“Character assassination” implies there was something there to kill.
I’m not sure who the “you” in Sylvanz’s quote is, if it’s anybody in particular. However if the “you” in the quote is getting their wish and replacing Biden presumably it is because the “you” think that the replacement is better. Therefore Sylvanz is talking to the hypothetical “you” about replacing Biden with a better candidate and then losing. It doesn’t have to be Sylvanz’s own opinion for the paraphase to make sense.
You can twist your self and my words as much as you like. Whether or not you used the quote function, you used quotation marks around words I did not use. That is not cool. Do better, and quit making excuses.
Learn how English works and stop moaning.
Pot meet kettle.
I know how English works. Do you understand what quotation marks are?
Moderating: Getting way too heated and off-topic. Drop this and return to the subject matter.
And please remember, do not argue moderation in thread.
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My apologies.
There is that, of course.
The Los Angeles Times checks in.
Just awful cloud cuckoo land thinking from the man who has been covering politics for the LA Times since 1974.
Exactly. Now if they were pro-Harris- that would be different. But of course Harris doesnt give the NYT the preferential treatment they think they should get.
Hmm, from your link-
“The media’s Anti-Biden noise isn’t an accident:
— CNN: CEO Trump donor
— ABC: CEO Trump donor
— CBS: CEO Trump donor
— NBC: CEO Trump donor
— MSNBC: CEO Trump donor
— Washington Post: owner anti-union billionaire Jeff Bezos
— Wall Street Journal: Owner: Rupert Murdoch
— New York Times: CEO Trump donor.”
Great link and please share in the Biden Considering Dropping out (no he doesnt) thread.
Might just be a fluctuation… but Biden’s small lead in the 538 analysis has opened up a bit from when Lance first posted it - out of 1000 simulations, Biden now gets 512 of them, Trump 484. The remaining four are 269-269 electoral college ties.
EDIT: It should be noted that 538’s analysis is not based strictly on polling. There are many non-polling factors included.
So next week is the Republican convention which is typically accompanied by a polling bump. Will we see stories about how this is a normal thing that should level out after the Dem convention or will we see another billion opinion pieces about how replacing Biden with someone less popular will magically lead to an easy D win?
Re last post, does anyone have a link to an opinion piece, in the NY Times or elsewhere, saying that replacing Biden leads to an easy D win? I do not take the claim that there are a large number literally. But 'd be interested to read one.
The LA Times piece I just linked to…
Why Clooney?
Most importantly, he’d whip the dangerous Donald Trump easily, probably by a landslide.
Bah, humbug. Oh well.
Willfully spreading misinformation is bad, no matter what side is doing it.
The ends do not justify the means
To be fair to the author, Thom Hartmann, the surrounding text is necessary for context (his emphasis):
So, again, what’s going on here?
One proposed answer is that the media is putting their thumb on the scale because they’re largely run by billionaires and corporations eager for more tax cuts and afraid of Biden’s Bernie-like promise to make them “pay their fair share.”
A popular meme this past weekend that went viral on social media, for example, says:
“The media’s Anti-Biden noise isn’t an accident:
— CNN: CEO Trump donor
— ABC: CEO Trump donor
— CBS: CEO Trump donor
— NBC: CEO Trump donor
— MSNBC: CEO Trump donor
— Washington Post: owner anti-union billionaire Jeff Bezos
— Wall Street Journal: Owner: Rupert Murdoch
— New York Times: CEO Trump donor.”While not entirely accurate (and overlooking the political leanings of the billionaires who own the social media sites where some studies suggest as many as a third of us get our news these days), and with the notorious exceptions of Fox, Sinclair, and X, most media reporting isn’t so simplistically driven from the top down.