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Media Fluffs Biden
Townhall.com ^ | February 23, 2021 | Derek Hunter

Posted on 02/23/2021 4:23:10 AM PST by Kaslin

When Donald Trump sneezed, the entire media fact checked it. If he mentioned the time, someone at CNN declared he was off by a nanosecond and a total fraud. There was literally no event from 2017 through January 20th of this year that wasn’t framed as some sort of attack against the president of the United States. Suddenly, as if magic, things changed. The media went from confrontation to fluffer overnight.

When Joe Biden lies, the nation’s hall monitors at CNN, Politifact, Snopes, The Washington Post, etc., snap into action. “He misspoke,” “It was his stutter,” “It’s insignificant,” you name it, they’ve posited it to justify whatever he says or does.

Actually, it’s mostly been what he’s says, they’re big fans of what he does. They have no problem with that, no matter how terrible or how much power he abuses. And executive order rewriting laws – no biggie; shutting down all immigration law, even for illegal aliens who commit crimes in this country – all good. Pravda was more skeptical of Soviet leaders than The New York Times is of anything Biden does.

In response to Biden’s handling, if you can call it that, of the winter storm that caused problems in Texas, Biden has been largely absent. That’s cool with The Washington Post. Americans are suffering, people are dying, and Joe is…who knows what Joe is doing, and the Post’s headline reads, “Biden’s low-key approach to storm wins praise but courts risks.”

Oh no, not “risks” for Joe Biden!?! The entire state is struggling, Texas Governor Greg Abbott requests help, and Joe declares only 77 out of 254 counties disaster areas, and the Post is worried about the risk to Biden?

This is the opening paragraph under that headline, “Democratic state Rep. James Talarico says the most he's heard of federal help in his area during the devastating winter storm is a FEMA water truck that apparently got stuck in ice. K.P. George, the top elected official in Fort Bend County, Tex., said federal officials have told him help is on the way — just not fast enough: ‘We can't wait another 72 hours to get food and blankets and things like that,’ he said.”

Do you see any connection between that headline and that lede?

As if they were on the White House communications team, the story includes, “As the Biden administration faces its first natural disaster, the president himself is taking a notably low-key approach. He has not visited the stricken region or delivered prime-time remarks; he did not mention the disaster at a recent town hall; and he is studiously avoiding the controversy over whether wind energy or fossil fuels are to blame for widespread power failures.”

Basically, he’s not mentioned it and done next to nothing, may well be personally unaware of what’s happening, but it’s all good because he’s a Democrat.

Meanwhile, the media have gone wall-to-wall with stories of Senator Ted Cruz taking his family to Mexico during the crisis. A United States senator has literally nothing to do with the problems and no power to do anything about it, but he’s a monster for not caring enough, or something.

The Post worries, “While Biden has won praise for his quieter, more businesslike approach, he is also running the risk that he — and the federal government — can appear almost absent.”

He can only appear absent because he is absent.

There are questions as to whether or not Joe was mentally up to the job, but this is deeper than that. Of all the things Joe Biden, the man who hasn’t held a real job since being a lifeguard while getting his leg hair petted by small children and nearly rumbling with “Corn Pop,” is, the consummate politician is on top of the list. He knows how to pretend to care. He can read a teleprompter (most of the time) and furrow his brow at the right moments to give the impression he’s empathetic, like all politicians do. In this case, he’s not even trying.

Maybe he doesn’t care? Texas didn’t vote for him, and Joe has always been a vindictive person toward those who disagree with him. Or maybe he’s slipping faster than we know, and further than we realized? We won’t know for sure because the people with the jobs to find out are too busy fawning over everything the man does to give a damn about anything else.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: joebiden; media
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1 posted on 02/23/2021 4:23:10 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Why are we being denied a look at Jill’s shoes?


2 posted on 02/23/2021 4:24:41 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Kaslin

Uhhhh...

“What does a fluffer do?

Fluffer. A fluffer is a person employed to keep an adult film star aroused on the set. These duties, which do not necessarily involve touching the actors, are considered part of the makeup department.
What does fluffer mean? - definitions

www.definitions.net/definition/fluffer”


3 posted on 02/23/2021 4:28:04 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Sacajaweau

Because we might ask how a public servant’s wife can afford four figure footwear.. ?


4 posted on 02/23/2021 4:32:35 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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Biden didnt visit freezing Texas b/c Hunter took AF-1 for personal business.


5 posted on 02/23/2021 4:38:12 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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Biden didnt visit freezing Texas b/c Hunter took AF-1 for personal business.


6 posted on 02/23/2021 4:38:12 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Kaslin
Media's complicity with facebook, twitter, google, et al, to obfuscate the issues during the last election should be a crime.

Because of this conspiracy, and because of the criminal cowardice of Repugnant Congressmen, we'll never see another fair and balanced election.

7 posted on 02/23/2021 4:38:54 AM PST by LouAvul (The wheels of America are coming off and the media have stolen the lug nuts.)
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To: mewzilla

We were spared a look at “Dr” Jill’s shoes b/c we’d ask troubling questions WRT
the wife of a working man/public servant wearing pricey four figure footwear.

We might also have carped about seeing Jill’s shoes were made in China.


8 posted on 02/23/2021 4:44:12 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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The NY Post weighed in: “....Biden is running the risk that he — and the federal government — can appear almost absent”......

Biden? Absent? That’s the Understatement of the Year.

The man is non compis mentis......


9 posted on 02/23/2021 4:47:18 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: LouAvul

The MSM gave complete power to the Ba’ath party.


10 posted on 02/23/2021 5:02:29 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: Kaslin

Media treated Obama the same way. They are liberals helping liberals.


11 posted on 02/23/2021 5:06:05 AM PST by FreedBird
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To: Gen.Blather

Yeah.

This term need not be normalized. Nor need the industry from which it originates.

This thread should be deleted.


12 posted on 02/23/2021 5:18:36 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey

You must be a GOP fluffer. LOL.


13 posted on 02/23/2021 5:19:27 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: one guy in new jersey

“This thread should be deleted.”

Agreed. (Shocked.)


14 posted on 02/23/2021 6:07:27 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: central_va

Seek help.


15 posted on 02/23/2021 6:28:20 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey
I had never encountered the term before but it did not originate in the so-called adult film industry.

My old Webster's dictionary (c. 1960) has under "fluff": Theater & Radio. To forget or bungle, as a line or passage.

16 posted on 02/23/2021 6:34:47 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Kaslin

“the presimdint’s a’nearin’”


17 posted on 02/23/2021 7:30:59 AM PST by kiryandil (New Movie: The Assassination Of Ashli Babbitt By The Anonymous Coward)
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To: Kaslin

It will be like Cuomo, 6 months after the irreparable damage is done they will somehow notice that Biden has dementia.


18 posted on 02/23/2021 7:32:35 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Liz

Why don’t you just spell out the word because?


19 posted on 02/23/2021 7:37:15 AM PST by webheart (COVID was not worth the economic misery that it took to keep me from getting it for 7 months..)
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To: Liz

Good point!


20 posted on 02/23/2021 7:42:52 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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