Media shilling for the Most Equal Comrade rings increasingly hollow

David Harsanyi's column today reminds us that the carbon-emissions deal that the MEC signed in China doesn't really matter, given that China never keeps climate-related promises anyway, and a whole lot of domestic political water will flow over the dam before any US administration would have to act like it's complying.

But I thought his roundup of media hoopla over the deal was interesting:

Grist assures us that the "new U.S.-China climate deal is a game changer." Bloomberg Businessweek concurred, explaining "why the U.S.-China emissions pact could be a climate change breakthrough." Vox took it even further and declared, "Obama's climate deal proves China is the biggest foreign policy success of his presidency." (Which may be true. And sad.) The rest of the media, unsurprisingly, offered comparable takes on the deal.

I guess that when you're on the lookout for good news, any morsel will do. But there are two problems with treating the deal as big news. 1) We're not really doing anything we weren't going to do anyway. 2) Neither is China.

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Democrats in energy-producing states are unlikely to support anything resembling this lopsided agreement.
This didn't stop enthusiastic writers such as Christopher Flavelle at Bloomberg from arguing that the president has finally backed the GOP into a corner: "Republicans' best argument against regulating carbon emissions from U.S. coal plants has always been this: If China won't act, what use is it?" Actually, though that argument still stands, it's far from the best.
The best argument is that impeding economic growth by artificially inflating energy prices is immoral because it needlessly hurts consumers and workers. The best argument is to point out that whatever China decides to do, we should trust that our technological advances in efficiency and adaptability will allow us to continue to have a high standard of living and keep our environment clean.
The New York Times (which says the deal allowed Obama "to reclaim some of the momentum he lost at home") and others treat the deal as a big political victory for the president. Despite voters' tendency to tell pollsters climate change concerns them, the fact is that not a single midterm race was primarily focused on climate change. Not a single candidate, denier or not, lost an election because of his or her position on climate change. Can Democrats say the same about issues such as coal production and the Keystone XL pipeline? 

This is the amazing thing about the regime's propaganda arm.  It just soldiers on, as both public opinion and basic reality present an entirely different picture from what it keeps trying to sell us.