It’s all about the gotcha and its entertainment value.

An interesting argument from More than Gotcha: Kamala’s Busing Blunder by educationrealist. Educationrealist is probably right about the toxicity of busing as an election issue. He/She finishes:

I don’t understand politics, I know, but for the life of me I don’t understand why every politician from Trump on down to dogcatcher isn’t tweeting about Harris’s plan. Then hound every other Dem candidate and force them to fight that battle for her. Harris will be oh so very popular.

“If you like your school, too bad. Democrats won’t let you keep it.”

But the interesting insight was an aside in ER's argument.

But what I’m more puzzled and aggravated by is all the Republican pundits gleefully celebrating, or at least enjoying, the purported slam dunk of Biden. Ha, ha! Look, there’s Harris, a black woman, taking Biden apart for opposing busing when she was bused! It’s perfect! Wow, what timing! What elan! Harris wins!

It’s all about the gotcha and its entertainment value.

And I’m sitting here thinking what the hell? Busing? Busing was a disaster. Much of the country hated busing. Joe Biden took the lead on busing because he’d have been a one-term Senator if he didn’t. Read about the anger and the white flight throughout the 70s that resulted when cities tried to forcibly desegregate neighborhood schools and end de facto segregation and Biden’s position becomes obvious.

No one else seemed to notice, though. Even conservatives like Mollie Hemingway, Comfortably Smug, and Hugh Hewitt were gleefully celebrating Harris’s body blow based, from what I can tell, purely on hahahaha she’s black, he’s old, she’s using his decades old vote to catch him out on changing times.

That's the gold.

It’s all about the gotcha and its entertainment value.

For the Mandarin Class and the mainstream media, news is no longer to inform. News in entertainment is measured in clicks. Left or right, the establishment derives entertainment from these gotcha moments and will focus monomaniacally on them rather than focus on providing unbiased accurate information in an accessible fashion.

Their financial life blood is clicks. They will do anything for a click.