Did you know Democrat Congressman Shri Thanedar (MI-13) filed articles of impeachment against President Trump yesterday? If not, don't worry — pretty much nobody in the media noticed either.

On Monday, Thanedar’s office published an awkward video in which the Congressman announced the seven articles of impeachment. The video checked all the boilerplate DNC talking point boxes; Thanedar accused Trump of doing “real damage to our democracy,” and “defying a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling.”

But although much of the Congressman’s language was the kind one hears every day from the leftwing media, the media themselves appear rather unimpressed by his little publicity stunt. Broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC completely skipped the news on their Monday night and Tuesday morning newscasts, and CNN and MSNBC brought up exactly once each in the 24 hours after Thanedar announced the move.

One mention on each of the liberal cable networks probably wasn’t the kind of reaction Thanedar was hoping for, but it’s actually worse than it sounds: all of the coverage was negative.

On Tuesday, MSNBC host Chris Jansing sounded utterly unimpressed by Thanedar’s attempt during an interview with Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI):

This week, one of your Michigan colleagues introduced a resolution to impeach President Trump. But of course, this is likely to be referred to the Republican-run Judiciary. It’s not going to go anywhere.

Jansing then asked: “Is that part of the problem you think voters see? Moves are made for show that can’t concede [sic], and what they don’t see is action that can make a difference?”

Not even Dingell, a Congresswoman from the same state that Thanedar purportedly represents, was willing to defend the gesture: “I don’t agree with my colleague on what he did. I think it’s a distraction.”

How embarrassing!

 

On Monday evening, CNN host Laura Coates also recognized the impeachment attempt as a toothless gesture:

A lot of Democratic voters, they want the party to take a harder stance against Trump. But impeachment isn’t going going anywhere, unless Democrats win control of Congress. So what is the right response?

Her guest, former Democratic Congressman Dean Phillips, agreed: “I’m just not certain that these tactics of sit-ins, and protests, and impeachment, and condemnation is going to do a darn thing.”

Perhaps the media’s near-blackout of the hapless Congressman has something to do with the DNC not approving of it. After all, if party leadership were all aboard Thanedar’s impeachment train, it’s likely we’d be seeing a lot more pro-Democrat journalists talking about it. But instead, aside from a couple of scoffs from liberal cable networks, it’s been radio silence.