Whether you are a "mainstream" or a "progressive" Democrat, one thing is for sure : The media is not your friend

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The media, especially the "liberal media" is not that hard to figure out. Once it has an agenda, a picture it wants to paint, it will find stories and phrase them and use pictures and video to fit that narrative.

The media wants "Joe Biden is too old to be President, but how do we do this without saying Donald Trump is too corrupt to be President?"

You get things like this...

White House Slams New York Post For Cropping Video To Make It Seem As If Joe Biden Was Wandering Away At G7 Summit: “They Just Lie”

The White House is slamming the New York Post for pushing out a video on social media, and later a cover story, claiming that President Joe Biden wandered off as he and other world leaders watched a skydiving demonstration at the G7 summit in Italy.

The Post video came with the message, “President Biden appeared to wander off at the G7 summit in Italy, with officials needing to pull him back to focus.”

But White House spokesman Andrew Bates noted that the video that the Post shared was cropped, missing the context of what Biden was doing: Speaking and congratulating another skydiver as some of the other world leaders were observing a separate diver.

Bates shared the video with the wider angle and wrote, “The Murdoch outlets are so desperate to distract from @POTUS‘s record that they just lie. Here, they use an artificially narrow frame to hide from viewers that he just saw a skydiving demonstration. He’s saying congratulations to one of the divers and giving a thumbs up.” Bates also included the Post’s video edit.

https://deadline.com/2024/06/biden-new-york-post-white-house-1235973581/

But to say that is the only media agenda would not be telling the whole story now, right?

I present to you "Ilhan Omar is anti-American, so how can we portray that everything she utters or even doesn't say is hating on the US?"

Ilhan Omar Deportation Calls Grow From Republicans

Conservatives are calling for Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar to be deported over comments she allegedly made about Somalia.

Omar, a Somali American and Muslim, sparked a backlash after a clip of the lawmaker's recent remarks to Somali American constituents went viral on X, formerly Twitter.

In the remarks, Omar addressed the deal struck by Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland with landlocked Ethiopia to give it access to the sea.

According to the translation of her remarks first shared on X by Ambassador Rhoda J. Elmi, Somaliland's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Omar purportedly said that she was "Somalian first, Muslim second" and "here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system."

https://www.newsweek.com/ilhan-omar-deportation-calls-republicans-1865235

With democracy now being a partisan issue according to the people at the top when it comes to the media and with someone as part of the Putin/Kim love letter club a heartbeat away from the oval office; it is time as Democrats, no matter what stripe you are to hold the media accountable, call their trustworthiness into question if needed, definitely investigate before jumping on any claim, do the things they are too compromised to do, and unite past faction politics.

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1. Thing is their wealth owners only have way too much money

left over after they pay their tax. Paying taxes is for their lowly customers. We send the media Billions of dollars and what do we get back from them, the finger and the second shift on MSNBC. Fuck them we still win.