Forget Vance. It’s •Trump• the Republicans should be talking about replacing if they want to win.
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We now have confirmation that both the NYT and WaPo have received the hacked materials. That means the clock is ticking for them to follow their own precedent and start doling out the juicy tidbits as news. Neutrality demands it, after all!
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Re the post upthread, Brian Beutler lays it out in embarrassingly (for the press) stark terms. Here’s what Dean Baquet of the NYT said in 2016:
“When we learn important things, to not publish is a political act. The calculation cannot be, we’re just not going to publish because that would screw up American politics. You know, at that point, I will go into business as like a campaign adviser to people and not as a journalist.”
But now…
Via @KimPerales:
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Meanwhile, behind closed doors inside the Republican Party, pressure grows for Trump to drop out
Presumably
And shouldn’t the press be frothing and speculating endlessly about it? Because that’s how journalism is done, apparently
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Don’t tell me there isn’t a single person, not a one, somewhere in the Republican Party machine who’s privately wishing for a different candidate right now.
This is totally absent in press coverage: not hinted at, not murmured about, not quoted anonymously on background, not echoed by very serious columnists, not amplified, not manifested. And that contrast to 2 months ago is damning.
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The ongoing trickle of replies to this whole thread along the lines of “well the Republicans would never •actually• replace Trump” and “whose mind would that change?” are totally missing the assignment here.
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“Even his most ardent base checked out after an hour, streaming out of the sparsley-populated auditorium, as he rambled incoherently past the hour mark.”
Gosh, how many of those Republicans “streaming out” wish they had a better candidate? Kind of wish Trump would just drop out?
You don’t know until you ask, my dear pressfolk! Chase them to the local diner! Fish for quotes until you get a juicy one! I know you know how this works: you did it with Biden.
From @wdlindsy:
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Trump campaign desperately tries to paint president as cognitively competent, as his campaign is dogged by relentless press coverage of business leaders “startled by his inability keep a straight thought”
Just kidding
That happened, but the press dropped this story and wandered off because they were covering Biden, and the only person talking about it is Trump. #uspol
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At long last, the NYT •finally• picks up the thundering chorus of concern about Trump’s obvious cognitive incompetence…
…by writing an embarrassingly credulous piece about how Trump’s mental state is just fine, citing as its source — wait for it — Trump:
#uspol From @melaniesill:
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Greg Sargent takes out his scalpel and, dissection by dissection, goes on an absolute •rampage• about the MSM’s failure to cover Trump’s mental unfitness:
#uspol ht @heidilifeldman:
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Sargent takes headlines about Biden pre-dropout, flips them to refer to Trump — basically what I'm doing upthread — and then asks:
❝ Are these headlines really stretches, based on all we’ve seen? I submit that they are not. … How often do you see headlines like this? Why don’t we see more of them? ❞
❝ This argument has never received an even remotely serious hearing from newsroom leaders at big media organizations. ❞
You’re damn right, Greg.
#uspol https://newrepublic.com/article/185622/finally-top-journo-erupts-media-ignoring-trumps-mental-state
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“Wait, you're still keeping this megathread going, Paul?”
THE MEGATHREAD WILL CONTINUE AS LONG AS NECESSARY
Trump just had the worst single day in a US presidential general election since…gosh…when?? He is a humiliation — not just a bad candidate, but mentally and emotionally incompetent.
Where is the mainstream coverage of that decline?
Where is the mainstream coverage of the behind-the-scenes effort to replace him?
Come to think of it, where are his hacked emails? Press has 'em!
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I am again tapping the sign:
Don’t tell me there isn’t a single person, not a one, somewhere in the Republican Party machine who’s privately wishing for a different candidate right now.
This is totally absent in press coverage: not hinted at, not murmured about, not quoted anonymously on background, not echoed by Serious Columnists, not amplified, not manifested.
I mean, Dick Cheney endorsed her, for god’s sake. Dick Cheney!! Yet…zero speculation about palace intrigue to yeet Trump.
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At this point, politicians are just openly trolling the mainstream media for their unwillingness to apply their own standards. Good for Moskowitz.
(Update: this is not an endorsement of the guy in general; I know nothing about him.)
From @lovelylovely:
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My dear political pressitarians, you don't even have to •find• these people in the Republican machine desperately trying behind the scenes to replace Trump. You just have •speculate• about them!
Again, we all know you know how this works. You did it with Biden.
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Amazing: @wdlindsy has gathered a whole collection of commentators echoing this thread:
https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/113130161223719501Members of the press, we’re all thinking it.
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We are now at the point where:
- Trump is mass-cancelling crucial appearances, which Biden never did
- Trump is far more rambling and incoherent than Biden has ever been, ever
- Trump stopped answering questions and lapsed into swaying to his own playlist for 39 minutes at a live event, which Biden…I mean, come the fuck on
- Trump is even more overtly fascist…yet none of this receives even a fraction of the mainstream coverage Biden’s mellow old age received.
Where is the press?!?
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Here is the top of this thread:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112884273119572617I started it at the end of July. Depressingly, I could have written almost all of it this afternoon and it would be just as accurate.
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Trump is doing all of those things and his cult member followers keep putting up more and more signs. They love him.
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The press is largely owned by billionaires who've been firing anyone who speaks up for workers
Video Reveals Power Of Sinclair, As Local News Anchors Recite Script In Unison
Sinclair Broadcast Group owns more than 190 local TV stations across the country. The company recently began instructing local anchors to read a script denouncing "fake" news.
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