• echo@lemmings.world
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    20 days ago

    presidential endorsements create the “perception of bias”

    You know what else creates a perception of bias? Meeting with Trump right before withholding the Harris endorsement.

    Also… bullshit… it’s amazing how many people just get their marching instructions from their preferred newspaper. They don’t even pay attention. They will literally tell canvassers that they will decide who they are voting for based on what the paper says.

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      They don’t even pay attention. They will literally tell canvassers that they will decide who they are voting for based on what the paper says.

      I had a conversation with my dad recently about it. he’s been a life long republican. In any case I had to remind him that I told him in 2016 that Trump was quoting hitler almost-verbatim. The only difference was that a) it was a more or less direct translation into english, and b) ‘jews’ were exchanged for ‘muslims’.

      he also kept demanding sources and I’m like ‘the source is trump speaking. trump said that himself. this is a direct quote’. (for example the ‘Dictator on day one’ comment.) same goes for political violence. same goes for everything in the 2025;

      like fucking hell, it’s exhausting. I tossed in the source on Fox being a right-wing propaganda rag for good measure.

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    Now more than ever the world needs a credible, trusted, independent voice…

    I’m not sure he understands the meaning of “independent”.

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    Then wait until a non-election year to do it

    Democracy dies in cowardice

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      WaPo endorsed other candidates for office in this very election cycle. “All of a sudden” when the editorial desk wants to endorse Harris, it’s “OOOHHHHHHH NOOOOOOO WE HAVE TO BE INDEPENDENT!”

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    Dear God, his transformation into Dr Evil is nearly complete!

    “I’ll give you an endorsement for Harris… For ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS!! Muahahaha!!!”

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    Guys, relax, what I did was totally the right thing to do, The New York Times is about to post 5 articles about it… or else.

    • Papa Money
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    So didn’t the crucial reporting of Woodward and Bernstein exposing the Watergate scandal on the pages of the Washington Post show bias against Nixon, Jeff? Would you have stopped that reporting had you owned the paper in 1972?

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