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As 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."
@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.
@wdlindsy@toad.social@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.