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The Media's Portrayal of Trump and His Presidency


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2 hours ago, Buffalo_Gal said:


He just thinks he will be back to work in September...

Laying low until people have had enough of #cancelculture isn't a bad strategy.  Vacationing as a mea culpa? If he can get away with it ...



 

 

I like how he's pretending that his vacation was planned to happen just as someone remembered his Karl Malone skits.

 

Of course, no one points out that Malone was also a sexual predator who liked to screw 12 year old girls (thus creating a former LT for the Bills.)

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19 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

Great job?? HA HA HA Holding rallies in closed areans as the virus spreads. This guy is a SUPER SPREADER! 

 

Man, if Trump had only called it a peaceful protest, the people in attendance would have been completely immune from the Flu Manchu.

 

#IMPEACH

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Just now, Koko78 said:

 

Man, if Trump had only called it a peaceful protest, the people in attendance would have been completely immune from the Flu Manchu.

 

#IMPEACH

I don't care who flung po, he made a decision to hold an indoor rally during a pandemic in a state where numbers are exploding. That's not a crime I guess

 

 

Yes, that is not a crime, right? 

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4 minutes ago, Tiberius said:

I don't care who flung po, he made a decision to hold an indoor rally during a pandemic in a state where numbers are exploding. That's not a crime I guess

 

 

Yes, that is not a crime, right? 

 

Would it have made you feel better if they burned a few buildings, or tore down some statues? Is that what makes people immune to the virus?

 

You'll have to help me out here. I'm not sure what the disingenuous leftist criteria are for what mass gatherings provide immunity from the virus.

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21 minutes ago, Koko78 said:

 

Would it have made you feel better if they burned a few buildings, or tore down some statues? Is that what makes people immune to the virus?

 

You'll have to help me out here. I'm not sure what the disingenuous leftist criteria are for what mass gatherings provide immunity from the virus.


 

Much like smoke will keep bees from stinging you, the smoke from burning buildings will keep Covid from infecting you.
 

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1 hour ago, Muppy said:

 

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What do you want, community organizers in charge? We know how well they understand our country's heritage and how competent that background prepares them for accomplishing positive things for our country.

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On 6/23/2020 at 1:25 PM, Buffalo_Gal said:


He just thinks he will be back to work in September...

Laying low until people have had enough of #cancelculture isn't a bad strategy.  Vacationing as a mea culpa? If he can get away with it ...



 

 

 

...how this skank rose from only making Sunday football prognostications to where he is today is WELL beyond me.....

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1 minute ago, OldTimeAFLGuy said:

 

 

...how this skank rose from only making Sunday football prognostications to where he is today is WELL beyond me.....


It was promoting "girls on trampolines" that helped him out. ?‍♂️

 

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5 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:


It was promoting "girls on trampolines" that helped him out. ?‍♂️

 

 

...hell he should come to NYS and run for office...downstate will elect ANYTHING........welcome "NYC Mayor Kimmel"...............

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2 hours ago, Buffalo_Gal said:


I never, ever understood why anyone would want to watch "girls on trampolines." Still don't get it. ?‍♂️

 

 

We'd be worried about you if you did get it.

 

But, it was nearly genius.  ;)

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JOURNALISTS ABANDONING ‘OBJECTIVITY’ FOR ‘MORAL CLARITY’ REALLY JUST WANT TO CALL PEOPLE IMMORAL:

Wesley Lowery, a Pulitzer-prize-winning correspondent for the 60 Minutes offshoot 60 in 6, has the latest and perhaps loudest in a recent series of think-pieces extolling the virtues of newsroom revolts such as the one that erupted at The New York Times earlier this month after its opinion pages published a controversial piece by Sen. Tom Cotton (R – Ark.).

 

Lowery and his industry allies contend that the national tumult stemming from the police killing of George Floyd is a prime opportunity to overhaul journalism’s very mission statement. “Neutral objectivity” as an aspiration, he argues in a Times essay, has failed, and should be replaced by “moral clarity.”

 

“Moral clarity would insist that politicians who traffic in racist stereotypes and tropes—however cleverly—be labeled such with clear language and unburied evidence,” Lowery writes. “Racism, as we know, is not about what lies in the depths of a human’s heart. It is about word and deed. And a more aggressive commitment to truth from the press would empower our industry to finally admit that.”

 

This proposed objectivity-for-morality swap is gaining momentum in the spaces where professional journalists congregate, pontificate, and/or swarm on Twitter to get senior managers fired.

 

Newsrooms “are really struggling to cover…in a way that appears to be nonpartisan a kind of political landscape where one political party in many ways has gone rogue and is not following the rules,” the Times’ Pulitzer-Prize-winning Nikole Hannah-Jones said on CNN’s Reliable Sources after the Cotton flap, in which she was a driving figure. “This adherence to even-handedness, both-sidesism, the View from Nowhere, doesn’t actually work in the political circumstances that we’re in.”

 

We’ve been here before, of course. Flashback to 2004:

 

An internal memo written by ABCNEWS Political Director Mark Halperin admonishes ABC staff: During coverage of Democrat Kerry and Republican Bush not to “reflexively and artificially hold both sides ‘equally’ accountable.”

 

The controversial internal memo obtained by DRUDGE, captures Halperin stating how “Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and mistakes all the time, but these are not central to his efforts to win.”

 

But Halperin claims that Bush is hoping to “win the election by destroying Senator Kerry at least partly through distortions.”

 

“The current Bush attacks on Kerry involve distortions and taking things out of context in a way that goes beyond what Kerry has done,” Halperin writes.

 

Halperin’s claim that ABCNEWS will not “reflexively and artificially hold both sides ‘equally’ accountable” set off sparks in St. Louis where media players gathered to cover the second presidential debate.

 

Halperin states the responsibilities of the ABCNEWS staff have “become quite grave.”

 

In August, Halperin declared online: “This is now John Kerry’s contest to lose.”

 

 

 

That was also the year that the New York Times’ then-ombudsman admitted the obvious: “Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.”

 

But that was before “Safetyism” became the law of the land on academia. In a 2018 review of Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt’s The Coddling of the American Mind, Quillette contributor Matthew Lesh asked, “Is Safetyism Destroying a Generation?

 

Safety culture undermines the entire purpose of a higher education. Universities exist to challenge students, to expand their worldview and develop their critical thinking. This is done by hearing and responding to ideas that make us feel uncomfortable. Efforts to censor speakers because they make some people feel ‘unsafe’ prevents the necessary process of argument and counter-argument in the pursuit of finding the truth.

 

Debate on campus is already undermined by the lack of viewpoint diversity – most academics come from a similar political pedigree, meaning students have fewer opportunities to be challenged in the first place. A lack of exposure to different ideas means a much more limited and weaker education. As British philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, ‘He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.’ In other words, to make an argument thoughtfully, it is necessary to understand the counterfactual of one’s own argument.

 

 

In 2015, Ashe Schow, then with the Washington Examiner wrote, “With all the attention being paid to college-aged social justice warriors and microagressions, one has to ask: What happens when all these delicate snowflakes enter the workforce?”

 

The media world is finding out, good and hard.

 

 

 

 

Related: News Pages, Editorial Pages — Who Can Tell the Difference Any More?

 
 
 
 
 
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3 hours ago, Buffalo_Gal said:


I never, ever understood why anyone would want to watch "girls on trampolines." Still don't get it. ?‍♂️

 

Ziggie Ziggie Ziggie Ziggie Zoy Zoy Zoy!

 

Its a guy thing B Gal. 

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