@BillAckman on X
As much as the debate was an indictment of the Democratic Party for misleading party members and the country about the mental acuity and health of the president, the media deserve far more derision and scorn. I and others were repeatedly criticized by the media for questioning the competency of the president. Among other false accusations, I was accused of spreading misleading videos which clearly showed Biden’s deterioration. .......the heavily excerpted and edited Biden 60Minutes interview covered for the president by saying he was ‘very tired?’
@60Minutes knew.
The @nytimes knew.
@CNN knew.
@MSNBC knew.
Left wing media have had total and complete access to the president, his staff, and his administration. They all knew, but they told you otherwise. They outright lied to you. When Robert Hur, the special counsel who deposed the president, said that the president was not fit to stand trial and therefore chose not to bring charges, the media described him as a tool of the Republican Party and character assassinated him. When the @WSJ recently published a several-thousand-word, carefully researched, front page piece on the president’s mental and physical health, it was described by left wing media as outright propaganda. Now consider who has been feeding you propaganda.
A favored technique of some of the most evil leaders in history was to mislead the people by constantly repeating the Big Lie. The Big Lie is so audacious that people accept it as truth because it is repeated so often that how can it be that something so important and material could be an outright falsehood? In this case the Big Lie was our president’s fitness for office, let alone a second term. A media organization is not supposed to be a branch of the Democratic Party. The media have a profound obligation to tell the truth to the American people, particularly about something as critical for the country as the president’s mental and physical health.
People very close to me trusted the media on Biden until the
@CNN commentators finally owned up to the truth about Biden last night. For months I have been accused by many friends and family of being misled by an @X-based ‘right wing echo chamber.’ The sad reality is that one of our most important institutions, the so-called ‘Fourth Estate,’ fourth only after the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners, has destroyed any remaining credibility it has.
Consider how your perception of Biden and Trump has been manipulated. The media can no longer save itself. A suggestion. Rely on empirical data as much as possible. Listen to what someone actually said, rather than a headline summary or article about what someone said. Get your news from people who have a track record of telling the truth, people who do so at significant personal cost like whistleblowers.
I follow broad constituencies on @X on multiple issues. That has led me closer to the truth. Citizen journalism has been a much more accurate representation of reality. Thank you @elonmusk for saving this platform. It gives us a fighting chance to save our democracy.
You are spot on. I’m not surprised at the behavior of the Democrats - scorpions sting, snakes bite, dung beetles roll balls of excrement, and Democrats lie, cheat and steal - it’s their nature.
But the press is supposed to be a brake on the excesses of the political players; our press is (largely) a collection of enablers and co-conspirators of the party of the left. The Democrats I simply recognize for the slime they are; the press I hold in utter contempt.
“The media have a profound obligation to tell the truth to the American people, particularly about something as critical for the country as the president’s mental and physical health.“
But they did exactly that…by their own lights.
In their own corrupted Godless minds they are the good., they are the righteous. The truth is what serves their sensibilities. No hyperbole intended here. They are moral perfection and can’t be wrong. This has been the case with the left all my life and doubtless for all of history.
Go back to Jimmy Carter. Listen to his speeches prior to winning. He only wanted goodness and light for us all. When his presidency went into the crapper WHY COULCN’T HE FIX IT? If you or I are attempting to accomplish a thing we form a plan and execute. If it goes wrong we rethink and reformulate. Jimmy couldn’t because he was right and we were in a “malaise “ and he wasn’t responsible for our shortcomings.
These people are and were always evil harboring or suffering from or being infallibly ruled by one or more of the seven deadly sins.