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cnmne's avatar

Your point about the Democratic Party-aligned media 'juicing' Trump stories is spot on. Coming from the left, for quite a while I'd take them at their word whenever they'd summarized something Trump said. Then one day I actually watched one of the referenced clips in full and found that he hadn't said any of the things they said at all, they'd somehow projected or imagined that he had said something worse and attributed it to him. Since then, I've made a point of actually watching important clips all the way through, and frequently they don't line up with the juiced narratives that are being pushed.

For example, the hullabaloo over him telling the Proud Boys to 'stand by'. In the full exchange (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZk6VzSLe4Y) he's clearly denouncing them, but people seized on his awkward phrasing to make it sound like he wanted them to attack or something. (Katy Halper even repeated this during a Useful Idiots episode!)

To be clear, i think Trump is a dimwit and don't agree with him on a million things, but pretending he's some Grand Dragon Machiavellian Puppetmaster totally misses the point. Trump blurted out plenty of things that were disqualifying and frightening, you don't need to invent stuff. There are many more examples of this. My trust in most media has absolutely plummeted this year.

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jeanjoel spatafora's avatar

I don't think we can come back from this division.

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