Thanks for your comments. This was a long post and I hesitate to post again but . . . when I copied the post to comments, the italics (which made clear the quotes from WaPo) disappeared! Makes it confusing. So, I've added the quote marks since italics don't seen to work. Sorry for the confusion and thanks all for putting up with a long p…
Thanks for your comments. This was a long post and I hesitate to post again but . . . when I copied the post to comments, the italics (which made clear the quotes from WaPo) disappeared! Makes it confusing. So, I've added the quote marks since italics don't seen to work. Sorry for the confusion and thanks all for putting up with a long post.
Speaking of lies and enabling – as you so eloquently have, Rob – and the importance of each action standing up to those lies . . .
I am outraged and disgusted by the Washington Post for one of their top stories (see link below – “biggest Pinocchios 2023). Biden's photo is the largest, front and center, in this story about politicians lying. Its horrendous. They are no different than Republicans impeaching Biden with no evidence. To put forward these unsubstantiated claims of lies in the same universe as what the Republicans are doing is unconscionable. They have passed a line I keep drawing in the shifting sands of irresponsible journalism and I'm cancelling my subscription today. Democracy is definitely dying in the darkness they are creating.
Most of their claims about Biden are not substantiated and so trivial in comparison to trying to end our Democracy, election denying, demolishing our institutions etc etc etc -- all things Republican that we know and endure daily .
For example:
"And several times when discussing gay issues, he (Biden) offered another implausible tale about words his father supposedly spoke after a teenage Biden saw two well-dressed men in suits kiss each other in downtown Wilmington in the early 1960s."
A conversation they — and probably no one else — was privy to, decades ago?
Another has to do with denying his son got payments in China. Does it occur to them that Biden might not have known? His adult son has led his own — difficult and substance abuse filled — life, and possibly hasn’t shared everything with his father.
The only substantive issue is his taking credit for reducing the deficit.
"When we awarded Biden a Bottomless Pinocchio for this statement back in April, we noted that at least 30 times he had falsely taken credit for reducing the budget deficit by $1.7 trillion. Well, that didn’t seem to bother him. . . . The deficit was always expected to fall with the end of the pandemic. But Biden’s policies increased the national debt about $850 billion more than originally projected. So the deficit picture has worsened under Biden, and he’s seizing on a technicality to claim otherwise."
They accuse him of taking credit for the deficit falling at the end of the Pandemic (The deficit was always expected to fall with the end of the pandemic.) Whether or not everyone always expected that (really??), the press is quick to blame Biden for everything that happens during his presidency, no matter the antecedents and/or whether it’s in his control. This is yet another example of how they almost never give him credit, but are eager to blame him and find fault.
While I’m outraged, I won’t give up. I will continue to work as hard as possible for victory in 2024I and as part of what I do, redouble my letter writing to mainstream media. Our “free” press is a huge and debilitating part of the problem we face. Along with the “justice delayed is justice denied” issue, it’s more vexing and likely more costly than returning Dems to the trifecta — House, Senate and Presidency -- through the ballot box. Please all – consider writing -- or increasing your writing -- letters to the editor, to the authors of outrageous articles like this and bring these betrayals to the attention of others.
Thanks for your comments. This was a long post and I hesitate to post again but . . . when I copied the post to comments, the italics (which made clear the quotes from WaPo) disappeared! Makes it confusing. So, I've added the quote marks since italics don't seen to work. Sorry for the confusion and thanks all for putting up with a long post.
Speaking of lies and enabling – as you so eloquently have, Rob – and the importance of each action standing up to those lies . . .
I am outraged and disgusted by the Washington Post for one of their top stories (see link below – “biggest Pinocchios 2023). Biden's photo is the largest, front and center, in this story about politicians lying. Its horrendous. They are no different than Republicans impeaching Biden with no evidence. To put forward these unsubstantiated claims of lies in the same universe as what the Republicans are doing is unconscionable. They have passed a line I keep drawing in the shifting sands of irresponsible journalism and I'm cancelling my subscription today. Democracy is definitely dying in the darkness they are creating.
Most of their claims about Biden are not substantiated and so trivial in comparison to trying to end our Democracy, election denying, demolishing our institutions etc etc etc -- all things Republican that we know and endure daily .
For example:
"And several times when discussing gay issues, he (Biden) offered another implausible tale about words his father supposedly spoke after a teenage Biden saw two well-dressed men in suits kiss each other in downtown Wilmington in the early 1960s."
A conversation they — and probably no one else — was privy to, decades ago?
Another has to do with denying his son got payments in China. Does it occur to them that Biden might not have known? His adult son has led his own — difficult and substance abuse filled — life, and possibly hasn’t shared everything with his father.
The only substantive issue is his taking credit for reducing the deficit.
"When we awarded Biden a Bottomless Pinocchio for this statement back in April, we noted that at least 30 times he had falsely taken credit for reducing the budget deficit by $1.7 trillion. Well, that didn’t seem to bother him. . . . The deficit was always expected to fall with the end of the pandemic. But Biden’s policies increased the national debt about $850 billion more than originally projected. So the deficit picture has worsened under Biden, and he’s seizing on a technicality to claim otherwise."
They accuse him of taking credit for the deficit falling at the end of the Pandemic (The deficit was always expected to fall with the end of the pandemic.) Whether or not everyone always expected that (really??), the press is quick to blame Biden for everything that happens during his presidency, no matter the antecedents and/or whether it’s in his control. This is yet another example of how they almost never give him credit, but are eager to blame him and find fault.
While I’m outraged, I won’t give up. I will continue to work as hard as possible for victory in 2024I and as part of what I do, redouble my letter writing to mainstream media. Our “free” press is a huge and debilitating part of the problem we face. Along with the “justice delayed is justice denied” issue, it’s more vexing and likely more costly than returning Dems to the trifecta — House, Senate and Presidency -- through the ballot box. Please all – consider writing -- or increasing your writing -- letters to the editor, to the authors of outrageous articles like this and bring these betrayals to the attention of others.