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Prosecutor's audio shows Biden's memory lapses

Remember when the Wall Street Journal tried to run a piece on Joe Biden's decline, and was blasted by other media sources?

The entire media may or may have not been aware - but they did attack anyone who reported on the issues, instead of investigating further.

This is covered in the book.

Tapper himself started down the line of questioning Biden's decline after the SOTU, and people got very mad at him for it. So, he switched back until after the NYT came out with their post-debate editorial and it was "Safe" for a leftist in good standing to Say Something.
 
....but it's not the conservative who left the GOP to become a Trump critic for the past decade.
You pat yourself on the back because you can see how outrageous Trump is, like Liz Cheney and a handful of others. But you refuse to acknowledge the damaging delusions of the pro-Trump GOP.

Sure. It's just also no longer the left wing's friend. This isn't a zero game where FOX setting it's credibility on fire means that somehow the MSM's abuses cease to exist.
The MSM's "abuses" don't begin to touch the rightwing media's complete abandonment of journalistic responsibility.

I blame the MSM for coddling the right wing too long in the interested of "fairness." They let themselves be played into treating the GOP as a responsible political party when in fact they are bad-faith actors enabling a wannabe dictator at our nation's peril.
 
Tapper himself started down the line of questioning Biden's decline after the SOTU, and people got very mad at him for it. So, he switched back until after the NYT came out with their post-debate editorial and it was "Safe" for a leftist in good standing to Say Something.
What? Tapper questioned Biden's decline? How is that possible in the far-left, socialist MSM?????? How is Tapper still employed? Who are the Tappers of the right-wing media?

How many settled scientific questions are treated as "hoaxes" by the MSM because they are contrary to left-wing dogma? Can you name one?
 
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Bro. All of those examples happened.
Your spin on them could only be convincing to someone who has marinated in far-right misinformation.
Aye, there's the rub. You want not the data, but commentary. You want the narrative.?
Lies are not "data," and treating them as such is a disservice to the audience. That's the rub. It's taken the MSM years to finally start calling the right's constant lies what they truly are.
Are you trolling me right now?
I guess you missed the entire 2020 election. Never mind then.
Remember Abu Ghraib? That was, what - 50? - front page articles in the NYTimes? As opposed to the Kill Squad under Obama... which had.... zero ?
Remember Whitewater? That was, what -50? - front page articles in the NYT? As opposed to Bush and Cheney lying about WMD? Which one of those led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people?

Benghazi? Was that--whatever it was--covered up by the MSM?

In just six days, the New York Times ran as many cover stories about Hillary Clinton’s emails as they did about all the policy issues combined in the 69 days leading up to the election.

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Tapper himself started down the line of questioning Biden's decline after the SOTU, and people got very mad at him for it. So, he switched back until after the NYT came out with their post-debate editorial and it was "Safe" for a leftist in good standing to Say Something.
I remember when this kind of thing would be a major scandal. Now it's just business as usual.

Official Pushed to Rewrite Intelligence So It Could Not Be ‘Used Against’ Trump​

The New York Times reported last week that Mr. Kent had pushed analysts to redo their assessment, dated Feb. 26, of the relationship between Venezuela’s government and the gang, Tren de Aragua, after it came to light that the assessment contradicted a subsequent claim by Mr. Trump. The disclosure of the precise language of Mr. Kent’s emails has added to the emerging picture of a politicized intervention.
 
Remember when the Wall Street Journal tried to run a piece on Joe Biden's decline, and was blasted by other media sources?
No, I don't. A citation would be nice, including the WSJ's piece and the subsequent "blasts."
The entire media may or may have not been aware - but they did attack anyone who reported on the issues, instead of investigating further.
The entire media attacked anyone who reported on the issues. Hmm. I doubt it.
This is covered in the book.
A book written by a member of the MSM, right?

We don't need any books by, say, Sean Hannity, do we? We already know exactly what it would say.
 
One of us here is definitely still trapped in tribalist dogma, and unable to accept new information that clashes with his preferred vision of reality.....
One side plays the tribalist game far better than the other. The MSM's media's determination not to appear biased constantly gets in the way of reporting reality.

President Trump calls Salvadoran and Venezuelan immigrants “animals” and says they’re “poisoning the blood of our country.” At the same time, he claims white South African farmers are the victims of genocide while women and children are being starved and bombed in Gaza. This isn’t policy—it’s propaganda and the media is covering for him.
The media needs to wake the f*ck up. While CNN peddles Jake Tapper’s political fan fiction and MSNBC treats criminals like Tom Homan as respectable voices, white nationalists and anti-government extremists are celebrating. Why wouldn’t they be? Their rhetoric isn’t being challenged—it’s being broadcast on the nightly news.​
Every time the press chooses “balance” over truth, it hands a megaphone to hate. The refusal to call this bullshit what it is, white nationalism, doesn’t make the media look neutral. It makes them complicit.​
What used to get you punched in the face in public now gets you booked on Fox News. These ideas should be radioactive. Instead, they’re being mainstreamed by anchors in makeup and suits.
There is no “white genocide.” But there is a real one happening right now—against women and children in Gaza. And the people pushing this bullshit narrative know exactly what they’re doing: burying the truth to protect power while the vulnerable suffer.​
These views have no place in a civilized society. And if the press won’t say it out loud, then we damn sure will.​
 
No, I don't. A citation would be nice, including the WSJ's piece and the subsequent "blasts."


The entire media attacked anyone who reported on the issues. Hmm. I doubt it.
Not the entire media.

But as reported, there were select major news outlets that coordinated with the Biden administration to deflect and attack reports on his decline.

This is laid out in the book.

A book written by a member of the MSM, right?
For sure. Is that a problem?

We don't need any books by, say, Sean Hannity, do we? We already know exactly what it would say.
OK? Weird.
 
You pat yourself on the back because you can see how outrageous Trump is, like Liz Cheney and a handful of others. But you refuse to acknowledge the damaging delusions of the pro-Trump GOP.

I am fine criticizing the GOP, and have done so regularly pretty much my entire time here.


The MSM's "abuses" don't begin to touch the rightwing media's complete abandonment of journalistic responsibility.

Again. One side's abuses don't mean the other's didn't happen. Nor is one side's abuses somehow made less because you find the other's more offensive.

Jeffrey Dahmer was a mass murderer and sexual predator who also ate people. Derek Chauvin callously kneeled on a man's neck until he killed him. Chauvin doesn't get to walk into court and declare that Since Dahmer's Crimes Were Worse He Shouldn't Be Considered Guilty Of His Own, Or Should At Least Get A Reduced Sentence. That so much of Right Wing Media has proven willing to be dishonest does not somehow by zero-sum alchemy make the MSM not left-wing biased. willing to suppress tribally inconvenient narratives and occasionally also dishonest.
 
Again. One side's abuses don't mean the other's didn't happen. Nor is one side's abuses somehow made less because you find the other's more offensive.
I never said the left is perfect. But continued attempts to equate the two gives the anti-democratic forces a pass.
Jeffrey Dahmer was a mass murderer and sexual predator who also ate people. Derek Chauvin callously kneeled on a man's neck until he killed him. Chauvin doesn't get to walk into court and declare that Since Dahmer's Crimes Were Worse He Shouldn't Be Considered Guilty Of His Own, Or Should At Least Get A Reduced Sentence. That so much of Right Wing Media has proven willing to be dishonest does not somehow by zero-sum alchemy make the MSM not left-wing biased. willing to suppress tribally inconvenient narratives
The MSM is biased toward science.
The MSM is biased against bigotry.
The MSM is biased toward women's freedom to choose, but not to the point that they lie in their reporting.
The MSM is biased against denying the holocaust.
The MSM is biased toward honest portrayals of American history.
The MSM is biased toward honest economic analysis.
The MSM employs serious journalists who feel a responsibility to the truth and to their readers who demand factual reporting.

All this makes the MSM distinct from rightwing outlets. They are not above criticism, for sure. But equating the two is absurd.
and occasionally also dishonest.
"Dishonest" means intentionally lying. I've seen no examples of that.
 

So you dislike presidents who lie? Is that your point?

Or are you trying to equate Joe Biden to Donald Trump?

Good luck with that.
 
So you dislike presidents who lie? Is that your point?

Or are you trying to equate Joe Biden to Donald Trump?

Good luck with that.
Get back to me when you can even acknowledge Biden had cognitive issues.
 
Oh, wow, what a blast. One opinion piece, that points out an obvious fault in the WSJ's report, which was the obvious bias of their sources.
Yes, this is just one easily verified example of what the authors of the book have laid out.

Clearly they put forth far more examples, but this one covers the point they make.

Hiding Joe Biden's decline, and attacking people who pointed it out, was dumb. Those people ****ed around and now they are finding out.

For those who insist that the MSM is uniformly biased, yes.
Well go bug them.
 
Get back to me when you can even acknowledge Biden had cognitive issues.
First you acknowledge that the 2020 election wasn't "stolen," that climate change is real, that Trump sold out Ukraine because he likes tyrants better than leaders who were democratically elected, and that Jan 6 was an attempted coup.

Don't worry, I'll wait.
 
Hiding Joe Biden's decline, and attacking people who pointed it out, was dumb. Those people ****ed around and now they are finding out.
Worse than that, the assholes who hid it (some members of his staff and family members) enabled the return of Trump to the White House, an unmitigated disaster for our nation and the world.
Well go bug them.
It's more fun bugging you.
 
What's he running for again?

Also, where are the threads about the end of Reagan's second term? He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's pretty soon after leaving office. I'd hate to think that the far right wingers who have been all over Biden today might be displaying some hypocrisy and are just shitting on Biden for partisan reasons while not being consistent.
Reagan had far more serious problems. He was hands off type POTUS from day one and his admin ran amok. Stockman used to use flashcards for Reagan to get him to make decisions. People used to leave his cabinet meetings wondering what he said or meant. We've had mentally or physically handicapped presidents before.
 
Reagan had far more serious problems. He was hands off type POTUS from day one and his admin ran amok. Stockman used to use flashcards for Reagan to get him to make decisions. People used to leave his cabinet meetings wondering what he said or meant. We've had mentally or physically handicapped presidents before.
People get old if they're lucky and have decent immune systems that can find and kill cancerous cells before they become a serious problem. However, some degree of mental decline is likely as one becomes elderly.
 
Biden is no longer president.
 
Sounds awful. Did the economy tank? Did essential freedoms die? Were people pulled off the streets by ununiformed officers and tossed into unmarked vehicles to be whisked away without due process? Did essential aid to desperate people around the globe get yanked away for no reason but to stick it to the libs? Were our world-class medical research centers gutted by idiots who think vitamin E is better than vaccines? Were our educational institutions attacked because things were being taught that hurt the feelings of bigots? Was NATO's belief in America as a bulwark against tyranny shattered? Was America's standing as a leader of free markets destroyed? Was the status of the dollar as the world's reserve currency attacked?

Do tell.

This.

A potato on a stick with eyes drawn on it would have been a better choice than what we have now.
 
Tapper himself started down the line of questioning Biden's decline after the SOTU, and people got very mad at him for it. So, he switched back until after the NYT came out with their post-debate editorial and it was "Safe" for a leftist in good standing to Say Something.

So IOW, Tapper lies when that feels "safe"? And then...switches? Kind of back and forth?

And now has written a book.

...that people are supposed to trust is the !!!real!!! truth.

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Poor Biden. Just because he lied constantly, ran up the debt, had a terrible, deadly Afghan withdrawal, had periods where US GDP fell, had hundreds of thousands of preventable covid deaths, kept top secret documents in his garage and offered to show them to people, could only work 6 hours a day, soent more time at vacation properties than any other modern president...

He's still so confused why people don't like him and he was a one term president.
 
I never said the left is perfect. But continued attempts to equate the two gives the anti-democratic forces a pass.

The MSM is biased toward science.
The MSM is biased against bigotry.
The MSM is biased toward women's freedom to choose, but not to the point that they lie in their reporting.
The MSM is biased against denying the holocaust.
The MSM is biased toward honest portrayals of American history.
The MSM is biased toward honest economic analysis.
The MSM employs serious journalists who feel a responsibility to the truth and to their readers who demand factual reporting.

Look, you can repeat those kinds of things to yourself all you like, man - it simply does not make them true.

"Dishonest" means intentionally lying. I've seen no examples of that.

because you declared examples given to you to be right wing narratives, and refused to look at them.
 
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