• Leviathan@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Again, I don’t care about either the debate or the interview, that’s all part of the sponsored popularity contest.

    If what you meant in your initial comment was that Biden wasn’t great in the interview I suggest you write what you mean next time, as it stands it reads as a general indictment on the man, and when you consider the opponent it’s totally irrelevant.

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      4 months ago

      The article claims all the attacks on Biden are pure gaslighting, which is obviously not true.

      People are free to defend Biden but the claim that CNN is out to get him is ridiculous.

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        4 months ago

        Your choice of language shows that you are in fact “out to get him”. I’m not sure you know what the word gaslighting means, but I won’t blame you for that because it’s kind of a fancy buzzword these days.

        Nobody is saying that people are out to get Biden. People are saying that many mainstream media networks are setting magically low standards for Donald Trump and absurdly high standards for Joe Biden. This is incredibly obvious once you look at a few examples, so people can’t effectively deny it, and instead they try to deflect. That’s what you tried to do, and it’s not working.

        Remember that Trump was convicted of over 30 felonies. That’s pretty bad, but it’s even worse because he committed those felonies to cover up the fact that he was sleeping around because he knew that if people found out, he would have lost the election. In other words, he broke the law to win the presidency, he succeeded, and nobody should ever forgive him. Any responsible newspaper should be reiterating this fact anytime they write a political article about him.

        But that’s not the worst thing he’s done. We have clear proof from the defamation case that he committed sexual assault, and sadly he couldn’t be convicted of that because of the statute of limitations, but there’s no doubt that he did it. This again should be brought up anytime a responsible newspaper wants to write an article about his presidential run.

        I could go on and on, but it’s not necessary. If you look at the above two examples, you see that the man has no moral integrity. He’s a terrible human being, he does terrible things to other human beings, and he’s going to keep doing that until the day he dies. We all know it, and every journalist with a conscience has a duty to point it out whenever they report on him.

        But they don’t. They ignore it. Instead they write about how Biden looks old and sometimes gives incoherent answers. Instead they say that Biden should withdraw from the race. And that, my friend, is the problem.

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          4 months ago

          They covered Trumps convictions plenty. Do they need to bring it up every single day?

          Biden’s age is a topic because Biden whiffed the debate. It’s a relevant news subject. Trumps convictions are not news anymore.

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            4 months ago

            Yes, every article should mention his horrible crimes. It really is that bad. Where’s the apology? Where’s the rehabilitation? … Without those, you have a horrible criminal who’s unfit for any public service job, and it’s the duty of media to repeatedly bring it up.