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NY Times’ Maureen Dowd says Biden campaign aide pressed her to scrub ‘goodest’ gaffe
NY Post ^ | 07/08/2024 | Ariel Zilber

Posted on 07/08/2024 1:51:24 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

New York Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd said a campaign aide working to help re-elect President Joe Biden asked her to scrub a verbal gaffe from one of his recent media appearances.

In her column in the op-ed section of Sunday’s Times, Dowd wrote that TJ Ducklo, a spokesperson for the Biden campaign, emailed her after she published a commentary on Saturday that included reference to the word “goodest.”

Biden appeared to utter the non-word during his interview on Friday with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, but the network later revised the transcript to reflect that the president actually said “good as.”

Disney-owned ABC News altered the initial transcript at the behest of the White House, according to The New York Times. The Gray Lady also revised the Biden quote “to conform with the updated ABC transcript.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: biden; campaign; dowd; gaffee
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To: NorthMountain

At the beginning of Trump‘s administration, the White House press room tried some innovative approaches, such as having a couple of questions asked on video by someone from across the country. Apparently the White House press corps is a dictatorship and makes its own rules so that Trump could not even get rid of disgusting attacker questioners from CNN.

I certainly hope Trump does not pick Sara Huckabee Sanders as his VP. She was not strong in keeping the attack questioners down. Sometimes she would say “two questions only” and then she would answer a third. She is a nice person, but she was rolled by the press corps.


41 posted on 07/08/2024 2:36:58 PM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
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To: Maskot

I’ve been on FR long enough to remember when FReepers used to post pics of her with Michael Douglas and a giant goblet of liquor!


42 posted on 07/08/2024 2:37:48 PM PDT by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: Maskot

I’ve been on FR long enough to remember when FReepers used to post pics of her with Michael Douglas and a giant goblet of liquor!


43 posted on 07/08/2024 2:37:51 PM PDT by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Goodest? What a moron!
Everybody knows it’s much more gooderer.


44 posted on 07/08/2024 2:41:13 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: NorthMountain

Thanks.


45 posted on 07/08/2024 2:42:17 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Bob Wills is still the king

Just saying that Biden is a doddering old fool.


46 posted on 07/08/2024 2:43:20 PM PDT by BEJ
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To: Freee-dame

The idea that employees of large corporations (ABCNNBCBS) are more legitimately “journalists”, or “The Press” than independents and employees of small corporations, is ridiculous. IOW, I think the first Trump Administration simply didn’t go far enough. If you want to kick that incestuous cabal of communist bastards out, and get real journalists to replace them, go all the way with it. Kick them ALL out. Constitutional “freedom of the press” does not mean that the government must give anyone a press. “Freedom of speech” does not mean that the government must give anyone a platform.


48 posted on 07/08/2024 2:43:26 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hur’s most damning words—that a jury would perceive the President as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” ... This is why a transcript just doesn’t do the interview justice... We need to hear Biden’s responses... Not read them in a transcript doctored by Biden’s aids.


49 posted on 07/08/2024 2:43:43 PM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Parley Baer

What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.


50 posted on 07/08/2024 2:50:35 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How soon we forget. TJ Ducklo lost his job for threating to destroy a reporter who wanted to reveal his relationship with another reporter covering the 2020 campaign. Now he’s back and playing the tough guy again.

P.S. Mo Dowd dodged a bullet when she didn’t saddle herself with Michael Douglas.


51 posted on 07/08/2024 2:51:47 PM PDT by x (Sorry, I can't help it.)
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To: jerod

Lucas: Biden’s bizarre interview with Robert Hur when the president made car sounds
Peter Lucas
March 18, 2024

Excerpt:

“ The transcript, in which Biden was questioned by Hur and his deputy Mark Kirkbaum, includes bizarre tales about Biden using a bow and arrow during a visit to Mongolia, the location of his presidential library and his vintage Corvette, (Pages 66-68), which Biden imitated by making noises like a car. Presumably, vroom, vroom.

Biden’s Corvette came up because it was garaged at Biden’s Wilmington, Del. home along with a box of classified documents, and Biden wanted to talk about it and how fast the Corvette could go.”

https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/03/18/lucas-bidens-bizarre-interview-with-robert-hur-when-the-president-made-car-sounds/amp/


52 posted on 07/08/2024 2:52:08 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Freest Republican

That is maga-nificent!

TRANSCRIPT: President Donald J. Trump — Free Speech Policy Initiative

If we don’t have FREE SPEECH, then we just don’t have a FREE COUNTRY. It’s as simple as that. If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple just like dominos one by one. They’ll go down.

That’s why today, I am announcing my plan to shatter the left-wing censorship regime, and to reclaim the right to Free Speech for all Americans. And reclaim is a very important word in this case because they’ve taken it away.

In recent weeks, bombshell reports have confirmed that a sinister group of Deep State bureaucrats, Silicon Valley tyrants, left-wing activists, and depraved corporate news media have been conspiring to manipulate and silence the American People. They have collaborated to suppress vital information on everything from elections to public health.

The censorship cartel must be dismantled and destroyed — and it must happen immediately. And here is my plan:

FIRST, within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an executive order banning any federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business, or person, to censor, limit, categorize, or impede the lawful speech of American citizens. I will then ban federal money from being used to label domestic speech as “mis-” or “dis-information”. And I will begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship—directly or indirectly—whether they are the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and Human Services, the FBI, the DOJ, no matter who they are.

SECOND, I will order the Department of Justice to investigate all parties involved in the new online censorship regime, which is absolutely destructive and terrible, and to aggressively prosecute any and all crimes identified. These include possible violations of federal civil rights law, campaign finance laws, federal election law, securities law, and anti-trust laws, the Hatch Act and a host of other potential criminal, civil, regulatory, and constitutional offenses. To assist in these efforts, I am urging House Republicans to immediately send preservation letters — and we have to do this right now — to the Biden administration, the Biden campaign, and every Silicon Valley tech giant, ordering them not to destroy evidence of censorship.

THIRD, upon my inauguration as president, I will ask Congress to send a bill to my desk revising Section 230 to get big online platforms out of censorship business. From now on, digital platforms should only qualify for immunity protection under Section 230 if they meet high standards of neutrality, transparency, fairness, and non-discrimination. We should require these platforms to INCREASE their efforts to take down UNLAWFUL content, such as child exploitation and promoting terrorism, while dramatically curtailing their power to arbitrarily restrict lawful speech.

FOURTH, we need to break up the entire toxic censorship industry that has arisen under the false guise of tackling so-called “mis-” and “dis-information.” The federal government should immediately stop funding all non-profits and academic programs that support this authoritarian project. If any U.S. university is discovered to have engaged in censorship activities or election interferences in the past—such as flagging social media content for removal [and] blacklisting—those universities should lose federal research dollars and federal student loan support for a period of five years, and maybe more. We should also enact new laws laying out clear criminal penalties for federal bureaucrats who partner with private entities to do an end-run around the Constitution and deprive Americans of their First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment rights. In other words, deprive them of their vote. And once you lose those elections and once you lose your borders like we have, you no longer have a country. Furthermore, to confront the problems of major platforms being infiltrated by legions of former Deep Staters and intelligence officials, there should be a 7-year cooling-off period before any employee of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, DHS, or DOD is allowed to take a job at a company possessing vast quantities of U.S. user data.

FIFTH, the time has finally come for Congress to pass a digital Bill of Rights. This should include a right to digital due process—in other words, government officials should need a COURT ORDER to take down online content, not send information requests such as the FBI was sending to Twitter.

Furthermore, when users of big online platforms have their content or accounts removed, throttled, shadow-banned, or otherwise restricted no matter what name they use, they should have the right to be informed that it’s happening, the right to a specific explanation of the reason why, and the right to a timely appeal. In addition, all users over the age of 18 should have the right to opt-out of content moderation and curation entirely, and receive an unmanipulated stream of information if they so choose.

The fight for Free Speech is a matter of victory or death for America—and for the survival of Western Civilization itself. When I am President, this whole rotten system of censorship and information control will be ripped out of the system at large. There won’t be anything left.

By restoring free speech, we will begin to reclaim our democracy, and save our nation. Thank you, and God Bless America


53 posted on 07/08/2024 2:53:55 PM PDT by EasySt (Say not this is the truth, but so it seems to me to be, as I see this thing I think I see. #MAGA-A)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Disney-owned ABC News altered the initial transcript at the behest of the White House, according to The New York Times. The Gray Lady also revised the Biden quote “to conform with the updated ABC transcript.””

So, Disney/ABC and the Slimes are closing ranks in the damage control department. Pravda and Izvestia would be ashamed.


54 posted on 07/08/2024 3:02:22 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
JOE BIDEN
The "goodest" candidate
55 posted on 07/08/2024 3:04:58 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Cold_Red_Steel

There’s rules for posting MoDo articles. They followed the rules.


56 posted on 07/08/2024 3:08:22 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: NorthMountain

If only you’d waited just 45 seconds more!


57 posted on 07/08/2024 3:30:45 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I think the most easiest thing to do about the goodest statement is to replace it with a more better one.

My public school education came in handy there.


58 posted on 07/08/2024 3:34:40 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: allendale

Hell, they all ignored the biggest blockbuster story in American history — the slow-roll, multi-year coup by the DS, Hillary Clinton, the DNC and Biden against Donald Trump during the 2015 campaign, during his presidency, during his 2020 run for re-election and his post-presidency lawfare travails.


59 posted on 07/08/2024 3:35:59 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: NorthMountain

“Sure, they’re all Hollywierd libtards.

That’s not the point. The point is that Mr. Douglas dumped Ms. Dowd for Ms. Zeta-Jones ... and they built an apparently happy life together ... and Ms. Dowd was, and probably still is, butthurt about the whole business”

See MY post #32


60 posted on 07/08/2024 3:38:46 PM PDT by DAC21
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