This is a beautiful illustration of how warped the coverage of the two candidates has been.

[kpete]

Side by side in the New York Times, as though they’re equally important—one about felony criminal charges of Trump trying to overthrow democracy. The other about…Biden not wearing a tie.

Link to tweet

[CTyankee]

1. Obama can never look "disheveled." He is a paragon of graceful appearance in all things. As the Italians say

"Fare la bella figura."

[ProfessorGAC]

14. Infatti!

E cosii tranquillo!

[PatSeg]

20. Yeah, that is one sharp looking man

And Biden is very well groomed and presidential. Bill Clinton always looks comfortable in his own skin. These guys don't need a damn tie!

[Botany]

2. Attn New York Times the purpose of a fund raiser is raise funds not to "play dress up."

Liberal Media.

[keithbvadu2]

3. "play dress up."

The evil tan suit

[PatSeg]

21. Trump is such an embarrassment

When he talks about the whole world laughing at us, on some level he knows it is him that they're laughing at.

[brush]

28. I dunno. Pres. O looks pretty damn sharp in that tan suit.

Now trump, in that ridiculous morning coat with the white vest hanging four inches too long, looks like a country bumpkin straight off the turnip truck and venturing into the city...bigly badly.

Bigly badly...hey, that's a good term for trump from now on.

[keithbvadu2]

30. Yeah! I had a wee bit of sarcasm in there.

[dalton99a]

4. Typical NYT treatment of Democrats

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. Except this didn't happen.

The story about Trump ran on page A18, in the first section, with the rest of the news of national importance.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/us/trump-appeal-georgia-fani-willis.html

The story about the fundraiser ran in the Style section.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/style/biden-obama-clinton-ties.html

[Ocelot II]

6. Yup. Just some douche complaining about how men don't wear ties any more

which is a sure sign of the collapse of civilization. I wouldn't compare it to front page news coverage at all.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. Breaking news: President Kennedy seen without hat.

IIRC, he wore a top hat to the inauguration, but after that, he broke with the Eisenhower and Truman (ESPECIALLY Truman) tradition of regularly wearing a hat.

You will not be surprised to learn that the Washington Post has a Style section, where you can read all about what Beyoncé wore to the Oscars. That stuff doesn’t make it to the first section.

I hate it when people lie to me in an attempt to win an argument.

And good afternoon.

[Ocelot II]

8. Yup. Just some style whiner. Probably didn't like Obama's tan suit either.

And I don't like false comparisons either. NYT sucks sometimes, but not on account of this apples-and-rutabagas nonsense.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. He probably doesn't approve of seersucker either. NT

[Ocelot II]

10. *I* don't approve of seersucker, either. It looks like pajamas.

I once had a boyfriend who had a seersucker suit which he wore with a bowtie. He looked like a pretentious dork - which, as it turned out, he really was.

But I don't write for the Style section.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. You're up north, aren't you, like Minnesota or something?

That might explain it

Gotta disagree with you here. Seersucker is great stuff. I can see where bow tie with same might be a bit much, unless you’re going for the Orville Redenbacher look.

[Ocelot II]

25. A bow tie with a seersucker suit makes a 26-year-old look like

a pretentious dork. You can't even hope to get away with that getup unless you're pushing 50. And it gets hot in Minnesota in the summer but seersucker looks like pajamas anyhow.

[PatSeg]

22. Who on earth ever thought that seersucker

was a good look? Even the name sounds super dorky!

And corduroy! What was the point of corduroy?

[Ocelot II]

26. Corduroy pants exist so people can hear you coming.

When your thighs rub together as you walk they make a voop-voop-voop sound.

[PatSeg]

31. I'm cracking up here

I didn't know if I was the only person who remembered having that experience. That was when I questioned the existence of corduroy. I can still picture those pants (navy blue) and I can hear the sound whenever I walked!

[Journeyman]

36. But have you heard of the new corduroy pillow cases. They're making headlines . . .

[Ocelot II]

37. ...

[dweller]

29. Corduroy is

Groovy … I’ve worn them since the late 60”s , and will again in the fall.

Don’t knock the groove



✌🏻

[PatSeg]

32. So, did you find a quiet version of corduroy?

I kind of like the look of corduroy blazers, but even then, the rubbing of corduroy against itself is really weird.

[dweller]

34. It's all

Good Vibrations
😁



✌🏻

[PatSeg]

35. Ha, ha, ha!

Now it all makes sense!

[PatSeg]

33. Dupe comment

[Silent Type]

27. Thanks. Swear to gawd, we have to fact check almost everything nowadays.

[Mr. Evil]

12. I literally hate ties.

They're the most useless, ridiculous and uncomfortable article of clothing ever devised.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

15. Not quite

Corsets, girdles, and bras

[Mr. Evil]

16. Yup.

Corsets - evil and also deadly.
Girdles - very bad and I can only imagine how uncomfortable they are.
Bras - helpful if you're physically active but, around the house, leave them in the drawer.

Ties - I just find it hard to function when wearing one while choking the entire time.

[Warpy]

18. Bras serve a useful function

after childbirth and after menopause. They were iinvented before corsets but the corset came in as a back brace for women who had to much out stables, haul water, and generally wreck their bodies usually while pregnant.

Girdles, however, were only useful as a date rape prevention. They worked if the guy was too shitfaced to figure them out.

[PatSeg]

23. I am really surprised ties have survived this long

As you say, it is a useless, pointless accessory. I really feel for you guys. At least women have more choices.

[Warpy]

17. The gentlemen of the press are in thrall to men who want more tax cuts

Democrats are not going to get anythibng approaching fairness or equal time until this changes.

I originally applauded Garland as AG because he's an antitrust guy. He's done less than nothing to break up these big monopolies.

Don't expect to read anything approaching the truth when it comes to US politics in US news. It's just not going to happen.

[Kid Berwyn]

19. Disheveled is a loaded term, way NYT used it.

Idiots often appear disheveled.

Homeless often look disheveled.

Losers often appear disheveled.

Oh, yeah. And the befuddled elderly often look disheveled.

[GiqueCee]

24. The New York Times...

... has devolved into a 3rd rate partisan rag, and can no longer be trusted to report on anything political without perverting it to maintain the illusion of some kind of horse race to boost clicks and to cast Biden in a negative light. They are willingly doing Putin's job for him, as well as saying, "Yes, Masters" to our own oligarchs who want their useful idiot back in the Oval Office so they can use his clown show as misdirection while they dismantle democracy and create a new feudalism from which there will be no escape.
And then there are the "Christian" (?) Nationalists who are even more dangerous than Trump; they have Gawd on their side, so no crime will be too heinous if they claim their Sky Daddy said it's alright.

Shit's getting too real, too fast.

[Takket]

38. NYT is a right wing rag now.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

39. dailyfail...every slip of the tongue from Biden or Harris... "Bumbling blah blah blah".

this week, Clinton's hand on Biden's back... "Clinton guides confused Biden... blah blah".

but nonstop nonsense from Trump is ignored or only covered as "Trump and Biden both have stumbles..."