“The press loves to feature women when compiling lists of Beltway Bad Bosses. Yet hard-charging men in politics earn points for behaving exactly how the women do when they get singled out for running “dysfunctional” operations.”
“It’s curious that for generations, male politicians who ran demanding, hard-charging offices that featured staffers who were required to work nonstop, were seen as both being the norm as well as being the mark of savvy leadership.”
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DC elites will rush to defend Trump voters every chance they get
we have a demented, mob-like minority in this country that’s actively getting people killed via Covid, and people like Tapper are upset by Biden’s “tone”
“The friendly Trump voter coverage in recent years deliberately failed to pull back the curtain and reveal even small glimpses of today’s manic, demented, anti-mask and anti-vaccine mobs.”
“Five years ago, the press made excuses for Trump’s bigoted base by claiming they were motivated by “economic anxiety.” Then news outlets spent years courting them in cozy diners. Now they’re Covid zombies, and the press missed the story.”
Reminder: no other country on the planet has to deal w/ an organized, deep-pocketed movement committed to extending pandemic the way US does via GOP/Fox News
press plays dumb
millions of conservative Americans are brainwashed.
this is a media *constant*: this is all just happening. nobody is to blame. there isn’t a choreographed political and media movement to prolong pandemic
why on earth media purposefully gets this story wrong I’ll never know
my guess? press doesn’t want to accurately portray Trump voters who choose death over a safe and effective vaccine