"Saturday Night Live did something that The Washington Post, USA Today and The L.A.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Saturday Night Live did something that The Washington Post, USA Today and The L.A. Times all lacked the courage to do and that is endorse Vice President Harris."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #SNL #WashingtonPost #LosAngelesTimes #USAToday
/1

SNL comically endorsing VP Harris shows more courage than The Washington Post!

SNL knows Trump will target them if he wins

(deanobeidallah.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"For two days with just a week remaining in an election in which Joe Biden is not running, the nation’s leading news companies pretended this utterly irrelevant and innocuous Biden comment was the biggest political story in all the land. ...

All of this over an apostrophe, or its absence.

This is disorienting bullshit — intentionally disorienting bullshit."

~ Jamison Foser

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #MediaFail #MediaAretheProblem
/2

Long walk home

As Donald Trump threatens to impose fascism on America, the news media distract us with a freakout over an apostrophe. We don't have to live like this.

(www.findinggravity.net)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"It is designed to obscure the differences between Kamala Harris & Donald Trump, a man who routinely calls people 'vermin' & threatens 'bloody' mass deportation of tens of millions of people, including American citizens, & uses violent imagery to describe women who dare oppose him & threatens to jail Americans for exercising their first Amendment rights to criticize their government & publicly expresses his admiration for foreign dictators & privately praises Adolf Hitler."

#MediaFail #Trump
/3

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Scott Dworkin provides a rundown of the "top five absolute worst failures by the Press" during this election cycle — lying for Trump, biased coverage, undermining Harris, refusing to blame Trump for chaos, and misleading headlines.

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #MediaFail #MediaAretheProblem
/4

The Press Failed America This Election, We Can't Let it Happen Ever Again

Corporate Media Fails: Election Edition

(www.dworkinsubstack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"In the eyes of those who control the platforms of communication, and in the halls of power, and in the minds of many comfortable and privileged people, it is a far less divisive act to hold a Nazi rally, crammed with racism and hatred and bigotry and Nazi speakers delivering Nazi slogans and Nazi intentions to enact Nazi policies, than it is to refer to such a thing as 'a Nazi rally.'"

~ A.R. Moxon

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #MediaFail #fascism #Nazi
/5

Apology Not Accepted

How to heal a hateful spirit that has gripped tens of millions of broken people? Reclaiming lost humanity by finding unacceptable things unacceptable.

The Reframe (www.the-reframe.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"This entire election has been disproportionately viewed through the lens of polling that has deliberately weighted to ensure that polling doesn't miss Trump voters, but not (as far as we know) weighted to adjust for post-Dobbs polling misses.

And then Ann Selzer came along."

~ Marcy Wheeler

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #MediaFail #polls #AnnSelzer #women
/6

Male Pollsters Shocked - Shocked!! - When a Woman Pollster Discovers Women Voters - emptywheel

This entire election has been disproportionately viewed through the lens of polling that has deliberately weighted to ensure that polling doesn't miss Trump voters, but not (as far as we know) weighted to adjust for post-Dobbs polling misses. And the Ann Selzer came along.

emptywheel (www.emptywheel.net)

[jamesbritt@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

This is amazing

[zachvat@newsie.social]

@wdlindsy Proof.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@zachvat Absolutely. I wonder if she wore that costume as a fright costume at Halloween, too.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@jamesbritt It is, isn't it? A.R. Moxon's commentary is unfailingly outstanding.

[runyan50@newsie.social]

@wdlindsy Everything about this election except the polls pointed to a Harris victory. Youth, Black men and immigrants switching to Trump made zero sense when their very lives are at risk under Trump. A guy who never broke 47% of the vote actually increasing his support while out on bail after a felony? Harris losing after hundreds of GOP officials switching to her? I will never agree that the polls were innocent victims of election assumptions.

[kastope@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

[kastope@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy people who follow him don't see there's no reciprocal loyalty. He will only tolerate anyone as long as they are useful. Anyone. His children know it. His followers don't.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@kastope Yes, that's absolutely right. And it has proven true again and again when people follow strongman faux-savior figures from Mussolini to Hitler and many others.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Runyan50 Thank you. Good points.