Media (Traditional and Social Media) Coverage of Politics & Elections

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JCTarheel82 said:
Summarizing in meme form...

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Hell, this doesn’t go far enough. One Dem should be holding a fishing pole and the other a rain catchment, while the gqper kicks the American overboard as he’s scaling a drop-ladder into a helicopter.
 
NY Times wen back and did an article with actual quotes from the M(AGA)SG event

www.nytimes.com

The Misogynistic, Bigoted and Crude Rally Remarks Trump Hasn’t Disavowed

A range of speakers at Madison Square Garden on Sunday disparaged Latinos, Black people, Palestinians and Jews, and made vulgar references to Kamala Harris. The Trump campaign has distanced itself from only one of these statements.
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  • Mr. Hinchcliffe said: “Cool, Black guy with a thing on his head? What is that, a lampshade? Look at this guy, oh my goodness. Wow. I’m just kidding, that’s one of my buddies. He had a Halloween party last night. We had fun. We carved watermelons together.”
  • Hinchcliffe: “When it comes to Israel and Palestine, we’re all thinking the same thing. Settle your stuff already,” he said. “Best out of three. Rock, paper, scissors. You know the Palestinians, they’re going to throw a rock every time. But you also know the Jews have a hard time throwing that paper, if you know what I’m saying.” He made a motion with his hands to indicate dollar bills.
  • Hinchcliffe: implied that the N.F.L. star Travis Kelce might kill his girlfriend, pop star Taylor Swift, whom Mr. Trump is angry at for endorsing Ms. Harris. “I think football should be all year round,” Mr. Hinchcliffe said. “So many great athletes. I don’t know about you guys, but I think that Travis Kelce might be the next O.J. Simpson.”
 
Cont’d

  • Sid Rosenberg: “She is some sick bastard, that Hillary Clinton, huh?” he said. “What a sick son of a bitch. The whole fucking party, a bunch of degenerates, lowlives, Jew-haters and lowlives. Every one of them. Every one of them.”
  • Rosenberg: “You got homeless and veterans, Americans, Americans, sleeping in their own feces on a bench in Central Park,” he said. “But the fucking illegals, they get whatever they want, don’t they?”
  • Grant Cardone: “Her and her pimp handlers will destroy our country.”
  • Cardone: “We need to slaughter this other people.”
  • Stephen Miller: Trump would “stand up and say the cartels are gone, the criminal migrants are gone, the gangs are gone, America is for Americans and Americans only.” (“America for Americans” was a slogan used by the Ku Klux Klan.)
  • Tucker Carlson: “People know, in a country that has been taken over by a leadership class that actually despises them and their values and their history and their culture and their customs, really hates them, to the point that it’s trying to replace them — they know someone who actually has affection for them, and that’s Donald Trump,” he said.
  • Carlson: “It’s going to be pretty hard to look at us and say: ‘You know what, Kamala Harris, she’s just, she got 85 million votes because she’s just so impressive as the first Samoan-Malaysian, low IQ former California prosecutor ever to be elected president,’” he said. “‘It was just a groundswell of popular support, and anyone who thinks otherwise is just a freak or a criminal.’”
 
Trump at MSG [this may be a transcript of the written speech on the teleprompter, not as actually delivered]

  • Kamala has imported criminal migrants from prisons and jails, insane asylums and mental institutions from all around the world, from Venezuela to the Congo. A lot of people are coming from the Congo prisons. They’re coming from all over the world. Over the last month, 181 countries violated our laws. And she has resettled them into your communities to prey upon innocent American citizens.
  • One of the deadliest and most vicious migrant gangs that Kamala has imported into our country is the savage Venezuelan prison gang. Nice group of people. They got together in prison. The worst prison in the world, they say. It’s called Tren de Aragua. And that is taking over apartment complexes and unleashing a violent killing spree all over America, especially in Aurora, Colorado, where we have a governor who’s petrified of them. And maybe he should be. But now they’ve even taken over Times Square.
  • The United States is now an occupied country, but it will soon be an occupied country no longer. Not going to be happening. Not going to be happening. November 5th, 2024, nine days from now will be Liberation Day in America.It’s going to be Liberation Day.

    On day one, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get these criminals out. I will rescue every city and town that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail. We’re going to kick them the hell out of our country as fast as possible.
  • And to expedite removals of Trinidad and Tobago and other savage gangs like MS-13, which is equally vicious, I will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Think of that. That’s how far back. That’s when they had law and order. They had some tough ones. Think of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. You hear that, Mr. Speaker?

    Get ready to target and dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American soil. And there are lots of them. We don’t have the same country anymore. You know that. And, you know, when you look at the polls and they say about the economy and they have all these different things, the worst nightmare that we’re facing is what they’ve done to us on our borders.
  • She’s unfit for office. Everyone knows it. No one respects her. No one trusts her. No one takes her seriously. Everyone knows she is a very low IQ individual.
  • They haven’t even responded in North Carolina. They haven’t even responded. There’s nobody. They don’t see any FEMA. You know why? They spent their money on bringing in illegal migrants so they didn’t have money for Georgia and North Carolina and Alabama and Tennessee and Florida and South Carolina. They didn’t have any money for them.

    They spent all of their money on bringing in illegal immigrants and flying them in by beautiful jet planes. They flew in. We just found out about a year and a half ago. Remember, we said, what’s going on? Those planes, a lot of planes going over there. What are they? They would fly them into the middle of our country, our beautiful, beautiful country.
  • Colorado is going to vote for us. You know why? Typically they go a little bit the other way. Of course, with their voting system, I’m not so sure about that. But you know why? Because they tried to throw the leading candidate of both parties, meaning me, I was leading both parties off the ballot. And the people of Colorado, including Democrats, are very angry about it. They are a threat to democracy, to use their term.
  • But she would get us into World War Three because she’s incompetent, can’t do the job, unfit for it. And then all of your sons and daughters will end up getting a little notice. They’ll say, Mom, Dad, what is this little green piece of paper? Oh, yeah. Darling, that’s a draft notice. They’re drafting you to go and fight in some country that I’ve never heard this. I’ve never heard of this country before.
  • We had stupid generals like Milley and Mattis, weak, stupid people. But fear not. We have great generals. It’s not the ones that you see on television all the time.
  • Our enemies are laughing at her. They want her to win so badly. They don’t want Trump. They don’t want Trump. I’ve made this position a very dangerous one because of that. That’s why it’s a very dangerous. You know, if you drive a race car, you have one tenth of one percent chance of dying. If you ride the bulls, I think the bulls are pretty nasty, right? You have about the same one tenth of one percent of dying. If you become president of the United States, you got a hell of a shot at dying.
 
Trump MSG cont’d

  • I got along with Putin. Ukraine was the apple of his eye. But I said, Vladimir, don’t go in.
  • Now she’s, you know, she’s becoming more MAGA than those politicians I just told you about from the different states. She can’t put two sentences together.
  • We’re running against something far bigger than Joe or Kamala and far more powerful than them, which is a massive, vicious, crooked, radical left machine that runs today’s Democrat Party. They’re just vessels. In fact, they’re perfect vessels because they’ll never give them a hard time. They’ll do whatever they want. I know many of them. It’s just this amorphous group of people. But they’re smart and they’re vicious. And we have to defeat them.
  • And when I say the enemy from within, the other side goes crazy, becomes a sound hole. How can he say now they’ve done very bad things to this country? They are indeed the enemy from within. But this is who we’re fighting. These are the people who are doing such harm to our country with their open border policies, record setting inflation, Green New Deal scam and everything else that they’re doing.
  • Think of this. Three hundred and twenty five thousand children are missing dead sex slaves or slaves. They came through the open border and they’re gone. Their parents will most likely never see them again.
  • You know, we got more votes in 2020 than any sitting president in history by millions. And we did great. Obviously, in 2016, we won, but we did much better in 2020. But everything, nothing compares to what’s happening.
  • It’s a black hat with black letters, OK? It’s called understated. I said, do you like that hat? He said, I love that hat. I call it Dark MAGA. But you know that after that evening, that became our number one best-selling hat. All I have to do is put something on it, and now you’re great.
  • Because Robert F. Kennedy cares more about human beings and health and the environment than anybody. And he’s going to be absolute. Having him is such a great honor. I’ve been friends of his for a long time. And I’m going to let him go wild on health. I’m going to let him go wild on the food. I’m going to let him go wild on medicine. The only thing I don’t think I’m going to let him even get near is the liquid gold that we have under our feet. I don’t know, Elon. He might not like liquid gold
  • And we have a fabulous, brilliant woman. Top, top student. Top student at Yale Law School. They were both top students. They can have very smart kids. If you believe in that, I believe in it strongly. I would like to have their children, because they are going to be smart. Yale Law School, top of the class, both of them. Usha Vance, thank you, Usha, for being here
  • But here are the facts. Kamala Harris is a radical left Marxist, rated even worse than crazy Bernie Sanders or Pocahontas. She destroyed our economy. She was an original creator of Defund the Police. Can you believe it? She was one of the originals for Defund the Police.
  • bad gangs, killed two young girls, 16 years old, walking to school. They didn’t shoot them. They knifed them and they cut them into little pieces because it was so painful. Perfect, perfect, young, beautiful girls were cut up into little pieces by knives. MS-13, they’re animals. And you know who took care of it for us? ICE. ICE. They had no problem.
  • And as California Attorney General, she redefined child sex trafficking, assault with a deadly weapon, and rape of an unconscious person as a totally nonviolent crime. She pledged to confiscate your guns.
  • One thing I have been, even the enemy, because they are the enemy, what they’ve said, even that enemy, too, when they’re really the enemy, they’re the enemy of the people, the press.
  • I’ve been against all of the things that are happening and have happened. We stopped it, and now it’s happening again.
  • And on top of all this, Kamala tried to turn our military woke into an army.
  • I want to thank Mayor Adams for going through a hard time with these people. These are lunatics, by the way. They’ve weaponized the Justice Department against their political opponent.
  • We built all of our military, built 571 miles of wall too. I took it out of the military because I couldn’t get it from the people in Congress that should have given it to us. So I considered it an invasion. I said to a couple of generals, I said, congratulations, this is an invasion of our country. So I took it out of the military, gave it to the Americans and won them all.
    • We will build a massive defense shield all made in the USA. We’re going to build a beautiful dome over our country. And a lot of it’s going to be made right here in New York.
  • Get your husband off the couch. The football game doesn’t mean a damn thing. You got to get out and vote. You’re going to vote for the president, Harry. We’re going to save our country.
  • For the past nine years, we have been fighting against the most sinister and corrupt forces on Earth.

  • . I remember during the day they said, no, sir, this stupid person named David Muir from ABC Fake News, he said, sir, crime is not through the roof. Crime is down. I said, no, it’s not. I said, it’s not down, it’s up. It’s down. I was like debating three people. And him, I had that person next to him who I never even heard of. But it turned out the following day they released the stats and crime was up 45%

singjupost.com

FULL TRANSCRIPT: Trump's MAGA Rally At MSG, New York City

Read the full transcript of former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's speech at a MAGA campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, New York City, Sunday, October 27, 2024. Listen to the audio version
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Has anyone seen this?

www.nbcnews.com

Pro-Harris sticky notes pop up in women's restrooms and gyms and on tampon boxes

Word about the grassroots campaign has spread on social media, primarily on Facebook, with women putting "Woman to woman" notes in places where other women will see them.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com

Obviously we are a very male dominated board, so perhaps not. But there are women out there afraid of their husbands or fathers. Read the article. It's an eye opener.

Unfortunately, I don't think the effort is very widespread. That said, it's probably most important in rural and conservative areas.
 

Opinion
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A note from our owner.​


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By Jeff Bezos
October 28, 2024 at 7:26 p.m. EDT
Jeff Bezos is the owner of The Washington Post.
In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.

Let me give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct from and just as important as the first.
Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.
Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, “I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.” None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one. Eugene Meyer, publisher of The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946, thought the same, and he was right. By itself, declining to endorse presidential candidates is not enough to move us very far up the trust scale, but it’s a meaningful step in the right direction. I wish we had made the change earlier than we did, in a moment further from the election and the emotions around it. That was inadequate planning, and not some intentional strategy.
 
WaPo’s success isn’t something that matters financially for Bezos. However his comment about “Trust the media?” poll results is stupid.

Probably a good number of WP’s 2.5 million subscribers would answer no when asked if they trust “the media,” but they trust WP or else they wouldn’t be subscribers.
 
Yes Jeff, the hatred and distrust of the media of late just happened organically, in a vacuum.

Jesus Henry Christ. :rolleyes:
 
NCK9 said:

Opinion​

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A note from our owner.​


5 min
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By Jeff Bezos
October 28, 2024 at 7:26 p.m. EDT
Jeff Bezos is the owner of The Washington Post.
In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.

Let me give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct from and just as important as the first.
Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.
Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, “I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.” None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one. Eugene Meyer, publisher of The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946, thought the same, and he was right. By itself, declining to endorse presidential candidates is not enough to move us very far up the trust scale, but it’s a meaningful step in the right direction. I wish we had made the change earlier than we did, in a moment further from the election and the emotions around it. That was inadequate planning, and not some intentional strategy.
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If they had announced this decision before the primaries were started, I would have believed them.

But to announce it after the campaign had not only started but with only a few days left before the election and with the info that the decision shocked many with the paper shows that it was not a principled decision arising from an intentional process. Instead it was a rushed decision made buy the owner because he either disagreed with the Editorial Board's decision or because he feared the potential repercussions from a Harris endorsement.
 


Wow. Can’t believe this dude said that (well, I can but still). To Philips credit, apparently she tossed him off her show at the break.

 
SmilingJack said:
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Nah. He’ll just go even further with the racism, nativism, christo nationalism, and misogyny on his own podcast, a whole hosts of other right wing podcasts, and speaking tours to wherever the fuck Mike Flynn and Milo go, and 100% of the time he’ll be the victim.
 
I'm hoping that if they all show up starting some shit on January 6th they should be rounded up and deported to Russia! Then they can get back to the 18-1950's where they were trying to take the country.
 
NCK9 said:

Opinion​

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A note from our owner.​


5 min
2326

By Jeff Bezos
October 28, 2024 at 7:26 p.m. EDT
Jeff Bezos is the owner of The Washington Post.
In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.

Let me give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct from and just as important as the first.
Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.
Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, “I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.” None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one. Eugene Meyer, publisher of The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946, thought the same, and he was right. By itself, declining to endorse presidential candidates is not enough to move us very far up the trust scale, but it’s a meaningful step in the right direction. I wish we had made the change earlier than we did, in a moment further from the election and the emotions around it. That was inadequate planning, and not some intentional strategy.
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Fuck this guy. If the problem with newspapers and the lack of public trust is the lack of "objectivity", then the logical conclusion is to ban editorials in their entirety. No opinions whatsoever - don't want people to think you are biased.

He is a coward who is afraid of Trump.

The Post used to be my favorite newspaper.
 
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