The media has been breathlessly attacking Biden. What about Trump? | Margaret Sullivan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/09/biden-media-attacks-trump-felon
The media has been breathlessly attacking Biden. What about Trump? | Margaret Sullivan
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/09/biden-media-attacks-trump-felon
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Exactly what I’ve been wondering. Why is Trump suddenly MIA in the media?
The problem is Trump has dropped the bar down to the depths of the ocean. There’s nothing terrible he can do that will shock anyone or surprise anyone. So it becomes “not news” when he does awful things.
trump is on brand. republican voters like him.
biden is not on brand. and he wasn’t liked even when he still maintained that brand. biden was a compromise 4 years ago that didn’t pay off so well.
This absolutely is a fair point. Trump has all of these same issues and no one is reporting on it. That plus he’s a felon and overall horrible person.
But you know what he’s done? He’s stayed relatively quiet because when your enemy’s busy making mistakes, let them. That is a smart move by his campaign.
Any thoughts to the idea that the Russia-North Korea meeting kicked off a massive campaign of misinformation and kompromat? The media seems to be running scared and combined with the purge of Reddit mods, something feels off.
It’s weird, but Trump seems to get a a lot of help every time he runs. The FBI disclosure and buttery mails in ‘16, COVID (which should have been a huge win for Trump and is weirdly not discussed by the media at all now,) in ‘20 and now this debate bs.
It feels super weird.
Jon Stewart said it best last night – they’ve been attacking Trump for 10 years and he’s now in prime position to win the election. Isn’t it time to boost a good candidate to beat him rather than push an unwinnable one?
What about Trump? What can the media say about Trump that they haven’t said in every single forum for the past 10 years?
He is a felon? We know. He is a fascist? We know. And yet ***he is winning***! Look at the polls, he is ahead of Biden in every one of them.
It is ASTOUNDING that the Democrats can’t find a candidate who would win this election in a landslide. How can they be this bad at politics?
What’s the point in attacking Trump?
The more people he rapes, defrauds, the more state secrets he steals, leaks or sells, or the more people he bullies and threatenes, all of it just hardens the conviction of his followers.
They want a psychopathic, sadistic and utterly corrupt moron as their fuhrer, and there is nothing that can change anyone’s mind at this point. That’s the cult of personality, and it should not be the same case for the sane aka democratic party that should hold their candidates to a certain standard of decency.
Look you all can try to change the topic all you want, America already knows how broken Trump is. This is about not only one man’s hubris and refusal to pass the torch when its clearly past time but im starting to think a cabal of powermongers behind him that dont want to lose access to the levers of power. Even if im wrong on that POTUS has to understand that we are going to vote against Trump but that does NOT mean he is the only one that can save America. Its up to the people of this nation to do that at the ballot box. I am hopefully terrified for our future given the current state of affairs.
How about the media has finally got around to seriously reporting on a problem the President has after a major incident, and his campaign and the White House have failed to answer so it keeps going.
Saying “but what about Trump” does not make voters concerns go away, and attacking like its unfair for the media to “attack” the President of all people over concerns the voters have shows the entitled attitude his supporters have.
There’s a ton of Trump stories published every day, this is a blatant attempt to distract people from the fact that Biden is not well. It should be big news when a president is too infirm to do their job and also insists on running for president. Why should the public just accept it?
Trump’s not president. Biden IS. The apparent fact that Biden is not fit for office is obviously a more immediate matter of concern and it makes perfect sense for the media to focus on that. The media doesn’t exist to boost democrats
The CEOs of CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and The New York Times, as well as the owners of The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, have all donated to former U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaigns.
And before someone says it’s not true, opensecret.org shows their donors either directly or to a PAC that supports Trump’s campaign.
Only ABC has not
Literal whataboutism.
The media wants Trump to win because it’s good for their tax bracket, and I don’t believe any of the rich assholes who claim they support the DNC who are now anti-Biden or any different. Trump will be better for their wallets too.
These people do not work for us.
The corporate media…..attacking Biden…..a Democrat? Shocked, I tell you!
As Jon Stewart said last night, we’ve dealt with Trump’s B.S. for almost 10 years now, so it’s old hat at this point.
Biden shocked millions and millions of people at the debate!
They breathlessly covered his NY conviction because that was news. Trump saying Trump things is not news anymore. The Katie Johnson stuff while horrible is old news, case was dropped, and news organizations could never verify if she is even a real person.
The sitting president of the United States displaying troubling cognitive skills unfortunately IS news that will be the focus for a while.
Media want tax-cuts for billionaires.
Trump will do that.
This is a logical fallacy
The conversation now is whether or not Biden can beat Trump and the answer is that Biden cannot and therefore must step aside.
Trump’s entire political existence is based on the media attacking and hating him. The media has been calling for Trump to drop out for a decade. This talk about the media being unfair to Biden is such a disingenuous and tired talking point and does nothing but hurt the Democratic party’s chances because everyday Joe Biden holds on is a day wasted.
He only raped a child, used campaign funds to pay off an affair, committed business fraud, raped a woman in a department store, led a violent insurrection to overthrow the government, attempted to dissolve the constitution, and stole classified documents. It isn’t like he was sleepy at a pointless debate or did something unforgivable like unconditionally loving his children.
“We need you to get out and vote to set the stage for November. Go vote – November 27. Remember this, that’s a date that is very important.” Actual quote by Donald J. Trump.
If you are voting for Trump remember that’s the Election Day.
They’re going to get absolutely obliterated in the upcoming election if this is going to be the line of questioning over the next several months. Even the most fervent left wing voter would admit that the media has stayed on Trump’s ass ever since he announced he was going to run. Now that Biden is under a reasonable amount of scrutiny, the “b-b-but, what about Trump?” line of questioning is simply not going to work.
So, he steals, cheats, rapes, avoids taxes, has some kind of illegal activity going on, takes what he wants basically with little recourse
How is this man not the poster child for America again?
Thats why hes winning, everyone fails realize all this has done has given Trump more crap to relate to the average American
Fellow Americans
“Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can easily be lost, but never is fully won. Its essence is eternal struggle.”
—FEDERAL JUDGE WILLIAM H. HASTIE
One day my father said to me that maybe not in his life time but in my time on this earth that something bad is going to happen and that the color of my skin will be the only thing that save me from dying.
I strongly believe that what he was saying to me might happen in this next election.
With the elect only a few months away we as Americans need to rise up and stand with one another and work together to defeat fascism and project 2025 and your immediate oppression from ever happening. We going to need movement all over the US to help defeat trump. We need to fight like grandparents and great grandparent did defeating the nazi regime.
We need to start taking to the street with posters saying Defeat Project 2025 so that everyone at least see it once a day if not more and have the think about what would come. We need to post signs on highway over passes so that people see the message everyday on their commute to work and their commute home. Posters on telephone poles. Have stickers made to stick on the gas pumps at gas stations. Have QR codes placed on the banner so that people scan the message to learn more.
We need to get creative on spreading the message. The more eyes that see the message the more people talking about it, researching, learning about Project 2025 and how bad it really is.
We need to also do this around college campuses that start up in the fall to get the students behind the movement so that they can have a future in this country living in the best democracy in the world. The more the message gets out about that It’s definitely something to worry about. the better cause it only going to hurt the trump and the republicans the most.
Most of all we all need 100% back which ever candidate is running for the Democrat party. Donate to the party if you can.
At this particular moment in time, it almost seems like the absolutely obsessive media focus on Biden’s age is intended to draw attention away from certain Trump-related stories that emerged since the debate…
These articles are so stupid, the media has been justifiably attacking Trump for 8+years. It’s like as soon as Biden starts getting attacked for his clear age issue, Biden supporters pretend it’s unfair that the media isn’t propaganda that is only critical of republicans.
Everyone is scared TDrump
That pissed me off. In the same debate Trump claimed Dems allow woman to have abortions, AFTER BIRTH, and not a peep from most of the national press.
Jesus christ this is so dumb.
Trump is regularly attacked for the terrible shit he says and does. So regularly that it’s a running joke. Some even say they cover him TOO much, too much exposure for his garbage message.
Biden is the CURRENT president and he can’t handle unscripted appearances. That is pretty fucking newsworthy
As Jon Stewart said last night, they have been doing that for last 10 years, don’t try to divert attention from Biden
Because Trump is going to win this election in a landslide “mandate from the people” sized victory and the media companies are trying to get off his shit list prior to his night of the long knives moment. He’s literally talking about televised military tribunals aka death sentences for his opponents. You think they want to cross him?
We’re beyond the point of no return. Since January 7th 2021 democrats and non-Trump judges have completely fucked everything up in saving the country. We’re all going to pay one hell of a price.
The title of this post is literally whataboutism.
LOL – yeah, cuz attacking Trump is going to get MAGA to change their mind. Squirrel.
Dems – Vote for us cuz we ain’t Trump. What a campaign.
They attack Biden for a reason – he is a losing candidate. Blue MAGA – sorry, that’s a reality. We have several candidates who would CRUSH – Gretchen Whitmer comes to mind. Stop telling us things everyone already knows – Trump Bad – don’t look at the man behind the curtain – he’s asleep.
Yes when will the media finally run a story on Trump. /rolleyes
A Trump presidency would sell far far more news than another Biden presidency. They absolutely want Trump in the White House because that’s how they’ll make money.
“Don’t interrupt your opponent when he is making. Mistake”
Biden is sounding like a demented selfish old man every day he opens his mouth.
Fuck the media..