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Acyn @Acyn wrote: Tapper: A bunch of MSNBC legal commentators attacked you. Have they apologized at all…. I guess some legal commentators have a difficult time stripping out the politics

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 7:48 pm Tapper (CNN) attacks MSNBC as being politically biased.

Acyn @Acyn wrote: Tapper: A bunch of MSNBC legal commentators attacked you. Have they apologized at all…. I guess some legal commentators have a difficult time stripping out the politics

(Also, too, MSNBC commentators didn't attack Honig, they disagreed with his legal analysis. Poot fight?)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar wrote: CNN is currently doing a panel discussion about if Biden should invite Trump to the Queen's funeral. Jake Tapper says it would be "clever" for Biden to do it.

CNN is currently doing a panel discussion about if Biden should invite Trump to the Queen's funeral. Jake Tapper says it would be "clever" for Biden to do it.

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 9:00 am I don't think Biden gets to invite people to another family's funeral, and it's not amusing to try to score political points on another family and nation's grief.

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 1:02 pm

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 9:00 am I don't think Biden gets to invite people to another family's funeral, and it's not amusing to try to score political points on another family and nation's grief.

I saw an article this morning that said Biden can take an entourage (not the word they used but chemo brain has kicked in) of X number of people with him. He gets to decide who those people will be, so I guess he's technically inviting people to another person's funeral. I'll see if I can find the article again.

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 1:02 pm

pipistrelle wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 9:00 am I don't think Biden gets to invite people to another family's funeral, and it's not amusing to try to score political points on another family and nation's grief.

I saw an article this morning that said Biden can take an entourage (not the word they used but chemo brain has kicked in) of X number of people with him. He gets to decide who those people will be, so I guess he's technically inviting people to another person's funeral. I'll see if I can find the article again.

Foggy wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 1:07 pm I can think of at least 320 million Americans he would take before he would take Donald Trump, though.

United States Population 2022 (Live)
338,344,415

Media paints Fetterman's closed captioning as bigger campaign issue than Oz's abortion ban evasions

The situation is this: Fetterman still has difficulty with auditory processing—to do an interview, for instance, or a debate, he needs to read what is being said to him, using widely available closed captioning technology. Having read it, he can answer out loud, with occasional verbal slip-ups. Similarly, he can deliver campaign speeches with a few stumbles over words as his recovery continues.

After Fetterman did an interview with NBC News’s Dasha Burns in which he used closed captioning, successfully, to take questions, the media Heathers pounced.

“This is a rough clip for ⁦@JohnFetterman⁩, will only fuel questions about his health,” high-profile New York Times reporter Jonathan Martin tweeted.

”An important interview with top Senate contender,” CBS News reporter Ed O'Keefe chimed in. “Will Pennsylvanians be comfortable with someone representing them who had to conduct a TV interview this way?”

The man is reading! That’s it. And occasionally he has a brief verbal struggle like this one, in that NBC interview: “I always thought I was pretty empathetic, uh … “ he said, pausing, raising his eyes. “Emphetic. I think I was very, excuse me, empathetic—you know, that’s an example of the stroke—empathetic. I always thought I was very empathetic before having a stroke. But now after having that stroke I really understand you know, much more, the kind of challenges that Americans have day in and day out.” (Let me as the transcriptionist of that snippet note, on the subject of Fetterman’s speech, that he was speaking at a normal-to-fast pace.)

This moment [the fake police badge] was as devastating as former Texas governor Rick Perry’s “oops” moment or Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio’s stumble in the 2016 GOP presidential debate. Yet too many in the mainstream media chose to downplay Walker’s unfitness and habitual lying.

Likewise, Walker’s rejection of a price cap on insulin because “you got to eat right” didn’t even make some media outlets’ takeaway lists. It was as if the difference between the candidates amounted to sober disputes over health-care policy.

In mainstream publications, you had to leave the news pages and go to opinion columns to understand what was going on. The Times’s Charles M. Blow, for example, explained that Walker has “a base inability to convey his ideas in complete thoughts or sentences. And like a child, when his words fail, he fills in the gaps with energy and emotion, hostility and humor.”

That is a factual observation, yet reporters shy from conveying such information for fear of seeming biased. The result: They failed to inform voters that Walker is truly unqualified for the position.

The media’s unwillingness to accurately describe Republican candidates is nothing new. They spent four years refraining from making simple observations about President Donald Trump’s incoherence and uncontrolled rage, as if pointing out what was in front of their noses would have violated some journalistic code.

The mainstream media may not intend to help the GOP with their lack of candor or their refusal to force Republicans to contend with the crazy statements from their fellow party members. But that is precisely what their coverage accomplishes. Because they are unable to call out candidates as bonkers or unintelligible, they make Republicans more acceptable to voters. That’s a disservice to our democracy.

Ayman @AymanM wrote: Yet again, the media has not learned its lesson from 2016. The NY Times writing about an antisemitic, anti-democratic, election denying, pro-insurrectionist, QAnon believer as if she were an underdog sports figure returning from an injury.

AndyinPA wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 7:58 pm I thought Andrea was retiring. When is she leaving. She's useless.