The Media Is Ready to Hold Trump to a Lower Standard | The New Republic

https://newrepublic.com/post/189072/media-trump-lower-standard-biden

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  3. That presidential pivot is coming *annnny* day now, right media?

  4. Oh I have a fun suggestion, just something to try for fun, how about the media hold him to a higher standard?

  5. Media has been holding itself to a lower standard as well.

  7. The bar for this fascist fuckwad is so low we’d need to use the Kola Superdeep borehole as a head start in order to reach it. They literally sanewashed and normalized a guy who thought about injecting bleach, said masks were stupid amid a pandemic, and wants to deal with inflation by causing massive price increases on everyday goods. Any one of those things would have sunk any other politician. Any *one*. Shit, Howard Dean must be fuming, given that part of his demise came down to a funny “Yeah!”

  8. How much deeper do they have to tunnel to hold this lower standard?

  9. Never forget that the US media ran headlines every time Biden sneezed, but ignored it when Trump literally shat himself in public just so they could get ad revenue from you clicking every time Trump says something horrible, which will be hourly for the next four years. They’re not just going to hold him to a lower standard. They’re going to write an article every time he farts to get you to rage click.

  10. They’ve always sane washed him. He is their creature.

  11. > The Media Is Ready to Hold Trump to a Lower Standard

    Wait.. The Media Is Ready to Hold Trump to a … *Standard*?

    R U sure?

  12. His DoD nominee sent his mother to the Senate to tell them he will stop drinking if they confirm him.

    And we will see lower.

  13. Ready? They are the reason he ever entered politics to begin with! They give him free press 27/7. Turn the cameras off and Trump’s head would explode. This all could have been over before it ever began in 2016.

  14. Ever notice that “propaganda” never gets said or brought up as a discussion point? We forget most major media are owned by the B class.

  16. The is no standard low enough to hold against the POS. The fuck is the lowest standard.

  17. We’ve all seen the joke/meme “Trump caught doing (morally reprehensible thing), here is why it is bad for the Democrats…

    It isn’t a joke. It’s only going to get worse, all the dumpers need to do is yank ONE broadcast license from a tiny TV or radio station and the rest will all fall in line. MSNBC has begun the march of shame to the open sewerage pipe at Mal-a-lardo

  18. There’s no double standards, there’s a preference by the wealthy for someone who will do things for the wealthy. 

    It’s not a coincidence that the entire for profit corporate media sane washes Trump, and engages in both sideism arguments in order to help elect him. 

    The wealthy are manipulating everyone, and even sincere people in the media fall for the spectacle.

  19. How much lower can they go?

    Convicted felon and rapist. No problem.
    Hundreds of thousands die in the pandemic. No problem. Going to deport millions. No problem. It’s ok to shoot reporters. No problem. They report he’s has billions. Selling $60 bibles, $1000 sneakers, and $10,000 fake guitars.

  20. The media is almost exclusively Republican owned/run.

    If Dems don’t start spending some of that billion dollars to platform themselves, they’ll never win again.

    and btw, what little you can do is wipe your Xitter account, and don’t interact with it (keep your account, just ghost the platform), and join bluesky. That’s one platform you can support right now that directly undermines Nazi Repube interests.

  21. The thesis:

    > More importantly, you can mark this op-ed as the last time we’re going to hear about the importance of unity for a while. With Trump returning to office, Thiessen won’t be the only person in the commentariat who’ll be recalibrating their barometers for harmony and unanimity. The media will soon be leaving their fetish for bipartisanship, compromise, and comity behind since the only people on whom they ever impose these standards—Democrats—will be out of power.

  23. The media has been complicit the whole time. Republicans always seem to get a pass.

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