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I Am Not Happy With the Last Two Days of Reporting on CBS This Morning
This video is an interview of Bard Parscale, Donald Trump's 2020 campaign manager. My first problem with this interview is that in order to get the interview, CBS This Morning agreed to play a Republican campaign ad. Playing that ad at the beginning of the interview amounted to millions, or billions of dollar of free campaign advertisement. The free advertisement was made worse by the fact that Democrats were not allowed to play an opposing ad, or to rebut the claims made in the ad. That makes it harder for the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party has to repeatedly pay to have their ads ran numerous times while the Republican Party gets to play their ad to millions of households free of charge. That allows the Republican Party to save money and then put that same money into other campaign needs. On the other hand, the Democrats have to spend more money on ads, which means they have less money to use to pay for other things.
My second problem with the interview is that they did not challenge Brad Parscale enough on the contents of the ad. I will admit, the concept of the ad is good. However, the content of the ad is misleading. The ad tries to pretend that Donald Trump inherited an economy on the brink of failure. That is not true. However, none of the CBS This Morning anchors challenged Parscale on that point. Well, they slightly challenged him by asking him, near the end of the interview, if Donald Trump should share credit for the economy with President Obama. None of them brought up the economic numbers under President Obama. They could have, and maybe should have, pointed out that unemployment under President Obama went from a high of over 9% to a low of less than 5%. They could have also pointed out that in President Obama's second term monthly job growth was about 100,000-200,000 jobs per month.
My third and final problem with this interview is that Parscale was asked if Donald Trump should share credit with President Obama for the country's economic growth. That should not have been a question; it should have been a statement. Donald Trump, despite what he and his supporters claim, inherited a booming/growing economy. The current state of the economy is not solely, if at all, the work of Donald Trump.
This video is an interview of Steven Moore. Moore was promoting his new book Trumponomic, which as you can guess details the Trump tax cuts and claims the cuts have been good for America. My problem with this interview is similar to my problems with the Brad Parscale interview. The anchors did not really challenge Moore's claims. Once again the anchors did not point out that the economy was producing about 100,000 to 200,000 jobs per month during President Obama's second term. John Dickerson did a decent jobs of pointing out that some of the growth under Donald Trump was due to government spending. However, they did not bring up the fact that Trump's tax cuts have greatly increased the deficit and the debt. They also did not bring up the fact that middle class voters do not think the tax cuts helped them. They also did not ask Moore why, if Donald Trump cared so much about middle class voters, Donald Trump did not sign a tax cut bill favoring middle class workers. Why did Donald Trump sign tax cuts that favored wealthy individuals and major corporations. Moore could have also been asked to explain why just about everything Democrats said about the tax cuts turned out to be right. Democrats claimed these tax cuts would lead to stock buy backs and other benefits to the wealthy while Republicans claimed none of that would happen. We have now seen that Democrats were right about the results of the tax cuts.
I am not asking for hostile interviews. However, their needs to be a discussion of facts. People should not be able to make false, or misleading statements without being challenged. People should not be able to skip from 2008 to 2016 and act as if nothing happened in between those years. People should be forced to acknowledge that between 2009 and 2016 the economy of this country got better.
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