On the eve of the great Harris-Trump debate tomorrow night, it bears noting that the major networks and other news organizations are uniformly demonstrating an enormous pro-Trump bias in their daily coverage. Post columnist Alexandra Petri wrote a satire in her column Sunday headlined “I Found the Magic Trump Headline Machine,” which suggests that the media takes barely intelligible remarks by Trump and repackages them as legitimate and coherent policy statements.

     If it were not for her fictional magical machine, she proposes, “we would have headlines every day like ‘Would-Be President Rambles Unintelligibly for 80 Minutes After Promising He Would Speak About the Economy,” proceeding with “At Intervals We Glimpsed Something in The Torrent of Words That If Pulled Out and Dried Off Might Become a Policy Idea, So We Sent Several Guys in After It, But None of Them Returned Alive, Except for One Guy Who Just Said ‘The Horror, The Horror’ After We Retrieved Him And He’s Now Staring Off Silently Into the Void.”

     She then provided extensive quotes from what Trump actually said in the economic policy speech he gave in New York last week that was a blathering, incoherent stream of semi-consciousness that, according to social media comments afterwards, alarmed many important people. Petri noted that in the formal coverage of the “speech” by CNN and the New York Times, headlines transformed the troubling incoherence into suddenly meaningful, coherent phrases.      So as Petri reveals that we can’t trust the major media to give us a true sense of how bad it is getting for the mentally compromised Trump. even as much as many social media comments even by his own former confidants are confessing now. His cognitive powers now are way worse than when he was president. Now, it’s like the GOP is running him the way they did Hershel Walker, that football player they ran for the Senate in Georgia a couple years ago, who mercifully lost.