The media is not an arm of the Democratic Party.
Well, technically, the same way Fox News isn't an arm of the Republican Party... but ultimately I don't think that's relevant. The important thing is that their interests line up with those of the Democratic Party and they are strongly in favor of the Democratic Party being in power. Therefore shouldn't they avoid doing stupid shit that is going to end up biting them in the ass two, four, maybe more years down the road?
I don't want to see them let up on justified criticisms of Trump in the interest of winning over some of his base for the next election.
Yes, this is a sentiment I've expressed multiple times. My whole point is that Trump is so good at making himself look bad all the Media really needs to do is report the truth. These distortions and occasionally outright lies that they are running with do not qualify.
Speaking of justified criticisms, I'm still not seeing what was actually so dishonest or disingenuous about the response to what Trump said. All anyone here has argued is "it's not a big deal," and "well I'm sure that what he meant to say was very intelligent and sophisticated."
Hey, I was responding to Ghost Spaghetti (who I was mostly agreeing with) with my original comment on this issue, and everything since then has just been defending my opinion in the face of people who think I'm wrong! If Dave and Trekky didn't disagree with me they really wasted their time with their responses to me attempting to defend themselves/the Media.
My complaint is with the response from the Media, who absolutely
were disingenuous about it, if not outright dishonest, and I'm not sure the latter isn't the case either. Among other things they derided his comment about Andrew Jackson as senseless, treating it like the ravings of a lunatic. But it wasn't senseless. If you understand the context, his comment makes sense.
I think we all agree that Trump is ineloquent in his speech. Certainly he was ineloquent here. God was he ever. But the message itself? It was fucking on point. But the Media chose to ignore the message in service of the larger goal of making Trump look like a fucking fool. Let's look at the facts. Trump was strong enough in the electoral college that he won the election, even decisively by that measurement. After 100 days, 96 fucking percent of people who voted for Trump say they would do it again. The all-negative campaign didn't dissuade people from voting for him, and the all-negative coverage (well 99% anyway, I've seen a few nice things about him squeak by every now and then) isn't dissuading people from liking him. Trump in 2016: "The Media's out to get me!" Trump in 2020: "See? They really were out to get me!" And he will be able to demonstrate it with
facts, thanks to the retarded way the Media is handling his presidency.
It isn't working. The Media needs to realize that and change its course or we're in for a long, rough ride.
I mean, unless Trump really does fuck up in some way that breaks his base. Or he's impeached. Or he's assassinated. All of those things are possible too, of course, although the first is looking less and less likely as time goes by.