All the horrors have been so incredibly public and obvious for such a long time anyway, that propaganda slowly starts to lose part of it’s effect even on western liberals.
Yeah it’s about credibility. They need to remain effective and “impartial” in the eyes of some amount of the population. If they never admit it, or admit it only after it’s long done people will question that. But admit at the late hour, draw attention to it and you’re now “brave” and speaking truth to power and if some info comes out later showing you should have said something 12 months ago well then you made a simple “mistake” or were “misled” by those dastardly mustache-twirling zionists who hypnotized you into believing them (and you assure your readers you had good reasons to at the time but you’re “sorry” and in future you’ll be “more careful”).
Nothing could be more illustrative than Klobuchar making that speech literally a week after smiling for a photo op with Netanyahu. It’s so on the nose for the pivot these types of people are doing to save their credibility/cover their asses that it wouldn’t work as satire for being too obvious.
Yeah it’s about credibility. They need to remain effective and “impartial” in the eyes of some amount of the population. If they never admit it, or admit it only after it’s long done people will question that. But admit at the late hour, draw attention to it and you’re now “brave” and speaking truth to power and if some info comes out later showing you should have said something 12 months ago well then you made a simple “mistake” or were “misled” by those dastardly mustache-twirling zionists who hypnotized you into believing them (and you assure your readers you had good reasons to at the time but you’re “sorry” and in future you’ll be “more careful”).
Nothing could be more illustrative than Klobuchar making that speech literally a week after smiling for a photo op with Netanyahu. It’s so on the nose for the pivot these types of people are doing to save their credibility/cover their asses that it wouldn’t work as satire for being too obvious.