Posted on 09/30/2020 7:16:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
Here's Exhibit A for how shameless PBS looks during the fall presidential election campaign. On Sept. 22, PBS "Frontline" aired a two-hour documentary on the presidential election called "The Choice," as it does every four years.
The quick review: Donald Trump is a vicious "killer" and bully. Joe Biden is "Obama's trusted partner."
It began with President Trump's hostile experts such as biographer Gwenda Blair, who said: "Donald's father's overall message to his children was ... compete; win; be a killer. Do what you have to to win." Narrator Will Lyman added Trump "was determined to live up to his father's ideal: Be a 'killer.'"
Young Donald was sent to military school, where it was a "five-year lesson in how to be a bully." Washington Post reporter Marc Fisher set the scene: "Donald Trump yelled at his classmates. He pushed them around. He even used a broomstick as a weapon against classmates who didn't listen to him when he told them what to do. ... He became one of the student leaders who had a number of kids under him in the dormitories, and he ruled the dormitory life with an iron fist."
The narrator summed up: "Inside that brutal world, Donald had found his place. ... With his father and mother by his side, Donald graduated. He'd become a killer, learned the power of bullying to get ahead, a method he'd carry into the future."
Then the documentary turned to Biden, and the tone changed entirely. "Joey Biden's crisis was stuttering," narrated Lyman. The viewer was told a cruel nun at his Catholic school mocked his stuttering. His sister, Valerie Biden Owens, touted how their mother went to the nun and said, "if you ever, ever, ever do that again, I'm going to come back, and I'm going to knock your bonnet right off your head. Do we understand each other?"
The narrator intoned: "Bullied, harassed, ridiculed: He was hell-bent on beating the stutter. ... He kept pushing -- against the stutter, the bullies -- and it paid off."
All this overt pro-Democratic messaging was just in the first 15 minutes of the film. It did not improve.
Fast-forward through the biographies. After tugging heartstrings by covering all the tragic deaths in Biden's family -- the loss of his wife and daughter to a car accident in 1972, and his son Beau Biden to cancer in 2015 -- the documentary taunted Trump by playing the "Access Hollywood" tape and talking about how deeply racist his family is.
Biden got a free pass on anything he has ever done that would upset minorities, from opposition to school busing in the 1970s to the 1994 crime bill. Democrat Bakari Sellers said: "Joe Biden has the Obama halo; everybody knows that. That is the cleansing of Joe Biden and everything that may have happened."
Former Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery added: "Even if they don't agree with him, they think he's a good faith actor. That means a lot. To a community of people who have been betrayed and oppressed and tricked and lied to, someone who you can trust at their word, that goes a very long way."
The concluding sermon came from another Washington Post reporter, Dan Balz: "Policy is not the choice that's on the ballot this year. It is a choice of character. It is a choice of temperament. It is a choice of persona and personality. That's always a factor in our presidential campaigns, but I don't think it's ever been as big a factor as it will be in November."
Policy is not on the ballot?! Forget defunding the police, "Medicare for All," the "Green New Deal" or gun control. Don't vote for the "killer." Vote for the man with the "Obama halo." This hustle is not subtle.
I'll always remember that Biden was Obama's "trusted friend."
(Was that b/c Biden's son, Hunter, was their bagman?)
Both Biden and Harris are pushovers.
Why is our tax dollars going to this, DEFUND
“The Choice” also said that Biden was “not as articulate as he was 30 years ago”. Then it added, “few of us are”!
I think that Biden’s “articulation” problem is a LOT more than that! PHOOEY to “The Choice”!!!!
>>taunted Trump by playing the “Access Hollywood” tape and talking about how deeply racist his family is.
Did they bring up the story about Woody Guthrie?
I have to wonder how much of that song by Guthrie is really about his own dad who was a racist Klansman. And Woody used to use the N-word in his songs until he was eventually called out about it.
>>Washington Post reporter, Dan Balz: “Policy is not the choice on the ballot this year.”
You wouldn’t vote for the Commie-Rats if you knew what they had instore for America. You wouldn’t even recognize the place.
“If you don’t, this program I promise you, will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow and behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country until one day as Normal Thomas said we will wake to find that we have socialism, and if you don’t do this and I don’t do this, one of these days we are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children, what it once was like in America when men were free.” — Ronald Reagan early 1960s.
I only watched 30 minutes of the debate, and went to sleep instead.
Great RR quote.
You and I had better earn more money quickly. We paid in our taxes to help fund PBS in Covid bailout money and more may be coming out for PBS if Pelosi wins in the next round to be sent out.
Like leftist people used to say “my lifetime of income tax all may have gone to one missile shot from a carrier in this war”————
we can ask which deceitful statement or outright slander against President Trump was funded by our taxes to PBS.
The perfect time for that great Reagan quote.
Our fight is still ongoing and this is not over.
You didn’t miss a thing.
Not sure why I subjected myself to it.
No substance in this one. And no honesty from the “moderator” either.
With all of the talkover (by all 3 - and Wallace was interrupting Trump at times when Donald Trump had the floor), “no you didn’t” and vague policies “we’ll do it better than Trump” there wasn’t much to take away from this on this issues.
ML/NJ
* E.g. "The White House’s verbal gymnastics over Russia’s alleged campaign to hack American democracy threaten to obscure a basic fact: U.S. authorities have laid out a wealth of details about how they believe Moscow carried out its plot in 2016." See: What we know about Russia’s election hacking.
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