Posted on 10/30/2022 6:30:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
… Indeed, more than 300 Republican candidates for state and national office have been identified by CBS News as "election deniers" for having stated their refusal to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election as legitimate.
And with the most prominent election denier in the land, former President Donald Trump, still ruling the Republican Party, it's an open question how his followers will respond when the votes are counted in just nine days.
But are today's news organizations prepared to meet today's moment?
Costa asked Margaret Sullivan, the former public editor of The New York Times and media critic at the Washington Post, "The Republican Party is gripped by people who are election deniers. How should the press contend with that? It's happening inside one particular party."
"Right. And we need to be very straightforward about saying that and pointing it out," Sullivan replied. "Of course, we're going to hold both parties to the same standards. It's not that we're on one team. We hold both parties to the same standards.
"But when one party is the one who's doing this very troubling thing, we need to be straightforward about that. And if it causes criticism from the right, that's okay."
"How does the press cover it without sounding alarmist at every step?" asked Costa.
"I don't think we're nearly alarmist enough," Sullivan replied. "I think we need to stop being asleep at the switch and sound the alarm more about what could happen if election denialists are, you know, in power and decide, 'Oh, well, we only like the results of this election, but not that one.' I mean, we no longer have a country anymore."
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Fixed it.
CBS are liars.
<< “The Republican Party is gripped by people who are election deniers…..It’s happening inside one particular party.” >>
Right, because Dem voters and pols accepted both the 2000 and 2016 election results, right Costa?
“Right. And we need to be very straightforward about saying that and pointing it out,” Sullivan replied. “Of course, we’re going to hold both parties to the same standards. It’s not that we’re on one team. We hold both parties to the same standards.”
The correct response is to laugh in Margaret’s face.
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Election deniers have the truth on their side.
The election was stolen, and the real deniers are actually those that deny that the election was stolen.
I’d bet that there are many millions of voters on the democrat side that also believe that the election was stolen, but won’t say it. On the republican side, no doubt that the vast majority of them also believe that the election was stolen. With most republicans and millions of democrats believing the same, it’s quite possible that the majority of Americans believe the election was stolen.
I am disappointed that only “300 Republican candidates for state and national office have been identified.”
The left thinks those opposed to bank robbery are “bank withdrawal deniers”.
;-)
CBS = See BS. We have seen how easily big media will lie. Since journalists no longer practice journalism we are left with Lying Propagandists.
Today’s media.... enough said.
Hillary Clinton is one of the biggest election deniers on the planet…
It will be interesting to see how many “election deniers” come out of the woodwork when the shoe is on the other foot, and Republicans win in November. Election deniers and conspiracy theorists from the Left will be out en masse in the media and everywhere else.
The paperwork to vote by absentee ballot should be at least as stringent as the paperwork to buy a firearm.
All election results need to be announced as final by 10AM the day after the election.
Any person found guilty of committing election fraud or voting illegally should be subject to the death penalty, and the maximum amount of time between the guilty verdict and the execution should be no more than one Zangara.
What's a Zangara? 35 days. That is the amount of time between Guiseppe Zangara pulling the trigger and when he tried to killed Franklin Roosevelt and his execution. America deserves at least the amount of justice afforded to politicians.
Don’t forget the Democrat/Communist election deniers of the 2004 election (Bush v. Kerry).
I’m so sick of hearing the phrase “election denier”. It’s right up there with “climate denier”.
With election fraud deniers running for office, our right to vote is on the ballot.
Fixed It For Them
“Election denier” is a moronic phrase. Has anybody denied that elections take place or that the 2020 election took place?
Neither Mr. Forgotson or Mr. Levine did their jobs.
What a pile of excrement!
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