The Media are the Goddam Problem

[raison de arizona]

The thread continues into NYT and Civil Rights, then in the comments they take on NYT and the Nazis.

[p0rtia]

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[RTH10260]

How many questions did the former guy take within the first ten minutes, within a whole press conference?

[Suranis]

None. And if he didn't like a question and could not shout down the questioner, he walked off immediately.

Biden later spent a couple of hours taking questions.

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Shoutout to whoever that jackass was from Newsmax taking the dumbest question of the day away from Peter Doocy and asking Biden about his mental acuity at almost the two hour mark of his press conference.

Really brilliant line of questioning there.

[raison de arizona]

2006 Senate on Voting Rights:
•Republicans: 53 YES, 0 NO
•Democrats: 45 YES, 0 NO

2022 Senate on Voting Rights:
•Republicans: 0 YES, 50 NO
•Democrats: 48 YES, 2 NO

Media: Have Democrats shifted too far left???

[raison de arizona]

Redfern is a turd, but he does have a point, the quote Maddow used is misleading.

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For posterity's sake, the joke is that Biden proceeded to do a two hour press conference, which began with a 12 minute presentation to get things going. MOTWS: You should always count to ten before you hit SEND.

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[Suranis]

"Fuck you" would have been shorter and just as accurate.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

https://popular.info/p/how-an-obscure-far-right-website

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Judd Legum

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[raison de arizona]

Seriously?

[RTH10260]

Well, well, well....

tell that to the former guy who also claimed the best numbers since Adam and Eve (or was it Steve?) without checking when statistics were collected.

[Foggy]

I'm sure we had more than 6.5 million jobs created ALL THE TIME before 1939, not.

That's a really stupid fact check. But, NYT, the right-wing leftist media.

[raison de arizona]

I don't expect much from the WSJ these days, but...

Sorry Vlad, you've been so bad that we now consider you Asian.

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[raison de arizona]

Who writes these headlines? I mean, it's technically correct I guess, but come on...

The rest of the story:

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[raison de arizona]

The NYT editorial board wrote a mind numbingly stupid editorial today. I know many members wrote them off years ago, I'm coming around to that point of view with crap like this. And all the other crap. Just...

America Has a Free Speech Problem

For all the tolerance and enlightenment that modern society claims, Americans are losing hold of a fundamental right as citizens of a free country: the right to speak their minds and voice their opinions in public without fear of being shamed or shunned.

WTF? Anyway: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/opin ... =url-share

[Suranis]

Putting the anal in analysis, it's



Woah.

[John Thomas8]

The NYT editorial board wrote a mind numbingly stupid editorial today. I know many members wrote them off years ago, I'm coming around to that point of view with crap like this. And all the other crap. Just...

America Has a Free Speech Problem

For all the tolerance and enlightenment that modern society claims, Americans are losing hold of a fundamental right as citizens of a free country: the right to speak their minds and voice their opinions in public without fear of being shamed or shunned.

That was even that? There's no right to lie, be racist, or misogynist, or any other babbling-crack-monkey position without repercussion.

Repercussions are EXACTLY what is needed when morons spew.

[John Thomas8]

[John Thomas8]

[p0rtia]

I rest my goddamned case. This is not a news organization; it's a whorehouse.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/20 ... -backlash/

Turmoil at CBS News over Trump aide Mick Mulvaney’s punditry gig
A network executive said they want to hire more Republicans to gain ‘access’ ahead of a ‘likely’ Democratic midterm wipeout

CBS News’s decision to hire former Trump administration official Mick Mulvaney as a paid on-air contributor is drawing backlash within the company because of his history of bashing the press and promoting the former president’s fact-free claims.

But a top network executive seemed to lay the groundwork for the decision in a staff meeting earlier this month, when he said the network needed to hire more Republicans to prepare for a “likely” Democratic midterm wipeout.

“If you look at some of the people that we’ve been hiring on a contributor basis, being able to make sure that we are getting access to both sides of the aisle is a priority because we know the Republicans are going to take over, most likely, in the midterms,” CBS News’s co-president Neeraj Khemlani told the staff of the network’s morning show, according to a recording of his comments obtained by The Washington Post. “A lot of the people that we’re bringing in are helping us in terms of access to that side of the equation.”

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Yes

Watched Kurt Bardela say exactly the media surpresses the good on Joy last night. Next panel the woman talked more about inflation Han the 3.6% unemployment



Not gonna lie. I find the title “Biden gets lucky” on this forum disgraceful

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https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2 ... lvaney-cbs

Op-Ed: CBS News giving Mick Mulvaney a paid contributor gig is an act of journalistic malpractice
By Kurt Bardella
March 29, 2022 2:55 PM PT

From mid-December 2018 through early March 2020, Mick Mulvaney, a former member of Congress from South Carolina, served as President Trump’s acting chief of staff.

On Mulvaney’s watch, the White House took a wrecking ball to checks and balances by vowing to defy all congressional subpoenas.

On Mulvaney’s watch, the Trump administration launched an unconstitutional attack against the process to conduct a fair census.

On Mulvaney’s watch, at least 25 administration officials received security clearances that should not have been granted based on the recommendations of intelligence officials.

On Mulvaney’s watch, Trump ignored numerous warnings from health experts about the severity of the coronavirus. More than 970,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 since the pandemic began.

And yet, in spite of this record, CBS News made the decision to reward Mulvaney with a gig as a paid contributor. I’d expect this move from a Trump-aligned propaganda medium like Fox News. But from CBS News? Give me a break.

It’s as if the power-that-be at the network learned nothing from a tumultuous presidency that culminated with insurrectionists attacking the U.S. Capitol. The very people who rode shotgun in the effort to dismantle democracy are being rewarded with book deals, guest-host roles on TV shows and more. Let’s be clear: Democracy doesn’t die in darkness, it dies because of stuff like this.

Many White House officials, Republican and Democratic, have gone on to significant roles at mainstream media outlets after leaving their government positions. But Mulvaney stands out for the wrong reasons. He acted as an architect of democracy’s demise, and he should not be legitimized by being affiliated with a major news network. Neither should anyone else who committed treason behind government doors.

Exposing the American people to such pathological liars and despots is an act of journalistic malpractice. What allowed Trumpism to rise in the first place was the media’s misguided notion that “both sides” deserve equal airing and footing even when one side is flagrantly violating the law and lying.

CBS’ decision is even more disappointing when you consider the state of global affairs and the role that Mulvaney played in shaping them. As the Washington Post reported in the fall of 2019, “President Trump told his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to hold back almost $400 million in military aid for Ukraine at least a week before a phone call in which Trump is said to have pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate the son of former vice president Joe Biden, according to three senior administration officials.”

CBS News is acting as the reputation launderer for a member of the White House Cabinet who was central to the scheme to extort from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Is that really the type of commentator or analyst that an audience can trust?

When he appears, will CBS News anchors question Mulvaney about his actions? Will they grill him about the anti-democratic and legally questionable directives he acted on? Will they ask him about the actions of his niece, Maggie Mulvaney, who was a “VIP Lead” for the “rally”-turned-insurrection, and who was subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 House Select Committee last fall? Or will they present him as a respectable “former acting White House chief of staff” and allow him to just deliver anti-Biden talking points?

We all know the answer to that one.

It just goes to show, even if you are willing to sell out America, fame can still trump everything. And major “news” organizations such as CBS will be on the other side, offering your reward.

Kurt Bardella is an advisor to the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He is a former senior advisor for Republicans on the House Oversight Committee. He is a contributing writer to Opinion. @KurtBardella.

[New Turtle]

Sometimes they don't even call him former acting chief of staff, they just introduce him as former OMB director.

[Kriselda Gray]

Not gonna lie. I find the title “Biden gets lucky” on this forum disgraceful

Mind if I ask why? I had thought it was kind of cute because it pointed out how the media needs something to obsess over, and if it hadn't been Will Smith's slap, it probably would have been the alleged "gaffe" Biden made when he said Putin can't be allowed to stay in power. I'd like to understand your perspective.