LET’S MAKE IT INTO A MUSIC

[peterbutler@mas.to]

@wdlindsy WP article is indistinguishable from parody

non-paywalled version:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-sways-and-bops-to-music-for-39-minutes-in-unusual-town-hall-episode/ar-AA1sha0E

[runyan50@newsie.social]

@wdlindsy Nobody even noticed the answers he actually gave. They were as bizarre as sharks vs electrical batteries. This whole night was a visit to the mental health unit on Cookoos Nest.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Runyan50 Exactly. How do you parse nonsense? By "weaving" it into patterns and sensibility that are not even there?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@peterbutler "Indistinguishable from parody" is such an apt description — and the insolence of doing this (along with New York Times) when they know that many of us know better. The slap to our faces and the insult to our intelligence and to our eyes' ability to see what we can plainly see….

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@beingreal Nothing seems beyond the realm of wild possibiity with some of these folks.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@SueDiOh It's pretty clear to me Dean Obeidallah isn't just discovering the media's malfeasance here, but that he's reporting on something ongoing that he's been tracking all along.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@mlbellar Yep.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@HarriettMB

[suedioh@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy I know. So why play dumb?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@markmetz Yes.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@CompassionNow A good description.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Tharpa A certain story about a boy crying wolf does come to mind when it's over and over and over again.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@SueDiOh I don't read him as playing dumb. I read him to be calling out the disparity between how corporate media have treated Biden and Trump all along.

[darwinwoodka@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy @SueDiOh

Trump has always been treated differently from anyone, that's really the point. The media has always had special treatment for him, and why is a very interesting question.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@darwinwoodka @SueDiOh Excellent points. I, too, have long wondered why he gets special treatment. Part of the answer, obviously, is that he's white, monied, and has influential connections.

[suedioh@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy @darwinwoodka Money. That's why. Because rich is not the same as smart. And he's not even rich. So how dumb are they?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@SueDiOh @darwinwoodka Yep.