Old and Busted: "Pounce." The New Hotness: "Ambush."

Looks like the media has received its talking points from central command

As has been widely noted for the last several years, for the media, when Republicans screw up, that’s the story. When Democrats screw up, the Republican reaction is the story the media report. Hence the endless headlines that include the phrase “Republicans Pounce.” It really does seem sometimes like our adolescent journalist class do their work from an overinflated pouncy-house.

Ed Driscoll collects these over at Instapundit:

Well, you can throw “pouncing” into the dustbin of busted media cliches. The word has gone forth: the new term is “ambush.” All because Trump decided to confront the visiting president of South Africa about the boiling caldron of racial hate in the country.

The mainstream media won’t touch this story with a 100-foot pole, because it wouldn’t help the Black Lives Matter narrative they have all pledged to uphold. The closest any media outlet has come is a cautious New York Times story two years ago reporting the growing unhappiness, chaos, and dysfunction in South Africa—so much so that Nelson Mandela is no longer regarded as a hero and founder of modern South Africa, but as a failure because he didn’t exact retribution on whites.

One interviewee told the Times:

“He [Mandela] didn’t revolt against white people,” Mr. Vawda said. “I would have taken revenge.”

The story goes on to say that the African National Congress party—Mandela’s party—is quickly losing popularity in South Africa. Sounds like the revenge is coming.

Chaser:

It has become impossible to hate the media enough.