Manchin-Obsessed Media: So ‘Weird’ He Sat With GOP Friends at SOTU!

[See NewsBusters for more.] The networks and CNN on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning renewed their obsession with Joe Manchin, fretting over how “weird” it was that the moderate Democratic Senator sat with Republicans at the State of the Union. Barely hiding her annoyance, CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King on Wednesday recounted, “He [Biden] was talking about that unity agenda. We saw Senator Manchin sitting with Republicans.” Talking to journalist Margaret Brennan, she complained, “Did that strike you as odd that he was sitting with Republicans?” Brennan lamented, “When you have unified Democratic leadership, it has not looked very unified when it came to Democratic senators, specifically Joe Manchin.”