Leading the pack is @NPR. Not only have they refused to cover the Joe & Hunter Biden email scandal, they put out an editors note saying they “don’t want to waste...time on stories that are just pure distraction.”
Compare that to the clickbait headline for Steele. Amazing.
What the #HypocrisyHOF voters look for is reach and egregiousness. What Rolling Stone may lack in the former, it makes up for in the latter here. From the outraged defense of Hunter, to hyping up the Steele dossier, @RollingStone is a formidable inductee.
The media really had an infatuation with Steele. @CBSNews had a straight news headline calling him “a cool operator” (!) back in 2017.
For Hunter? All of a sudden CBS wants to bump the breaks and proceed with caution about his “alleged” laptop. Curious how that works.
We’ll add a couple of honorable mentions, too, but wanted to set apart the best of the best for the #HypocrisyHOF.
And all jokes aside, this kind of bias is untenable. We can’t have a media that has two sets of standards for stories that fit their narrative & those that don’t.
A lot of outlets have A LOT of egg on their faces for this, and from the smears and lies advanced during the “Russian collusion” saga.
I wish they would understand the way that these sorts of things obliterate their credibility for millions of Americans.
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“Days after Sen. Bernie Sanders suspended his...campaign, Treisman, who had suggested in a Reddit post that he had to “save bernie,” posted a meme with the caption questioning whether he should kill Biden.” washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10…
Of course many of the blue checks didn’t get the memo that this dude was a Bernie bro.
Progressives radicalized him, I suppose, @joshtpm.
Ah, yes. The famed pro-Bernie right wing. You’re definitely over the target, @Allison_Burnett
Another Russian-related lie was exposed today, this time the allegation that @nypost’s Biden coverage was “Russian disinformation,” something that every corner of the media & Democratic Party assured us was the case.
Don’t believe me? Well, take a look👇
Getting us started is @CNN, who had chief Russian conspiracist James Clapper on the program to talk about how the Post story was “classic textbook Soviet Russian tradecraft” (his words) and then did an “anatomy” of the “dubious” story.
But right behind them was @nytimes, who ran a similarly incredulous story, and whose chief political reporter @maggieNYT doubled down on the Russian disinformation angle.
1) I don’t get why these personal moments are newsworthy 2) they’re heartbreaking, and the type of heartbreak that anyone who has had a loved one battle addiction knows 3) this does more to humanize Joe Biden than any campaign ad. nypost.com/2020/10/16/tex…
More succinctly: dunking on a man for comforting his addict son is fucked, and if your politics leads you to do it, that’s fucked, too.
We are in the midst of the greatest addiction and overdose crisis this country has ever seen.
And we’re dedicating time and attention to dunk on a man struggling with addiction and a father who cares for him?