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In reply to the discussion: Jen Psaki just depressed the hell out of me. [View all]forgotmylogin
(7,652 posts)At his dumb rallies he seems to be pulling a couple thousand people on average. Those are the devotees whose minds we aren't ever gonna change; literally the "if PO1135809 shot someone on the street they wouldn't care" people. Just because you can fill an event hall with cult members after a long ticketing process and padding the house doesn't necessarily demonstrate wider support. They're collecting all of a vocal minority so he can do his standup-bigotry routine and get clapped for and feed his ego and the media is presenting it as though TFG has wider support. That's the press's malfunction.
There's a specific bias based on what the camera lens is trained on. I remember when the Ferguson protests were happening in my area: To see it on CNN the night fires were set in a few buildings made it look like Armageddon and the whole metro area was burning. I drove through there once during the day (a week later when it was safe and nothing was happening - when protesting was happening they had sawhorses up to make you drive around the block to avoid that street) and it was literally 2 city blocks. My dad actually called to ask if I was okay, and I was like "you're looking at five closed businesses that were set on fire like 15 miles away from where I live, nobody is rioting here and it's nowhere near as bad as it looks on TV."