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Spin Cycle: The 2024 Post-Mortem, And The 2025 Predictions

For those who don’t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week’s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed. With just a few days remaining in 2024 — ...

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Spin Cycle: The 2024 Post-Mortem, And The 2025 Predictions

For those who don’t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week’s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.

With just a few days remaining in 2024 — and only 20 more until President-elect Donald Trump once again takes the Oath of Office and returns to the White House — the media conversations on Sunday largely focused on two things: what people should take away from 2024, and what they expect 2025 will bring.

The common threads — with a few exceptions — were as to be expected from legacy media and the majority of their guests: a white-washed picture of President Joe Biden’s tenure in the Oval Office, juxtaposed with predictions of disarray among Republicans when Trump returns to the presidency.

ABC’s Jonathan Karl pushed the division narrative on “This Week,” drawing on recent debate within the Republican Party over legal immigration and the H1-B visa program, sparked by some comments made by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

Karl quoted The Washington Post as saying that Musk had “incited a MAGA Civil War” when he posted on X about the program and argued that the United States should be bringing in qualified and competent foreign workers, particularly in technology-related fields.

Musk argued that competition in business should be like it is in “pro sports” and that America should draft the best team even if it was necessary to go outside the U.S. to do so.

His comments quickly sparked fierce debate as some argued that the H1-B visa program was being used to import cheaper labor rather than simply to build the best team.

Karl also pressed Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) about another division point within the party — namely the fact that several Republicans in the House had not yet endorsed House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) in his bid to keep the leadership post.

Lawler noted that a failure to re-elect Johnson as Speaker — and quickly — could hold up the certification of Trump’s November 5th electoral victory. Lawler also said that he believed Johnson would win the necessary votes to retain his position.

Karl also brought in retiring Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), who predicted that Trump’s America First foreign policy would only stand to benefit adversaries such as Communist China and Russia.

On CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” political correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burns said that the American people should closely watch how Trump handles the immigration issue, saying that it remained to be seen if Trump’s “base is satisfied and whether the general public gets what they voted for on that.”

National correspondent Jan Crawford predicted another battle over the Supreme Court — and soon — saying that she believed Justice Samuel Alito might retire while Trump had a solid Senate majority: “I think that Donald Trump will probably get his fourth nomination to the Supreme Court.”

And the prediction from correspondent Ed O’Keefe: “Speaker Johnson won’t be speaker by the end of 2025.”

And from Scott MacFarlane: “You’re going to see a lot of retirements in odd numbered years, including 2025.”

“They’re getting thousands of threats a year on their lives, on their families, the travel is exhausting, and we’re coming into a relatively polarizing political moment with Trump coming back into office,” he said.

On CNN’s “State of the Union,” Democrat Karen Finney attempted to rewrite President Biden’s history, claiming that the people would look favorably on Biden’s handling of the economy and would credit him with leading the country out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Joe Biden’s record with regard to the things that he’s accomplished, I think will stand the test of time,” she said, “It was very disturbing to learn late in the year about just how bad, how poor his health has become. And like many, I did not realize that it had gotten to that point. That being said, I think he’s still look, he showed up for the job. He got the work done. I think some of the accomplishments also in the Middle East and foreign policy will also stand the test of time.”

Republican commentator Scott Jennings pushed back, however, arguing that Finney had left out a few key details.

“Look, I think he’s going to I think he’s going to leave office in disgrace! The Hunter Biden pardon was disgraceful. He’s going to be remembered largely for inflation and for the disastrous Afghanistan pullout,” Jennings continued, going on to argue that he expected things to look worse and worse for Biden and his administration as time went on.

“And I think as we continue to we’re just getting the first draft of this now. But as we continue to learn about the massive cover-up that went on, not about his health, but about his mental acuity to cover that up, the efforts that were undertaken by the White House staff, by his family, not in the last couple of months, but for all four years,” he said. “I think it’s going to be a really ugly chapter. It’s a diminished presidency because of it.”

On “Fox News Sunday,” guest Cal Thomas told anchor Shannon Bream that legacy media was “the biggest loser” of the year, laying out a series of stories that they either covered in a biased manner or neglected to cover at all.

“They covered up for Biden’s mental acuity decline. They covered up on the Hunter Biden laptop. Facebook and other social media covered up on the New York Post story about the Hunter Biden laptop,” Thomas said. “The 51 intelligence agencies who the ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ thing signed off saying it was true. The media followed all of this. And I think it’s a disgrace to the profession that I’ve been a part of for a half a century. I wish that we’d get some new blood in the media to actually practise journalism instead of practicing politics.”

The Daily Wire
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