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@wdlindsy@toad.socialAs Scott Dworkin notes, while the media have been complaining that Kamala Harris is avoiding them as she gets her campaign underway, they've been ignoring Trump's absence:
"Why aren’t they questioning his obvious cognitive decline or putting a microscope on every word he says like they did with Biden? Instead, we see coverage of JD Vance pulling weird PR stunts, and how he’s attacking Walz’s 24 years of exemplary military service."
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/mainstream-media-must-ask-where-is
Well, Trump gave a press conference today at Mar-a-Lago, and it was a doozy. Edith Olmsted sums it up with the following headline:
"Old Man Trump Cites Made-Up Polls to Excuse Low-Energy Campaign"
https://newrepublic.com/post/184701/donald-trump-made-up-polls-kamala-harris
"Now in his third presidential campaign and facing Harris, the cracks are showing in Trump’s foundation. Not that he was running that great of a campaign against Biden, but against Harris, the tiredness of his effort is on blast."
~ Oliver Willis
https://www.oliverexplains.com/p/trump-is-losing-but-its-far-from
"Right now. Donald Trump is losing. He looks like a loser. He acts like a loser. He sounds like a loser. Everyone, including his own party and even the media (who can see a Trump-fueled payday slipping down the drain), sees it and feels it. Loser Don has entered the chat yet again.
Now it is on the voters to once again ratify what we all see standing before us."
David Badash quotes conservative political strategist Mary Anna Mancuso, who said yesterday, “Trump is quiet quitting his own campaign," and who said after today's press conference, "Trump is not okay."
He also quotes Susan Glasser, who stated today, "Trump looks ill."
Some of us are old enough to remember when the media were all over Biden with questions about age and illness….
Lucian K. Truscott trolls Trump's performance today:
"A press conference was held in Palm Beach this afternoon where a piece of ancient history was put on display: Apparently unearthed by storm surges caused by Hurricane Debby, a bacterium from the Boguszoic age was shown to reporters who gathered in an ornately decorated ballroom in a garish mansion near the beach to witness the big reveal."
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/ancient-bacterium-exhumed-near-florida
Lawrence O'Donnell is unsparing and scathing — and right on point — in his take-down of the corporate media, which sent oodles of journalists to Mar-a-Lago yesterday allow Trump to lie and lie and lie unchecked, as he displayed his vast ignorance and mental instability to the world.
"And to make a bad news coverage situation worse, none of the networks — none of them — carried Kamala Harris' speech live after the Trump appearance…, which all of the networks knew was coming. They knew what time it was coming; they knew how to cover it live, and they didn't, after giving Donald Trump more than an hour of live coverage on all of their networks."
Corporate media rush to hang on Trump's lies, broadcast them for 1 hour, and ignore Harris.
"The event—complete with softball questions answered with a non-stop parade of lies—was a tired and tedious affair hosted by a malignant narcissist who still imagines his repetitive insults, racism and sexism can still hypnotize a breathless, bedazzled public.
But in his sad attempt to appear calm and together, his anger, fear and madness were lurking close to the surface and not hard to see."
~ Steven Beschloss
"It appears that Trump — with a family history of dementia — is increasingly unhinged. …
If Biden’s difficulties were fair game, why isn’t Trump’s apparent mental decline front and center?
The growing evidence of Trump’s dementia and paranoia poses a clear potential danger to the future of America — if he’s reelected.
At the least, the media should be investigating and reporting on it. Right?
~ Robert Reich
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media
/10
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-isnt-the-media-reporting-on-trumps
"We should expect a lot better from the country’s leading dailies, especially charges directly from a campaign that contain so many red flags. …
As I’ve explained in other posts, there’s been a growing push, especially at the Times but more generally, that Harris’s campaign momentum has been going on too long and needs to come to an end."
~Josh Marshall
NYT gets to decide when enthusiasm for Harris and Walz should end?
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #NewYorkTimes
/11
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/times-and-wapo-jump-on-board-trump-camp-swift-boating-of-walz
"Just as the Times’ editors decided to trash Joe Biden for refusing to sit down for an interview with its publisher, A.G. Sulzberger, they have now decided to take Tim Walz down a notch because . . . well, because they won’t sell as many newspapers if Harris and Walz build an insurmountable lead in the next month."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #NewYorkTimes
/12
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/trump-melts-down-is-he-okay
"As I wrote several days ago, when the obituary of the New York Times is written, its shameful editorial decisions in covering the 2016 ('But her emails') and 2024 ('Insurrection? Felonies? What about Biden’s stutter and age?') [elections] will be a proximate cause of its demise."
The Harris campaign responded to Trump's trainwreck of a "press conference" by trolling: as A.J. McDougall says, it stated,
“'Donald Trump’s Very Good, Very Normal Press Conference,' it trumpeted, going on to mock him for '[taking] a break from taking a break to put on some pants and host a press conference public meltdown.”
In the original, "press conference" has a strikethrough.
"Here’s some advice I never thought I would give Donald: Talk more. …
The more America sees this vicious, broken man, the better it will be for Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz. The better it will be for all of us—because his unremitting darkness and unrelenting negative have to be wearing people out."
~ Mary L. Trump
Donald would never admit this, but the fact that he can’t draw big crowds anymore is making him crazy. That’s an even worse fate than getting knocked off the front page of every newspaper he reads. Having ceded the spotlight to the positive and hopeful campaign of the Harris/Walz team, he’s in desperate need of attention. …
Even with the promise of softball questions and lack of follow up, the press conference itself was a train wreck."
"All that’s left is an old man, his acolytes, and his grievances."
~ Andrew Egger
"It truly was the kind of performance that had it been anyone else, or even him eight years ago, would have produced a cacophony of stories asking what is wrong with this guy."
~ David Kurtz
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media
/18
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/jack-smith-wants-more-time-to-figure
"It’s almost pathetic how transparently insecure Trump was about the fact that lately, Harris’s crowds have been bigger than his. An inordinate portion of the presser was devoted to Trump’s insistence that the press is falsely hiding the size of his crowds while inflating Harris’s."
~ Doktor Zoom
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #crowds #SizeMatters
/19
https://www.wonkette.com/p/about-trumps-stupid-pathetic-presser
@Dave_Goldsmith I don't think it. It's being reported by credible sources and credible photos show the crowds dimininshed in size.
Why are people not flocking to hear him? Because, to quote Andrew Egger,
"All that’s left is an old man, his acolytes, and his grievances."
Same old tired shtick.
Its been an "old man, his acolytes, and his grievances" from the outset.
When did the crowds start dwindling (Spring, Summer, etc.?)
How big is the fall-off (10%, 50%, etc.?)
@Dave_Goldsmith I think, to the contrary, that 1) Trump is measurably and discernably older now than in 2016 and 2) he was seen "back then" as daring, shocking, willing to contravene long-observed social boundary lines.
Now he's increasingly seen as a tired old man who has nothing to offer but the same tired old bitter brew, and even his followers are walking away — as they did in discernible numbers when he rallied in Atlanta.
I hope you are correct. I would like to see some hard numbers to support your belief.
@Dave_Goldsmith @wdlindsy
They can see him whenever they want to, on his social media and toady podcasts and such. But it seems even his staunchest supporters are getting bored.
@wdlindsy
The softballs at that "press conference" look even more ridiculous when contrasted with the NABJ interview, when Black journalists reminded everyone of exactly what white journalists AREN'T doing.
@tofugolem Yes, and also they contrasted with the crowds of shouting, bullying journalists who surrounded Biden like sharks sensing blood in the water to scream questions at him about his age and health — something they never do to Trump and did not do yesterday. The difference is very obvious.
Good article. Could have been titled: The Incredible Shrinking Trump.
@wdlindsy The Eggers part of this exchange is very good!
"Donald Trump is a machine that runs on attention..."
@3dogcouch Yes, he knows how to turn a phrase, for sure.
@wdlindsy @Crystal_Fish_Caves He even got my Trump supporting mom to turn off his last rally because he was using “bullying” language. That’s after pointing this out to her for years didn’t do it, he just finally went far enough for her to recognize it.
But she still thinks Harris is in league with Satan (literally) like all Democrats have always been. 
@corbden @Crystal_Fish_Caves I'm sorry you have to deal with that mentality in some family members — and I empathize, since I have relatives like that, too. They're beyond reason, with their irrational belief that Harris (and Hillary before her) is in league with the devil as all Democrats are. This has been dinned into their brains for so many years, often in church circles, that it's impossible to ungroove the brain now.
@Flowermob Thank you for sharing this.
@wdlindsy The times has sucked for 20 years or more. Add Maggie Haberman and it’s a cult just like MAGA. They never tell the truth and do nothing for the public good. All the secrets she kept just to put in her book and the rest of them who’ve done the same. They all suck.
@Beachbum Yes, I agree. I have never subscribed and never wanted to do so. I find the Times elitist and game-playing — watched for years as they played ugly games with naming the LGBTQ community, for instance. Then when they hired Ross Douthat, Bret Stephens, et al., I relegated the paper, if it came my way, to the bottom of the canary cage, where it served a good function to catch droppings.
Whut?!@PoliceStateUK I'm assuming your question's directed to New York Times or to Josh Marshall's statement about the NYT's agenda? I'm not really clear what you're asking either or both of them, though.
@wdlindsy Just a general indication of incredulous disbelief 
Isn't that campaign like, a few weeks old at best?
@PoliceStateUK I'm not sure why the length of time the campaign has been around has much bearing, if any, on what Josh Marshall is saying. If we saw New York Times do this to 1) Hillary, then 2) Biden, what would stop them from transferring the hostility to 3) Harris and 4) Walz when those two come along? Something systemic seems to be in place here, and the fact that the Democratic faces change and it keeps rolling forth from NYT surely tells us something important about what they're doing.
Gadolinium contrast. It is administered during some MRIs to improve image definition. It's really toxic. Definitely something you only want to use when necessary.
I don't see anything wrong with forcing officeholders to get an intense yearly physical that includes a neurological workup provided that it doesn't harm them, but I doubt that they'd agree as failure would check their political ambitions. Not wanting to be exposed to contrast would be the most valid objection.
Iodine. Barium. Gadolinium. Differing agents for differing applications. This looks like a pretty good reference:
@wdlindsy
Right now, Trump appears to be losing bigley and as he increasingly decompensates until even his strongest supporters can pretend no longer, he could start approaching a Mondale size thrashing. With that in mind, I hope he stays on the ticket, because JD Vance might have a better chance.
@Threadbane From your mouth to God's ears!
@wdlindsy Lawrence O'Donnell was on fire last night.
@crdfilm I agree! That video deserves wide circulation.
@wdlindsy Our President Kekkonen used to call them 'lemmings'. Don't remember his reasons, but the label still applies.
@martinvermeer Thank you. My Finnish is, I'm afraid, a bit rusty right now. 
#LawrenceOdonnell was pissed off and he spoke for all of us.
@oldguycrusty Definitely!
Per O’Donnell—
“It’s 2016 all over again; the same mistakes are being made by the media. The media didn’t learn from its mistakes in 2016.”
“the media is too stupid to know trump lied in response to their question.”
“trump gets credit from the press for lying to them.”
I agree it IS 2016 all over again but I beg to differ with O’Donnell. The media is NOT making the same mistakes all over again in their trump coverage—the slavish fawning coverage the media is giving him now (and gave him in 2016) is and was NOT A MISTAKE, it was and is DELIBERATE
There are theories about why the media cuts trump a break; two I’ve seen are—laziness of journalists (so-called) or it’s owned by would-be oligarchs who favor Repubs.
Whatever the reason, they cannot be shamed. The media is deliberately favoring trump, and WILL NOT give Kamala a break. She and her campaign must battle BOTH trump AND the media for the next 88 days. They’ll need to be aggressive, smart, tough, bold & sneaky.
#KamalaHarris
@bronakins I very much agree with you on that point. The problem is not the media's refusal to learn. It's the media's abdication of any responsibility to do what it has traditionally been seen as doing: to safeguard democracy by telling the truth and calling out powerful liars.
The media know exactly what they're doing, and it's shameful in the extreme.