In January, five years of Donald Trump’s rhetoric culminated in an attack on the Capitol and its police force by thousands of his supporters, who believed they were attempting to overturn an election that had been stolen from them by inner-city Democrats and voting machine companies. The mainstream press TV networks and print publications with major Beltway presences generally described these events, harshly but correctly, as the unprecedented result of the Republican Party’s efforts to discredit Joe Biden by circulating false information.
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In the wake of the violence, Trump was banned from using the big social media networks, and news outlets treated his remaining public statements with a heightened version of the awkward, insta-skeptical style they had developed gradually during his term (“Trump Claims, Without Evidence, That Bat People Are Sabotaging His Border Wall,” etc.). There was no more violence, and Biden took office in what, aside from COVID-19 preca
@Matt McIrvin: All bullies have one thing in common: They shrink in the face of resistance because they’re all really insecure cowards, and need to pick on others as some bizarre form of self-validation.
I got bullied once in my life when I was in elementary school. The kid tried to shake me down for lunch money, I kicked him in the balls and all the other kids laughed at him while he writhed in agony.
Two things happened: 1) I got a detention and 2) I never got bullied again. And that kid never bullied anyone else again in my school once he lost that bully mystique.
‘Fox & Friends’ Ties Prince Philip’s Death to ‘Stress’ Over Meghan Markle Interview
Observers were quick to criticize the comments from Fox News’ Brian KilmeadeLindsey Ellefson | April 9, 2021 @ 6:58 AM Last Updated: April 9, 2021 @ 7:03 AM
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During a Friday morning discussion of Prince Philip’s death, “Fox & Friends” host Brian Kilmeade brought up Meghan Markle’s recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, saying the televised sitdown stressed out the late prince.
“There are reports that he was enraged after the interview and the fallout from the interview with Oprah Winfrey,” said Kilmeade, noting that the tell-all came as the 99-year-old prince was in the hospital. “So, here he is trying to recover and then he gets hit with that.”
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Suppressing and controlling the vote has become the Republican Party s most urgent and most defining political issue, putting Washington reporters in the uncomfortable position of having to choose between covering it like any other partisan squabble or as the grotesque, racist, anti-democratic sequel to Trump s Big Lie that it is.
This really shouldn t be a hard one.
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Reporters should be covering the battle over voting as a
civil rights issue. They should be putting it in the context of the urgent need to