Breaking: Chris Murphy's take after classified briefing

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9. The media controls the narrative, frames the issues, and proves it easily when there's a democratic "scandal"

They are quite capable of destroying a political career if they want to. Or even just making sure you associate a politician with a particular topic or smear or whatever.

The whole thing about gore "inventing" the internet was ludicrous. They could easily have corrected this Republican lie every time, pointed out that gore did indeed do exactly what he said, which was to do more than anyone else in congress to help create the internet, and tell those republicans that they don't want to be used to push their lies.

They didn't because they love Republican lies, always have, and were happy to hurt gore's career.

Same for the Hillary email nonsense. It was very obviously nonsense from the get-go. Hillary did exactly the same thing the entire bush administration did, and her decision to use a private server for non-classified email traffic was never going to be a crime or every a legitimate controversy even if a few items of classified information accidentally slipped through.

The media could have pointed all this out and given it only a fraction of the coverage they did, or they could have made a major scandal out of the blatant abuse of confessional investigative powers to smear a political opponent, which was the only real scandal in all that.

But no, they didn't exactly what republicans wanted. They routinely reward Republican lies rather than punish them.

When a democrat has a scandal, the media generally ignores anything else. The media refuses to let a democratic politician talk about some other issue. "How can you govern effectively with this scandal over your head?" The media devotes tons or pages and airtime and questions to the scandal and very little to anything of substance. This destroys a politician's career.

They never come close to this with republicans and Donnie in particular. They routinely sweep it all under the rug. Then it's old news, or the voters decided, or whatever. Nowadays they even insist that it's "biased" to talk about anything negative involving republicans.

They started it all by rewarding Donnie with a to of helpful coverage launching his career over a blatant lie, he claimed to have investigated and had info about some kind of problem with Obama birth certificate. It was an obvious lie, the media rewarded him with all that airtime while refusing to demand prof of even having investigated it. A blatant fabrication and even after it all proved to be a lie, they let him move on as if it was just the next step in a genius political strategy.

A responsible media would have burned him for making them waste all that time and effort on such a lie. Responsible journalism doesn't fall over itself trying to get the latest lies. Responsible media would be telling us about the Republican propaganda strategy, they wouldn't air the latest lies.

They wouldn't have questioned biden's age and mental decline when Donnie is nearly the same age and unbelievably stupid

Once upon a time, the media had a daily new program about the hostages in Iran. Relentlessly coverage of a single issue until it was resolved. They could have done this about Donnie's sexual assault allegations or ongoing grifting or anything like that, but that would be "biased" because destroying Carter's career was fine, but dwelling on the criminality of a convicted felon is biased if it's a Republican.

There are many competing justifications for different editorial and journalistic decisions. They always seem to use whichever one suits republicans at the expense of democrats. It's nauseating.


Long story short, it serves republican interests to merely note that he lies, but continue to clamor for his latest statement when you know it' will be chock full of lies. It normalizes highly abnormal propaganda. If he lies this often, and really his whole motivation for saying anything is to push a false narrative, then why reward him by pushing the false narrative? An "oh by the way critics say it's a lie" merely supports them even more by painting everything, even the truth, as mere partisan opinion.

Why wouldn't the story be "journalists remain frustrated as administration official refuse to tell the truth, offering only lies." "American in crisis as trump double down on lies". Just be relentless until they stop lying.

But they don't even try to make a scandal out of the lying. It's just a ho-hum political strategy that democrats haven't figured out how to counter. Infuriating and disgustingly biased. Today's media is happy to be a cog in the Republican propaganda machine.