It's Just Par for the Course
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (112717)
United States
June 29, 2024 7:03am CST
It's what the news media does all the time. You see it and I see it, but do we REALLY see it? That is, HOW they say something that changes the whole story in a sentence? It happens all too often when the media is covering conservatives. But it happens MOSTLY when the media is covering Trump.
Take the headline by the Associated Press, "Trump gloats over Biden's debate performance at a Virginia rally."
The choice of the word, "gloats" suddenly turns a winning debate performance, that of course he talked about, into something bad. It turns attention away from Biden's loss at the debate and all of the questions around his performance, and more importantly, his fitness to lead, and turns it all into a focus on Trump being narcissistic and mean.
If Biden had won the debate this headline would have easily read, "Biden celebrates debate victory at rally in North Carolina."
See how that works, folks? See how the media plays you for a fool?
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
29 Jun 24
The people who don't get it are the ones who don't understand media bias, and probably the same ones who think Biden is fit to run this country.
I didn't watch the debate, but people at work (mostly democrats) were talking the next day about the fact that Trump definitely did better than Biden in the debate.
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@akalinus (44366)
• United States
1 Jul 24
It was painfully obvious to most people. I understand he spent a week before the debate in a cabin being grilled about the issues of the day getting ready to debate. You could see an earpiece in his right ear and I heard he had a teleprompter but did not see it.
My question is what would happen in a crisis situation that he had to make decisions about?
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
3 Jul 24
@akalinus I was thinking the same thing. If there was a crisis and he had to react quickly and make decisions, would that make him freeze up or come totally unglued?
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
29 Jun 24
The choice of the words and what the media report is something known since the old days.Remember this phrase of Albert Einstein
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
29 Jun 24
I never heard that quote by Einstein, but he definitely understand the bias in the world.
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@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
29 Jun 24
@moffittjc This is how the world works, the media always have a way to present things to help someone or to start to present someone like a "bad guy".
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@moffittjc (128824)
• Gainesville, Florida
29 Jun 24
@LadyDuck That's why I never pay attention to the news media. Or, if I do, I'll research several different news stories hoping that I can find the actual truth in there somewhere.
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@josie_ (10033)
• Philippines
30 Jun 24
@porwest ~
Your just like Trump, a snake oil salesman. I couldn't afford your Arizona 600 mile oceanfront property. Besides, just going from the beach house to the pacific ocean would be exhausting at my age.
If YOU still believe that pathological liar despite his over 35,000 lies and counting, then perhaps you may be interested in buying a treasure map I possessed of the fabled "Yamashita gold" looted in Southeast Asia by Japanese arm forces in WWII and buried here in the Philippines?
Your just like Trump, a snake oil salesman. I couldn't afford your Arizona 600 mile oceanfront property. Besides, just going from the beach house to the pacific ocean would be exhausting at my age.
If YOU still believe that pathological liar despite his over 35,000 lies and counting, then perhaps you may be interested in buying a treasure map I possessed of the fabled "Yamashita gold" looted in Southeast Asia by Japanese arm forces in WWII and buried here in the Philippines?@porwest (112717)
• United States
30 Jun 24
Trump said it himself. He did not want to run. But perhaps you missed that comment because you didn't want to hear it. But what he basically said is, "I could have retired at beautiful Mar-A-Lago and left all of this behind me. Instead, I chose to run because of the horrible things Biden has done the country and had to endure more ridicule, criminal indictments, convictions and all the other stuff."
Trump was never a sore loser. He was an honest American who saw problems with the election that concerned him, and many Americans, and he simply pointed those things out.
If you believe that Biden got 81 million votes campaigning from his basement, well...I guess you may want that oceanfront property in Arizona I have been trying to sell to @NJChicaa for some time now. You and her want to start a bidding war?
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@dgobucks226 (37621)
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8 Jul 24
So true. And you can go to a web page like Yahoo and see many examples of how the media spins stories to make Trump look bad.
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@thedevilinme (5217)
• Northampton, England
6 Jul 24
The British will have to return and run AMerica, Biden and Trump are that bad
@choijungeun (2710)
• Hangzhou, China
29 Jun 24
If i was an American,i'll vote to Trump.I still remembered how he stopped the infiltration of CCP and their spy companies like TikTok,Huawei(phone) and Dajiang(Drome).Communist Ideology and Spy war have threatened the American Democracy seriously.
Biden stopped Trump's attack to CCP and put USA in Danger.Under his Rule,Putin started the war,Hamas started the war,Taliban conquered the Afghanistan.the whole free world is in the deadly danger.
Surely,I supported Trump to make some deals with China,after all,Americans still needs some cheap products from China.As long as China and Communist don't threat the democracy of USA,No one cares what happen to them.
