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The issue was they lied to the American people, it didn't prevent it like they claimed. It did lesson the severity, so it was a good thing for the old, infirm, fat.... but for the everyday person, under 50, they didn't need the shot. Had they said that vs mandates, it would have been received better.

Fox was all-in on Covid hysteria. They are dead to me.

I'm don't agree that a lying and stupid leftard media hurts the dems. It got a dementia patient elected. I do agree that leftards are at best complacent, intellectually lazy and uninformed. You see it here on the Tug everyday.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/08/the-democrats-worst-frenemy-the-media.php

Here’s a heterodox thought: the slanted news media is unwittingly the Democrats’ worst frenemy.

The line of reasoning to arrive at this proposition begins thus: Last month Prof. Lauren Wright of Princeton University attracted notice for a provocative article in The Atlantic on “How Liberal College Campuses Benefit Conservative Students.” Wright’s thesis was simple: because conservative students are constantly challenged at our overwhelmingly left-leaning campuses, they work harder to learn how to defend their views, usually become better informed about a full spectrum of perspectives on issues, and develop a thicker skin.

By contrast, Wright observes, liberal students tend to be complacent, intellectually lazy, and uninformed about other points of view, precisely because liberal campuses don’t challenge liberal students to think critically about their own opinions. Wright recounts in her article how much better informed and versatile conservative Princeton students are compared to liberal Princeton students. This paradoxical fact about how conservative students thrive on left-leaning campuses is well-known to conservatives, though hardly anyone else apparently.

But it likely applies to the mainstream news media as well. After all, elite media outlets like the New York Times are dominated by liberal graduates of liberal ivy league colleges. Journalists bring the ideological laziness and narrowness of the campus bubble to newsrooms, producing a highly conformist narrative that distorts reality.

That mainstream media “reporting” favors Democrats and liberal points of view is beyond dispute by this point. What no one is asking is whether this pro-Democrat bias actually hurts Democrats and liberal causes, in the same way that one-sided curricula in colleges hurts the education of liberal students.

The exit of Joe Biden from the presidential race following the vivid and undeniable display of his age-related disability in the June 27 debate ought to be an example taught in journalism schools in the decades to come, but surely won’t be. Prior to the June 27 debate, any mainstream media outlet that dared to raise questions about Biden’s age and obvious mental decline were shouted down by other “respectable” mainstream media.

When the Wall Street Journal published a deeply-reported story in early June about how Biden was mentally “slipping,” the paper was greeted with ferocious denunciation by other media.

The mainstream media allowed itself to be used as a transmission belt for White House talking points that videos of Biden’s faltering physical and mental capacities were “cheap fakes.” Reporting in conservative media were subjected to endless “fact checks” that all found claims of Biden’s disability were false or “misleading.” Both the New York Times and Washington Post used “misleading” in headlines debunking the mounting visual evidence.

Hiding Biden’s decline is not the only example of the lockstep media enforcement of the Democratic Party line. Back in 2022 NBC News correspondent Dasha Burns was roundly attacked for reporting that Pennsylvania Senate Candidate John Fetterman, whose health status following a severe stroke was being ignored by the media, had trouble carrying on a basic conversation.

As if borrowing from the Ring Lardner novel The Young Immigrunts, the media as one said to Burns: “Shut up, they explained.”

The point is: the extended White House coverup of Biden’s deterioration, evident as early as 2021 if not sooner, was only possible because a compliant liberal media went along with the coverup. Leading Democrats on Capitol Hill were aware of Biden’s problem, but couldn’t say very much so long as the media covered for Biden.

How has this worked out for Democrats? Once Biden’s deterioration became too obvious to ignore any longer after the June 27 debate, the media turned on him instantly. If the media had done its job properly and reported on Biden’s slippage a year ago, the party might have been able to convince Biden to stand down, or encouraged a serious challenge from several prominent Democratic office holders, enabling Democrats to have a regular nomination process to pick a strong candidate with time to develop a coherent campaign.

Instead, Democrats are now in crisis mode, likely having to settle for Kamala Harris as their candidate, even though she never won a single primary vote in the 2020 election cycle and has even lower approval ratings that Biden.

That is, she had lower approval ratings than Biden, until the media reverted to form and decided to give maximum effort to boost Harris. The media is performing another massive coverup of Harris’s far-left record, air brushing her record and credulously passing along her new positions, such as that she was never the “border czar.”

The only msm news source that didn't falsely report Russian Collusion and hookers pissing on Trump. Also the only source that called BO's healthcare plan what it was which was completely dishonest and corrupt. Tells the truth when it comes to a chitty economy. The only source that doesn't collude with all the others when demonizing Trump or Vance and ignoring bidens corruption. Chinese flu coming from a lab, etc, etc.

I could go on and on but everyone already see's how corrupt and dishonest the rest of the msm is and how stupid people like mello are to believe them even though there is are thousands of examples of how they have abandoned their responsibility as journalists and played for one side.

What's with some of you peeps that don't understand "Your Political Talk Doesn't Belong at Work?".

Like seriously, not only was this asshole posting on the company's communication platform, he was dividing the team and not doing his job. I had to pull him aside several times and let him know its unprofessional viewpoints. He told me I cant tell him what the f he can or can not say.

Well it turns out I can tell him what the f he cannot say while he's at work and he was let go. It breaks my heart to see a grown man cry, but honestly, what more can I do? Now he can express his viewpoints freely in the unemployment line.

"Why would anyone vote for higher interest rates, higher gas prices, skyrocketing food prices, high rents and incredibly increasing power and energy rates. How does a fixed income person make it in Oregon when electricity has increased 48% in the last 3 years?"

Because they are brainwashed lemmings who haven't evolved beyong tribalism. Orange Man Bad and MAGA is a threat to democracy. I don't know what happens to many old people like Her Dazzler but In talking with my best friend from Sacramento yesterday, his father and mothermother-in-law (wealthy retired farmers from the central valley) have absolutely lost their minds. Once staunch conservatives, they are now raving leftist lunatics. The father has millions and instead of leaving it to his grandchildren via his own children, he is obsessed with adulation and a legacy. He's going to leave everything to BS local organizations so he can have his name on buildingbuildings. The mother, who during C19 refused to see her family in the Christmas season and yelled at her daughter for daring to visit to drop of gifts, sits on her coach with a mask on, petrified to leave the house while she receives dopamine fixes from The View and MSLSD. His parents effectively did the same thing but will hopefully leave their millions with the kids.

Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow...

This was revealed after the 2020 election but summarily dismissed as just doing "regular" business.

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Leftists like to ignore inconvenient facts. Like I don't know, the last big Islamic terrorist attack was at a music festival.

But that was so last year.