Poll Biden is too old to be next POTUS

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(09-22-2023, 01:08 PM)LSUfaninTN Wrote: I’m not saying it’s not happening on both sides.

Color me positively surprised.

(09-22-2023, 01:08 PM)LSUfaninTN Wrote: But it’s a different kind of embarrassing coming from Trump. The big difference to me is the way they are covered in the media. If Trump trips on a pothole, he’s incompetent to be president. If Biden falls down the stairs, off a bike, sleeps in a meeting, connects with Hawaiians on a kitchen-fire level, reads parenthetical on a teleprompter… radio silence from the media. It’s ridiculous. Media also stretches the crap out of what Trump did. I’ve gone over it too many times here so I won’t do that again, but… “good people on both sides” “insurrection”… all of that was completely disingenuous reporting that went unchecked, and we just went about our lives. 

I honestly wouldn’t give a crap if they covered both of their ridiculousness equally. But they’re clearly protecting one guy because they want him to be President (or one of his handlers), and specifically targeting another guy because they don’t want him to be President. People think Trump wanted to “end democracy” based on what he’s SAID, look at what the media has actually DONE the last 8 years. They’ve controlled everything. You could piss off a hell of a lot less conservatives and even independents at this point if you just reduced the obvious double standard. 

This is just where I have difficulties to follow, for the one reason that there is a self-declared most trusted news channel that is number one in ratings and all, that somehow manages to not be seen as part of "the media". Which, of course, they absolutely are. The media as such consists of left leaning channels that (in parts, I'd say) actually do as you describe, and there's conservative-leaning ones that do the exact reversal from what you describe, being all pro-Trump and anti-liberal and tossing away all facts and reason while doing so. And I for one can not tell which side is more influential or powerful. But that's also imho a case where only scolding one side makes little sense.