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Feb 20 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
virtually every comment here is asking why WP is using “false claim” re: blatant Trump lie in 2022

why won’t WP explain?
this is the media’s defining two-step: invent new rules for Trump, never explain them to news consumers
bc they’re indefensible
this is how she responded—refused to answer use of “false claim” and chided readers for missing the big picture. I.e. all the amaze work WP is doing!

typical;

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Feb 19
this is NOT what’s happening

<conservative media has distorted and badly stretched the available evidence >

they’ve lied nonstop and w/o concern

this right wing bs works bc DC press tiptoes around truth
more here; pressrun.media/p/the-media-an…
“Durham is Ken Starr II, and the press still hasn’t learned any lessons.”
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Feb 18
“I don’t have regrets about the Hillary Clinton e-mail stories.”

stunning lack of introspection from NYT executive editor

newyorker.com/news/the-new-y…
this is exactly why @deanbaquet fired the paper’s public editor after 2016 campaign

the strategy was to circle the wagons and to force entire newsroom to sign off on collective denial re: one of the worst journalism failures of this generation
more here: pressrun.media/p/but-her-emai…
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Feb 18
my latest—he’s Ken Starr II, the press should treat him that way;

pressrun.media/p/the-media-an…
another partisan GOP conducting a Clinton witch hunt.
“The bad news is the same elite news outlets are stepping lightly around the real story at the center of the right-wing mob — the unethical nature of Durham’s work and how he’s clearly working with the far right to try to manufacture controversy where none exists.”
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Feb 17
so for a story on Dems woes, AP goes to a town in PA that voted 75% for Trump

when is AP going to go to Bronx and do story on how unpopular GOP is in urban areas?
statistically, you cannot find a less important voting block than white voters in sparsely populated rural counties

but
press
can’t
stop
writing
abt
them
Dems **just won** Pa in 2020

AP: Dems are doomed in PA
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Feb 16
oh look, US economy remains red hot; bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
“U.S. retail sales rebounded by more than forecast with the biggest gain since March, as Americans kept spending through a Covid-19 spike and hot inflation to help drive the economic recovery.”
press just cannot bury the Biden Boom
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Feb 15
Oh

<Contrary to reports, nowhere in Durham's filing does he state that lawyers for the Clinton campaign paid a tech company to "infiltrate" servers belonging to Trump Tower and later the White House.>
that should be the ABC lede, not tucked in the 23rd paragraph
btw, Sussman’s filing to dismiss the case this week is going to be 🔥
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