Mark Halperin: Kamala Is Winning The Info Flow!

I've been noting here that Mark Halperin, who was banished from cushy corporate media jobs after sexual harassment allegations in 2017, has been workling to rehabilitate his career as a putative honest and non-partisan commentator in this year's election cycle. The problem is that, as I did in part, he grew up in Bethesda. I don't know where he lives now, but I do know you can take Mark Halperin out of Bethesda, but you can't take Bethesda out of Mark Halperin.

In yesterday's edition of his Morning Meeting show on 2WAY, embedded above, entitled "How to Lose an Election", he announces that Kamala is winning something called the info flow. At 7:08, he says,

. . . From Madison Square Garden until yesterday, [Trump] has lost the info flow. . . . Sean [Spicer}, do you agree that he has lost the information flow in the past week and explain your counterargument.

At 12:02, he demands that Sean

Name a good moment Trump has had since Monday [October 28].

Spicer, who seems like an agreeable sort of guy, and he probably doesn't want to lose his gig on the Morning Meeting, stutters and stumbles, appearing to forget one of Trump's best moments in the whole campaign, the garbage truck and the hi-vis vest at the Green Bay rally on October 30.

Halperin never really defines the information flow, and I had to do a web search to see if it means anything at all. Wikipedia says,

Information flow in an information theoretical context is the transfer of information from a variable x to a variable y in a given process.

Well, that clears it all up. Halperin seems to think it has something to do with Trump being dark, pessimistic, and rambling, while Kamla is bright and disciplined, and she has celebrities endorsing her, so she's gonna win. Or something like that. But later in the day, he returned to reporting the generally bad news for Democrats from the early voting patterns. So which is it? She could lose the popular vote, lose the Electoral College, but win the information flow?

As best I can see, Halperin is doing what he can not to disrupt the consensus psy op from corporate media at the end of the campaign, that Kamala has had a last-minute surge, and she's going to pull it out. There's been a coordinated dump of optimistic polls into the RCP aggregate that's erased the popular-vote lead Trump had last week, which I suspect doesn't even convince the corporate media who put this stuff out, and certainly not the editors at RCP, but they do it anyway.

Nevertheless, Halperin is fully aware that at this stage of his rehabilitation campaign, he absolutely can't come off looking like a Trumper, even if the real situation is that Trump is the likely winner. His goal is getting back in corporate media, not reporting the truth.

It occurred to me last night, and I don't know why it didn't earlier, that the public is tired of Kamala, Dougie, and Tim Walz, and they can't wait to get them off the news. This is behind the low Democrat turnout in early voting; the Democrats are just as tired of those characters as everyone else, and they're going to stay home today as well.

Halperin is no dummy; he's got to be fully aware of this, but he wants his corporate media career back, and he'll keep his mouth shut. He simply isn't an honest broker, he's from Bethesda, he wants his career back, and he can't be trusted.