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babylonsister

(171,076 posts) Wed Dec 9, 2015, 08:31 PM Dec 2015

Dear Media: You're The Daddy, And He Looks Just Like You!

Dear Media: You're The Daddy, And He Looks Just Like You!
By Susie Madrak

This is the part that drives me absolutely bonkers about media types tsk-tsking over Donald Trump:

What the fuck did you expect?

Here we are, a blog devoted to calling out the media. For more than ten years, we've pointed out the dangers of their indifference, their willingness to perpetuate "both sides do it" and on-the-other-handism. Their reluctance to confront Republicans on their toxic speech, their seeming inability to see the larger picture, the logical results of their abdication of the mission of a free press.

And we see it again with Donald Trump.

“In what is becoming a fairly routine ritual in a campaign that has seen no shortage of racially charged rhetoric from the Republican front-runner, America’s prominent white nationalists again found comfort in a proposal from The Donald,” report Andrew Kaczynski and Christopher Massie at BuzzFeed. At Vox, Max Fisher writes that “Trump isn’t actually the problem here. Rather, he’s merely indulging a sentiment that was already widespread.” And at The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog, political scientist David T. Smith tells Henry Farrell that Trump’s rhetoric is similar to bigotry faced by Jews, Catholics and Mormons in the past.

Hey, cable TV bobbleheads: What Trump says isn't new. It's just that he says it so much more unabashedly, unashamed. The Republican party didn't just suddenly become the party of extremism, of dangerous ideas. You watched as they became smaller, purer, crazier. Your response? "Hey, we'd better target that demographic!"

You guys own that. Your careerist asses went along with that corporate agenda -- I'd guess with very little meaningful pushback.

Did it never occur to you that chasing "stories" and "scandals" fabricated by Fox News and affiliated extremist groups would have consequences? Do you not see the teeniest spray of blood on your clean white shirts from the Planned Parenthood shootings?

more...

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/12/why-media-so-shocked-results-their-careful

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Dear Media: You're The Daddy, And He Looks Just Like You! (Original Post) babylonsister Dec 2015 OP

They are well aware which is why they continually support his airtime leaving little AuntPatsy Dec 2015 #1

KnR. Thanks Babs. nt Hekate Dec 2015 #2

Trumpolini is their meal ticket. hifiguy Dec 2015 #3

found this new version ... napkinz Dec 2015 #5

That does capture his Grand Douchiness hifiguy Dec 2015 #7

Drop the mic! You are so right!!!! mfcorey1 Dec 2015 #4

+1,000 malaise Dec 2015 #6

greed blinds it's victims to a lot stupidicus Dec 2015 #8

Same thing with Sarah Palin. Mr.Bill Dec 2015 #9

All they see are $$$$ (Trump's) and other campaigns. joanbarnes Dec 2015 #10

Way recommended. H2O Man Dec 2015 #11

K+R! zentrum Dec 2015 #12

Absolutely madokie Dec 2015 #13

You're the daddy! hay rick Dec 2015 #14

Dear Media: You're The Daddy, And He Looks Just Like You! erlewyne Dec 2015 #15

Right on. K&R cyberswede Dec 2015 #16

AuntPatsy

(9,904 posts)

1. They are well aware which is why they continually support his airtime leaving little

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 08:36 PM

Dec 2015

time left for what truly matters to most citizens...

I had given up watching news some time ago just recently began tuning in to see if anything had changed. And no it hasn't, it's more them embarrassing that they continue to get away with it, who owns who

Hekate

(90,751 posts)

2. KnR. Thanks Babs. nt

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 08:37 PM

Dec 2015

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)

3. Trumpolini is their meal ticket.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 08:42 PM

Dec 2015

Nothing brings ratings - which are the ONLY thing that matters - like Il Douche.

napkinz

(17,199 posts)

5. found this new version ...

Reply to hifiguy (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 08:58 PM

Dec 2015

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)

7. That does capture his Grand Douchiness

Reply to napkinz (Reply #5)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 09:04 PM

Dec 2015

in all its revolting and stomach-souring spectacle.

mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)

4. Drop the mic! You are so right!!!!

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 08:54 PM

Dec 2015

malaise

(269,103 posts)

6. +1,000

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 09:02 PM

Dec 2015

Rec

stupidicus

(2,570 posts)

8. greed blinds it's victims to a lot

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 09:32 PM

Dec 2015

and you'd have to have foresight comparable to that of an earthworm to not have seen a T-Rump coming.

It's never been an if, but rather a when.

Mr.Bill

(24,311 posts)

9. Same thing with Sarah Palin.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 09:50 PM

Dec 2015

She was just the opening act. I figure we are about two election cycles away from Howard Stern or Charlie running for president. Or maybe one of the Duggars.

joanbarnes

(1,722 posts)

10. All they see are $$$$ (Trump's) and other campaigns.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 10:09 PM

Dec 2015

H2O Man

(73,577 posts)

11. Way recommended.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 10:12 PM

Dec 2015

Thank you so much for this OP.

zentrum

(9,865 posts)

12. K+R!

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 10:12 PM

Dec 2015

madokie

(51,076 posts)

13. Absolutely

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 10:30 PM

Dec 2015

pin the tail on that elephant right where it belongs.

hay rick

(7,629 posts)

14. You're the daddy!

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 10:53 PM

Dec 2015

Perfect. If our collective media could be crammed inside a single body, that body would be gaping and drooling on the Jerry Springer Show and finding out that the DNA confirms what everybody else already knows.

erlewyne

(1,115 posts)

15. Dear Media: You're The Daddy, And He Looks Just Like You!

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 11:30 PM

Dec 2015

ROFL!

Just woke up - grabbed a coffee and this is my first peek
at the computer - made my day --- already!

can't quit laughing!!! and I haven't read the thread!!!

yet

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)

16. Right on. K&R

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Dec 9, 2015, 11:38 PM

Dec 2015

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