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Marcy Wheeler looks at a Washington Post editorial taking Kamala Harris to task for not providing policy proposals — even as the editorial admits that WaPo has not demanded similar proposals from Trump, even as Trump provides none.
She writes,
"Trump has been running for 21 months; his campaign is more than 90% over. The Vice President has been running 43 days; her campaign still has almost 60% to go."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #WashingtonPost
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https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/09/02/the-soft-bigotry-of-no-expectations-on-trump/
"And yet they’re putting demands on the woman in the race, making no such demand on the white male former President.
The press has gone 21 months without throwing this kind of tantrum with Donald Trump. Given that, this column says more about the failures of journalists to hold Trump accountable than it does any shortcoming on Kamala’s part."
"At some point, the traditional media needs to explain why it is so much more rabid about getting policy from Kamala than Trump.
Journalists need to come to grips, publicly, with why they apply this soft bigotry of no expectations to Donald Trump."
"Kamala Harris is succeeding in accomplishing something none of Donald Trump’s adversaries have since 2016: Turning off his political oxygen supply by refusing to engage with his manufactured spectacles of insults and taunts, or with the often wholly substance-free issues that preoccupy the press."
~ David R. Lurie
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/kamala-harris-strategy-for-dealing-with-trump
@wdlindsy This 
is how it’s done.
Mud-slinging has been a staple of American politics since its inception. We should never have tolerated the practice in the first place, and it’s well past time to leave it behind. No more “that’s just politics” excuses. Make it stop by refusing to let it have any effect.
@wdlindsy@toad.social@deriamis There's that, for sure. I'd say the Trump era represents a whole new incarnation of this ugly old tradition, too, and foundational to it is the use of social media and the Internet to spread toxic disinformation and hateful memes.