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Donald Trump (and Fox News) are dog-whistling on Joe Biden
CNN Politics ^ | June 11, 2019 | Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

Posted on 06/11/2019 7:10:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

For anyone who watches Fox News Channel, it's not at all surprising that its anchors and hosts (with few notable exceptions) talk up President Donald Trump while knocking down the Democrats running against him in 2020.

While that position puts Fox somewhere in the gray area between journalism and activism, it's not exactly new. There are ratings in partisanship -- so Fox News engages in partisanship.

But even partisanship should have its limits. And one of those limits should be raising entirely unfounded questions about a presidential candidate's health. Which is exactly what two Fox News personalities -- Kennedy and Sean Hannity -- have done, according to this terrific piece by the Daily Beast Justin Baragona:

"Since the end of May, Fox Business Network and Fox News star Lisa 'Kennedy' Montgomery and Fox News prime-time host Sean Hannity have speculated on-air, on at least four separate occasions, that the current Democratic presidential frontrunner is secretly dealing with health issues, often comparing his condition to illness-related conspiracy theories the network pushed about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: 2020; biden; cnn; fakenews; fauxnews; foxnews; jealouscnn; joebiden
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I've said this before many times in this forum ... Biden’s elevator doesn't go all the way to the top floor. Hasn't for at least two decades ... perhaps longer.
21 posted on 06/11/2019 7:35:53 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: freedom1st

There is something medical wrong with Biden, just watch and listen to him.


I agree. He looks bad. Slow Joe for sure.


22 posted on 06/11/2019 7:35:55 PM PDT by DefeatCorruption
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Joe responds to a dog whistle?


23 posted on 06/11/2019 7:36:21 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: DefeatCorruption

I think he has advanced to Slower Joe.


24 posted on 06/11/2019 7:37:00 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

25 posted on 06/11/2019 7:38:07 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Biden will be fine. It’s not like Democrat presidents run their own administrations.
He can watch his on TV like 0bama did. :)


26 posted on 06/11/2019 7:41:21 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Bon mots

Biden’s a pervert...pass it on.


27 posted on 06/11/2019 7:45:42 PM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: goodnesswins

HATE media is all ACTIVISM.


28 posted on 06/11/2019 7:49:50 PM PDT by CMailBag
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Awww poor widdle Bidet. Needs CNN to defend him.


29 posted on 06/11/2019 7:50:16 PM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But even partisanship should have its limits. And one of those limits should be raising entirely unfounded questions about a presidential candidate’s health.

FU CNN. You’re the ones who’ve periodically pushed the claim of Trump being mentally ill.


30 posted on 06/11/2019 8:24:19 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, what is up with all the improper speech patterns along with squinting while Biden struggles to get a word out?


31 posted on 06/11/2019 8:43:27 PM PDT by healy61
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To: CMailBag

Yup


32 posted on 06/11/2019 8:54:03 PM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Screw you, Chris Cillizza, and your treasonous CNN!


33 posted on 06/11/2019 9:09:44 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"the gray area between journalism and activism, it's not exactly new. There are ratings in partisanship -- so Fox News engages in partisanship."

One of their more blatant projections.

34 posted on 06/11/2019 9:47:54 PM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: freedom1st
There is something medically wrong with Biden, just watch and listen to him.

It's said that he merely stutters occasionally. But it's not stuttering when suddenly gibberish spews out of his mouth until he recovers.

35 posted on 06/11/2019 10:33:23 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The dude’s stuttering, mispronouncing words, and losing his train of thought in the middle of sentences. He’s falling apart.


36 posted on 06/11/2019 10:38:43 PM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But the Democratic bias on all other networks is ok because, you know, Democrats. And violating the Goldwater rule, Section 7 in the American Psychiatric Association’s Principles of Medical Ethics, by giving a platform and promoting attacks on our elected president, is also ok, because, Democrats.


37 posted on 06/12/2019 3:57:16 AM PDT by OldNewYork (Operation Wetback II, now with computers)
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To: freedom1st

Biden’s eyes do not look right.


38 posted on 06/12/2019 4:00:59 AM PDT by FreedBird
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To: DBrow

“Biden has had brain surgery, I think twice. Maybe that has caused a few problems?”

I think he was a dolt and a gaffe machine long before any scalpel touched his cranium.

I wonder how he’s gonna play it. Will he be Mister open-collar, aw-shucks, regular guy, a little slow on the uptake?

Or will he expose his other side — the side that blackmails foreign governments to fire people he doesn’t like; broker backroom deals with foreign governments to line his son’s pockets; and conspire with Hussein, Comey, et al., in the Oval Office to take out Trump?


39 posted on 06/12/2019 4:44:48 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Alberta's Child

And wasn’t it CNN that coordinated 2016 pres debate questions with Hillary ?


40 posted on 06/12/2019 6:34:31 AM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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