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Sep 28, 2020 4 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Unclear whether the press will sustain the coverage, but this is what using the agenda-setting power looks like.
When I say it matters whether the press sustains the coverage, this is what I'm talking about -- the 2018 NYT bombshell about how Trump's fortune was built on tax fraud faded quickly, didn't make the Sunday shows that week: mediamatters.org/donald-trump/p…
Leading the news shows today.
The New York Times Trump tax bombshell will matter if journalists decide that it does
mediamatters.org/donald-trump/n…

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Mar 12
FLASHBACK: A Trump-appointed prosecutor dropped an unfalsifiable partisan bomb on President Joe Biden Thursday, playing into a years-long right-wing media campaign — and U.S. political journalists decided to treat it as a valid and impartial charge.

mediamatters.org/joe-biden/poli…
The New York Times ran 30 stories about Biden's mental fitness in the four days following the Hur report, per @JuddLegum.

After reviewing the transcript, the paper concludes that Biden "fumbled with dates and the sequence of events, while otherwise appearing clearheaded." Image
@JuddLegum The Washington Post ran 33 stories about Biden's mental fitness in the four days following the Hur report, per @JuddLegum.

After reviewing the transcript, the paper concludes that Biden "doesn’t come across as being as absent-minded as Hur has made him out to be." Image
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Feb 15
Sean Hannity's Fox News show ran with this informant's claims in at least 85 separate segments last year, including 28 monologues. He said they proved Joe Biden engaged in "public corruption on a scale this country has never seen before.” mediamatters.org/fox-news/study…
Of course the benefit of building wild conspiracy theories premised on the bogus idea that the DOJ under Biden is in the tank for Democrats is you can move directly to claiming this prosecution is part of the conspiracy. mediamatters.org/fox-news/trump…
Per the indictment, the informant's story is impossible; he claimed in the 1023 that a Burisma official told him he bribed the Bidens around December 2015, but the informant never met with a Burisma official until 2017. justice.gov/sco-weiss/medi…
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Feb 6
1. Russia invaded Ukraine. A broad U.S. and E.U. coalition funded Ukraine's defense.

But MAGA Republicans started arguing that supporting Ukraine was taking resources away from border security, so....
2. Biden proposed a supplemental which included both funding for Ukraine and additional funds for border security.

But MAGA Republicans started arguing that border funds weren't enough without policy changes, so...
3. Biden backed bipartisan Senate negotiations which resulted in proposed restrictive immigration policy changes alongside the supplemental funding.

But MAGA Republicans pronounced that bill dead on arrival, and are now claiming that Biden can "fix" the border by magic.
Read 6 tweets
Jan 19
TheBlaze’s Jason Whitlock hosts notorious antisemite to denounce supposed Jewish control of US government, Black people
mediamatters.org/blazetv/thebla…
JONES: "The Jews... have spent their entire time here in the United States of America undermining the moral fabric of the American people."

WHITLOCK: "“I get it, and I can’t say that I disagree." mediamatters.org/blazetv/thebla…
E. MICHAEL JONES to Whitlock: "It’s called Biden’s minyan — you can look this up too — there are 457 Jews who are running the Biden administration. They’re the people who are in charge, OK? So there’s no point in talking about Joe Biden." mediamatters.org/blazetv/thebla…
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Dec 1, 2023
Trump is threatening to use the government to “come down hard” on the free press. Believe him.

mediamatters.org/msnbc/trump-th…
The right’s vision for a second Trump administration would empower Fox’s authoritarian extremism mediamatters.org/fox-news/right…
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Nov 28, 2023
Probably a little dicey to marry someone who disagrees with you politically if one of the things he disagrees with you about politically might be whether women should be able to get a no-fault divorce...
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On the broader point, "women find your hobby off-putting so you should probably find a new one if you want to date" seems like a pretty normal state of affairs.
Being really, really into Bronze Age Pervert and Andrew Tate is not a personality.
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