Corey, Murphy, Facebook
Republican Matt Corey, running this year against U.S.
Junior Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, is not a household name. Murphy, on
the other hand, has managed to keep his name fresh and prominent before
Connecticut’s electorate since 2013, his first year in office. Murphy has from
2019-2024 accumulated $2,641,556 from presumably greedy top industry moneybags
and a more modest $92,516 from sumptuously endowed Yale University, according
to Open Secrets.
Suffering from a high cumulative inflation rate, high
interest rates – responsible, many economists acknowledge, for the shortage of
housing -- the high cost of food and other necessities such as energy, and a
busy-body Democrat President that has violated the traditional “everyone is a
king in his own home” stricture, Corey no doubt is hoping that these impositions
will weigh heavily on voters in his upcoming campaign. The Biden- Harris
administration, smitten by EVs, the necessary components of which are made in
China, wants to refashion cars in the driveways of average Americans, eliminate
gas powered stoves and reduce the efficacy of water heaters, washers and dryers,
before existential environmental extinction polishes everyone off.
Critics of such autocratic central government interventions
are airily dismissed as backward troglodytes hesitant to take a step into a
future plotted by experts and academic utopianists armed with PHDs from
unaffordable Ivy League universities, the same universities that find it
humiliating to rid their own campuses of subversive anti-Semitic Hamas
supporters.
In a Hartford Courant story last April, “U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy holds major money advantage: $9
million in campaign coffers. Critics say it’s overkill,” Murphy told the paper’s reporter, “I think I’ll
probably run a race very much like the race I ran in 2018: focused on the work
I’ve done and not likely focused on my opponent.”
Ballotopedia tells us that Murphy sits on the following senatorial
committees: Senate Committee on Appropriations; Transportation, Housing and
Urban Development, and Related Agencies; Committee on Foreign Relations;
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; and an assortment of
subcommittees.
Corey has for weeks been chiding Murphy to agree to a series
of debates, presumably on the assumption that long time representatives in a
democracy should be prepared to give an accounting of themselves to their
constituents. Murphy is no political
saint, nor is he Caesar’s wife, supposedly beyond reproach during the Roman
imperium.
Kamala Harris has gone 64 days as the presumptive, and now,
official Democratic nominee for president without holding an official press
conference. Although she recently agreed to be questioned by a standard
friendly and inoffensive interviewer, Harris intends to enter the White House with
sealed lips, and there is no indication they will be unsealed by an importunate
media during her possibly eight year reign in office.
It seems pretty obvious that all incumbent Democrats up for
reelection this year have stolen a page from Hillary Clinton’s campaign
playbook – not just the suddenly camera shy Murphy. The unexamined greed for
power and glory among Connecticut Democrats knows no bounds. Money is power, we
all acknowledge. But the power of incumbency, universally tolerated by
Connecticut’s news media, is also convertible to campaign cash and face time on
television, as indicated by the figures cited above.
The media used to pride itself as a political leveling
instrument. Corey has seen its darker face.
Four days ago, Corey posted on Facebook, “Anybody in CT media
ever going to ask Senator Chris Murphy about his friends and their drone
attacks or should we just wait until the debate? Oh, that’s right…Nobody in CT media is
willing to hold Murphy accountable with a debate before early voting starts.”
Former Secretary of State in the Barack Obama administration
Hillary Clinton has weighed in on the subject of Vice President Kamala Harris
obdurate silence. Clinton recently was asked by podcaster Kara Swisher whether
she though Democrat Party candidate for President Harris should more often offer
herself to media scrutiny to clarify her policy issues. Clinton answered that
media avoidance on the part of Harris was not a problem.
"She does not have to do it, Kara,” said Clinton. “I'm
going to just cut to the chase… In fact, she's put out policies on her campaign
website. Anybody who's truly interested can go and read about them. She
referenced policies. She actually doesn't just have policies and concepts. She
has plans about what to do… I think it's, um, you know, it's a double standard
and it's a double standard that is partly because they are still getting to
know her. But also because they're still grappling with the idea like, ‘Oh, am
I really going to vote for a woman to be president and commander in chief?’"
Clinton then offered the following advice to the Trump-adverse
media: “They careen from one outrage to the next… I don’t understand why it’s
so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump
is. You know, the late great journalist Harry Evans one time said that
journalists should, you know, really try to achieve objectivity, and by that,
he said, I mean they should cover the object. Well, the object in this case is
Donald Trump. His demagoguery, his danger to our country and the world. And
stick with it."
That is, in a nutshell, the campaign posture of every
authoritarian politician on the planet who seeks to render their abysmal policies
acceptable: Wrap yourself, prior to election, in a word salad of invisibility
and use a friendly media to savage your opponent. Venezuela dictator Nicolás Maduro, who jails his political opponents, is a master of the art.
“If you want a picture of the future,” George Orwell wrote in
his novel 1984, “imagine a boot
stamping on a human face—forever.”
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