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9. the media has gotten worse and worse
Sun May 10, 2020, 05:16 PM
May 2020

after katrina, the media didn't give shrub much positive coverage, or really much coverage at all. they didn't lambaste him as much as i would have liked, but they didn't continue to prop him up.

donnie *still* gets a ton of media attention. granted, he's an incumbent running for re-election in an election year, but, as with 2016, the coverage is *heavily* tilted in favor of the republican candidate. just look at the hours of airtime donnie gets vs. what biden gets. it's actually even worse than the little hillary got, if you can believe that.

fortunately, donnie's been a train wreck and couldn't make the simple and obvious political statements that would have turned his image around, and instead he just dug himself a hole and kept digging. but the media gave him every opportunity to create a new image as the uniting leader in a crisis.

still, no such thing as bad press, someone once said, so as long as they continue to spell his name right, there will continue to be a chunk of america that thinks if he's on the news all the time, he must be good....

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