Thread by @TracyExplains

RE:OPEN LETTER TO THE #PRESS, @MSNBC, @CNN, @NYT, etc

I heard people coughing up a lung today in the Brady briefing room. If having a cold makes you unfit, everyone who was coughing and sniffing their way through stupid repetitive questions directed at @PressSec is incompetent. She has the patience of a first-class saint. You should take a moment to thank whatever entity you pray to it's not me up there. Lordy, I'd manage you differently.

You treat @POTUS through ableist ageist eyes. You're bigots. It's time we confront you with your bigotry. Neutral my ass. I'm a national expert on implicit bias. Sadly I wish I could say it was implicit.

Being a journalist doesn't afford you anything special. It's a job. In your private life you are a voter. Vote accordingly.

Do not speak for ANY of us. Ever. Do not generalize us. Ever. While I'm at it, ANY more copy written without name attribution is a lie. That promise is supposed to be used rarely. You're so desperate to run with something you don't fact-check. Innuendo is your lover and your clandestine trysts are frequent.

For all your whining about the First Amendment, your singular reference in the Constitution doesn't void my primary vote because you aren't getting what you want.

I used to work Advance Staff Press on a National incumbent campaign and I'm quite well versed in the campaign concept of chum. It was my job to keep you happy for good coverage. The gift bags. The boxed lunches. I'm sorry you feel you aren't being fed enough and catered to in a way that pleases you.

What you've written, broadcast, and tweeted, is baseless lies that should get you sued. It's malicious bullshit because the administration isn't catering to your wishes. In fact, some journalists were disappointed @POTUS won because they had contacts with the Trump Administration

Here's the deal, @POTUS is not quitting. We, his primary voters, aren't quitting on him.

The biggest mistake you've made is believing that the First Amendment makes you special and a president anointer, or now, a king maker. It doesn't. Just because One comes first, it doesn't grant you special powers.

But it does demand adherence to special obligations. One is to be truthful. Another is to be objective.

All of you are rabid wolves chasing after dinner. None of you are living up to your ethical obligations. Start being journalists or shut-up. I'm a member of @spj_tweets I know your obligations.

I scoff at "Free Press". Free Press your fanny. We've cancelled subscriptions. We've turned off the TV. We'll start calling cable companies to cancel like you're Fox News.

You won't bully this man.
You will stop bullying this man. I'm also an expert in bullying, or mobbing. You don't fool me. It's gross. It's vindictive. It's unbecoming of that building. It's unbecoming of the room named after a man who was shot in the service of the White House.

@POTUS has interviewed (with competitors- it really burned he went with @SIRIUSXM with @HowardStern who is a notoriously difficult interviewer). He interviewed with Muir in France around 4 weeks ago. Are you folks ok? Or did you miss it? He's given speeches with teleprompters LIKE EVERY PRESIDENT and like all of your anchors. He's traveled. He's held fundraisers sitting with other Presidents talking off script. He takes calls with world leaders, gets feisty with Netanyahu, talked Iran down, and does more than any other President. You need to stop lying. It's pathological.

You will not do to this man what was done to @HillaryClinton . We let you, then, because we didn't see it and we trusted you; how could the press put their thumbs on the scales of our election process?

Screw you. You create the narrative, you spin the narrative, you generate polls that are garbage (I'm highly trained in quantitative and qualitative process and analysis) and the cycle begins again. It's how you help manufacture faux accuracy.

We don't trust you now. We remember. We see you and what's being done in the past which is what is being done now.

There is no perfect candidate or human. Lord knows you are imperfect in all the bad ways. Focused on your upward mobility, a Trump presidency propelled you to book deals and anchor slots.

@POTUS is a human being. He sleeps, eats, exercises, sees the doctor, and uses the restroom. He does what you do and more. I expect if it were @VP Harris you'd be asking VP Harris about her period.

@POTUS can nap every day if he wants. He is awakened in the middle of the night to solve military crises, you daft thugs.

I nap. Do you?

He can get a cold. He can get a flu. He can get a boo-boo. He can go to PT and he can go and ride the Peloton. You just saw him riding a bike you sad excuses for observers. He can flub a debate. We've seen some of you fall asleep on TV (@mitchellreports), we've heard you misspeak (too many to name including @alexwagner, when your teleprompter shit the bed). We've seen your typos. Enough of your super human expectations. When you are perfect, then you can expect it from him. Until then look around and find all the seats.

None of @POTUS' human-ness has gotten in the way of everything he's done. I've attached a list.

You don't care about how many children Trump raped. You don't care about what will happen if he's elected. But I promise you, if the press is successful in electing Trump again, we won't save you, either. You reaped this hell on yourselves.

No one feels sorry about your lay-offs or budget cuts. Downsize more. Frankly we could do with even fewer of you. There will be no more sympathy for or support for the Press as your numbers dwindle and corporate conglomerates try to figure out how to make a profit off of you. Not only are you folks up shits creek with the Administration, but you're up shits creek with the people you NEED to survive. We can make you disappear because we can annihilate your ratings and kill your ad revenue. Try us.

The way you're behaving is a choice. It wouldn't be mine. Choices. We all have them.

We choose Biden. Stop bullying him. The news needs to start newsing. You are all the National Enquirer/Weekly World News/TMZ now. We can't see the difference between any of you and Fox News.

It's gross that you've sold your souls for paychecks. It used to be an honorable and trustworthy profession. It's not.

We'll have to look to independent media/journalists from now on until you fix your very broken selves.

PS: A solemn Medal of Honor ceremony is not a place where you should feel you have license to scream at him. I've been a lawyer and investigator for decades and even your questions are dumb. @POTUS owes you nothing until you learn to comport yourself like adults who have some inkling of how to behave.

You have a lot of work to do to earn our respect and trust. It can take one second to lose it and a lifetime to gain it back, if at all.

Mostly, I wish you the same disrespect you give him when you reach his age.

#WeBackBidenHarris

Sincerely,
Dr. Tracy A. Pearson