These outlets all have editors who are old enough to remember Biden being famously “gaff-prone” in his 30s and 40s. There’s no excuse for this. It’s her emails all over again.
They’re making it a profound issue by choice. They’re choosing to make it rise to the center of the campaign.
They could choose to make Trump’s consistent incoherence a profound and rising issue in the campaign but they choose to ignore or even edit his blather into linear form.
Harvesting clicks from MAGAhats is apparently an editorial business priority no different than it was in 2016.
Editors who are not doing their jobs.
@JoshuaHolland
It’s pretty simple really. The #PigEmpire oligarchs own #MSM and #DefendantTrump is accelerating their push towards neo-feudalism. Of course they’re going to use their platform to praise trump and attack Joe, just like they did with #ButterEmails
The trump moles at the DOJ are doing the same thing. Look at the coverage of Hur’s defamatory report. Contrast that with coverage of McGonegal’s arrest, guilty plea, and prison term.
@JoshuaHolland That presser was bad though. Lots of unforced errors. I understand why they did it but it seemed really undisciplined to me.
@JoshuaHolland What they should have done is had him say, "I'd like to thank the special council for exonerating me, it was a perfect interview, I never did anything wrong, as I said from the beginning." Cut to front row plant to ask "what have you learned and what would you do different?" he answers in a way that does not blame his staff, they thank everyone for coming and roll credits. Never mention Biden's age.
Instead, something that was meant to shift the narrative ends up making it worse.
Pure evil…
@JoshuaHolland Hur auditioned as Trump’s Attorney General.
@JoshuaHolland New York Times is making me sad that I ever paid them money for a subscription.
@JoshuaHolland Is the mainstream media seriously trying to claim that Donald "Covfefe" Trump is the more articulate public speaker?!
That Donald "very fine people on both sides" Trump is not gaffe prone?!
Donald "grab 'em by the pussy" Trump?!
Donald "shithole countries " Trump?!
Here's an excerpt from the transcript of Don's 6 January speech.
I didn't choose this sample because it's atypically bad, I've chosen it because it reflects how he often talks:
"We have hundreds of thousands of people here and I just want them to be recognized by the fake news media. Turn your cameras please and show what's really happening out here because these people are not going to take it any longer. They're not going to take it any longer. Go ahead. Turn your cameras, please. Would you show? They came from all over the world, actually, but they came from all over our country."
"I just really want to see what they do. I just want to see how they covered. I've never seen anything like it. But it would be really great if we could be covered fairly by the media. The media is the biggest problem we have as far as I'm concerned, single biggest problem. The fake news and the Big tech."
Here's another example:
"You know, I say, sometimes jokingly, but there's no joke about it: I've been in two elections. I won them both and the second one, I won much bigger than the first. OK. Almost 75 million people voted for our campaign, the most of any incumbent president by far in the history of our country, 12 million more people than four years ago.
"And I was told by the real pollsters — we do have real pollsters — they know that we were going to do well and we were going to win. What I was told, if I went from 63 million, which we had four years ago, to 66 million, there was no chance of losing. Well, we didn't go to 66, we went to 75 million, and they say we lost. We didn't lose."
Source: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966396848/read-trumps-jan-6-speech-a-key-part-of-impeachment-trial
That's the guy the mainstream media wants to say an articulate public speaker?!
But even that's beside the point.
Unlike in many elections, we're not comparing a sitting incumbent's actual track record to how the challenger might hypothetically perform.
In this Presidential poll, both candidates have served a full term in the role, and we can directly compare their performance in office.
We can directly compare their performance in the basic administrative duties of the office.
We can directly compare how well they assembled a stable and effective cabinet.
We can directly compare how they handled news that contradicted their official narrative.
We can directly compare how they responded to major world events.
We can directly compare how effective they were at formulating evidence-based public policy.
We can directly compare whether (or how often) they engaged in misconduct that resulted in impeachment votes, official investigations, and indictments.
No-one is saying Biden is perfect.
But his track record is light years ahead of his opponent's.
@ajsadauskas @JoshuaHolland Wonderful post, thanks. I would like to specifically add
Donald “Kids in cages” Trump
Donald “it’s just a flu, it will go away” Trump
@JoshuaHolland they could also choose to mention that don trump was recently Court adjudicated as a sexual batterer, he was credibly accused of sexual assault by over a dozen women, and he was recorded on a hot Mike bragging about sexually assaulting women, but instead we get stories about Joe Biden's inability to fix trump's economic collapse in 3+ years.
@JoshuaHolland Have you watched his rare appearances? Come on man. It's your lying eyes. Ignoring the obvious reality won't help anyone.
@JoshuaHolland As far as I can tell as somone outside the US Trump is far worse than Biden for gaffs etc and his politics aside stupider and less experienced .But I do think Biden ought to have pushed Kamala Harris into the spotlight more and possibly have run as vice president to her .That would have got rid of what seems to be (again to an outsider) the only real weapon against Biden and contrasted their candidate with old man Trump and as a woman as opposed to a sexist ,rapist.
@Helengraham @JoshuaHolland
The criticisms of Biden have ben going on for many years. He has a speech impediment which is the result of a bad stammering problem as a child. I had that very same problem) It also causes his speech to sound slurred at times. His mind is as clear as a bell. A million times more so than Trump's.
@kennethb @JoshuaHolland I agree,you can tell from his eyes and how he interacts .I just think they could have avoided all the health arguments with Harris she would have stood in total contrast to Trump then .Though the fact Bidens a honorable decent human being (as his life shows) would in an ideal world be enough to keep him in power
@Helengraham @JoshuaHolland
I must say I have been disappointed with the Kamala Harris situation. Nor with her necessarily, but with the fact that she has either taken or been relegated, to a back seat and has been subdued politically. I would like to see her taking a much more prominent role now and in the run-up to the election in November.
@Helengraham @JoshuaHolland but is enough of the USA ready to accept a female President?
A (British) colleague of mine was living in the US during the Obama/Clinton Primaries (2008?) and he said all his neighbours and work colleagues were in an absolute panic because the choice was between a woman and a black man. Granted, he was in Nevada which isn’t representative of the whole country but nonetheless less he was astonished at the pushback against Clinton specifically because of her gender.
@peteralee @JoshuaHolland I find that quite shocking ! I thought we in the UK were far more conservative and yet we have had 3 women Prime ministers and 2 of the devolved nations first ministers are women
@Helengraham @JoshuaHolland
He was astonished. It was widely acknowledged that the Democrats would win the election so whomever won the primaries would become president. All his neighbours were devastated by the prospect, or was (he said) a case of whichever of them was the least worst option. And he was insistent that no one mentioned their policies or politics, it was just their race and sex that offended them.
I’m sure times have changed, but I still wouldn’t rate Kamala Harris’s chances.
@JoshuaHolland I am fascinated by this thread. People here are saying many of the same things that MAGA people say about msm, but in reverse.
One thing is clear, neither side seems to like the msm.
@robertelee no, the right used to believe that reporters and editors held a liberal bias but since Trump came along they’ve embraced the idea that the press invents stories out of whole cloth for partisan purposes. I don’t know anyone on the left who think they just make shit up to help the GOP.