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BannonsLiver

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10. Absolutely 100 percent

Reply to TwilightZone (Reply #3)

Fri Jul 19, 2024, 05:50 PM

Jul 2024

Coherent answers don’t make good TV.

On a similar line, I recently watched a YouTube video of a local news channel in a midwestern city doing interviews with people waiting to see Return of the Jedi in 1983. What was jarring about it wasn’t the clothes or hairstyles, it was the way people talked. In complete sentences. Using adult words. They didn’t sound like simpletons. It blew my mind.

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Where are the media safaris to local diners to ask average Democratic voters what they think? [View all] JHB Jul 2024 OP

Excellent point. They trip over themselves to get to GOP voters. Raven123 Jul 2024 #1

You bring up a good point JustAnotherGen Jul 2024 #2

They ask Republicans because we're boring. TwilightZone Jul 2024 #3

Absolutely 100 percent BannonsLiver Jul 2024 #10

Exactly PatSeg Jul 2024 #18

I doubt we're all that boring now! chowder66 Jul 2024 #20

There is that. TwilightZone Jul 2024 #21

Great question! louslobbs Jul 2024 #4

We need to make our own ChicagoRonin Jul 2024 #5

Please don't say that you are shocked by the RW bias of corporate media. Marcus IM Jul 2024 #6

If I were shocked, would I have used the sarcasm smilie? JHB Jul 2024 #9

They long ago decided who is the "Real Authentic America" and where they live.... Hekate Jul 2024 #7

Lol. Because they know that Dems back Biden! ananda Jul 2024 #8

Do we really think they would leave their spoon fed bubble existence and do some in-depth real journalism? dutch777 Jul 2024 #11

Well,, Dems aren't lazy jackasses who SharonClark Jul 2024 #12

Your post gets an endorsement. NBachers Jul 2024 #13

This is absolutely true markodochartaigh Jul 2024 #17

Don't give them ideas. I know a few Dems who want a switcharoo. LeftInTX Jul 2024 #14

My guess would be it's because dobleremolque Jul 2024 #15

K and R senseandsensibility Jul 2024 #16

We're being spoon-fed a chosen narrative dlk Jul 2024 #19

Well, we're not Real Americans (TM) so our opinions don't count, and we don't exist . . . . hatrack Jul 2024 #22

Democrats are terrible for ratings Takket Jul 2024 #23

There are no democratic voters🙂 Blue Full Moon Jul 2024 #24

Only old farts in rural diners in Republican counties NameAlreadyTaken Jul 2024 #25

They don't give a fuck what we think. SamKnause Jul 2024 #26

They don't want to know Bettie Jul 2024 #27

During MSNBC convention coverage, youngish people were interviewed on the street in Milwaukee betsuni Jul 2024 #28