Re: The Conservative Media Echo Chamber Is Making the Right Intellectually Deaf
I don't have time to go into it here, but I know of what I speak....
You only illustrate your own bias.
In the Bill Clinton impeachment alone, going back to analyze the headlines, the photos used, the placement of the stories.....
And to this day, people like you refer to the whole incident as a 'blow job' or making a mountain out of a molehill.
Sorry not sorry. It was a molehill.
Its most serious allegation was perjury. Compared to his predecessors -- such as Reagan funding the Contras by selling weapons to post-Revolutionary Iran, or Nixon subverting the electoral process or waging an illegal war on Laos -- that's junior varsity league.
The Blagojevich story was handled a bit better but even there he was not demonized by the media as a Republican would have been.
Is that a joke? All of the individuals I listed were
ripped to shreds by the press.
The negative stories on Donald Trump for instance have been like 20 to 1 compared to negative stories about Hillary.
That's because
Trump cannot shut his damned fool mouth. It is no one's fault but his own if he cannot keep his trap shut.
Again, as Napoleon said: "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Instead of letting Clinton harm her campaign with gaffes and email issues, he keeps doing things
he knows attracts the attention of the press -- and that's why he does them. He's a narcissist, who cannot stop himself from demanding press attention, even when it demolishes his own campaign.
No one in the media forced him to go after a Gold Star family, or call Mexicans rapists, or mock a disabled reporter, or refuse to release his tax returns, or claim that Megyn Kelly had "blood coming out of her wherever," or the dozens of other amateurishly incompetent things he's done during the campaign. They aren't the ones who have failed to set up campaign offices in battleground states. They don't force him to do 30-minute interviews with MSNBC and CNN and other allegedly hostile news networks 3 times a week.
And they stay on ANY issue re the Donald while many have never given any significant time or shown any interest in things like Benghazi
Already thoroughly investigated by Republicans, dragging her to hearings totally backfired, there were no findings of wrongdoing, no one cares anyway
Yes, Trump
could let the media focus on that, but instead runs his mouth
jeopardizing American security
That's Trump's job. I mean, it's not like Russia invaded Ukraine, right? Or like Japan is a strategic partner? Or we should keep working with NATO?
intertwining of the Clinton Foundation with the State Department
Yes, Trump
could let the media focus on that, but instead runs his mouth
Is Donald Trump's provocative remarks so much more serious than all that?
Afraid so.
Americans are quite suspicious of Clinton, but they're not afraid she'll start a nuclear war because of a Tweet.
Her record is nowhere near as bad as her detractors insist. E.g. she was actually pushing Obama to be more aggressive in Syria early on, but was shut down by others in the Obama administration.
Meanwhile, compared to the decades of public service Clinton has performed, Trump never held public office. He didn't even bother to run for Mayor anywhere first. His conduct on the campaign trail is a primary indicator of the content of his character, his reliability, his ability to communicate to and lead the public.
When we look at that conduct we see a stream of lies, misinformation, invective, xenophobia and divisiveness streaming out of his campaign every day. We see biweekly attempts to "reboot" his campaign, which are doomed by
his own admission that he won't change, no matter how badly he loses. We see him punching down and whining about the slightest of slights, like a thin-skinned bully. We see, if nothing else, a thoroughly unpredictable individual, who is incapable of staying on message.
What do we see on the policy side? An utter mess. He's never held a position for more than 5 years, he backtracks half of his positions, his tax policy mostly benefits him and his rich buddies, his trade policies will throw us into a recession, he has no coherent military policy, he shows little knowledge of or interest in international affairs, his immigration policy is a nativist train-wreck.
Last but not least: He is solely responsible for his own campaign, and it's a freaking dumpster fire. How can he lead the nation, if he can't keep his campaign under control?
