The Watchdogs Nap for Biden

Townhall.com ^ | April 21, 2021 | Tim Graham

[Kaslin]

resident Biden averaged a 56% job approval rating from his inauguration through March, according to Gallup, about the same as the ratings of former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and much higher than former President Donald Trump's (42%). One factor in that approval might be the tone of press coverage.

Rich Noyes and Bill D'Agostino of the Media Research Center studied ABC, CBS and NBC evening-news programs from Jan. 20 through April 9. Televised evaluations of Biden's performance (not including politicians and administration officials) were 59% positive.

The tone would be even more positive except for one nagging problem: the crisis with surging illegal immigration at the southern border, which Team Biden denies is a crisis. The team dismisses it as a "right-wing talking point." But it drew the most negative coverage, 82% negative. The TV "news" crews were much more positive about massive government spending for "COVID-19 relief" and "infrastructure."

Four years ago, evening-news evaluations of then-President Trump were 89% negative, a jarring contrast. Leftists on Twitter were hostile to the idea of comparing these presidents in any way.

Hollywood producer Steven DeKnight tweeted, "You can't compare a pile of s--- and bowl of petunias and say they both smell wonderful." John Aravosis of AMERICAblog tweeted, "Now compare coverage of Stalin and Mother Theresa."

That's a fair representation of journalistic attitudes toward Trump and Biden. One's a horrible monster; one's a perfumed saint. No one said the tone or substance of their coverage should be exactly the same.

Coverage of Trump stayed this relentlessly negative because the "objective" press couldn't abide any policy expert or citizen on the street saying something positive about him. But there are even more differences, including the following:

1. Biden's much less prominent. Total coverage of him added up to 726 minutes, or 18% of all evening-news airtime. That's much smaller than the 1,900 minutes these shows devoted to obsessing over Trump during the same period in 2017.

2. Biden was barely evaluated. While Trump drew 1,687 evaluations in his first weeks, Biden was only evaluated 264 times, about 16% of the Trump total. Trump was criticized far more than Biden was praised. This signals that Biden wasn't controversial enough to evaluate. His reign was accepted and acceptable.

3. Trump was a rolling scandal. "Roughly 90% of network news coverage of the Biden administration (650 minutes out of 726) was spent on policy issues; that compares to just 45% of Trump administration coverage during those early weeks," Noyes and D'Agostino wrote. Months before former special counsel Robert Mueller's prolonged probe, Trump was dogged by unproven claims of Russian "collusion" (for 222 minutes), and the networks delighted in finding controversy in Trump's tweets and taunts.

That's why Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel joked on Twitter, "Why hasn't the media been covering Biden's constant Twitter fights with members of his own party?" That's certainly true. Biden's tweets are bland. One read, "Everyone 16 and older in America is eligible for the shot today. Go and get 'em, folks." But it's also true that Democratic reporters bury intraparty controversy when Democrats rule.

4. When Biden said scandalous things, the networks were bored. Biden's insult about Republicans exhibiting "Neanderthal thinking" drew 83 seconds. His encouragement of Major League Baseball to punish Georgia for its new voting law by relocating the All-Star game merited only 45 seconds. And his scabrous claim that the Georgia law is like Jim Crow passed by with just 39 seconds of coverage, none of it the slightest bit critical.

Like every Democratic president of the TV age, Joe Biden has been and will be celebrated, promoted ... and coddled. The scrutiny fizzles. The watchdog naps.

[Kaslin]

I will never refer to Biden as President

[Diogenesis]

watchdogs?

they received counterfeit money,
children to rape, children to adopt,
BOOK DEALS, more “power”, ELECTION FRAUD “votes”.

Only the PEOPLE watch the central corruption,
as the corrupt FIB and DO”J” protect
the rapists, protect the ELECTION THIEVES,
and continue to murder the innocent with FF,
while they continue to jail conservatives and WHITEPEOPLE.

[ScubaDiver]

"Televised evaluations of Biden's performance (not including politicians and administration officials) were 59% positive."

I have a very difficult time believing it was only 59%. The only possibility is (presuming that number is accurate), an overwhelming percentage of any critical stories attacked Biden from the left.

[Liz]

President Ronald Reagan——who was a masterful judge of human nature -——called
Biden a “pure” demagogue. That was back when Biden had at least two legs to stand on.
Fast forward to 2021——he’s now in his dotage-——Biden’s still a demagogue, but a mincing demagogue.

A demagogue is popularly described as a conniving politician who exploits the crass biases of his voting base to keep them in his camp.

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Biden is too stupid to govern by admirable displays of public service, or by initiating good public policy.

Biden stays awake nights, dreaming up one trillion dollar giveaway after another to generate public approval——
and, by God, it’s working.......... Biden supposedly has (cough) high approval ratings.

Favored Democrat voters-—the identity types——are cashing in bigtime.

Biden engages in diversion, distraction, by satisfying the immediate crass requirements of a chosen few....Hollywood applauds.

The 2nd-3rd century Roman poet, Juvenal, originated the phrase, “bread and circuses” to decry the “self-absorption” of such
politicians and their followers, and their neglect of wider concerns, failing to see civic duty to their country as a priority.

[DarthVader]

56% approval rating, my a$$! More like 36%!

[PGalt]

FLASHBANG usually sleeps in.

[ncalburt]

That Phony Poll has been shredded
and this guy knows it .
Why do these Useful idiots writers try to push phony polls?

[Liz]

Hollywood producer Steven DeKnight WRT the disparate coverage of Trump and Biden:
"You can't compare a pile of s--- and bowl of petunias and say they both smell wonderful."

Wow....Hollywood worships odiferous Petunia Biden.......and here's why:

CCP head Xi (center) in LA schmoozed Hollywood bigwigs and their errand boys, Chris Dodd and Petunia Joe Biden....

In the photo, President Xi Jinping, (then vice president of China), speaks with then-LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa while Jerry Brown, then-governor of California, watches a game between the Lakers and the Suns at Staples Center in 2012. At top right is Jeffrey Katzenberg, then-CEO of DreamWorks Animation, who used his ties to California politicians — and to then-Vice President Joe Biden — to lobby Xi for access to the Chinese market.

NOTE WELL: Former US Senator Chris Dodd is Biden's best friend.......and is especially well-connected. After swimming in The fetid Swamp,
in 2011 Dodd went to Hollywood, as the Motion Picture Association of America chairman— Hollywood's top lobbyist — representing the six major studios.

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How "Petunia Joe" won all those worshipful friends, votes and donations in Hollywood
(helping money-hungry movieland studios get their movie productions into China)
By EVAN HALPER, LA TIMES STAFF WRITER , JULY 18, 2019

Xi Jinping, then the vice president of China, speaks with then-Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa while Jerry Brown, then governor of California, watches a game between the Lakers and the Suns at Staples Center in 2012. At top right is Jeffrey Katzenberg, then-CEO of DreamWorks Animation, who used his ties to California politicians — and to then-Vice President Joe Biden — to lobby Xi for access to the Chinese market.(Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)

WASHINGTON — When then-VP Joe Biden hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a five-day diplomatic blitz in 2012, a Hollywood Democratic mega-donor kept popping up with them. There was Jeffrey Katzenberg, then the head of DreamWorks Animation, dining alongside Xi, the then-vice president of China, at a State Department welcome lunch in Washington. And there he was again, standing just behind Xi, then-Gov. Jerry Brown and then-Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at a Lakers game in Los Angeles. And there was Katzenberg hanging out in a nearby hallway with Disney CEO Robert Iger to provide last-minute counsel as Biden closed a deal in which China committed to considerably expand its market for American films.

On the final day of Xi’s visit, Dreamworks announced Xi had signed off on the company’s own deal — the launching of Oriental DreamWorks, a $330-million joint venture with Chinese companies to develop and distribute animated films in China.

Several of the candidates vying for the Democratic presidential nomination have significant support in Hollywood — Katzenberg, for example, has kicked in $2,800 each to 14 of them already — but none has as long a history of delivering for the industry as Biden. His deep ties to studio executives and decades-long advocacy for their agenda has helped cement Biden’s support even as it may also open him to criticism for too cozy a relationship with big donors.

CIRCA smelling like a pink petunia, 2019 Candidate Biden returned to Hollywood the next week for another round of fundraisers, including the second Biden event co-hosted by Katzenberg and leaders of several major studios. Biden’s first Southern California fundraiser, which Katzenberg co-hosted in May, netted more than $700,000 in one night.

“(Petunia) Joe Biden was our champion inside the Obama White House,” said former Sen. Christopher Dodd, who led Hollywood's Motion Picture Assn. of America for much of the Obama era. “There is no question about it. Even before Joe Biden decided to run, I would get calls and have conversation with the major studio figures, with them saying, ‘You tell Vice President Biden 100% we want him to run.’ This wasn’t waiting around to see who would do well in polls.”

[cymbeline]

“One factor in that approval might be the tone of press coverage.”

The understatement of the year.

[Liz]

HOLLYWOOD IS THE PRIME EXAMPLE OF How China Has Infiltrated the U.S.
spectator.org ^ | December 16, 2020 | Steve Postal Posted on 3/25/2021, 5:18:08 AM by ransomnote

SNIP China is gloating about how much they have infiltrated our ruling class. Di Dongsheng, the vice dean of the School of International Relations at Renmin U, boasted in a recent lecture that the Chinese Communist Party has people “at the top of America’s core inner circle of power and influence,” and that “for the past 30 years, 40 years, we have been utilizing the core power of the United States.”

Di also suggested the Chinese got top level politicians to work against the interests
of their own country.....meaning the money-hungry Bidens were compromised, as well.

Trump told us Biden’s crackhead Hunter has a "global foundation." This is timely, given that the DOJ is currently subpoenaing Hunter for documents relating to his business dealings in China. Hunter traveled the world on some 450 trips w/ S/S protection, possibly on US govt aircraft w/ other Biden family members aboard when Joe was Obama's VP.

AND THIS

Embassies. A leaked database of 1.95 million members of the CCP revealed that at least 10 consulates in Shanghai contain members of the CCP, including three employees of the U.S. consulate, a senior official in the British consulate, and at least one employee of the Australian consulate. While stories about this leak do not explicitly accusing these CCP members of spying, the threat that this could be happening is obvious.

Defense apparatus. The CCP has infiltrated our defenses. CCP members are working in our defense supply chains in China, according to the above-mentioned database. These include 516 CCP members who either work in Qualcomm or Boeing, and “dozens” of CCP members in Airbus, Rolls-Royce, and Thales.

Hollywood----even now we hear reports that Hollywood is tailoring its film content to fit Communist China standards, that are also shown in the US, after Hollywood gets CCP approval.

SNIP (Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ..

[unixfox]

They had to keep it in the 50% range to show they weren’t playing favorites.

Pathetic really.

[Phlap]

Typical question from the MSM for Trump: Why are you a racist?

Typical question from the MSM for Obama/Biden: Why are you so wonderful?

Just sayin.