As Joan Walsh notes, the beltway media got their Harris interview by shrieking about her policy — the new "But her emails!" media shriek of this election cycle. So now can we move on?
-
Rachel Rawlingsreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy As a former VP said of Trump: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind, or not to have a mind."
(It was Dan Quayle, and he was actually fucking up the United Negro College Fund slogan "A mind is a terrible thing to waste," in a speech before the UNCF!)
-
:blahaj: Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy It's almost like almost all media is owned by conservatives literally paying their employees to lie about Trump...
-
Mastodon Migrationreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
The execrable A. G. Sulzberger New York Times recently defended this practice as... get this...
Coherency Bias
Apparently the New York Times crack reporters just have a preference for things that make sense, so that's what they report, independent of the reality of things.
-
Russell1898replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Politicians have always spun stories and “facts” to suit their political agendas, Republicans more so than Democrats. That’s not new. What’s new and different in the last ten years is the blatant, abusive, corrupt, dangerous fabrications perpetrated by ex45 and his ilk. It’s the sort of thing one would have seen in 1940s Argentina. Even the Perons didn’t sink to the level we see today. Don’t cry for me.
-
Simplicatorreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy It’s
not
a
failure
when
it’s
on
purpose -
Simplicatorreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Froomkin has no power analysis
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Simplicator last edited by
@Simplicator Sorry, but I'm not sure what that means.
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Simplicator last edited by
@Simplicator You're right about that.
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Russell1898 last edited by
@CAman Yes, I agree with your focus on what's new and different, and to the new and different, I'd add the tremendous power of social media networks and the Internet itself to spread disinformation, often disinformation deliberately seeded by maleficent players (e.g., Putin) to influence election results in places around the world.
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Mastodon Migration last edited by
@mastodonmigration Isn't that a wonderful, blathering, empty, morally mindless phrase? Puts me in mind of the creation of euphemisms like "eliminating" and "sanitizing" people when we murder them with weapons of mass destruction.
And when things don't make sense, as in every time Trump opens his mouth, NYT reporters kindly help interpret and paraphrase the nonsense to suggest there's some real meaning inside the word salad….
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to :blahaj: Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑 last edited by
@WhyNotZoidberg Indeed. Well-stated.
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Rachel Rawlings last edited by
@LinuxAndYarn If I had known that the UNCF slogan was mangled by Dan Quayle, I had clean forgotten that! Poor Dan: he could mangle just about any word imaginable, even plain old "potato." I never write that word any longer after Quayle without asking me if I'm spelling it correctly.
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Greengordon last edited by
@Greengordon I agree.
-
Kote Isaevreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Well, at least one sense in trump word salad all the time "I want be dictator of christophascist states!! I don't want go to jail!!! Putin, Xi, whoever, please HEEELLP!!!"
-
William Lindsey :toad:replied to Kote Isaev last edited by
@koteisaev You're right.
-
CassandraVertreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy
Mass deportation is not a policy, it is ethnic cleansing. -
William Lindsey :toad:replied to CassandraVert last edited by
@CassandraVert Precisely. And shameful for the media to pretend otherwise.