There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961
I tried to apply the Catch-22 principle to Trump Surrogates when I wrote: Conway-22: Trump Surrogates may only go on TV in circumstances where they would never go on TV.
In other words, if a Republican is lying through his teeth, talking crazy talk, filibustering or purveying racism, tell viewers and him he’s a lying crazy racist and end the interview.
Joy Ann Reid comes close to this, but even she is too tolerant of e.g., her ludicrously Trump defending guest Jen yesterday.
But Tapper went to the essence today, saying
I get it. There’s one viewer that you care about right now and you’re being obsequious, you’re being a factotum in order to please him, okay?” Tapper finally interjected. “And I think I’ve wasted enough of my viewers’ time.”
So now I’m calling it Miller-22:
The only way to have Stephen Miller* on a talk show is to make sure he never comes on again.
*or KellyAnne or Boris Epshteyn or Sarah Sanders or any of the others.