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Why is the mainstream media so gentle to Joe Biden?
Press Watch ^ | 1/17/2020 | Dan Froomkin

Posted on 01/22/2020 8:26:36 AM PST by edwinland

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This article is so devastating the corporate media wants to make sure you don't read it. How it ever (briefly) slipped through the cracks is beyond me. Email it to all your friends and download it before it gets further scrubbed.

It originally appeared on salon.com but has since been pulled from their homepage, and their own search engine on their website can't find it. Even if you search the author's name, you find all his other articles EXCEPT this one.

The only way you an prove it ever appeared on salon.com is if you saved the link. Check

https://www.salon.com/2020/01/18/press-watch-why-is-the-mainstream-media-so-gentle-with-joe-biden/

ALSO, it as briefly posted on RealClearPolitics last night but then it was swiftly pulled with no indication it ever appeared there.

1 posted on 01/22/2020 8:26:37 AM PST by edwinland
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Why is the mainstream media so gentle to Joe Biden?

One reason, and one reason only: Because he has a (D) after his name.

2 posted on 01/22/2020 8:28:41 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: edwinland

Momma always said don’t make fun of the retards.


3 posted on 01/22/2020 8:29:37 AM PST by shelterguy
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The only way you an prove it ever appeared ....

Do many of you, like me, find that when we talk to Dems they say "That must be some right wing thing. If it were true I would have heard it on CNN or the NYT by now."

Such a standard for truth./s

4 posted on 01/22/2020 8:34:01 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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Same reason they are so gentle with any Democrite.

The Ministry of Propaganda has a mission to convince the public that up is down, right is wrong, male is female, etc.


5 posted on 01/22/2020 8:35:34 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: edwinland

The more the media protects the Dems, the weaker their nominee will be when taking on Trump.


6 posted on 01/22/2020 8:37:17 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is communism)
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To: edwinland

Because in 2020 the MAINSTREAM MEDIA and the DEMOCRAT PARTY are the SAME ENTITY.

Really no reason to explore the question beyond that.


7 posted on 01/22/2020 8:37:24 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: edwinland

It is easier being gentle to Biden than it was for Hillary.


8 posted on 01/22/2020 8:38:24 AM PST by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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I think the insider opinion is that Biden is the only Democrat that can beat Trump. But, they’re basing that on the Joe Biden that campaigned in 2012. In eight years, he has definitely lost cognitive skills. Oddly, the party leaders are not able to discern that his problems are permanent and growing. If he becomes the nominee, they will try to replace him after the first debate with Trump. There’s not a chance Biden could stand up to the force that Trump will bring. Trump has ten times the ammo he had when he debated Clinton; instead of talking about what he wants to do, he can talk about what he’s already done.


9 posted on 01/22/2020 8:39:21 AM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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"He interrupts himself in mid-sentence and goes on extended riffs, introducing new subjects that seem to have nothing to do with what he was just talking about. He is sometimes impossible to follow. And he can get quite irascible. "


10 posted on 01/22/2020 8:39:24 AM PST by clearcarbon
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The only source of dumber quotes is Al Sharpton's:

But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.

I hope the Dems nominate Joe...it would be like showing up to a gun fight with a squirt gun.

11 posted on 01/22/2020 8:40:40 AM PST by econjack
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To: edwinland

title is wrong...
enemedia is misspelled...


12 posted on 01/22/2020 8:40:50 AM PST by heavy metal (truth trumps lies...)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Joe only has two responses either to swear or say God willing.


13 posted on 01/22/2020 8:41:09 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: edwinland; SunkenCiv

I thought Biden was going to be eliminated from the 2020 campaign after I saw the pictures of him nibbling on his wife’s fingers while she spoke. Or was it his daughter?


14 posted on 01/22/2020 8:41:17 AM PST by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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Why? One of two things.

1) He has made a lot of very powerful people rich?

2) They want to sit in his lap and stroke the fine blonde hair on his tanned legs?

15 posted on 01/22/2020 8:42:36 AM PST by blackdog (Making wine cave appearances upon request.)
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Mainstream media is following the money like the rest of the crooks.


16 posted on 01/22/2020 8:42:46 AM PST by Amendment10
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I think the insider opinion is that Biden is the only Democrat that can beat Trump.

Exactly. The media is soft on all Democrats, but they do jab a bit at even Bernie and Warren. Those two are kept a little vulnerable over one incident or another. But Biden is never seriously touched. He's the anointed one this time. He's not totally crazy, so he has been selected as a guy who might possibly beat Trump.

17 posted on 01/22/2020 8:44:30 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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> One reason, and one reason only: Because he has a (D) after his name. <

Right. And that’s why serial liar Elizabeth Warren also gets a pass. And why Bernie “rape fantasy” Sanders also gets a pass. Etc.

And that’s a shame. The Founders realized how important a free press was. But we no longer have much of a free press. But they weren’t suppressed by the government. Instead, they willingly became Democrat stooges and lapdogs.

That’s pathetic. And dangerous.


18 posted on 01/22/2020 8:45:20 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Yo-Yo

Several reasons.

One, he is dimrat.
Two, he was Obama’s vp.
The party’s media will never tarnish anything related to The One.
And there is probably some financial shennagins going on as well.


19 posted on 01/22/2020 8:46:26 AM PST by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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To: edwinland

Because we all know that they’re not journalists; they’re activists. Thankfully, more and more Americans are onto their shenanigans, it appears.


20 posted on 01/22/2020 8:47:00 AM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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