I agree that there was a certain amount of "nobody's going to watch this tape" going on in the heads of the incorrect prognosticators. But I also think that th

I agree that there was a certain amount of "nobody's going to watch this tape" going on in the heads of the incorrect prognosticators. But I also think that there's a strong 'in group out group' effect. It goes something like this: Whether I'm wrong or not, this is the 'approved solution' of the network I am on. And whether I'm wrong or right, we can rewrite this later with a little help from our friends. In their world, while its not OK to state inaccuracies, it is OK to state inaccuracies in support of some dogma like "the economy must go on". That is why we now see messaging coming from the right saying "this will be over, and the question when it ends will be who killed the economy to save a few people". And that version of the story is enough to vindicate any previous inaccurate statements for the audience these speakers care about.