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10 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
my latest—lots of Beltway hand-wringing; pressrun.media/p/does-biden-o…
“The media hand-wringing seems a bit over the top. Is the press conference issue being raised because there's a larger sense that the Biden has curtailed media access or is trying to hide what his team is doing?

No.”
“Meanwhile, there are no current scandals Biden is trying avoid. If anything, his press conference might end up resembling a victory lap”
bottom line: Trump eviscerated all kinds of Beltway protocols and press shrugged

Biden bit late holding first presser and it’s Katie bar the door!!!!

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Eric Boehlert Profile picture
11 Mar
good grief the media preening on this topic is becoming insufferable
more here; pressrun.media/p/does-biden-o…
I can’t stop laughing at this ABC report:

<The tough exchanges in such a setting can reveal much more to Americans about a president's thinking and test his explanations,>

did they sleepwalk thru 4 yrs of Trump pressers when press was in lapdog mode???
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11 Mar
they had to find way to tag this as a Biden “loss”
good grief
at this point it's almost not possible to explain how committed Beltway press is to the idea that Republican votes = success.

it's quite odd.
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Eric Boehlert Profile picture
10 Mar
“there's a self-serving angle to the media's clamoring about a press conference, which journalists glorify as being the pinnacle of presidential communications.” pressrun.media/p/does-biden-o…
“It's odd that the media let Trump lie his way through solo press conferences and now are demanding Biden hold one because that's where presidents are held accountable by the media.”
“It’s hard to miss how CNN is pressing Biden to hold formal Q&A in the name of access. Yet CNN pulled the plug on Biden WH daily press briefings just 4 wks into the Dem's term. This, after feasting on Trump WH press briefings, airing them live and in their entirety, for 4 yrs"
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8 Mar
Biden abt to sign landmark, historic Covid relief bill, arguably the most sweeping, important first bill for any new president in US history....and WP goes w/ Dems in Disarray

narratives die hard; washingtonpost.com/politics/biden…
not *one word* abt how GOP unanimously oppose bill w/ 83% public support.
more here; pressrun.media/p/bidens-covid…
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8 Mar
my latest—biggest legislative story for last 12 months, and press kept getting it wrong; pressrun.media/p/bidens-covid…
“That’s a key reason the media screwed up Covid relief coverage for the last twelves months, constantly presenting a false picture of legislative negotiations, told through the prism of the GOP.”
“Republicans never supported a second Covid relief bill, yet the press spent the last year pretending otherwise — insisting that of course GOP leaders urgently wanted to aid struggling Americans, when there was little evidence that they did.”
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6 Mar
great!

I’m glad every GOP House/Senate member voted no. it brings clarity
likely the most popular spending bill in US history (83%) and the entire GOP party voted no
good grief you’d think that would spark barrage of media coverage abt how out of touch GOP is w/ America

don’t hold yr breath
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