Is Joe Biden the new Ed Muskie? ...

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10. That may be, but after their distorted coverage toward Hillary in 2016,

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I stopped reading them because their anti-Hillary one-sided bias was so evident.

Perhaps they are now more objective, and present ALL views since then, but they left a very bad taste in my mouth

https://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/05/the-fall-of-saloncom-004551

I also do not think it is valid to make a comparison between 1972 and today, though the resurgence of overt racism is unfortunately alive and well, and that is extremely troubling

It is also way too early to make pronouncements of "sure things"

Muskie's downfall came at the expense of the illustrious press before the NH primary, when they accused him of crying when an editor of a NH Newspaper impugned Muskie's wife's character.

Muskie denied that he "cried", and said it was outrage and anger he was expressing toward Loeb for lying about his wife. Loeb was extremely anti-Muskies, and referred to him as "Moscow Muskie"

The cards were stacked against him, and the media in general was NOT fair at all in their coverage