From Gruel to Mace, with script in place!

FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 2024

Our broken American discourse: On Tuesday night, it was Andrew Gruel, an American chef, reciting the script on the Gutfeld! program.

As we showed you yesterday, his claim was already bogus as of Tuesday evening. For the record, this is the mandated tribal message he served:

GRUEL (8/13/24): The funnier piece of this—let's take a step away—is the way in which the media is covering it, right? 

So when Trump came out and said that he was going to remove the tax on tips, it was like, "We're going to lose $250 billion to the federal"—right? It was all about, "This is going to be absolutely horrible for the government."

And then the media comes out when [Candidate Harris] says it, and it's some anodyne approach. "This policy is amazing. No problem at all." 

Thus spake the American chef, reciting mandated script. That said, sad!

As of yesterday afternoon, a wide array of mainstream / legacy / "liberal" news orgs had already published reports saying "No tax on tips" remains a hot mess even though Harris has proposed it.

Andrew Gruel was wrong, and then up jumped Nancy Mace! Last night, as part of an instructive engagement on CNN NewsNight, Rep. Mace (R-SC) came along and thoughtfully offered this:

MACE (8/15/24): [Candidate Harris is] aided and abetted by mainstream media. 

If you saw the headline by a neighboring network a couple days, a couple of weeks ago, days ago, when Donald Trump came out with his no taxes on tips policy, all of the headlines on mainstream media were derogatory. 

Kamala Harris comes out with her policies on no taxes on tips—which is Donald Trump's policy, by the way—all of the headlines on mainstream media were positive and glorious and thoughtful.

That was Mace, in the wake of Gruel. It's as we told you yesterday:

Everyone within the Red American tribe knows they're required to say this. You don't get paid, and you don't get elected, if you don't peddle such scripts.

(Accuracy has nothing to do with it. Little that's said on the Gutfeld! program is tied to such concerns.)

AT any rate, after Harris endorsed "No taxes on tips," all the headlines on mainstream media were positive and glorious and thoughtful?

Last night, that's what the shapeshifter told the world. Just to refresh you, here were the headlines we listed yesterday afternoon, though there are many more:

Hot tip: Both parties should stop bribing voters with tax cuts
Exempting tips from taxes is a terrible idea, regardless of which party is proposing it.

Why Trump and Harris’s ‘no tax on tips’ plans may not help tipped workers
Economists say the proposals are unlikely to have much practical impact, though either could cost the government at least $10 billion to $15 billion a year.

Not taxing tips is a dumb gimmick. Harris is wrong to follow Trump.
The Biden-Harris team dismissed an idea it now embraces. How it went from a waitress to mainstream.

Trump and Harris support no tax on tips, but experts say it could complicate things
Both presidential nominees support no tax on tips. But this now-popular campaign issue is making tax experts and economists shake their heads.

Why Trump's And Harris' Proposals To End Federal Taxes On Tips Would Be Difficult To Enact

Those headlines came from the Washington Post, from the Associated Press, and from NPR. The AP report had been widely published—for example, in the Boston Globe. 

This was, by far, the least instructive part of Mace's gruesome appearance. We plan to review it in detail tomorrow. 

Let's just say that, in our opinion, Professor Dyson took the bait. More specifically, he took the bait that Mace persistently dangled. 

This appearance was highly instructive. No one, CNN included, came out amazingly well.

By far, we'd say that Mace came out the worst. At any rate, this:

We told you they know that they're paid to recite. On Tuesday night, the recitation was straight Gruel. Last evening, they brought out the Mace!