Happy to see many more progressives on the “we’re not taking shit from the mainstream media” train. I’ve been waiting for you for a LONG time.
And no, begging them to do better won’t work. Working with them won’t work. Firm and forceful public shaming is the only path.
Nothing radicalized me on the mainstream press more than covering them for 13 years and repeatedly watching absolute bullshit from the fevered swamps of the right repeatedly get amplified at the commanding heights of the mainstream press. They are the worst. The worst.
I have seen what happens, over and over again when progressives nicely and with best intentions, point out their errors and ask them to adjust their coverage. They laugh at you, and then do their best to elevate the worst right wing excrement.
The only thing that changes their behavior is a rhetorical heavy hand. NOTHING ELSE WORKS.
Every major failure in America has had some significant media component. They put WMD lies on the front page. They were busy praising Wall St before the bubble popped. They were chasing Trump clicks before COVID. They may not be the instigators but they’re a coconspirator.
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"history will judge" = the gop pushes hard to embellish the historical record and so we end up with kindly old reagan, and poor naive dubya and eventually idiosyncratic donald. fuck all of that.
this is what happens when we let the monsters live politically:
she's probably right but also keep in mind she also prob thinks dems need/want to be scared. (if you forced me to commit i'd guess the lead is about 7)
it would be dumb to have a call with supporters that you also know is going to be reported in the press and say stuff like "yeah, we got this, its in the bag, he's toast." we won't hear the 100% truth about what they knew until after the election.
i would be terrible at that kind of theater. if i were leading a campaign and knew we were truly up 10 id walk into every room, virtual or not, like this:
and to be clear, the radical left would probably send me to a reeducation camp (at best)
i disagree with the real radical left (its not aoc and bernie, no matter what fox/gop says) on a lot of things, mostly national security type stuff, but considering our decades under wingnuttery, id prefer them
Republicans barely like to say good things about FDR (4 terms and ww2 make that hard) and yet CONSTANTLY we have to tell democrats to stop the deification of Reagan, Bush and Bush II. Stop.
“Hello, thank you for calling the Biden campaign, please hold.”
“And we’re gonna buy ads in Texas, and Georgia, and all the Carolinas, and maybe a blimp, we can definitely afford a blimp. Maybe two, no, three blimps, three blimps for Biden...”
“One thousand dollars for tv ads here, one thousand dollars for gotv here, one thousand dollars for web ads here...”