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With all of the negative news stories about Biden and the Democrats, I'm thinking maybe you MSM types are just out of ideas as to how to fill your broadcast time.
So let me help you out. If you're looking for something to run your mouths about 24/7, here are some news stories you might want to cover:
Joe Biden is not personally enriching himself on the taxpayers' dime.
Joe Biden is not spending 25% of his time in office on the golf course.
Joe Biden is not appointing incompetent cronies to positions of power.
Joe Biden is not getting his Covid information from 'doctors' who think the vaccine contains alien DNA.
Joe Biden is not taking political advice from idiots like Ivanka and Jared, nor from traitors like Mike Flynn, or convicted criminals like Steve Bannon.
Joe Biden is not under investigation for possible tax evasion, bank fraud, or interfering with the election process.
The Democrats are not trying to pass legislation that curtails people's right to vote.
The Democrats are trying to lower the cost of prescription drugs, and assist middle-class citizens with increased tax breaks.
The Democrats are focused on better and more affordable education, rebuilding our infrastructure, and raising the quality of life for all Americans.
Well, maybe you don't want to just talk about Biden & the Dems, so here's a headline you can really sink your fangs into:
Trump incited the January 6th insurrection in an attempt to overthrow our democracy, an event organized and funded by his Republican ass-kissing enablers, and he's still the leader of a party full of dumbass whack-jobs who continue to spew divisive conspiracy bullshit while encouraging their constituents to take up arms against their fellow citizens and resort to violence - actions which are, of course, greatly enabled by their stance on zero gun control.
So if you're truly at a loss as to what to discuss on your so-called "newscasts", you might want to present the aforementioned facts, and follow up with the fact that Trump's closest advisors are either (a) refusing to respond to the subpoenas issued by the January 6 Select Committee, or are (b) pleading the 5th on the grounds of self-incrimination.
You might want to delve into the fact that people who have nothing to hide don't refuse to testify, nor do people innocent of any wrongdoing invoke their right not to incriminate themselves.
I am not a 'journalist' - nor, like some of you, do I pretend to be one on TV. But it seems to me that the news story of the century is blatantly obvious - and why you're not on top of it 24/7 is beyond anyone's guess.
Nothin' says "trust us" like a mainstream media that thinks Biden's approval ratings are more important than a once-pResident of the United States having orchestrated the downfall of the government he swore to protect and serve.
Well done, MSM. Trump once declared you "the fake news". Thanks for proving that he wasn't that far off the mark.
multigraincracker
(32,688 posts)we have yet to see his wife naked in a magazine.
Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)StClone
(11,683 posts)Raunchy Trump trash.
malaise
(269,049 posts)Now sent this to M$Greedia - they need this desperately
Rhiannon12866
(205,467 posts)And I hear that MSNBC has an opening...
Duncanpup
(12,859 posts)gademocrat7
(10,659 posts)2naSalit
(86,646 posts)True Blue American
(17,985 posts)Even NPR is on that bandwagon. Only John Avalon and Jim ACosta are fact checkers.
Even Rachel was deep into the Atlantic conspiracies this morning. Scarborough tries but he backs
into old Republican ways as he remembers them.
I do not remember things the way Joe does. I still see him in that Republican gaggle of giggling men walking across the street to interview Monica. Incidentally Joe resigned shortly after for family reasons. His wife divorced him and so did the second one. I also remember Newtie and 3 others before they picked Hastert! That was a good choice. Yeah, right!
kentuck
(111,102 posts)It's a shame they need to be reminded.
As if it was 50 years ago...
Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)And like Mussolini, Trump is nothing but a Hilter go-fer. His name is Vlad.
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)lust after his daughter.
calimary
(81,306 posts)The Blue Flower
(5,442 posts)Excellent post, Nance. This can't be said enough.
argyl
(3,064 posts)Walleye
(31,028 posts)uponit7771
(90,347 posts)love_katz
(2,580 posts)As you have so eloquently put it, both sides don't! The game of false equivalence is a huge part of the reason why we got tRump in our highest office in the previous cycle. The corporate owned McGreedia will do anything to distract us from that fact.
niyad
(113,336 posts)58Sunliner
(4,386 posts)area51
(11,910 posts)As usual, Nance hits it out of the ballpark.
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)rurallib
(62,423 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,758 posts)Now. Meh.
KS Toronado
(17,255 posts)frogmarch
(12,154 posts)Last edited Tue Dec 7, 2021, 01:42 PM - Edit history (1)
MSM needs to read this! Please send it to them.
housecat
(3,121 posts)Fox will supply them ad nauseam. Corporate control of media is simply about money. Truth just isn't profitable.
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,819 posts)PatSeg
(47,496 posts)Cha
(297,290 posts)SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)Which one is really the 'Law & Order' President?
BaronChocula
(1,559 posts)The Free Press is SUPPOSED to be biased in favor of preserving Democracy. Stop playing referee and call out seditionists for what they are!
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)crickets
(25,981 posts)The Roux Comes First
(1,299 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)He played them and they were fine with it. Cheap ratings wars and of course the definitive proof.
CBS Chief Les Moonves Says Trump's 'Damn Good' For Business
"Sorry. It's a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/les-moonves-donald-trump_n_56d52ce8e4b03260bf780275
The story today is look at the toll of damage to this country from an insurgency radical Republican Party that does NOTHING to lift up the working class. When do you see MSM hanging outside of these do-nothings offices demanding they address their own state's poverty rates?
Sickening.
JudyM
(29,251 posts)calimary
(81,306 posts)And I dont even smoke cigarettes! But I do recognize orgasmic when I see it.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,978 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,611 posts)ThingsGottaChange
(1,200 posts)The Infrastructure Package leaves out Biden's proposal to spend $400 billion to bolster caregiving for aging and disabled Americans -- the second largest measure in the American Jobs Plan.
His proposal would have expanded access to long-term care services under Medicaid, eliminating the wait list for hundreds of thousands of people. It would have provided more opportunity for people to receive care at home through community-based services or from family members.
It would also have improved the wages of home health workers, who now make approximately $12 an hour, and would have put in place an infrastructure to give caregiving workers the opportunity to join a union.
I am eligible for home health workers and household help. I now look like a hoarder because no one wants to do this work for minimum wage. My state made Medicaid privatized and the elderly are now fucked if they need a ride to an appt. or a store or need help with housework. Yes, I am disabled. I am drowning.
Sorry, but he really threw the older folks under the bus.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/28/politics/infrastructure-bill-explained/index.html