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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.
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
@wdlindsy@toad.social@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.
I’m sure O’Donnell sees it the same way. Nevertheless he was making a valiant (but ultimately vain) effort to SHAME the media into doing their job by portraying them as “stupid.”
If we’ve learned anything, it is that like Republicans, the media’s lackeys DONT DO SHAME They are arrogant to an extreme, THEY dictate the “news”. They do not report it.
I’m not sure how we break through this cycle of cultivated ignorance. Most people don’t have the luxury of time to follow developments as closely as us.
@bronakins Yes, I agree. And it's always a challenge to push against your own guild members, so that I understand his doing so tentatively — but, even so, in an outspoken and courageous way. You are so right: they are beyond shame. Arrogance is the middle name of the talking heads, especially at the "leading" outlets like New York Times and Washington Post.