader. One suspects that some reporters already knew they wouldn't get a real answer, because no Republican politician in his, her, or their right mind would criticize The Boss. They are probably correct, but let's look at it from a different perspective: this means that the corporate media has effectively (and more or less permanently) surrendered on the issue of holding President Trump accountable for what he says that is racist, sexist, etc. IF the ADL and the Jewish Telegraph Agency and others had not pushed back, there would have been no story.

Even allowing for President Trump's many other anti-semitic references.

For the sake of completeness and the vicarious enjoyment of watching someone justifiably twisting in the wind, here was Kustoff's reply and rejoinder with Mediate:

So this apparently means that the Republican standard is that if I claim I did not know that n*gger, ch*nk, ret*rd, or c*nt were slurs, I get to keep using them until somebody complains.

Got it.

TWO: President Trump never apologized for using the term. You'd almost miss that because nearly every single media focuses on his patently transparently lying denial:

No apology. No "If I'd known it mean that I'd obvious never have used the word" or "I'm sorry if my ignorance of the real meaning of the term upset anyone."

This is, of course, par for the course for authoritarian leaders: they can never be wrong, and they never apologize. "You view it differently" is as good as it gets.

By the way, how do I know the President is lying when he says he never heard of it?

Because Trump's official campaign Twitter/X account brought it up during the 2020 election that Joe Biden had also used the term in 2014:

And, of course, to those who view the President's relationship with Judaism, Jews, and Israel as purely transactional, it doesn't matter, as this rare moment of truth shows:

In Podhoretz's mind, as long as the President bombs Iran he can also sit down to dinner with Ye seven days a week, and pardon insurrectionists wearing pro-Auschwitz t-shirts as often as he wants.

Strangely -- or perhaps not so strangely -- the same media that did not question Republicans about the issue did not mention anywhere that President Trump never apologized.

This is what I mean about normalizing the Trump administration -- more and more each day the corporate media covers the stories the way MAGA wants them to be covered.

An final probative example: recently, the New York Times permitted an anonymous author to publish a hit-piece on Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic NYC mayoral candidate. Aside from the anonymity of the author, the Times permitted publication of hacked material about Mamdani's college application which is decidedly odd from a newspaper that previously -- and piously -- refused to print a story derived from hacked records about Donald Trump.

The double standard, as Newsweek reports, is palpable and longstanding:

The Times' only pathetic defense of this was that they didn't do the hacking, wouldn't do such a thing -- but that they would print the results when somebody else did the things they wouldn't do, and that they would cover up the identity of the author who is, as noted above, "an admitted race scientist/eugenicist" in order to give their readers ... "more context" ... about Zohran Mamdani:

It's becoming pretty clear that we might as well merge the New York Times with the New York Post. The Post, at least, doesn't try to disguise its ideological leanings.

That's where we are today with respect to the corporate media ...