Quote (Black XistenZ @ Sep 6 2021 10:43pm)
Seriously? For a huge amount of Americans, the inofficial motto of Obama's presidency was "the audacity of hope upending the racial hierarchy". He received a shitton of abuse and a certain orange-skinned real estate mogul from New York was one of the ringleaders.
What sets Trump and Obama apart is not the amount of personal attacks and smears that they received, it's by whom the received it. Obama was attacked by racist citizens, but received constant adulation by the mainstream media. The smear campaign against Trump, by contrast, was spearheaded by the mainstream media itself which kept coming up with one unverified, outlandish, baseless or mean-spirited story on him after another. While the media still kept up plausible deniabilty with Obama ("he's getting positive press because he's a good president pursuing good policy"), they dropped any pretense of neutrality during the Trump presidency.
And yet the most outrageous ones were totally legitimate. Trump's connections to Russia were validated, his obstruction of justice and the investigation was validated, the claims about his Ukrainian call were validated, etc. etc.
Thing is, Trump is just a worse person than Obama in virtually every conceivable way, so it makes sense that he would get less of the benefit of the doubt from just about everyone and his blatant corruption would get called out.
Also, the bold is basically an admission that Trump is racist. Just gonna point that out because I find it funny. But I don't find it funny that you are pretending Fox news and basically 100% of talk radio aren't "main stream media". That's just stupid.