The 'Both Sides' Brigade Is Encouraging Trump to Take More Hostages

[Hermit-The-Prog]

The ‘Both Sides’ Brigade Is Encouraging Trump to Take More Hostages

By Eric Levitz


Unfair and balanced. Photo: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images


The United States is inflicting long-term damage on its own government and economy, condemning thousands of Americans to needless financial despair, jeopardizing public health, undermining airport security, and preventing cancer patients from accessing much-needed medical care — because Republicans want to spend 0.11 percent of the federal budget on a border barrier that Democrats find symbolically problematic.

Given this state of affairs, it would be reasonable for a low-information voter to condemn both parties, in equal measure, for putting ideological purity above the national good. But it would be a dereliction of duty for a television journalist to do the same.

Alas, on Thursday night, CNN’s Chris Cuomo did precisely that.

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But one thing you can’t do, if you consider yourself an objective and responsible political analyst, is suggest that both parties are equally responsible for the existence of the current standoff. The root cause of the shutdown was not a bipartisan failure of “job performance,” but rather, the president’s decision to deliberately inflict suffering on the American people, as a means of coercing a coequal branch of government into doing his bidding.

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http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/government-shutdown-chris-cuomo-media-both-sides-trump-border-wall.html

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Cuomo was pretty disgusting last night. He had Don Lemon

Shaking his head. Amazing false equivalency on display...

[appal_jack]

10. It's beyond insane.

We are talking about regular budget bills that are essential for our government to function.

Trump and Republicans are free to introduce bills for the damned wall.

But taking 25% of OUR government and the workers it employs on our behalf hostage for a stupid, ineffective, and unwanted wall makes no sense. There is only one side to this issue, and Chris Cuomo does his viewers a disservice pretending otherwise.

Good to see you NRL, even during these trying moments. K&R,

-app

[dem4decades]

2. He's a light weight, disgusting.

[dalton99a]

3. Yeah, let's give the hostage taker what he wants

Fuck that shit

[Hermit-The-Prog]

16. that's the crux of the matter

The shutdown started when Russiapublicans controlled WH, House, and Senate. No border crisis for all those months. Democrats are elected in the majority in the House, and suddenly there's a crisis that requires workers go without pay.

It's extortion by a spoiled brat and his Russian agent enablers. It's not 2 equivalent sides, just as it wasn't in 2016.

[Cha]

4. "Maybe he thinks it's ok not to pay people who do work. I don't."

Not to mention all those who will lose their homes if HUD doesn't get Opened!

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Thank You, Nancy!

Thanks, Hermit!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. forgot to include the tweet at first

Had to edit the OP to include the tweet I'd left out before. It's fairly critical to Levitz's points in the article.

D'oh!

Levitz slices and dices that bothsides crap over the current situation.

Thanks for that Qasim Rashid tweet! That lays it out concisely. Russiapublicans in the Senate feed Russian billionaires and try to starve U.S. workers.

[Cha]

7. I'm beyond Disgusted with the

#bothsidesBULLSHIT from the US media. They need to be held accountable for their Propaganda as much as Puppetrump and TraitorMitch.

Yes, Thank You, Eric Levitz!

That tweet from Qasim Rashid does blare it out what the Russian owned gop, in the Senate, is doing to our Country and its People.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. I hear ya

I'm fed up with bothsides, too. There's a thread on here that tells where Meghan McCain equates AOC to Trump because of the use of twitter. It's gotten as insane as it was in 2016.

[Cha]

17. More insane. Didn't Cuomo

see trump in the oval office declare he would proudly take responsibility for the #trumpShutDown?!

Link to tweet

No, Asshole Puppet.. you do.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

19. Putin's puppet really said that?

His ignorance and stupidity really have no bounds!

[Cha]

20. #trumpuppetShutDown is an

ugly evil puppet who will go down in history as the most heinous, hideous, malicious, vicious, traitorous, Asshole in the history of Assholes.

The sooner the better.

Link to tweet

Freaking stupid Media******!

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. Cuomo's show is terrible.

Seems like every time I try to watch him, he has some nasty repuke spouting the same talking points over and over.

[Cha]

18. Brainwashing.. fuck him.

[Shaddox]

8. FFS, Cuomo says "Brother" more than Hulk Hogan. What more do you expect from this guy?

[demmiblue]

9. #WheresMitch .n/t

[Wounded Bear]

15. GMTA...

[lilactime]

11. I can't believe anyone watches this posturing phoney when Rachel's show

is on at the same time.

[Brawndo]

13. Hey Chris, your profit motivated false equivalence is showing

[Wounded Bear]

14. #WheresMitch...

Perhaps Mr McConnell should do his job.

[Cha]

21. Media framing of Trump-Pelosi battle is widely awful

Link to tweet

Call the "media" on their Crap!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

22. good to see some speaking out!

Good for Greg Sargent!

Each time I watch the broadcast tv news, I end up yelling at the tv. They are deep into the bothsides crap.

Putin and his puppets, Trump and McConnell, OWN this shutdown and the ripple effects from it.

[Cha]

23. A little good news..

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I cut my m$m out in November the day after Midterms in 2002. And, never looked back. I know by reading DU and tweets that they are exponentially worse now.

Really appreciate those who do reconnaissance but it's not for me. It's pure propaganda.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

24. despite M$M, Moscow Mitch and Speaker Pelosi are not the same

Moscow Mitch and the Russiapublicans in the Senate voted to enrich Deripaska and Putin, yet refuse to pay U.S. workers.

Speaker Pelosi and the House voted to pay U.S. workers.

But "both sides".

[Cha]

25. m$m.. glaringly, Dangerously, STUPID.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

26. i can't add to that assessment, so ... kick!

[Cha]

27. I can add

a !