Posted on 05/08/2020 7:50:05 AM PDT by rktman
Has the pandemic caused the liberal media to lose whatever vestigial grip on reality it ever had? The question arises in light of a surreal conversation on today's Morning Joe between Mika Brzezinski and Eugene Robinson.
The pair were discussing Robinson's latest Washington Post column, the gist of which is that Democrat campaign tactics are too nice, being based on "reason and fairness." Robinson urged Dems to instead "go straight for the jugular" by using tough Republican campaign tactics that employ "emotion, patriotism, and cultural affinity."
Democrats rely on "reason and fairness" in their campaigns? Has Robinson gone mad?
He's been around long enough to remember perhaps the most brutal, emotion-laden ad in American political history, the infamous "Daisy" ad of 1964 that LBJ ran against Republican Barry Goldwater. It displayed the explosion of an atom bomb, vaporizing little Daisy and suggesting nothing less than that Goldwater threatened the very end of civilization.
Jump ahead to the 2000 election, when Al Gore's allies at the NAACP ran an ad depicting the truck-dragging murder of James Byrd, Jr., with his daughter on voice-over accusing George W. Bush of killing her father "all over again" for not supporting a certain hate crime bill. Even the New York Times described the ad as an "emotional appeal."
Let's not forget good old fair-and-reasonable Joe Biden himself. During the 2012 campaign, Biden told a largely black audience that if elected, Mitt Romney would "put y'all back in chains!" Yup, no appeal to "emotion" or "cultural affinity" there!
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Uh, no. Useless clickbait.
Virus guard Paladin2. :-)
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
I actually saw a lib....he used to work for hubby....on FB this morning talking about Trump stealing the election. They’re all nuts.
They really are disgusting.
Can you link to it? I welcome good laughs.
“Crazed....”?
So now, I guess, enthusiastic and driven by Partiotism is something that’s considered as mentally unstable.
FO Joe.....
Bunch of dang patriotic naught-Zees I tell ya.
Morning Joe Advice to Dems: Stop Campaigning on ‘Reason,’ Act Like Crazed GOP
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Ha! He really is suffering from mental illness.
The democrats do not run or reason they run on bald faced lies with newer and bigger lies each and every day.
Joe should relax. He is going to pop a blood vessel.
So the Democrat’s outrageous slander instead of debate tactic, emotion-based hysteria, and intolerance of other viewpoints is “reason and fairness”? Interesting view from the professional propagandists…
All they do is project who they are and they are CRAZED! The GOP actually acts like little thumb suckers to Nancy and Chuck who molest constantly.
LOL! Reason dovetails truth. CRIMINALS aren’t about that.
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The weapon used most often by the criminal is the lie. Watch. Listen.
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