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  1. Gator Bill

    Gator Bill Well-Known Member Administrator

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    I frankly don't see how anyone can take Biden serious at this point.

    I actually feel sorry for him as demenica has set in.
     
  2. WSU1996kesley

    WSU1996kesley Well-Known Member

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    This is a query really about all of the "news" outlets aligned in their undeserved hate of Trump, though I specifically will talk in this post about CNN.

    I tend to scan all of the "news" outlets to find references to foundational information which I can ready and interpret for myself. Over the years, the left bias was obvious in many of the main outlets through their content selection, frame of reference, and wording. However, it has become supercharged in the Trump years. Previously, it was an "innocent" bias which was defensible to the ignorant and for the most part understandable due to the human condition. Now, it is full on rage, hate, dehumanizing vile trash.

    As a result, the worst offenders have almost become white noise. Although I still scan their pages and laugh at the stories at which they deem unworthy of national coverage, the impact of their trash is significantly reduced for me. I have always at times found that I agree with certain stories an opinions from the Left "news" outlets, and disagreement with some on the Right.

    In the last four years, it feels as if every news story and opinion piece is designed to "scan" for weaknesses, probe for cracks, attempting to find any pile of BS that will somehow stick on their target of despise. Taking that under advisement, I actually find myself less and less likely to give even consideration to anything they write. With near-universal venom and frothy condemnation for four years, it is evident that every effort has been made to undo the vote of four years ago, and I find myself inured, even to things that previously might have caught my eye.

    The Left coalition created the demonic image of Trump. They then extended that image to all Trump "supporters" (which include anyone that does not share their demonic image of Trump). They have now extended that image to anyone that is not as Woke as ANTIFA and BLM. For four straight years they, in increasing fashion, have lied, weaseled, falsely edited video and quotes, ramped up their bias, and demonizing efforts for about half of the country. Is it any wonder that, at a minimum, most of the "bag of deplorables" take anything written/said by the Left coalition with a pound of salt, if consideration is even given to determine truth or validity anymore?

    The Left "news" so abused their good will and name that they are almost not even relevant for 2/3 of the country. Considering their journalistic integrity only goes as far as finding any inroad for continuing and extending their TDS, it doesn't even seem right to give them consideration anymore until/unless they decide to return to even a modicum of even and fair.
     
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  3. Scott88

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    Boil all that down, and it fits in the box I mentioned previously.
    There is no news anymore... only material put out by content creators and that does NOT have to be factual.
     
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  4. Motorcity Gator

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    Just wondering WSU if you ever listen to what Trump himself says..... and not what others say about him? And if you do hear what he says do you ever take the time to fact check him? You might be supremely disappointed if you did.
     
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    Today is not only the anniversary of the destruction of the WWT but also the death a brave Americans in Benghazi. Remember Bengazi where brave Americans fought off an organized attack on the embassy annex while the Obama Biden administration did absolutely nothing to help them. And if that wasn't enough Obama and his minions lied about the origin of the attack blaming it on an internet video. And when Congress tried to determine what happened the Obama Biden administration was "what difference does it make now?" Real empathy wasn't it? One of the many lies told by the Obama Biden administration. No wonder the media is constantly misleading the country about what Trump says. As long as the TDS zombies lick it up they'll continue.
     
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  6. HUSKERMAN-HUSKERFAN

    HUSKERMAN-HUSKERFAN Well-Known Member

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    Dave, I thought your wife grounded you from playing with us?
     
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  7. Motorcity Gator

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    She did AJ but I just quickly switch back to porn any time she enters the room.... :)
     
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  8. WSU1996kesley

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    Alan Dershowitz files $300 million defamation suit against CNN

    Huh, seems like an indefensible pattern here, CNN. This is EXACTLY what they did to create the Charlottesville hoax. They removed, the part of the video where President Trump made it clear he disavowed the racists, yet they edited it as if he said the exact opposite.

    How vile is this??? Over and over these guys get caught in lies and editing videos/audio changing the quotes to say what they want them to say. Disgusting.
     
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  9. Gator Bill

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    Maybe if they lose enough costly lawsuits they will either go out of business or start reporting honestly.
     
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  10. gipper

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    Yesterday when the top news story should have been the first peace accord in the Middle East in 25 yrs. they ran a story about climate change. They not only report fake news but they bury good news if involves the President.
     
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  11. Terry O'Keefe

    Terry O'Keefe Well-Known Member Administrator

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    but but but gipper he didn't wear a mask at that rally...that's all that counts in the world. Middle East Peace ..small potatoes. :confused:
     
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  12. WSU1996kesley

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    Many of the Left Coalition are painting him as a Climate Arsonist, quite actively trying to blame the wild fires on him. As opposed to, you know, the actual arsonists they've caught? As opposed to, you know, the pile of dead wood in those wild fire areas, of which they were WARNED by concerned individuals IN PRINT as recently as February/March could lead to devastating wild fires?

    Another interesting trend is reference to the death rate in the US. Early on (April/May) this was the top statistic discussed, and rightly so. When the death rate started declining, the narrative shifted to the number of positive cases. (One would tend to think a declining death rate would be a good thing, but can't have that!). Later (August) the death rate climbed again, and it became the big story. (Climbing death rate is not good, but is plausibly explained by Stu'd video.) The death rate has again been declining for about a month, and the narrative has again shifted back to the number of positive cases. (One would tend to think a declining death rate is, again, a good thing!)

    There is so much ******** out of the Left Coalition, that even when something might be true, it is buried because of all the biased AND FALSIFIED ******** that came before it. We are almost ALL aware of how biased they are, that even things that should make an impact from them, is a nothingburger.

    I was going to pose a few reminder examples of their edits over the last four years, and was SHOCKED at how many times they had been caught deceptively editing videos. Of course, most of the sources were biased right (because is CNN going to report on their own dishonest?) but if you drill down to the source material, MOST of the claimed deceptively edited videos are true, and are independently verifiable.

    CNN has made themselves immaterial, unreliable, and inconsequential. And I bet it's Trump's fault. No, really, it is.
     
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  13. Motorcity Gator

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    I guess you miss the point Terry. If Trump wears a mask at a rally he sets a good example..... if he makes it mandatory for rally goers to wear a mask he sets a good presidential example and makes his rallies much safer.
    Instead they lash the chairs together and the attendees make their own political statement by not wearing a mask or staying apart and people do get the virus and some even die.... like Herman Cain.
    It's a pretty sick situation.
     
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    Nice to see you wanting politicians setting good examples. Perhaps Biden and Harris should stop bad mouthing a vaccine that hasn't been approved yet.
     
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    It's not surprising so many people who are ex-Trump staffers are organizing as anti-Trump campaigners for the November elections:
    "A former top aide to Vice President Mike Pence assailed President Donald Trump's response to the pandemic in a new video Thursday, adding to the growing list of former Trump administration officials who have criticized the President and, in several cases, endorsed his Democratic opponent Joe Biden.
    Olivia Troye, who was a homeland security adviser to Pence and his lead staffer on the White House's Coronavirus Task Force, charged in the two-minute video that Trump failed to protect the American public because he only cared about himself and getting reelected. Troye's criticism is particularly striking because of her role working on the coronavirus task force, which Pence leads.
    "We knew that there were going to be increasing cases, we knew that people were going to die," said Troye, who left the White House in late July. "But the President didn't want to hear that, because his biggest concern was that we were in an election year, and how was this going to affect what he considered to be his record of success?"
     
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    Now that we've learned that the plot to kidnap Whitmer were loosely tied to ANTIFA and BLM, and generally anarchist, anti-Trump, and anti-government, and NOT white supremacists, is it any wonder this story has disappeared?
     
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  18. Motorcity Gator

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    "The Left coalition created the demonic image of Trump."

    For me the creation of any demonic image I have of Trump has been fed by his own words I have heard and his actions that I have witnessed.

    I have to add that my wife and I can hardly stand to watch or listen to Trump he's such an idiot. No one needs to tell us that he is.... we watch him ourselves.
    I think some on the right are so wrapped up in the media "persecuting" poor ole Trump that they can't see him for what he is.
     
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