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For the love of God, please stop interviewing Lindsey Graham
For the love of God, please stop interviewing Lindsey Graham
Trump's abused sycophant has nothing to say — but he's a symptom of a much bigger media problem
By Kirk Swearingen
Contributing Writer
Published July 5, 2025 9:00AM (EDT)
(Salon) Why (oh, why) is the press still interviewing Lindsey Graham?
You know, the once-supposedly-moderate Republican senator from South Carolina who, after Donald Trump sent his supporters, many armed with real and makeshift weapons, to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, declared that he was done (“Count me out. Enough is enough,” he said, also pointing out the lack of any evidence of voting fraud) and then who, quicker than most people can figure out the spelling of “sycophant,” became a Trump golf partner and one of his most reliable and eager lapdogs?
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Zeisler also praised the late-night talk show hosts who seem to be the only people telling us the truth in these depraved, embarrassing, dispiriting Trumpian times:
In recent years of flourishing disinformation ecosystems and broken social contracts, satirical journalism has taken up more than a bit of the work abdicated by legitimate outlets. After the 2016 election, taking an overtly apolitical stance in their craft was no longer good for business, both ethically and materially. The president was leading a culture war more than he was a country, and consumers wanted to know where the entertainers they loved stood and what they would stand up for.
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The Murdochs have dedicated their careers to killing off our democracy (and ruining family and other personal relationships) with the propaganda machine of Fox News, while actual journalists must follow the norms of journalism, while often editorially under the thumb of corporate overlords — one truthful expression of opinion can get them canceled. But comedic minds are, to their credit (and no doubt often to their pain), always homed in on the truth. Right-wing comics cannot be funny because they recoil from the plain truth like, well, vaccinations. .....................(more)
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/05/for-the-love-of-god-please-stop-interviewing-lindsey-graham/
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South Carolinian checking in. 
Tim Scott has it made as Lindsey gets all the attention.
