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The Media Concede Kamala’s Defeat. Now They Need To Fully Surrender If They Want To Be Spared
https://thefederalist.com ^ | 11/6/2024 | Eddie Scarry

Posted on 11/06/2024 11:10:14 AM PST by bitt

There won’t be an apology and even as they concede Kamala’s defeat, they won’t do what’s needed — a full and unconditional surrender.

Enjoy this brief moment of self-reflection and candor from the media while it lasts. Regardless, they need to pay a heavy price this time.

We’re watching the immediate post-2016 election aftermath happen all over again. The news media are reluctantly conceding defeat to Donald Trump and finally admitting the obvious.

On the New York Times’ “The Daily” podcast, reporter Astead Herndon was one such illuminating case. “I just feel as if, whether it is ‘democracy,’ whether it is lecturing Americans, saying inflation is actually not that bad, that there has been a tone coming from Democrats to tell people the problems that they had are not legitimate,” he said. “And I think that is at the core of their problems in this race. It’s hard for me not to go back to the fact that when these issues were most clear and they had a chance to speak to those concerns, they decided not to and they decided to double down on this administration, to double down on the incumbent.”

That’s true but not so fast, sweaty. The media don’t get to act like mildly concerned bystanders now positioned to offer a sober account of what just happened. Kamala Harris’s defeat is every bit theirs as it is the Democrat Party’s, arguably even more so. The media banked that they still had enough cachet, even just by a sliver, to do the impossible — insist to American voters that what they could see and feel wasn’t real in order to hoist history’s most feckless individual into the world’s most powerful office.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: faceloadthefeckless; media
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1 posted on 11/06/2024 11:10:14 AM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 11/06/2024 11:10:30 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

They are a propaganda arm of the DEMs/leftists, and they have plenty of woke money to support them. They aren’t going anywhere.


3 posted on 11/06/2024 11:12:04 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: bitt

the enemedia is gonna go scorched earth after the shellshock wears off...


4 posted on 11/06/2024 11:13:56 AM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: bitt

Screw the talking heads. They can all wallow together with their dozens of viewer and cry cry cry...


5 posted on 11/06/2024 11:15:26 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: bitt

I have to admit that the only thing I was dreading with another Trump administration, is the fact that I will have to listen to the constant whining, accusations, and outright lies from these POS enemedia filth and their “unnamed sources” in an attempt to undermine the President’s accomplishments and improvements for the country...


6 posted on 11/06/2024 11:16:23 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: bitt

Take no prisoners. Charge them with “Disimformation Resulting in Harm to Our Democracy™”. Hold them in J6 prison for years while searching to see if there is any such law.


7 posted on 11/06/2024 11:16:53 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: bitt; All

Who cares? Most conservatives ignore these clowns living in their own anti-American echo-chamber.


8 posted on 11/06/2024 11:19:40 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: bitt

“There won’t be an apology and even as they concede Kamala’s defeat, they won’t do what’s needed — a full and unconditional surrender.”

They won’t do it. Trump doesn’t do that sort of thing either. That’s not a criticism of either.

The media will adjust as necessary to retain their audience.


9 posted on 11/06/2024 11:21:23 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: MtnClimber

My response to all that:

https://youtu.be/i2A5fdgMCa8


10 posted on 11/06/2024 11:22:22 AM PST by cross_bearer_02
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To: bitt

Need to go after broadcast licenses for networks that engaged in propaganda.


11 posted on 11/06/2024 11:22:55 AM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: bitt

They went from self reflection in 2016 to Russia Collusion in 2017 and 2018, then Ukrainian Impeachment in 2018 and 2019 and then Covid. Since 2021 they have been accusing him of all sorts of crimes and threatening him with prison and they celebrated attempts on his life. They will self reflect for a few days or even weeks but they will find some other reason that Trump is a sexist racist misogynistic fascist nazi dictator. Don’t expect them to become honest all of a sudden.


12 posted on 11/06/2024 11:24:10 AM PST by webheart
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To: MtnClimber

“Take no prisoners. Charge them with “Disinformation Resulting in Harm to Our Democracy™”. Hold them in J6 prison for years while searching to see if there is any such law.”

That is very good... Due process, what is that?


13 posted on 11/06/2024 11:26:42 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind

Until they get what they dish out they will never consider stopping. If “due process” is a show trial like they have been doing then that is what they deserve.


14 posted on 11/06/2024 11:30:59 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: CatOwner

I’m not so sure...look at what Bezos said. We’ve got Elon and Zuck seems to be pursuing other interests. The big voices aren’t MSDNC/CNN/CBS/NBC/ABC but Megyn Kelly, Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, Nicole Shanahan and others. They are “unburdened by what has been” and if anyone starts giving them crap the StarLink network will deliver their message to anyone anywhere on the planet.


15 posted on 11/06/2024 11:31:41 AM PST by bigbob
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To: bitt

NO SPARING THE MEDIA! NONE.


16 posted on 11/06/2024 11:34:26 AM PST by goodnesswins (DEI....Divide, Enslave, Indoctrinate.....OR ......Didn't Earn It)
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To: MtnClimber

I absolutely agree. No mercy No pardons. They committed a criminal conspiracy to the highest degree.


17 posted on 11/06/2024 11:35:16 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind

They committed a color revolution in 2020.


18 posted on 11/06/2024 11:37:55 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: bitt

Where’s the fudge packer David Muir? That asswipe showed Harris winning during the Monday Night Football game.


19 posted on 11/06/2024 11:55:43 AM PST by Tommy Revolts (,,)
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To: Organic Panic
insist to American voters that what they could see and feel wasn’t real in order to hoist history’s most feckless individual into the world’s most powerful office.

"Faceload" The Feckless...

20 posted on 11/06/2024 11:58:07 AM PST by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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