that NYT Trump Voter story is really remarkable/sad
in the wake of a deadly riot, the paper gives a national platform to people who lie abt everything.
**and the NYT types up their lies as "news"**
borderline inconceivable
•"I foresee a civil war coming"
• "I don’t want to go into socialism.”
• “We had dead people voting, illegal aliens voting,"
•"we go to bed 800,000 votes ahead and we wake up, and after these magic ballots dumped overnight, we’re somehow losing.”
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“What if the press had taken Trump's coup attempt more seriously over the last two months, instead of waving his strategy off as "performance art" and "bad sportsmanship"?
“What if national media outlets had refused to play any role in the GOP's attempt to denigrate the election process by denying a platform to Republican members of Congress who refused to say Joe Biden had won the election?”
"Something has clearly changed in the Peach State, as Democrats posted record turnout in counties outside Atlanta. The press ought to respect that and stop assuming Republicans are going to win the Senate before a single runoff vote is counted. "
NYT, WP, and Politico all rushed out stories assuming McConnell would be Senate leader during Biden's first term — they all assumed GA runoffs were layups for GOP
doomsday scenario: Dems win both races by small margins and once again GOP launches massive campaign to steal the wins.
“And has the press learned anything over the last two months while covering the GOP's increasingly seditious, fascist attempt to overturn Joe Biden's election victory?”
read that headline three times and tell me NYT isn’t just a broken institution, completely ill-equipped to handle Trump era; nytimes.com/2020/12/30/us/…
Hawley is unequivocally calling for election results to be overturned, something no sitting Senator in US history has ever advocated
and NYT politely types it up as “answering Trump’s call.” whatever the F that means
there aren’t two sentences in that 1,100-word NYT story that adequately capture the radical recklessness of Hawley’s actions