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It remains weird. I am Carol Markowitz.

Yeah, I mean, you know, we recorded an extra special episode of Normally for what happened at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

And I feel like we still have a whole topic to talk about today about it.

Yeah, I mean, these news cycles shift quickly, partly because I think a lot of people in the press want to get off

the subject of the idea of any Republican being a victim of anything, which is, look, I noticed this.

The first time I noticed this, I'd be interested in your take, too, was after the Gabby Giffords shooting in 2011, I was covering that event as it happened. Like, I happened to be the person on staff at the Daily Color who saw it happen live on TV and started jumping to, to gather information as best I could. And I remember watching the narrative turn and getting sick to my stomach immediately.

Yeah.

Because people just so much, so many people in the press went full force into this is the rights fault.

This is the rights fault for speaking, for saying the wrong things.

This is Sarah Palin's fault for having this map.

And I thought,

there's no, absolutely no indication that any of this is real. And yet it dominated the news

coverage. And from that day forward, every attempt on anyone's life, any event of this sort,

everyone rushes to their corner. They attempt to pin it on someone.

And frankly, I want information so we know who's doing it and why, because I don't want to have

collective guilt for things that are not my fault. I really don't. Yeah. Yeah. The difference I would say

since then is that we've had such an uptick in this kind of thing with President Trump that it's almost impossible to not point at the left and say, you know, you're saying this stuff about him.

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