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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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“Why is the mainstream media so gentle to Joe Biden?”

For the same reason they love the Clintons.


21 posted on 01/22/2020 8:48:23 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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“Why is the mainstream media so gentle to Joe Biden?”

Because he is a brittle sitting duck and if the MSM used anything but feathers on him his little airplane would crash like the Hindenburg and they still think he has the best shot.


22 posted on 01/22/2020 8:52:12 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment
Joe Biden is the 2020 version of Bob Dole. He's the challenger running against an incumbent who is almost impossible to beat. When faced with this kind of scenario, it's in the best interest of the challenging party (the Democrats, in this case) to nominate a hapless loser who has been in Washington for 40+ years and never accomplished anything of any substance.

This allows a challenger with no future in Washington to get his ass kicked without jeopardizing the future presidential aspirations of other younger members of his own party.

23 posted on 01/22/2020 8:56:14 AM PST by Alberta's Child (In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.)
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Why is the mainstream media so gentle to Joe Biden?


             

24 posted on 01/22/2020 8:58:40 AM PST by tomkat
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To: Yo-Yo
One reason, and one reason only: Because he has a (D) after his name.

I think that if one got real answers to many of the Biden questions it would lead to uncomfortable questions about Barack Hussein Obama.

ML/NJ

25 posted on 01/22/2020 8:58:42 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: edwinland
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.

I've noticed in recent days that Biden's ramblings are being excused by some in the media as "stuttering." I suspect this will be new talking point by his supporters in the DNC and the media. Anyone who is critical of his verbal stumbling and bumbling will be attacked as "insensitive" for attacking a man with a "speech disorder." Biden has been in the public eye forever as a long time member of the Senate, and eight years as Vice President. Not once in all those years has there been any mention of him having a problem with stuttering. Don't be surprised if they suddenly start portraying him as a "highly intelligent man who has compiled an impressive record of accomplishments while bravely dealing with a speech disorder."

26 posted on 01/22/2020 9:00:43 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: edwinland

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27 posted on 01/22/2020 9:02:12 AM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: Alberta's Child

Joe Biden is the 2020 version of Bob Dole.


Dole did not have top cover from Fake News and Big Tech. And an ex-POTUS who can GOTV for him in swing states like NC, PA and MI. I’m sure Trump would rather face Bernie or Pocahontas than Biden.


28 posted on 01/22/2020 9:08:53 AM PST by lodi90
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I believe Dole would’ve beat Clinton without Perot in the race.


29 posted on 01/22/2020 9:12:39 AM PST by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: edwinland

Strong deep state connections. While they certainly get much more positive coverage than Republicans, most Democrats don’t receive quite the level of protection that Biden has been getting.


30 posted on 01/22/2020 9:15:46 AM PST by Stravinsky
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To: edwinland

I suspect a nice fat chunk of the Biden Bribes flow to all his cronies. When you take in hundreds of millions, every sleezebag is your friend.


31 posted on 01/22/2020 9:16:31 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: edwinland

I suspect a nice fat chunk of the Biden Bribes flow to all his cronies. When you take in hundreds of millions, every sleezebag is your friend.


32 posted on 01/22/2020 9:17:54 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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> “Why is the mainstream media so gentle to Joe Biden?”

The fake news media is controlled by 6 Oligarchs.

Ten years ago, during the financial collapse, banks were lined up for bail outs and the dinosaur media were standing in line behind them.

Talk radio and Fox News were eating their lunch. Their advertising revenues were plummeting. They needed sugar daddies and ended up prostituting themselves as propaganda outlets for those that became their news pimps.

The rise of alt-media via streaming internet has only worsened their conditions.

Today CNN’s Brian Stelter pulls in an embarrassingly low number of viewers of about 60k on average. Amazing Polly’s YouTube channel pulls in over 150k.

The only reason Oligarchs still support the dismal corporate news studios is because they still cling to wishful thinking that the American cable viewers can be programmed to think a certain way.


33 posted on 01/22/2020 9:18:17 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: edwinland

A consensus of Retired Airline Pilots involved with ditching their Planes into the Hudson River call call it “stuttering” and they are offended that People are criticizing Quid Pro Joe Biden the Stuttering Groping Pedo.


34 posted on 01/22/2020 9:23:05 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: edwinland
And just FYI - Dan Froomkin is a RENOWNED "opinionated liberal". Think "Journolist", and he wrote a blog for The Washington POS. He later went to The Intercept.

Froomkin was raised in Washington, D.C. In 1997 he joined washingtonpost.com as a senior producer for politics. From 2001 to 2003, he was editor of washingtonpost.com. His column launched on January 12, 2004. In a career in journalism spanning over 20 years, he has also worked at The Winston-Salem Journal, The Miami Herald, and The Orange County Register. He was a Michigan Journalism Fellow and editor of new media for Education Week.

From 2004 to 2009 he [Froomkin] wrote a column for the online version of The Washington Post called White House Watch and was the Senior Washington Correspondent for the Huffington Post. On June 18, 2009 it was reported that his blog would cease to exist and his employment at The Washington Post was terminated. In July, 2009, he was hired by the Huffington Post.

"...[but] political reporters at The Post don't like WPNI columnist Dan Froomkin's "White House Briefing," which is highly opinionated and liberal. They're afraid that some readers think that Froomkin is a Post White House reporter."

35 posted on 01/22/2020 9:23:29 AM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: edwinland

In case he is the dem nominee.

When it’s a Republican, the media operatives go back his third grade to find out if he was a naughty kid. When it’s a democrat, all that is suppressed and a pretty picture is painted by the media.


36 posted on 01/22/2020 9:31:51 AM PST by I want the USA back (If free speech is taken away, dumb and silent we are led, like sheep to the slaughter: G Washington)
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To: edwinland

The left-wing media is a willing and INTEGRAL part of the coup.


37 posted on 01/22/2020 9:49:45 AM PST by oil_dude
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38 posted on 01/22/2020 9:50:25 AM PST by timestax
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39 posted on 01/22/2020 9:53:19 AM PST by timestax
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To: Lurkinanloomin

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

Nailed it!!

Freegards


40 posted on 01/22/2020 10:00:22 AM PST by Uversabound (Might does not make right, but it does enforce the commonly recognized rights of each succeeding gen)
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