As David Kurtz says, Republicans are now trying to create a faux controversy over bumbling remarks made by Biden -- and the mainstream media is doing its usual shameful services to Republicans, giving legs to their faux outrage and treating it as meani...

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"This dance is so predictable, rehearsed, and tired that everyone has their roles to play and feels compelled to play them despite how intellectually and journalistically bereft the whole exercise has become."

#Biden #Trump #Republicans #PuertoRico #garbage #media
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"I’ve grown weary of explaining how these kinds of journalistic set pieces require suspending good, independent news judgment; rely on old, hackneyed journalistic tropes; and traffic in erroneous assumptions about Republicans (and journalists themselves) representing the 'real America.'"

#Biden #Trump #Republicans #PuertoRico #garbage #media
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"The fact that this manufactured outrage and the race to cover it comes five days after Trump called America a 'garbage can for the world' makes the whole thing beyond absurd."

Kurtz concludes that the journalists who continue to play this tired old game which exposes their intellectual (and I'd say, moral) emptiness may be the real garbage in this story.

#Biden #Trump #Republicans #PuertoRico #garbage #media
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[catdragon@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy I’ll be honest here, I didn’t find his remarks bumbling.
Four years of eating the shit the press and MAGA gave him, soon to be retired, watched T Rump get a pass on everything and I applaud him calling them garbage. In fact I admire his restraint.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@CatDragon That's a fair analysis, it seems to me. I suppose in using the word, I'm pointing to something the press itself has long known: that Biden tends to make gaffes as he speaks, so treating this particular gaffe (if it may be called that) as some big revelation that Biden regards Trump supporters as garbage is insincere on the part of the media, to say the least.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Once again, the corporate media is up to their old tricks with Biden, tripping over itself to condemn something he didn’t actually say. ...

When Biden used the word “garbage,” he was referring to the demonization of Latinos that we saw from Trump’s unhinged hate rally on Sunday.

The Press is lying about what the President actually said."

~ Scott Dworkin

#Biden #Trump #Republicans #PuertoRico #garbage #media
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No, Corporate Media. This Isn’t the October Surprise You’ve Been Waiting For

Joe called hateful rhetoric "garbage," end of story

(www.dworkinsubstack.com)

[tob@hachyderm.io]

@wdlindsy tiresome but ultimately meaningless. Puerto Ricans know that Trump's rally featured a speaker who called their homeland a "floating pile of garbage." They know he didn't apologize.

The political press in the US does not feel comfortable driving negative impressions of Republicans.

The eagerness with which they elevated Biden's slip of the tongue demonstrates how pathological their need to let Republicans off the hook is.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@tob I agree. Good commentary.

[martinvermeer@fediscience.org]

@wdlindsy @tob Making it as clear as ever that Harris isn't just running against Trump, but against the American oligarch owned corporate media as well. The good news is, she knows it and how to handle it.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@martinvermeer @tob That's right. Well-stated.