Is it just me, or have members of the mainstream media — read Democratic party spokespeople — become mouthpieces spouting talking points word for word as they’re told?

I know we all know MSM leans well to the left, but it’s become the Mortimer Snerd to the Charlie McCarthy Democrats. I didn’t say Edgar Bergen, because were not sure just who’s pulling the strings of these dummies.

Let’s start in the tropical paradise turned gulag about 1960 we all know as Cuba. On the same day thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, marched in the streets across the island shouting their desire for freedom, let’s have a looksie at ol’ Mort and Chaz.

The Biden brain-deads declared it was a rally for lack of vaccines and the U.S. needed to send help ASAP, (Wait, I thought Cuba had the greatest social medicine program on the planet) according to Miss Circleback. The podium princess went on to state Cubans were exercising their right to protest the government. These claims were dutifully reported and then some. To double down on the lie of the day, the Basement Regime used a high-ranking official known as the State Department’s acting assistant secretary for the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs (the what?) who stated, “Cubans are exercising their right to peaceful assembly to express concern about rising COVID cases/deaths and medicine shortages.”

Tripling down later was President Hairy Legs, but with a stunning admission. The protest was against the Communist regime the people of Cuba have suffered under since leftist t-shirt hero Che and Premier Trudeau’s (not the new one, the old one) wife’s baby daddy took over and started their murderous regime. Oh, Cubans also have no right to protest.

Yet all of this misinformation (hello, fact-checkers?) could have been avoided if a few simple questions would have been asked regarding what all of us were seeing with our own eyes. How about, “Why are they waving American flags and yelling for freedom?” Or perhaps to the New York Times, “Why are you calling shouts for freedom ‘anti-government slogans’?” Or, “Don’t the banners reading ‘anti-communist’ tell you this might be about something else?” Or perhaps Google reports from myriad sources from all over South Florida from newspeople with direct connections to Cuba? Oh, AGAIN, Cubans also have no right to protest.

I’m going with just lazy. Plus, those pesky questions take away access to the puppeteer.

Nationally, we have the “on the lam legislators” from Texas sneaking out to prevent election security laws being voted on in what some might describe as a filibuster without the fililbustering. Only to fly to Washington, D.C. to be heralded by Democrats and joining them in seeking to end the filibuster so Democrats could shove through bad election law. Mortimer was on the bandwagon championing these brave souls.

Not that it would have mattered. But did anyone in the press even ask what the Texas election laws state that’s such a threat to voting? I know they’d get the stock answer of, “Well, these laws are racist and prevent people from voting.” Yet, more people voted in the last election by millions and new laws ask simply to prove you’re you in a way we can verify. That brings me to my next question. “Why is anyone against that since election integrity would allow for no challenges as to who won?” And the easiest question: “Where in the hell were your masks on your private flight to Washington?”

I’m going with there were no questions because they don’t want to report the answers.

Let’s take voter ID one step further with President Basement and his under the portico, arms-crossed, waiting-in-the-wings successor. According to our president, minorities don’t know how to get on the Internet to get an ID. According to President of Vice Harris, there are no copy shops in the heartland to copy one’s ID (Oh, so they do have them because you know, you need one for literally everything) to prove you’re you along with your ballot.

Yet not one question like, “You need an ID for everything in life, including attending a bad teleprompter butchering by the Ice Cream Man, so people have them, no?” Or how about, “Just about everyone in the country has a computer, printer or cell phone that can scan or create an image of their ID, one doesn’t need access to Office Max now, do they?” Or the easiest: “Why do you find minorities and everyday people so incapable of the simplest tasks in life?”

Instead, intrepid, insulated mouthpieces nod with understanding. We understand why.

Closer to home, U.S. Rep Lauren Boebert was attacked for taking PPP loans while stating in a speech all Americans want is opportunity, not D.C. handouts. This one was too good to pass up for the left. Before the truth got out of bed it was around the world like Superman reversing time to save Lois from the abyss. Tweets and retweets abounded with the lie.

The truth abyss could have been avoided if someone (the tweeters or their retweeters in the press) would have asked, “You sure you got the right Shooter’s Grill?” But where’s the fun in that, let alone the effort?

Sophomoric column? You bet. But it matches the behaviors of those I’ve mentioned. A sophomore at a high school rag would know better. So do we.

Craig Hall is owner and publisher of the Business Times. Reach him at 424-5133 or publisher@thebusinesstimes.com.