Mary Katharine Ham commented on journalists’ “trauma-farming” about their experience at this year’s WH Correspondents’ Dinner, Friday on the RCP Podcast. I do appreciate people who stood up and tried to get information… but let’s not amp it up too much, Ham said, noting that very few of the reports we’ve seen mention that the shooter “was a floor up from us.” “Then the coverage afterwards seemed to turn away from the assassination attempt-because Trump being a victim is something that is uncomfortable for the press,” she said. “So we’re three stories removed from the assassination attempt before we’ve really dealt with the assassination attempt.” “As a free speech person, I want a wide latitude for being jerks in public,” she said. “But they are constantly telling people from a perch of power and influence that the duly elected president of the U.S. is a traitor, pedophile, rapist-which is what this attempted assassin absorbed and regurgitated.” “A lot of people on the left said the quiet part out loud. This manifesto doesn’t seem very weird; it sounds like what they talk about at dinner parties. At some point, if you think you’re killing baby Hitler, as many of these people seem to, the chances that someone who is ‘a little off’ is going to take that seriously are pretty decent in a large country.” “We’ve seen it happen several times now. I do think we need to contemplate what’s creating this environment,” she said.
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