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senseandsensibility's JournalEzra Klein, the journalist who started the "drop Joe" movement was on Ari
That's basically how Ari introduced him, as though that's a selling point. 
I'm watching on a delay, so don't know what Klein said, but if he's gonna "I told you so", no thanks.
Okay, I watched. He says he noticed that Biden was behind in the polls and decided that he wouldn't do the Superbowl interview. According to Klein, this was suspect because the interview is just softballs and Biden should have jumped at the chance.
So he's the one we have to thank for all this.
Josh Marshall putting it out there about his colleagues' fear of cheato
He thinks this is why they are so silent about the medical reports and transparency about cheato's injuries. He knows what motivates them, but I think he can speak out because he is an independent journalist, not one of the corporate "elites".
He thinks they are not asking because they fear pushback by the cheato cult/team. I've been saying that for weeks now.
If you know anything about journalistic norms (I have a minor in journalism from a well-known journalism dept), you know that this is unheard of. The fact that cheato is not REQUIRED to answer is completely irrelevant. If you are only to ask questions that a candidate HAS to answer by law, just give the job to a member of the candidate's staff and be done with it.
Again, this has NOTHING to do with conspiracy theories and everything to do with MAGA turning the "press" into compliant stenographers. Just as breaking down judicial norms is dangerous, so is the breakdown in journalistic norms.
Zoe Lofgren calls for Biden to drop out (Breaking now)
This one hit me hard. She is the first Democratic politician I contributed to and volunteered for. I have worked side by side with her phone banking for organized labor. She is a salt of the earth Democrat.
Actually, I am heartbroken.
I don't know about you but I am scared crapless that
we are about to lose our country because a lot of ya-hoos think that watching Hulk Hogan yell and rip his shirt off is cool and don't care if the nominee is lying every time he opens his mouth
Seven year olds are more mature than these people. It is incomprehensible to me.
We all know that we are being gaslit and bullied by the media but
one thing I've noticed recently is that they are already trying to cover their tracks as important participants in this power grab. Many talkingheads have gone out of their way to claim that it is not just Dem elites that are whispering to them about losing faith in Biden. They claim they're hearing it from the grassroots. Details are nonexistent of course.
Does anyone believe them? I don't. But they don't want to be blamed if the worst happens. Sniveling cowards.
Rachel begins her coverage by talking about his criminal cases
Now that's the way a journalist covers this dysfunctional coronation of a felon.
If her colleagues Garrett and Katy were watching, would they have the brains/morals to be embarrassed? They opened with gushing over Kid Rock and gave a fanboy interview to Eric Trump.
Rachel being Rachel, she is tying it all together.
Tucker Carlson is the speaker right now at this hatefest
which is in keeping because not too long ago he sent texts saying he passionately hates trump.
It's quite a spectacle when you think about it. I think it should be covered. I think people need to hear this crap. I feel like we are being sheltered from what is happening there.
Of course I can't watch it, but I'm not the average low information voter. I think they need to be reminded what this cult is really like at every opportunity.
You do know what MAGA (and the media) will say as soon as Biden drops out
right? They'll say he should RESIGN now because someone who is not able to campaign is not able to run the country. And that will be the new refrain drowning out (again) any scrutiny of cheato.
It's a lose/lose situation. There is no easy way out when the media and your own party elites are in on it.
How President Biden must be feeling right now
I know he's a poetry lover. Maybe he's thinking of this by Rudyard Kipling:
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting
If you can wait and not be tired by the waiting
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies
etc.
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