Rachel's Response

[RVN VET71]

39. OK, I understand your point, but disagree with it.

Trump is the story here because he's badly mismanaging -- maybe deliberately, maybe because he's just that incompetent -- the Country's response to the pandemic.

But I do agree that Rachel need not have made such a production with her response. A simple acknowledgment of the tweet with a simple statement and maybe a simple "but instead of thanking me, I think you'd make better use of your time leading instead of belittling your purported critics and further dividing the nation."

But Rachel does what Rachel does. Still, I disagree that her response in any way was "taking the bait" from Trump -- or whichever of his lackeys who actually put out the tweet for the barely literate failed businessman, husband, father, and president.

Even less do I think that a focus on the Biden campaign would be particularly useful for her to talk about at this time. She will, of course, be talking about and reporting on Biden as the nominating convention draws near, and even more so after Biden gets the nomination and begins campaigning in earnest for the presidency. But now is not that time. Now the biggest and most compelling story is the pandemic and, in particular, America's response to it.