When The Silly Outweighs The Serious
Hugh Hewitt > Blog
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
I am beginning to think that the Democratic Party, and the legacy media it has swallowed, are an organized form of personality disorder. They cannot tell what is important from what is not and everything is viewed through a very personal lens. In the past 36 hours (an amazing period of time when you consider 17% of it was consumed by a single World Series game) I have encountered two very serious stories about exploitation of people, while encountering dozens about things that just don’t matter that much save in the minds of that cohort. It is actually kind of frightening.
Starting with the silly, there is, of course the ongoing “controversy” about the East Wing. A story that was tried again and again over the weekend, but gathered no traction and so has been abandoned for the great MRI controversy. Someday these people are going to have an original thought – instead of trying to create the same controversy for Trump that drove Biden from the race.
Also silly – Margaret Brennan remembers what her job is supposed to be and many of her colleagues get upset. What’s really sad to me is the personal nature of all of it. No high-minded debate about how journalism is supposed to work. Rather it was insult, name-calling, dismissal and derision. There was an opportunity for a real discussion squandered.
But when it comes to name-calling and insult its really hard to beat AOC. The really scary part is that AOC took Riley Gaines comment so personally that she felt she had respond in such a fashion.
These three stories are tied together by a sort of self-absorption that is not merely off-putting, but stands in the way of a reasonable view of reality. I mean, after all, aren’t the Democrats supposed to the be party of the downtrodden and oppressed? Aren’t they the ones that are supposed to be fighting for the rights of people otherwise ignored and overlooked? It seems like they cannot see anything but their own self-interest. As evidence let’s look at two of the greatest Democratic strongholds in the U.S.
Long and detailed story in the New York Times Magazine, today, about “the Blade,” the long stretch of a South Los Angeles boulevard that serves as the site of a shocking amount of child prostitution. In recent years, the story warns, “officers had seen the magnitude of child sex trafficking explode.”
It is not a pretty picture. The Substack linked, since the NYTimes mag is not linkable, is making hay about the fact that it is Democratic policy that has lead to this exploitative crisis, most notably the repeal of the “loitering with intent” statutes, laws that allow minors to receive sexual health care without parental notification and defunding the LAPD.
What I cannot get over is this is a gross human tragedy, and AOC is worried about what a cute blond swimmer thinks of her policies.
Then there is, about to elect someone left of Lenin for mayor, New York City:
Walk through Midtown at night and the story writes itself. Gas-powered mopeds idle in clusters outside The Roosevelt Hotel, their headlights cutting through steam from the street vents. Riders sit slumped over paper cups of coffee, helmets at their feet. Upstairs, people in $4,000 per month apartments track their Uber Eats orders on their phones: “Your Thai curry is six minutes away.”
Everyone in this city knows what’s going on. We just don’t say it out loud.
Most of those men on mopeds are recent arrivals from Venezuela, Ecuador, or West Africa. Many crossed the southern border and landed here by bus. They aren’t legally allowed to work, but they are—because the city’s appetite demands it. Their labor is the hidden metabolism of New York.
No wonder lefties want ICE abolished – it stands in the way of their dinner. Read further and you will again learn of how exploitative the system actually is of these people – more reminiscent of Tennessee Ernie Ford owing his soul to the company store than today’s more enlightened labor practices.
And while this tragedy continues, “journalists” are concerned that Margaret Brennan asked Hakeem Jeffries hard questions?
The hardest thing about politics these days is that it bears more in common with the popularity contest that was high school student government than it does any substantive debate about important issues facing the nation, state or municipality. It would be funny were it not for the serious stories we just examined. People seek this popularity on the backs of child prostitutes and immigrants of color that can never advance themselves because of debt inducing business practices.
