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I interviewed Mitch McConnell for the first time when I was 17, and I was warned by my uncle who knew him well that he was about one thing and one thing only.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat is that?\u201d I asked.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMitch McConnell,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kentucky\u2019s 84-year-old senior senator is one of the chief architects of the MAGA Republican Party, and he is almost solely responsible for the makeup of the current Supreme Court. He has been absent without leave since June 14, apparently in a \u201cD.C. area hospital\u201d receiving \u201cexcellent care.\u201d But for what, we have no idea, and f<\/span>ew seem to care. McConnell is an inveterate political fly catcher who has survived in the back alleys and fetid filth of Washington\u2019s political swamp.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t expect members of my profession to track down the story. We\u2019re too busy listening to Donald Trump berate NATO, lie about his investments, revive the Red Scare and call Iranian leaders \u201cscum.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Don\u2019t expect members of my profession to track down the story. We\u2019re too busy listening to Donald Trump berate NATO, lie about his investments, revive the Red Scare and call Iranian leaders \u201cscum,\u201d while at the same time declaring we\u2019ve defeated Iran in a war everyone believes we shouldn\u2019t have started in the first place. (For those keeping track, Trump has claimed he has ended the conflict close to 40 times. I can\u2019t count how often he\u2019s \u201ccompletely obliterated\u201d the Islamic Republic\u2019s military, even though they keep firing missiles and sending drones against us.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Houston <\/span>gunned down<\/span> Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican national who had lived in the United States for over three decades. He had no criminal record. He was married and helped raise three children while working in home construction. Witnesses say he was fatally shot for no reason while ICE agents claim he tried to weaponize his car.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Unless you pay attention to social media, you haven\u2019t read or heard much about this story. But you\u2019ve probably seen that Trump has started an \u201canti-communist club\u201d and is advertising it with glee to his supporters. So you can\u2019t expect us to march around and hunt for McConnell. Most of us don\u2019t want to see him, and the only reason the GOP does is that they need his vote because Republicans have an exceedingly thin majority in the Senate.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump couldn\u2019t care less what happened or will happen to McConnell. There has never been any love lost between them. On his return trip from the NATO summit in Turkey, the president told a gaggle of reporters he had no idea what happened to McConnell. The \u201cand who cares\u201d part was implied by Trump\u2019s body language \u2014 a shrug of the shoulders. However, in the last few days, as speculation has run rampant and MAGA magpie Laura Loomer has declared that she knows McConnell is brain dead, at least two conservative leaders have come forward to say they\u2019ve spoken with him in the last two days for \u201cat least 20 minutes\u201d \u2014 though they won\u2019t say what\u2019s wrong with him, why he\u2019s in the hospital or why they suddenly spoke with him after Loomer\u2019s declaration. Nothing to see here. Move along.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

CNN anchor Kasie Hunt pressed Scott Jennings, the senator\u2019s fellow Kentuckian and a GOP pundit for the network, to call him while they were on the air. Jennings demurred, though he too claimed he had a great 20-minute conversation with McConnell.<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s most depressing about all these stories is that they pointedly highlight the problem with contemporary American media. Speculation runs wild as facts are few and far between.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump is able to go full \u201cTail Gunner Joe\u201d McCarthy and dredge up the Red Menace by channeling his inner Roy Cohn because there is no Edward R. Murrow around to remind us that dissent is not disloyalty, and only evidence and due process can save us from what the legendary broadcaster called an \u201cage of unreason.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We are in the middle of that age. There is no other way to explain the fact that federal agents have gunned down at least three people \u2014 Araujo, as well as Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis \u2014\u00a0and no one has been charged.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the case of McConnell, the Courier Journal, one of the best regional newspapers in this country \u2014 until the Bingham family sold it, along with its now-defunct afternoon counterpart the Louisville Times, to Gannett \u2014 used to have a team of reporters in Washington, D.C., covering Kentucky\u2019s congressional delegation. In times past, the nation would have learned of the fate of the commonwealth\u2019s senior senator because a bird-dog reporter like Al Cross would have tracked it all down and reported it. Today? Cross has retired, and that type of reporter no longer exists at the paper. We are left with the mindless tweets of Loomer and others who \u201cheard from someone\u201d \u2014 speculation they report as fact.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve heard rumors too: that McConnell is in a coma or is perfectly fine or is resting comfortably in a private-care facility, spouting gibberish like a songbird on speed. None of it or all of it may be true. The only thing we know for a fact is that he hasn\u2019t been seen nor heard from since mid-June when his office put out a statement saying he was doing great.<\/span><\/p>\n

I know people who work in his office in both Washington and Kentucky who are as in-the-dark as the rest of us. It\u2019s easy to be closed mouth when you have nothing you can say. But McConnell\u2019s absence has some potentially serious consequences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A law passed in 2024 by the Republican supermajority in Kentucky\u2019s legislature\u00a0 removes the ability of the state\u2019s governor \u2014\u00a0in this case, Andy Beshear a Democrat \u2014 from appointing a temporary successor to the seat in the event of a vacancy. If this were to happen before Aug. 3, Beshear would call a special election. The process has never been tested, and right now former state Rep. Charles Booker, a Democrat, and GOP Rep. Andy Barr are squaring off for the seat McConnell is abandoning. This potentially chaotic mess is not only indicative of today\u2019s politics, but it is also exacerbated by the fact that the Republicans have such a slim majority in the Senate that even a temporary vacancy could affect votes on nominees and legislation, and endanger the GOP\u2019s control.<\/span><\/p>\n

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To my knowledge, no one has staked out McConnell\u2019s residence or hospital. Few have questioned why his wife flew to China a few days after he was hospitalized. There\u2019s no one on this story 24\/7.<\/span><\/p>\n

If McConnell were Taylor Swift, TMZ would be all over it. The outlet now has a Washington presence, but aside from posting the occasional update \u2014\u00a0such as\u00a0 \u201c<\/span>Meghan McCain wants \u2018proof of life\u2019<\/span>\u201d for McConnell \u2014 it too has been silent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The simple reason why the facts aren\u2019t known is that the American public doesn\u2019t care enough to tune in, or at least those who run the media corporations don\u2019t think the American public cares. Put another way: There\u2019s no money in it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Right now McConnell could be basking on the shores of Lake Barkley sipping mint juleps, and unless he was running from ICE or joining Swift and her husband Travis Kelce on their honeymoon, no one cares enough to cover it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

News has become stained with the cancer of opinion parading as facts. We only care enough to speculate \u2014 to raise our voices without ever digging into the meat of the issue. This goes for McConnell, the new \u201cRed Scare\u201d and every other major story in this country.<\/span><\/p>\n

I ran into a reporter this week who compared Trump\u2019s recent actions to Ronald Reagan\u2019s \u201coriginal Red Scare\u201d when the 40th president claimed Sandinistas were a day\u2019s march from America\u2019s southern border. When I mentioned that the \u201coriginal\u201d Red Scare was led by McCarthy in the 1950s, he said, \u201cWhat are you talking about?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Clearly we need to do our research a little better.<\/span><\/p>\n

As speculation about McConnell has swirled, Beshear has been inundated with questions regarding the senator\u2019s absence. In a July 2 <\/span>press briefing<\/span>, he said, \u201cWe have received no information. No updates. If there has been any direct outreach I am unaware of it. I don\u2019t want to speculate about anybody\u2019s health.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, fed up with a lack of answers, on Wednesday Beshear wrote a letter to McConnell and requested an update on his health, a move that escalated\u00a0<\/span>public pressure<\/span>\u00a0on the senator and his staff to come clean.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOver the last several weeks, Kentuckians have grown increasingly concerned about the health and well-being of Sen. McConnell,\u201d Beshear <\/span>. \u201cAs Governor \u2014 and a fellow public official who understands the commitment we\u2019ve made to the people we serve \u2014 I am requesting the Senator provide an update on his current health status.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At least the Kentucky governor\u2019s office is operating as it should.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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There is no question that we\u2019re not doing the job in journalism. If you have to rely on a Laura Loomer tweet for information, you have \u201creached the great age of disinformation,\u201d as a colleague said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The rest of our government is questionable, and there is no question that we\u2019re not doing the job in journalism. If you have to rely on a Laura Loomer tweet for information, you have \u201creached the great age of disinformation,\u201d as a colleague said. \u201cEvidence and due process are gone. It\u2019s only what you feel. It\u2019s only what you want to believe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As Murrow reflected, \u201cThe fault is within ourselves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The fault is also with McConnell. He has lied and manipulated the public from the beginning of his career when he tried to overthrow Kentucky\u2019s GOP leadership. When he failed, he threw other young Republicans under the bus. I know people who left the Republican Party in Kentucky because of McConnell.<\/span><\/p>\n

He made it on the national radar in 1984 with one campaign commercial. Finding himself trailing incumbent Democratic Senator Walter \u201cDee\u201d Huddleston in the general election, McConnell produced a commercial that featured a hunter and some blood hounds trying to track down the Democrat, claiming he was never around to cast a vote in D.C. It was an outright lie, but it worked. McConnell defeated Huddleston by a margin of 5,269 votes. The guy who wrote and produced that commercial? None other than Roger Ailes.<\/span><\/p>\n

McConnell then spent the next 40 years shaping the Republican Party and this country in his own twisted image. And now few care about his own absence from Capitol Hill, and even fewer reporters know how to find out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s enough to drive a man to drink.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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