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In reply to the discussion: Beto: "Biden failed this country in the most important job he had" [View all]JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)by painting Gore as boring, misrepresenting him with taunting jokes incorporated as news. For Kerry they took a paid political ad full of lies, and highlighted it as a news story, and essentially gave if a free paid ad constant airtime, for the swift boaters. For Hillary their constant sexist slurs and misrepresentations were some of the most disgusting examples of reporting in the modern age, and their blatant lie that the email investigation was reopened 11 days before the election directly put trump into the WH. No investigation was ever reopened, and they knew that, but still paraded every right wing pundit across their outlets propagating that lie 24/7, 11 days before the election.
And lest we forget, The illustrious media in this country are directly responsible for the deaths of at least a million people by the WMD LIE, they precipitated with our invasion of Iraq.
When was the last time you heard the media talk about where candidates are on the issues. They sure didnt with Kerry, Hillary, and Biden, they were too busy focused on gotcha journalism.
Even this theme that Biden was incompetent, and make no mistake that is exactly what they are doing with this bullshit, effectively covers up the irreparable damage that trump and his thugs are doing to this country.
Just look at the incompetent people under the current administration that are in positions they have no business to be in?
No, this Biden is old and should have dropped out story with the media self congratulating themselves for presenting it as some sort of accomplishment that they should be praised for is garbage.
You will never hear them bring up how they dropped the ball with the WMD lie in Iraq, and how they have completely dropped the ball by their failure to cover trump and his administration. In fact they have normalized it.
The Matt Lauer interviews with Hillary and trump demonstrated just how bad they were. Lauer let trump ramble on and on with every softball question uninterrupted without follow-up, while with Hillary he wouldnt even give her a chance to answer a question without interrupting her during her answer. It was a disgrace, and the media self congratulating themselves on such a wonderful performance was sickening. Not surprisingly, Lauer was eventually fired for sexual harassment, and Andrew Lack followed for his cover up of the abuses that occurred when he was head at NBC.
The press that covered Joe McCarthy, the Viet Nam war, Watergate, have been missing in action for a long time, and as demonstrated by their current obsessions, they still are.