Eric Boehlert: Will GOP's Putin bromance hurt them in November? Press couldn't care less

[babylonsister]

https://pressrun.media/p/will-gops-putin-bromance-hurt-them

Will GOP’s Putin bromance hurt them in November? Press couldn’t care less
Turning blind eye
Eric Boehlert
3 hr ago

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Why the collective shoulder shrug when it comes to the spectacle of the GOP’s leader praising Putin as he launches the largest European land invasion since World War II? It may be the most astonishing foreign policy position ever taken by a major American political figure, let alone a former President of the United States. It’s not just Trump. In the days leading up to the invasion, Republicans were lining up to state their admiration, if not allegiance, to Putin, a despot whose political opponents are regularly killed, poisoned, and imprisoned.

Forever presenting Republicans as being savvy and outmaneuvering Democrats, the press remains blind to the possibility that the GOP has miscalculated by picking the Kremlin over the White House. Apparently, only Democrats can be in a state of disarray.

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It’s not just the Republican Party. It’s the right wing’s billion-dollar media infrastructure. “I’ll stand on the side of Russia right now,” Joe Oltmann, a conservative podcaster, said on his show. Trump media sycophant Candace Owens tweeted that Russia posed no threat, while former Trump advisor Stephen Bannon assured his audience that the Ukraine invasion was “not our fight.”

And then there’s Fox News, which is synonymous with the Republican Party. As Ukrainians fought off the invaders, Laura Ingraham mocked President Volodymyr Zelensky’s passionate plea for peace as a “pathetic display” from a “defeated man.” Tucker Carlson announced, “No one on this show is…rooting for the Ukrainians for that matter,” insisting Putin “just wants to keep his western borders secure.” (In an odd twist, Carlson’s commentary became so unhinged that the far-right outlet NewsMax called him out for being anti-American.)

It’s hard to recall the last time a political party landed so awkwardly on the wrong side of a breaking news story. Why won’t the D.C. press put that in political perspective?

[Irish_Dem]

1. How much evidence do we need to prove the media is owned by Putin/GOP?

[NCDem47]

2. Why won't the D.C. press put that in political perspective?

Requires too much backtracking and introspection. Nevermind the VOLUMES of material that needs to be covered. Hypocracy and flip-flopping by Repubs on Putin/Russia abounds.

Maybe the media have calculated that its "old news" and it wants no part of grievance politics by the left (!?!?).

MSM are all about the NEXT 24-hour news cycle. And yeah, RW infiltration of MSM ownership.

[modrepub]

3. Release The 2017 Hamburg Notes

from the meeting between Trump and Putin. What were they talking about? If you have nothing to hide then release the notes and interview the interpreter who participated in that meeting.


https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8181778/trump-swiped-notes-meeting-putin-hide-details/