2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe media must stop acting like the GOP is a victim here
The Lame Stream Media needs to stop acting like the GOP establishment is some helpless victim here.
This didn't start with a leaked video. This didn't even start with the GOP kowtowing to Trump once he became the nominee. No, this didn't even begin with Trump.
The GOP has a long history of waging war on women, both rhetorically and legislatively. From Todd Akin to George W. Bush; the GOP doesn't respect women's rights, values, or their minds.
I say this as a white male in his 20s; there is nothing more alluring than a woman who stands up for herself and believes that her rights are human rights.
The GOP must pay at the polls for their affronts against the women of our country. The media must hold them accountable for this long assault on women.
Cosmocat
(14,565 posts)it isn't going to happen.
LONG standing pattern during my adult life, from the late 80s to now, that only has gotten more pronounced is that the media has two marching orders:
1) ALWAYS negatively cast democrats. it is always bad news when things are good for dems, they are always admonished to "not overplay their hands" and they always, ALWAYS are to blame for republicans acting like assholes.
2) Provide as much cover as possible for republicans and as much as possible legitimize their assholery? "President Obama, what do you have to say to those who think you were born outside the united states, are a socialist, communist, god hating muslim?"
Cicada
(4,533 posts)I am terrified that Donald will drop out. Bill Clinton must go on the air and say all this is unfair to Donald, that boys will be boys etc. Hillary must say that she accepts Donald's heartfelt apology.
For a week or two. Then we can release a dozen more recordings and say, oh my God, I had no idea he was This Bad.
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)central scrutinizer
(11,650 posts)Is the correct response