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NRaleighLiberal

(60,013 posts)
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 09:18 AM Oct 2020

TPM nails the MSM normalization effort "How are you Still Doing This"

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-are-you-all-still-doing-this-pundits-roasted-for-painting-trump-as-a-newly-tamed-beast

During Thursday night’s debate (you know, the one that had a new rule on muting mics), President Donald Trump managed to avoid repeatedly heckling and shouting over Democratic candidate Joe Biden as often as he did last time–prompting “new tone”-hungry pundits to predictably applaud him for sort of exercising a restraint that one would expect from any grown adult.

Those pundits found themselves under fire from critics who pointed out that Trump hardly deserves a gold star for not slipping on banana peels as often as he did before, especially considering how the President still spouted a bunch of nonsensical conspiracy theories and racist comments that weren’t any more coherent just because he didn’t scream them this time:


read the link...many examples of representative tweets

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TPM nails the MSM normalization effort "How are you Still Doing This" (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Oct 2020 OP
Just shows how f'n stupid some people in the MSM are TheRealNorth Oct 2020 #1

TheRealNorth

(9,474 posts)
1. Just shows how f'n stupid some people in the MSM are
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 10:33 AM
Oct 2020

Its a new tactic, dumbasses. Trump figured the belligerent jackass didn't work out so well in the first debate that he would try something different. It has nothing to do with a new tone.

I swear, Trump is a dumbfuck, but compared to some of these talking heads in the MSM, he looks like Einstein.

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