We have often discussed (and even marveled at) the determined effort of mainstream media to ignore the evidence of a massive corruption scandal surrounding the Biden family. However, even at this late date, NBC seems to have achieved singular distinction with a comparison between the criticism of the daughter of Nikki Haley for using TikTok and the criticism of Hunter Biden for influence peddling.
During the Republican presidential debate, Vivek Ramaswamy responded to Haley’s criticism of his use of the Chinese-linked social media app, TikTok, by pointing out: “she made fun of me for joining TikTok, while her own daughter was actually using the app for a long time, so you might want to take care of your family first.”
Haley responded by calling Ramaswamy “scum.”
Later Gov. Ron DeSantis said that children need to be out of bounds.
NBC saw an immediate opportunity to denounce the investigation into Hunter Biden: “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he believes going after an opponent’s children is ‘out of bounds’ in political warfare. DeSantis, however, goes after President Biden’s son on a weekly basis.”
The comparison perfectly captured the all-hands-on-deck effort of the media in resisting coverage of the Biden scandal. A major network wanted the public to see the criticism of Haley’s daughter for using TikTok as the same as criticism of Biden’s son for influence peddling.
One child was posting playful social media posts while the other was orchestrating massive payments from foreign figures.
This is why polls have shown the media at record lows in terms of public trust. Gallup and the Knight Foundation found that 50% of Americans believe that the news media lies in order to promote an agenda. Only 25% of Americans reject that premise. The public has largely rejected the mainstream coverage (or lack thereof). A majority believes that Hunter has received special protection in the investigation.
We have often discussed the increasing bias and advocacy in major media in the United States. While cable networks have long catered to political audiences on the left or right, mainstream newspapers and networks now openly frame news to fit a political narrative.
We previously discussed the release of the results of interviews with over 75 media leaders by former executive editor for The Washington Post Leonard Downie Jr. and former CBS News President Andrew Heyward. They concluded that objectivity is now considered reactionary and even harmful. Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor-in-chief at the San Francisco Chronicle said it plainly: “Objectivity has got to go.”
Downie explained that news leaders today
“believe that pursuing objectivity can lead to false balance or misleading “bothsidesism” in covering stories about race, the treatment of women, LGBTQ+ rights, income inequality, climate change and many other subjects. And, in today’s diversifying newsrooms, they feel it negates many of their own identities, life experiences and cultural contexts, keeping them from pursuing truth in their work.”
Likewise, Stanford journalism professor, Ted Glasser, has called for journalism to “free itself from this notion of objectivity to develop a sense of social justice.” He views “journalists as activists because journalism at its best — and indeed history at its best — is all about morality.” Thus, “Journalists need to be overt and candid advocates for social justice, and it’s hard to do that under the constraints of objectivity.”
Lauren Wolfe, the fired freelance editor for the New York Times, has not only gone public to defend her pro-Biden tweet but published a piece titled “I’m a Biased Journalist and I’m Okay With That.”
Former New York Times writer (and now Howard University Journalism Professor) Nikole Hannah-Jones is a leading voice for advocacy journalism. Indeed, Hannah-Jones has declared “all journalism is activism.”
Washington Post columnist and MSNBC contributor Jennifer Rubin has also called for the media to abandon balance and impartiality.
While outfits like NPR allow reporters to actually participate in protests and the New York Times sheds conservative opinions, the new poll shows many are simply tuning out the media.
Put into this context, the NBC framing of the presidential debate is not just understandable but entirely predictable. It is why the “Let’s Go, Brandon” movement is as much a mocking of the media as it is the President. No one seriously buys the analogy of a criticism of a politician’s daughter over using social media with the criticism of a politician’s son who allegedly raised millions in influence peddling. One child was engaged in personal entertainment while the other was engaged in public corruption.
NBC’s slogan of “The news you want, when you want it” has become “the news you want, how you want it.” They are not alone in such echo chamber journalism. The problem is that a smaller percentage of the public seems to want news at all as their trust in the media generally continues to collapse.
The NBC hit on critics of Hunter Biden is precisely why. Yet, rather than recognize the falling revenues and influence of media, these outlets and journalists continue to saw feverishly at the branch on which they are sitting.
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It now appears that it is the interest of leftist journalists to save the world. The Hamas journalists employed by CNN believes that he is saving the world. They somehow can’t understand that they have become willing to take the small gradual doses of hemlock that eventually poisons their minds. However, they should rest assured that I will never respect their drinking from the cup of poison nor will I partake in their eventual path to the mental delusion described as insanity. I have no interest in their help.
I have not watched network or pbs news in years because it has long been obvious that they are propagandists for a left/ progressive/ Democrat point of view, carefully editing out anything that is contrary to that point of view and dutifully reporting the type of silliness described in this post. I was shocked however a few days ago when my oldest friend and I discussed politics in emails for the thousandth time but on this occasion he said flatly, “I am a Democrat and I will vote Democrat.” Mind you this is a highly intelligent person who is fully aware of the catastrophes visited upon us by Democrats in general and the Biden administration in particular. His stated reason was that he likes the Democrat platform better than the Republican even though he listed five things he wished the Democrat platform included which it does not, such as, close the border. Ironically, the five things he listed all are backed strongly by the leading Republicans, including Trump. I truly do not understand this determination to vote Democrat but I do believe many, many people feel this way which helps explain why Biden’s polls still show a high percentage of voters that support him. I don’t know if anyone else has had a similar experience. I am mystified.
Jews in New York now being told to “shelter in place.”
One has to wonder how many Jews will keep voting for The Party?
The very definition of insanity.
Hamas supporters in NYC have surrounded Grand Central Station and are attempting to breach the outer doors to reach police officers sheltering inside.
This is Biden’s America.
“This is the reality that MIT President wants to hide. A letter from Israeli & Jewish MIT students:
To all students at MIT,
Today, Jewish and Israeli MIT students were physically prevented from attending class by a hostile group of pro-Hamas and anti-Israel MIT students that call themselves the CAA.
This is after students from the CAA harassed MIT staff members in their offices for being Jewish and interrupted classes in the past few weeks. All of this has occurred with no clear response from the administration. With each passing day, MIT admin’s silence makes Jewish and Israeli students feel unsafe at MIT.
Many Jewish students fear leaving their dorm rooms and have stated that they feel MIT is not safe for Jews. This message is compounded by the public and private warnings of Hillel and many faculty that Jewish students should not enter MIT’s main lobby today, November 9th, 2023.
Instead of dispersing the mob or de-escalating the situation by rerouting all students from Lobby 7, Jewish students specifically were warned not to enter MIT’s front entrance due to a risk to their physical safety….”
This is Biden’s America. This is what the Democrat Party has done to America.
This is what fundamental change looks like!!!
PBS, NPR ET AL. ARE IRREFUTABLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Congress has no power to tax for, fund, operate or regulate a commercial or politically biased, propaganda-propagating enterprise.
The press is free not dictated.
The Founders established a restricted-vote republic.
Self-reliant and free Americans cannot win against the one-man, one-vote communism of dependents and parasites, or the “dictatorship of the hired help.”
The vote is moot, however, as the Constitution severely limits and restricts government before any vote is taken.
The problem is that the Supreme Court has failed to and does not support the Constitution.
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Turnout in 1789 was 11.6% by design.
Voting criteria in 1789 were male, European, 21, 50 lbs. Sterling/50 acres.
The vote in a democratic republic has been severely restricted since inception.
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“the people are nothing but a great beast…
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“The true reason (says Blackstone) of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons, as are in so mean a situation, that they are esteemed to have no will of their own.”
“If it were probable that every man would give his vote freely, and without influence of any kind, then, upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote… But since that can hardly be expected, in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications, whereby, some who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting; in order to set other individuals, whose wills may be supposed independent, more thoroughly upon a level with each other.”
– Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775
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“[We gave you] a republic, if you can keep it.”
– Ben Franklin, 1787
Would like to know, what are the Democrat policies today that people staunchly, blindly support?
Take ‘abortion at will’ and “climate change” off the table and what are you voting “for”?
Because it sure is not for ‘life, or liberty, or safety, or peace & prosperity for all.’
I cannot think of one Democrat policy position I agree with nor one Biden policy I am in alignment with. Not one.
Democrat policies promote death, destruction, lawlessness, crime, chaos, corruption, teachers unions, brainwashing children, censorship, WAR, election fraud, more government control, more government intrusion into our lives, more taxes, more spending, more fraud, more waste, more abuse of power.
In what ways do Democrats support the pursuit of life, liberty, justice, world peace, prosperity for all, happiness, or individual freedom?
They don’t.
Arrogates a many swimming in their pool of self worth thinking they have all the answers to life. These fools shouldn’t look in the mirror it may break from their vile aura. Conceit, contempt and disrespect, is the mantra of this new breed of supposed journalists. Ignorance is another characteristic of the neophytes’; they are unconcerned about their lack of historical evidence of one sidedness, and the harm it causes.
Their continued use of lies, decrepit reports of foes, circumspect reports of events and outright fabrication of events makes them subject to ridicule and distrust.
As Mr. T famously said: “I pity the fools”!!!!
I’n having a hard time commenting these days because I’m just repeating myself. Elitist sociopaths are very systematically destroying Western society, and I don’t know how we recover at this point. Unbelievable, yet totally believable.
I agree, you can only lead these sheeple to data, but you can’t make them think. Posters such as svelaz are so inured to their propaganda that they are unable, at this point to actually “cogitate” but are only repeating signal posts for the great propaganda machine that is the hallmark of every would-be dictatorship/tyranny. He has drunk so much koolaid that he is like a drunk in a stupor and we will need deal with several generations of such useless flotsam until they age out or they destroy the economic system that allows them the comfort to playact as revolutionaries from the comfort of the very western systems that they advocate destroying.
Whimsicalmama, and James,
Well said.
While I share your observations, I do not mostly share your pessimissm.
This too shall pass.
In a recent interview Peter Thiel concluded that we hit peak woke in 2020.
I beleive the is correct.
I beleive that at the moment we are in the protracted agonizing desparate death of wokeness.
I am increasingly concerned about what follows.
I also greatly hope that Theil is correct. The failure of the left is certain – even if the moment of that failure is not.
Ideologies that do not work, that are at odds with the improvement of the human condition all ultimately fail.
Though sometimes that failure takes a long long time and causes great suffering.
I am concerned in two ways.
First the left is on a massive scale deliberately causing chaos. Chaos is the garden for for the worst events in history.
Napolean was born of the Chaos of the French Revolution. Hitler from that of the wiemar republic – and on and on.
The political pendulm swings back and forth naturally. We are all best off when those swings are small – that is when real progress occurs.
Trump’s election was a response to the swing too far to the left that occured under Obama.
It was close to an equal and oposite response and should have resulted in Democrats returning to the center.
But it did not. It resulted in democrats and the left jumping the shark – over and over and over again.
With greater desparation each time.
Worse still against all odds, this shift ever further left by democrats has NOT come crashing down arround them.
This is actually VERY danagerous – the further the democrats move to the left, the larger the counter swing is likely to be.
The claim that Democracy is threatened by Trump is pure nonsense – ALL our norms – including democracy are threatened by the democrats today. By doing so the left makes acceptable and likely an equally large swing the opposite direction.
My wife is an appellate criminal defense attorney. The state of policing, civil rights, criminal prosecutions in the US today is appalling.
The arrogance that we see from prosecutors and left wing nut judges going after Trump is wrong, but not unusual.
BLM and the Defund the police movement had a very valid point. But instead of focusing on addressing real problems and real solutions they went overboard with chaos, outrage, violence, and idiotic proposals that not only make things worse but justify doubling down on what is wrong.
Despite my valid criticisms above – our justice system has proved very effective over the past 40 years in bringing crime and violence down.
But we actually have enough information today to establish what worked and what did not.
We can get rid of the bathwater without throwing out the baby.
Further SOME of what the left seeks to do with criminal justice – in SOME FORM actually works.
But it is a supplement to what we have now, not a substitute.
It is also a “luxury good” that is more expensive than the norm, and only affordable because of our high standard of living.
One of the most stupid things about the left today is that they seek to destroy the foundations that make possible the values they espouse.
There is a reason that the current culture wars are taking place almost exclusively in the modern west – in the US.
Because for all of past human history and even in most of the world today – the cultural values of the left are unaffordable.
It was an absolute necescity for much of human existance for every woman to have 6 or more children. Anything less and two did not on average make it to adulthood. Even today high birth rates correlate universally to shorter life expectance.
The past intolerance for sexual and other deviations from the norms – no matter how we view them today came from the necescaity of the survival of the species.
Nearly every single value that the left has today is a luxury good that is only possible in a society with a high standard of living.
Destroy the foundations of that standard of living and every single value the left holds goes rapidly out the window.
One way or another a swing back towards the right is inevitable.
My concern is that the repeatedly successful efforts by the left to hold the pendulum back even force it further in its leftward trajectory make the likely reversal, bigger, more powerful and potentially more destructive.
I do not share many of Trump’s values and policies. But I am overall quite happy that Trump in particular and Trumpism more generally dominate the right currently.
Contra the claims of the left – for all the flaws in the Trump/Tea Party policies, they are NOT a swing to the extreme right.
They are not a threat to democracy. Even to the extent they are flawed they are on net a significant improvement over what we have now, and also what we have had for most of my lifetime.
Further every single bad policy of Trump’s can be enacted and that will NOT bring fascism to the US.
It will not return us to the 50’s or even the aughts.
The left is indeed the threat to Democracy. Were it not for Joe Manchin, the 117th Congress would have
1. Abolished the filibuster, and then
2. Added 4 democrat senators
3. Packed the Supreme Court
4. Abolished the Electoral College
THAT would have resulted in single party rule and the end of a democratic republic.
The modern marxist democrats are the real danger because the ends always justifies the means.
People watch NBC?
I have to wonder if these so called journalists are even self aware of how they are not journalists.
Upstate, they are convinced that they need not be unbiased or impartial, as Professor Turley has stated previously. The line between “reporting” and opinion no longer exists. This is why we have the NY Times and the dreadful AP using a “photojournalist” that is seen kissing the leader of Hamas and carrying a hand grenade on the way to the massacre of 10/7. This is who AP and the NY Times uses for information…a proven supporter of Hamas. Can anyone imagine our thoughts if Ap and the NY Times used a source that was seen getting a kiss from Osama bin Laden? Or having “reporters” tagging along with Mohammed Atta as he traveled to Logan Airport on the morning of 9/11?
This is how far our media has fallen. They actually are enemies of the nation and it needs to be pointed out more often.
HullBobby,
Well said.
Back in 2016 Trump said the media was the enemy.
At the time I thought that was a bit out there.
Turns out he was right.
They are sheeple tools at this time – they do not think at all.
According to the logic used by several commenters here @ Turley’s Bar, KKK members are Christian.
Can you point out in the comments section where anyone said KKK members are Christian?
Until you mentioned the KKK, there are no references to the KKK on this page.
As clearly stated, that is an inference.
Oh wait, you don’t know what that means?
David B Benson, an inference without a foundation is just a veiled lie.
TiT,
He also claims of logic used by others, yet when asked to provide evidence he runs away and hides behind “inference.”
DBB the reasoning in your post is opaque. While some posters here have assumed one possible meaning – and they might be correct.
You post itself is not clear.
You are now making claims regarding inferences, and the lack of understanding of others – but your own inferences are not clear.
Torquemada was christian, Fred Phelps was christian, Mother Theresa was christian.
In what sense are you arguing the KKK is or is not christian ? Or that others are righting or wrongly arguing in a fashion that makes the KKK christian ?
Malala Yousafzai is muslim – as are the members of Hamas and Hezbolla.
You complain that you were making an inference and that other were too ignorant to get your meaning.
But the FACT is that your statement is muddy and unclear on numerous levels.
The KKK is atleast as christian as Hamas is muslim. The KKK and Nazi’s are also statist and socialist. the KKK was also a wholely owned subidiary of the democratic party. Each of the above statements are true.
I suspect that is not what you meant – but your words are unclear even by the very lax standards of internet posts.
You have personally slammed me for failing to use terms in accord with YOUR personal definitions.
Yet, here you are making inferences and chastizing others for failure to grasp their meaning when YOUR language is as clear as mud.
I chose not to respond to your original post – specifically because it was indecipherable.
But now you are attacking others for failing to read your mind.
John Say, Torquemada might have *claimed* to be christian, but was he?
Torquemada might have *claimed* to be christian, but was he?
Torquemada’s claim to being a Christian, is similar to your claim of being a scientist.
🔥
Estovir, I have several papers published in the relevant peer-reviewed literature, that after 3 degrees in engineering and mathematics. Now it’s *called* computer science and my contributions, such as they were, might be considered to be mathematics applied to questions in computation. I opine that an appropriate all inclusive term is ‘natural philosopher’.
Here is a dictionary definition:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/science
Robert W. Malone, MD, claims to have invented mRNA vaccines. Behold his many published research articles indexed on pubmed. You are alot like him: a legend in your own mind. Frankly, you are a waste of peoples time on here as you cling to an academic degree as your signature in life. On my tombstone I want it to simply read, “A man for others”
I pity you Benson. This ends my input
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Malone+RW&cauthor_id=2762315
Estovir, I never did anything as important as mRNA vaccines.
John Say, no, not *my* personal definitions but rather those employed by university-level textbooks in mathematics and physics.
But now you are attacking others for failing to read your mind.
when a man feels so insecure, so inferior, such a failure in life and so unloved, he resorts to tearing others down to prop himself up. That’s Benson for as long as I’ve been on this forum, > 4 years and counting. Use Benson as a reminder of what type of person you do not want to be as you grow older. Misery loves company, and his name is Benson
Physician, heal thyself.
I just did a Find In Page search of the good professor’s past three articles.
KKK was not mentioned in them.
Benson will be the judge of that. Benson, now do Hamas
Let those without sin cast the first stone.
Hamas are Islam.
Jonathan: You continue to be “marveled” at why the main stream media has lost interest in the alleged “Biden family corruption scandal”–a subject you have pushing since the GOP took back control of the House. The answer is pretty simple. Neither Jim Jordan nor Comer have come up with any evidence to prove Joe Biden guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors”–not even LOW crimes! So you call the treatment of the Biden family by the media as evidence of “increasing bias and advocacy” because they have debunked all the claims by Jordan and Comer.
Comer’s latest spurious claim is the loan Joe Biden made to his brother–at a time when Biden was a private citizen. Comer has intimated, with any evidence, that Biden didn’t have the $300,000 so it might have come from “China”. Comer says the loan was part of the Biden family’s “shady business practices”. The latest reporting shows Comer has his own “shady” family business problem. Kentucky property records show Comer funneled $200,000 to his brother using a shell company that never existed. The Comer records show a possible conflict of interest between his official government and his private family businesses. Comer has the two personal checks, the loan check and the prompt repayment by James. Those transactions, unlike the Comer transfers, were not hidden behind shell companies.
So Comer has his own personal financial “scandal”. And what does he do? In order to deflect and distract Comer has just shot off subpoenas for Hunter’s business partners and even George Berges, the art gallery owner who represented Hunter–and get this–a subpoena for Elizabeth Naftali, one of the buyers of Hunter’s art work! Comer thinks there must have been something “shady” in those art deals. Just shows how desperate is Comer’s investigation.
Your complaint is that the media has not provided an “echo chamber” for your conspiracy theories and those of Comer. But it’s not because the media has not covered the Comer investigation. They have but they have largely debunked all of Comer’s claims. That is what upsets you. The problem, to paraphrase you, is that you still cling theories about the Biden family “scandal” that Comer can’t back up with any evidence and you are “sawing feverishly at the branch” YOU are sitting on!
Dennis, I’m taking up calling this place ‘Turley’s Bar’ since it is becoming more & more like drunks leaning on their elbows, telling each other every taller tales.
Then why are you here?
Get a life.
Turley’s Bar.
Interesting idea.
Then Dennis is that old drunk who keeps repeating the same topic over and over again that no one cares about.
Sleezvez and ATS are those creepy old men who keep learing at young women and children. They also make inappropriate comments to the two very cute waitresses, Karen S and Lin, who turn around and shut them down with a witty one liner.
Natasha is the old woman mixing her meds with drink seeing things that are not really there.
You keep spouting things you have no idea of what you are talking about and then Estovir has to correct you with facts.
Farmer Up There — I don’t keep track of the numbers of times I have corrected Estovir’s mistakes with physics.
And Karen S is far more than a waitress.
But I’m pleased that you like the analogy.
“journalists continue to saw feverishly at the branch on which they are sitting.”
Time to provide the media with a saw with a sharper blade. It is getting harder to bear their World’s Dumbest routine.
One would think that all the energy spent of taxpayer’s dollars by the Fed to “insure” that we are not dissuaded by min-information would have shut down MSNBC and NBC as major fonts of lies and deception by this time. What could be the matter???
NBC is not worth watching. Nothing new about that.
On another matter I previously said on this site that the comparison of Palestinians to Nazis was inaccurate.
The Palestinians are worse.
Here’s a reporter who has seen what they do and who has made exactly the same point to Piers who tries to parrot Obama’s idiotic thoughts on the horrors.
https://twitter.com/ReichmanShmuel/status/1722754621557350845
I didn’t think it was possible to slander Nazis until Palestinians were compared to them. Bad as they were the Nazis were enough aware of their evil to try to conceal it. The Palestinians boast of it with glee.
Is it any surprise that Arab, Muslim, countries don’t want them? No.
Probably only Harvard, Yale, NBC and Democrats want them. They would import demons from Hell if they could. Maybe they already have done. Have you seen the streets of America lately?
That the MSM has been the enemy of Americans is not new information. The MSM has defended Fidel Castro and Raul Castro (a prototype assassin) and Communist Cuba for decades. So yes, the MSM is lying, always, 25/8
This ABC Nightline softball interview of Hunter Biden was so egregious, that the only thing worse that the MSM could do is to be embedded with Hamas if they were to slaughter Jews in Israel. Oh wait….
Estovir,
Well said.
Estovir, the embedded reporters riding with Hamas on 10/7 is a scandal waiting to explode.
You would think so but, just like Benghazi, nothing will happen until the citizens disinfect their government at all levels, especially the embedded bureaucracy and the federally funded academic socialist stooges
Coverage of Israel war exposes news media bias, relationships with Hamas
https://justthenews.com/government/security/do-not-edit-draft-legacy-media-israel-story
NBC will stop at nothing. NBC, along with the other mainstream media, have massive coverage of the Pro-Palestinian protests throughout the United States that all but eliminates any coverage of the out-of-control flood of illegals at the Southern Border. It would appear that BLM and ANTIFA have found a new cause to protest with the ever-convenient “white oppressor” theme. Interesting how that works isn’t it Jonathan ?
“. . . the determined effort of mainstream media to ignore the evidence of a massive corruption scandal . . .” (JT)
And more broadly — MSM’s Journalistic “Policies:”
Our protestors are mostly peaceful. Yours are wholly violent.
Our alleged loans are loans. Yours, even if repaid, are financial crimes.
Our bureaucrats and law enforcement officers merely make suggestions. Your parents at school board meetings intimidate and harass.
A politician’s children are out of bounds. Unless their name is Trump.
We don’t report on trials in progress. Unless your name is Trump.
We don’t fact check terrorist reports about hospital bombings. We reject out-of-hand Fox News reports.
When we challenge an election, it’s to save democracy. When you do, it’s a threat to democracy. (And a crime.)
There is no inflation, widespread bankruptcy, bribery, crime — unless we report it. There is, though, climate armageddon and systemic racism — because we said so.
Our carjackers and shoplifters are merely disaffected youth. Your youth need to be reprogrammed.
I don’t think that qualifies as either “journalism” or “policy.”
What did NBC say that was incorrect or false?
I don’t say any issue with pointing out a lack of consistency with DeSantis’s views on the children of politicians. He should have said that they are out-of-bounds unless they engage in influence peddling, but… He didn’t say that.
Why is DeSantis’s mistake NBC’s fault?
it appears this topic may be too hard for you.
This might be easier for you to comprehend.
https://ratings.moodys.com/ratings-news/411110
Moody’s changes outlook on United States’ ratings to negative, affirms Aaa ratings
New York, November 10, 2023 — Moody’s Investors Service (Moody’s) has today changed the outlook on Government of United States of America’s (US) ratings to negative from stable and affirmed the long-term issuer and senior unsecured ratings at Aaa.
The key driver of the outlook change to negative is Moody’s assessment that the downside risks to the US’ fiscal strength have increased and may no longer be fully offset by the sovereign’s unique credit strengths. In the context of higher interest rates, without effective fiscal policy measures to reduce government spending or increase revenues, Moody’s expects that the US’ fiscal deficits will remain very large, significantly weakening debt affordability. Continued political polarization within US Congress raises the risk that successive governments will not be able to reach consensus on a fiscal plan to slow the decline in debt affordability.
REALLY? Hunter Biden is a ‘child’? Perhaps, child-like but at his age he is responsible to stand up on his own. If the Dems don’t know the difference between a woman and a man, and now, not between a child and an adult, we are is much bigger trouble than ever imagined!
I guess since NBC doesn’t know the value of objective journalism, we can say they are child-like too!
Yes he is Biden’s child. That is not in dispute. Do you not know the definition of the word “child”?
“Do you not know the definition of the word “child”?”
There are several definitions, you nincompoop. Look it up. Because it not only means offspring, it can also mean someone below the age of majority. Thats why context matters. He could be a “child” of the streets by one definition, but thats not what DeSantis was OBVIOUSLY talking about.
If you want to feign stupidity, don’t be surprised when someone thinks you’re earnest.
Aren’t broadcasters supposed to work in the interest the public rather than one party?
I disagree. Broadcasters are capitalists, just like rest of us that are not feeding at the “public trough”. Some are decent and honest, some aren’t.
150 years ago newspapers proudly displayed their Politics in their Name.
We had the Times Democrat that served Davenport IA and the greater Quad Cities
Marshalltown still has the Times Republic.
There editorial pages were clearly team propaganda. But their reporting was accurate and factual.
Now facts are are replaced with truth… “truth” as defined by the media.
I find it odd that I have never heard Hunter speak a word, not once in the years the Biden scandal has been in the news. Hundreds of photos and video clips of him, but never a word. I wonder why that is?
I do not understand why anyone even watches these networks. Oh, wait, not many do.
The information stream of any value is outside traditional outlets such as radio or network “news” organizations. Even there, the information seeker must source multiple places to compare and contrast what is possible truth from pure B.S.
Simple information does not pay the bills. The modern purveyors of “news” must create controversy and sensationalism. This is to the detriment of our lives.
Me need Joe Friday’s objectivity and “just the facts ma’am.”
We not me. Oops!
Even too many of the police, nowadays, need “qualifying context” for facts. Let alone journalists, who would barely recognize a fact if it begged them in the street.
E.M.
“Oh, wait, not many do.”
Spot on.
I used to listen to NPR from first thing in the morning till Marketplace signed off in the evening.
Then 2016 happened and they went all in on advocacy journalism. It is nauseating.
The one of two Tucker Carlson episodes I did watch when he was with Fox, was about NPR. He was absolutely correct.
Matt Taibbi had an article about NPR and it being nothing but about race and sex. He was absolutely correct.
I will occasionally tune in to NPR while in the truck.
It is crap.
Support independent media like The Free Press. I have a paid subscription.
Upstate,
Thank you for the tip. Also Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News (independent broadcast) is really good. Mike Baker (former CIA agent) hosts “The President’s Daily Brief.” There are dozens but these are among my favorites and they reach millions of listeners.
It’s over. Time to empty the wine cellar.
Thanks to Muslims, Hamas, we have seen, actually seen with our own eyes, babies being killed, pregnant women having their stomachs cut open, parents killed in front of kids, kids killed in front of parents and young women (girls) being carted off in jeeps full of Muslim men to be raped and held captive. This we have seen thanks to it being videotaped by themselves actually committing the horrendous crimes.
We have seen, thanks to Muslims, ISIS, men being burned in cages, drowned in cages and people like Daniel Pearl having his head chopped off. We have never had video of this kind of disgusting behavior as long as we have had video or film. But thanks to ISIA we have it now.
We have seen, thanks to Muslims, Al Qaeda, men and women throwing themselves off of a building from the 100th story and we have seen a fully loaded jet fly into a building on purpose carrying 100 innocent passengers to their death. We have never seen anything so horrific in memory….until some Muslims decided to act this way.
So in recent memory we have seen all of these mind destroying horrors being perpetrated by Muslims, Hamas, ISIS and Al Qaeda, against non-Muslim people. We now see pro-Muslim people taking to the streets to burn, destroy and attack any ‘non-believers” in so called marches around the globe. Pro-Israel marches are quiet, polite, respectful and honorable while pro-Palestinian and Hamas marches are attacks on everyone else. See Jews on campus if you don’t believe me.
Of course the Democrats answer to all of this is to fret about Islamophobia. Crimes against Jews are up by a factor of hundreds, marches are chanting to kill Jews, Jews on campus have to hide and cower in fear and Biden and Harris create a committee to look into Islamophobia.
As we see riots in London, Paris and other cities we have Dick Durbin, a US SENATOR, saying we need to bring more Palestinians here to America. This after Durbin’s president has allowed 7 million illegals here in 2 1/2 years.
The liberals have killed our country. It is over for the west and it is happening much faster than I thought it would. It is sad, but at least I am old. The young fools in this country have no idea that they are killing themselves.
Well said, Hull Bobby. Muslims have clearly shown in England, France, Sweden, and elsewhere that they have zero interest in assimilation into their new host country. If anything, they want you to assimilate into their culture, not the other way around.
HullBobby,
Great comment and well said!
I fear for my children. They are out on their own, smart, doing very well for their age when compared to their peers.
But it is their peers that I fear. Most of them are idiots, more than a few still living at home.
NBC is also the same network that had their “fact” checker determine that DeSantis saying that he got 700 Floridians out of Israel by sending planes there to facilitate their departure was only half true because, are you ready, he didn’t actually FLY THE PLANES himself!!!! This is a major NEWS network. We are a clown how right now and it is because of the left.
NBC is the worst of the American media. Remember that they gave birth to MSNBC, the network that has Al Sharpton discussing anti-Semitism, Joy Reid discussing misinformation and three Muslim guys discussing Hamas and the attack of 10/7…on 10/8.
AP is the worst because they “contribute” to small newspapers all over the country and get to decide how news is framed. Next up is the NY Times and WAPO, two supposedly major organs of print journalism, followed by the joke newspapers like the LA Times and the Boston Globe. Throw in ABC, CBS and CNN as well as YouTube, Google, Tic-Toc, Facebook and whatever other social media platforms the young people are using and you see how Joe Biden can end up as president.