2020 Election

[hollodero]

(10-07-2020, 10:02 AM)Mickeypoo Wrote: I hear ya and respect what you are saying.  I disagree with some though.  I get the media pointing out maybe Trump should put on his mask.  I didn't care because he had stepped outside and was a safe distance from people.  The media absolutely lost their collective s!@t.  I mean they went over the top, poco freakin' loco.  I was embarrassed for them.

The problem is they were fine with that huge multi thousand peaceful march (I forget where) of people packed together.  It was a great, wonderful thing they said.  No mention of COVID, lack of masks or social distancing.  The mask, social distancing outrage when convenient is so transparent.  

They also give a free pass to the Peaceful and not so peaceful protesters.  So, ya, I see it as a very fake and very dramatic outrage.  Chris Cuomo, their own guy, went out WHILE INFECTED, without a mask, lied about staying quarantined and then lit into a normal citizen who saw him and called him out.  Crickets from the media, but Trump on an outdoor balcony without a mask and socially distanced and the world is going to end?  So ya, again, fake dramatic outrage.

As far as Trump fighting with the media, do you remember the media constantly talking about impeaching Trump before he was even sworn in as President?  The media has never given Trump a fair shake.  When Hillary lost they lost their dang minds and became obsessed with hating Trump.  Heck man, they even made Middle East peace sound like a bad thing.  

I share many of your observations, I agree that most of the US media is particularly opinionated, so no real argument there in general. (I don't agree 100% with everything, but I see the point and I agree to some extent.)

About Trump and masks though, for one I feel this can not be seen as an isolated incident, but rather as part of an imho concerning pattern of Trump recklessly playing down the dangers of corona. Not only did he take off his mask for the WH photo op (something he should not have done, aside from directly endangering his surroundings there is something like a role model function for a president); he also tweeted that corona is not all that dangerous, compared it to the flu, called for not being afraid of it... this I find quite outrageous, considering there are over 200.000 corona deaths as of now, and counting, and no one gets experimental antibody cocktails and all that other high-end stuff normal people do not have access to. And then he adds on this no mask photo op and his trip in a closed vehicle and it fits a picture where I have to agree with the underlying sentiment of the critizism he gets for it.

That the media tends to take certain things too far does not take away from that impression of mine, and I feel you're kind of using the media exaggerations as argument for acquitting Trump of any guilt or wrongdoing. And this is where I cannot follow. As you probably do not know, I am not an American, rather an US fan from abroad... and if our chancellor had behaved like Trump in similar circumstances, I would find it pretty hard to bear as well. This assessment has nothing to do with any picture the media paints.