“Surely, our fearless media, defender of truth and our Republic, will ensure that all Americans are aware of this critical fact of an FBI guy (Smirnov) lying for Republicans during a pivotal election in our history ...
Nah, too busy with Biden's mental state. Just like they were with Clinton's email and the Clinton Foundation in 2016, which was part of the reason we ended with Trump in the first place.” - Commenter on Washington Post after an FBI informant was charged with lying about Hunter Biden and Burisma
It has now become painfully clear again that the U.S. print media cannot be trusted to do its job. This imbalance in our media - treating both Trump and Biden as normal candidates (but one with major mental decline) while the traitor seditionist gets numerous passes is at the core of it. This may be why media analyst Margaret Sullivan came right out writing current media coverage is "nothing short of journalistic malpractice."
She referred to how the Hur Hack report by a dubious special counsel (or rather a Reep plant masquerading as one) circulated on all major papers and their websites with very little in the way of fact checking. Including that Robert Hur violated a number of DOJ guidelines to produce that hit job on President Biden. When in fact. as former DOJ prosecutor Andrew Weismann observed a week ago on ALL In, his report should have been no more than 1 page (not 345), the same as the one clearing Mike Pence for his own documents case. He thus had no warrant to perform an expansive 344 page editorialization of Biden's mental state when he lacked any professional background for such. He overstepped the bounds of justice and propriety by doing such a hack job on a president who stands at the gate guarding against a traitor's advance. Is Hur a traitor's accomplice? His actions suggest as much, but one thing for sure, the media would have to act as accomplices too given all the coverage they gave to it,
Biden’s Doddering Document Defense
Special counsel Robert Hur says a jury might not convict the elderly, forgetful President.
Let's recall the media already acted the part of bad actors in 2016 when the cumulative negative coverage of Hillary Clinton's email habits generated a pseudo - scandal that helped propel the pussy grabber Trump into the White House (along with Russian help). The same media basically is at it again, this time harping on Biden's age and cognitive fitness onto which the bogus Hur report tossed gasoline. This despite Trump only being three years and 7 months younger but he gets a pass because "he talks with energy and calls people names, yells insults". Yeah, well my niece's three- year old does too but that doesn't make the toddler presidential.
Never mind. The U.S. media continues to play the "both sides" game, somehow convinced that if they offer any consistent, sustained negative coverage of Trump - as when he bellowed Saturday about getting the Russians to attack NATO nations - then they must go after Biden on the age side.
This despite the fact Trump displays just as many or even more mental lapses, as well as lies, name mix ups and gaffes (e.g. mixing up Nikki Hayley and Nancy Pelosi, China with North Korea). A guy so addled he thinks repeating "person, man, woman, camera, TV" proves otherwise (yet really only proving his vocabulary is no more than 400 words as Anne Coulter insisted not long ago). But all this gets far less examination than Biden's word gaffes.
As for the "Russia go attack 'em" yelp which he's now doubled down on, historian Douglas Brinkley called him out yesterday on 'Morning Joe' noting:
“I never would have thought
Trump could go lower than his dictator for a day remarks, but his proposed
mafiosi shakedown of NATO countries did just that and his doubling down on
those remarks makes him unfit for command. Ronald Reagan would have gone
ballistic against Russia even thinking about using nukes to take out
satellites.
And here now is Trump, in an
age Russia is prepared to put nuclear weapons in space saying like ‘Ah Putin’s
not so bad and I’ll back him if he attacks Lithuania”.
Adding:
“I blame people like Lindsey Graham who are
too afraid to break with Trump. Ronald Reagan would have gone ballistic again Russia - and any former American president for even thinking such a thing."
But sadly, our media is cool playing this degraded, despicable game which they are convinced confers journalistic "objectivity" on them. It doesn't. It's journalistic malpractice as Ms. Sullivan has noted. The media, like the sleepwalking public, has now become so inured to Trump's outrages, falsehoods and malevolence we have entered the realm of white noise. A deadly state of numbness and mental detachment that may well cost us our democracy.
Add to this the pundits, like the hare-brained WSJ op-ed columnist Peggy Noonan, e.g.
Democrats Are Too Resigned to Biden - WSJ
Who insists Biden "step aside" and "be a hero", and you grasp the extent of the problem. This suggested for a president who has been responsible for:
- Booming jobs and an economy outdoing all others in the world.
- Keeping NATO in support of Ukraine.(Trump didn't even have the basic decency to mention the death of Putin opponent Alexei Navalny).
- Bringing respect, responsibility and resolve to America by supporting allies.
Peggy, daft as ever, writes:
“This is what Democrats
argue: There is nobody else. But there is. Here we summon the usual names, starting with
the Gs—Gov. Gavin Newsom, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. Add Jared Polis, Josh Shapiro, all the candidates of the 2020 primary.”
None of whom, possibly with the exception of Newsome, have any serious name recognition, and nine months is inadequate time to build it. Plus, they lack the power of incumbency Biden has. As for Newsome, Atlantic staff writer Caitlin Flanagan shot down that option last Friday night on Real Time, noting how the GOP already has an attack plan ready for him based on: San Francisco crime waves and homelessness, soaring home prices in the Golden State, and coddling migrants with "sanctuary cities." But maybe Peggy is too dumb to know - or have researched- any of that. As when she also brain farts:
"Lyndon B. Johnson, the last president to decline to seek a second term, dropped out on March 31, 1968. There was still time for contenders to launch and fund races. "
Ah yes, LBJ, four years after he launched the Vietnam War based on the pretext of the Tonkin Gulf incident. He did drop out, only to hand the election to Richard Milhous Nixon who stomped LBJ's Veep Hubert Humphrey. Next up for Pegs?
"The Democratic Party is a mess,"
Uh, no Peggy, the Reeptard party is a mess. They couldn't even get a bipartisan border bill through after yammering about it for donkey's years. One of their own in the Senate - conservo Paul Lankford - negotiated it and the imps shot it down. Then their moronic impeachment effort of Biden went up in flames yesterday when the key witness- an FBI informant - was charged with lying his ass off. And you talk about the Dems being a "mess". Let me give you a clue: Any party that takes orders from a two-bit traitor criminal like Trump is not only a mess but an unmitigated disaster. It ought to have the living daylights stomped out of it and its leader - assuming a sane media and rational voting populace.
Fortunately, we have powerful voices like former DOJ spokesperson Neal Katyal who articulately summed up Trump's circular immunity arguments last night, e.g.
'Recipe for disaster': Neal Katyal breaks down Trump's circular immunity argument (msnbc.com)
As fellow guest (and former DOJ prosecutor) Andrew Weismann also pointed out, the payoff case which will now begin March 25- and which have Trump's lawyers bawling- is not minor. It entails serious election violations including paying off a porn star to hide Trump's sex escapades in order to get elected in 2016. In addition falsifying 34 business records to ensure the concealment.
All this could earn the swine 4 years in the slammer.
So as Mr. Weissmann warned, never mind the scatter -brained pundits who insist this is a 'nothingburger'. It is major and may well be the actual case that nets a conviction. Diss and exploit porn stars at your own peril.
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by Chris Edelson | February 20, 2024 - 6:50am | permalink
Excerpt:
It is profoundly surreal to observe that, in the year 2024, Donald Trump’s breath is rank with the fetid stench of fascism. Of course, fascism has visited the United States in the past, but it was still dizzying, late last year, to hear a former U.S. president pledge to “root out the communists, Marxists…and radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of the country” while despicably slandering immigrants for “poisoning the blood of our country.” There is no mystery here. Trump is parroting classic fascist rhetoric of the sort deployed by Hitler and Mussolini.
It would be tempting to dismiss Trump as a backward-thinking Neanderthal, like the character in The Great Gatsby who, after insisting that others heed his warnings about the imminent collapse of the “Nordic race”, is dismissed by the narrator as an ignoramus reduced to “nibbl[ing] at the edge of stale ideas.” The problem, of course, is that Trump is not a fictional character but rather someone with a very real chance of returning to the White House in this year’s election.
Unfortunately, media attention seems already to have moved on from Trump’s fascist rhetoric. This is serious stuff that will demand close and sustained scrutiny. Trump is putting fascism on the ballot and it is essential that voters understand exactly what his election would mean.
And:
by Thom Hartmann | February 15, 2024 - 7:56am | permalink
Excerpt:
When Senator Tommy Tuberville (who just took Putin’s side on the Ukraine invasion) was meeting with the Trump family and team the night of January 5th in the DC Trump Hotel, plans had already been laid for the Proud Boys and other fascist street gangs to seize control of the Capitol to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s 7-million-vote victory.
The key would be invoking the Insurrection Act, a basket of laws dating from 1792 to 1874 that’s been used a bit over two dozen times, the first by George Washington and the most recent by President George HW Bush in response to the riots that erupted around the police beating of Rodney King.
The Act gives the president wide latitude to decide what is and isn’t an insurrection, and how to respond to one.
There is virtually no congressional or judicial oversight: this act is the single most powerful weapon a rogue president can use to execute a coup and seize complete control of the nation.
And:
by Joan McCarter | February 16, 2024 - 7:44am | permalink
Excerpt:
House Republicans aren’t even waiting for the Justice Department to respond to their demand for the transcripts of President Joe Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur. They are already planning the hearing with Hur probing into how old Biden really is. Hur has been preparing for his starring role.
Hur found no evidence against Biden in the documents-handling case he was investigating, which rose to a prosecutable level. But the former Trump official needed to do a solid for Republicans, so he added in a lot of gratuitous hits on Biden’s age in his report, which legal experts have called “a partisan hit job.”
According to Axios, Hur has been consulting with fellow former Trump official Sarah Isgur, who was Trump’s Department of Justice PR flak. Isgur has been helping him prepare to “navigate a congressional hearing.” Isgur has also been making the rounds of the Sunday shows and lying about Hur’s findings. Isgur said on ABC’s “This Week,” "They found evidence that (Biden) willfully retained national security information. And even probably beyond a reasonable doubt." The report actually said "we conclude that the evidence does not establish Mr. Biden's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt," hinting at just how much of a set-up for the GOP his report was.
And:
How Not To Become "Sheeple" For Authoritarians And Why The U.S. Media Must Do Its Part
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