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Hekate

(90,787 posts) Sun Feb 11, 2024, 02:28 PM Feb 11

I just tuned in this morning. WTF happened with the New York Times that has people in a no-doubt-deserved swivet?

It’s early where I am.

I just tuned in this morning. WTF happened with the New York Times that has people in a no-doubt-deserved swivet? What have they done? Did they give Hur the high-five on the front page?

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I just tuned in this morning. WTF happened with the New York Times that has people in a no-doubt-deserved swivet? (Original Post) Hekate Feb 11 OP

NO idea, cant wait to see. Their job is to completely ignore R's crimes and report if a dem Eliot Rosewater Feb 11 #1

Probably some crap about Biden's age on their op-ed page. Ocelot II Feb 11 #2

Saturday and Sunday papers had Biden bashing editorials/opinion pieces wishstar Feb 11 #6

Aha! That would be it! Thank you Hekate Feb 11 #16

Whoa, I missed that one PatSeg Feb 11 #20

It's about time they start reporting on a Presidential Bluethroughu Feb 11 #7

Agree trump should be in a padded cell. But they do report on trump. In this particular case, trump is Silent Type Feb 11 #10

There's sound national security reasons that we support NATO, but TSF thinks it's a protection racket Hekate Feb 11 #17

I don't subscribe, but if they didn't put Trump's NATO comment RandomNumbers Feb 11 #3

I think they expressed some kind of "deep concerns" about Biden's mental state Walleye Feb 11 #4

I admit I looked up the definition of swivet, gab13by13 Feb 11 #5

It's a great word, isn't it? My mother used it a lot Ocelot II Feb 11 #8

So did my mother. greatauntoftriplets Feb 11 #11

Why the Age Issue Is Hurting Biden So Much More Than Trump ok_cpu Feb 11 #9

They pulled the same shit they did with 'but her emails'. Voltaire2 Feb 11 #12

I cancelled my subscription to the NYT back in 2016 LetMyPeopleVote Feb 11 #13

New York Times pisses me off every day and I send them money every month. And Democratic Underground too. IA8IT Feb 11 #14

Remember this report NYT or is it now NYET? GreenWave Feb 11 #15

Would this be it? ... Hermit-The-Prog Feb 11 #18

Thank you ALL very much. I have now had a pot of coffee, which helps, but also you have helped. Hekate Feb 11 #19

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)

1. NO idea, cant wait to see. Their job is to completely ignore R's crimes and report if a dem

Reply to Hekate (Original post)

Sun Feb 11, 2024, 02:30 PM

Feb 11

gets even a parking ticket, so let's see.

Ocelot II

(115,832 posts)

2. Probably some crap about Biden's age on their op-ed page.

Reply to Hekate (Original post)

Sun Feb 11, 2024, 02:35 PM

Feb 11

To their credit, though, today's headline was about Trump bashing NATO. https://www.nytimes.com/

wishstar

(5,271 posts)

6. Saturday and Sunday papers had Biden bashing editorials/opinion pieces

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #2)

Sun Feb 11, 2024, 02:44 PM

Feb 11

On Saturday they ran hit piece by Maureen Dowd and today Sunday had editorial "Challenge for an Aging President" plus op ed "Question is not if Biden should step aside but How".

Hekate

(90,787 posts)

16. Aha! That would be it! Thank you

Reply to wishstar (Reply #6)

Sun Feb 11, 2024, 04:47 PM

Feb 11

PatSeg

(47,583 posts)

20. Whoa, I missed that one

Reply to wishstar (Reply #6)

Sun Feb 11, 2024, 04:57 PM

Feb 11

Not surprised that Saturday's was from Maureen Dowd. So who wrote "Question is not if Biden should step aside but How"? That is brutal and not constructive at all.

Bluethroughu

(5,185 posts)

7. It's about time they start reporting on a Presidential

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #2)

Sun Feb 11, 2024, 02:44 PM

Feb 11

Candidate threatning our allies with abadoment, for a fascist ready to invade.

It's insane this traitor is even running, and not behind bars.

Silent Type

(2,939 posts)

10. Agree trump should be in a padded cell. But they do report on trump. In this particular case, trump is

Reply to Bluethroughu (Reply #7)

Sun Feb 11, 2024, 03:07 PM

Feb 11

following up on his belief that NATO is relying on US money and NATO should contribute more.

This is absolutely the wrong time to pursue, but I suspect NATO should pay more at some point.

Hekate

(90,787 posts)

17. There's sound national security reasons that we support NATO, but TSF thinks it's a protection racket

Reply to Silent Type (Reply #10)

Sun Feb 11, 2024, 04:49 PM

Feb 11

Trump thinks and acts like a mob boss. He’s just out there expanding on it again.

RandomNumbers

(17,600 posts)

3. I don't subscribe, but if they didn't put Trump's NATO comment

Reply to Hekate (Original post)

Sun Feb 11, 2024, 02:38 PM

Feb 11

in 2 inch high capital letters then they're wrong.

From reading the DU it appears there was some nonsense about Biden's age.

ETA: LOL, somehow I missed the comment right before mine. So they covered the NATO comment, but not in the screaming headline it deserved.

Walleye

(31,044 posts)

4. I think they expressed some kind of "deep concerns" about Biden's mental state

Reply to Hekate (Original post)

Sun Feb 11, 2024, 02:43 PM

Feb 11

gab13by13

(21,400 posts)

5. I admit I looked up the definition of swivet,

Reply to Hekate (Original post)

Sun Feb 11, 2024, 02:43 PM

Feb 11

but I did guess the right definition.

Ocelot II

(115,832 posts)

8. It's a great word, isn't it? My mother used it a lot

Reply to gab13by13 (Reply #5)

Sun Feb 11, 2024, 02:48 PM

Feb 11

when we kids were having hissy fits about something.

greatauntoftriplets

(175,749 posts)

11. So did my mother.

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #8)

Sun Feb 11, 2024, 03:08 PM

Feb 11

ok_cpu

(2,055 posts)

9. Why the Age Issue Is Hurting Biden So Much More Than Trump

Reply to Hekate (Original post)

Sun Feb 11, 2024, 02:56 PM

Feb 11

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/10/us/politics/biden-trump-aging.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Uk0.xpZI.aBYTr9Pj7N_f&smid=url-share

Mr. Biden’s voice has grown softer and raspier, his hair thinner and whiter. He is tall and trim but moves more tentatively than he did as a candidate in 2019 and 2020, often holding his upper body stiff, adding to an impression of frailty. And he has had spills in the public eye: falling off a bicycle, tripping over a sandbag.

Mr. Trump, by contrast, does not appear to be suffering the effects of time in such visible ways. Mr. Trump often dyes his hair and appears unnaturally tan. He is heavyset and tall, and he uses his physicality to project strength in front of crowds. When he takes the stage at rallies, he basks in adulation for several minutes, dancing to an opening song, and then holds forth in speeches replete with macho rhetoric and bombast that typically last well over an hour, a display of stamina.

More both sides nonsense. Basically, everything our eyes tell us is wrong about tRump is actually a strength: the insane rhetoric, the fake hair and skin tone, all of it...and his leaning on a podium in shoe lifts and whining for an hour is actually a projection of vigor and stamina.

President Biden's thoughtful and measured demeanor, by contrast, is weak and frail. I guess that's the orange one's advantage. You can't ever get your foot caught in the pedal while trying to stand with your bike if you never get on one.

Voltaire2

(13,139 posts)

12. They pulled the same shit they did with 'but her emails'.

Reply to Hekate (Original post)

Sun Feb 11, 2024, 03:09 PM

Feb 11

The owners of the NYT are obviously ok with fascism.

LetMyPeopleVote

(145,530 posts)

13. I cancelled my subscription to the NYT back in 2016

Reply to Hekate (Original post)

Sun Feb 11, 2024, 03:15 PM

Feb 11

The NYT has become a source of TFG/Putin propaganda

Link to tweet

IA8IT

(5,559 posts)

14. New York Times pisses me off every day and I send them money every month. And Democratic Underground too.

Reply to Hekate (Original post)

Sun Feb 11, 2024, 03:59 PM

Feb 11

and Washington Post and Des Moines Register and Iowa Public Television but never pissed at IPT that I remember. Lived in 70's and now in my 70's

GreenWave

(6,766 posts)

15. Remember this report NYT or is it now NYET?

Reply to Hekate (Original post)

Sun Feb 11, 2024, 04:16 PM

Feb 11

When the GAO reported the United States owned and maintained 2,270 foreign military bases, outposts and stations. These figures exclude Indochina.

You did that. I did not need my Macedonian mother to tell me we were not a nation.

Get back to that kind of reporting!

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,413 posts)

18. Would this be it? ...

Reply to Hekate (Original post)

Sun Feb 11, 2024, 04:51 PM

Feb 11

from https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/media-what-the-fuck-are-you-doing

[New York Times] Why the Age Issue Is Hurting Biden So Much More Than Trump

Both Donald J. Trump and President Biden are over 75. But voters are much less likely to worry that Mr. Trump is too old to serve.

fucking awesome. we’ve reached the point in this pile-on where the press is now asking how could this all have happened, as if news coverage is something that just spontaneously generates itself, magically, and isn’t shaped by reporters and editors hungry for a narrative.

the Times is like an arsonist, standing in middle of the street, gas can in hand, wondering aloud how all these fires got started.

such a mystery!

Hekate

(90,787 posts)

19. Thank you ALL very much. I have now had a pot of coffee, which helps, but also you have helped.

Reply to Hekate (Original post)

Sun Feb 11, 2024, 04:54 PM

Feb 11

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