Quote (Pollster @ 6 Sep 2016 16:40)
If you're unable to follow an incredibly simple concept -- that one person or "side" ultimately suffers from a press inherently geared towards "bothsidesdoit"-ism, then I don't think I can make it any more clear; I think that would speak more to your own failings. I don't know what you're referring when you mention "2 stories." Again, the political press rarely deliberately sets out with such a conscious motive under the guise of providing even-handed journalism, especially because they know that at least one audience is going to reflexively make that complaint.
We have at least 2 perfect examples, in the last week no less, that perfectly demonstrate the real media bias in our media:
1) Clinton's point-by-point systematic illustration of Trump's (and his campaign) relationship with the alt-right and his retort, "without argumentation or evidence" (from the WaPo editorial board, who smacked the NYT for pushing false equivalence on this) that Clinton is a "bigot."
2) Clinton's campaign highlighting the many examples of unseemly (and in several cases illegal) behavior of new Trump campaign "CEO" Steve Bannon, while the NYT's Maggie Haberman somehow, inexplicably draws up a false equivalence that "it's going to be hard for Democrats to be hard to argue" that "Anthony Weiner is off-limits," despite the reality that he not even remotely involved in the Clinton campaign.
It's been this way for 25 years. Very rarely does the political press set out to consciously help one campaign at the other's expense, but their overarching style of coverage carries a considerable bias against Clinton. That just cannot rationally be denied at this point. It exists with and without Trump running for president because it's not the product of electoral politics.
Hillary (C)linton is a bigot -
she's anti-black (super-predators policy, screwing Haitians over after the earthquake, her and the DNC have a fucking playbook to "deal with" BLM, and lets not forget the racist spawning of the birther movement out of her failed 2008 presidency run where Barack Hussein Obama kamehameha'd her to the sun),
anti-women (aggressively targets anyone that bothers playing around with Bill, pays them less than men),
anti-european (making light of the conflict in Bosnia as if she suffered through the same thing they were at the time, "i remember landing under sniper fire"????? ),
anti-middle eastern (all her war-hawk policies have helped destabilize large swathes of land where brown people live, coincidence????)
and overall anti-minority (will pander to minority Americans of different backgrounds
only in exchange for their vote, then no longer bothers with them).
to summarize: you can only think and exist in a vacuum. anything beyond your little safespace universe well you blame it on some "reich-wing conspiracy" like "NY Slimes is out to get her" or the fbi calling the se(c)retary extremely careless, unreasonable, and a liar.
keep at it, loser!!!!!!!
This post was edited by excellence on Sep 6 2016 03:03pm
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