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BaronChocula

(2,388 posts)
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 04:40 PM Tuesday

Why no media frenzy over trump town hall freeze?

The republican party is very white and very male, way more so than the Democratic Party. White men have always received more credit, reverence, and passes than anyone else in America. Republicans get the white man's pass that even white male Democrats don't get.

This is a continued case of media giving trump the white man's pass.

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Why no media frenzy over trump town hall freeze? (Original Post) BaronChocula Tuesday OP
What freeze, please? Coexist Tuesday #1
It wasn't so much of a freeze as an episode where he spent 39 minutes Ocelot II Tuesday #3
Oh! I thought he looked like he was having a stroke or something Coexist Tuesday #6
You call that MFM008 Tuesday #7
It was his concept of grooving. Most of us would call it an "episode." Ocelot II Tuesday #9
He was standing and swaying and pooping 💩 Gaytano70 Tuesday #10
It's getting lots of coverage malaise Tuesday #2
I actually posted while watching her BaronChocula Tuesday #14
Getting lots of coverage on media I watch/read. Here's CNN laughing at the ole fool. Silent Type Tuesday #4
Jeff Epstein taught him the double jerk move. Arne Tuesday #12
Coverage vs. FRENZY n/t BaronChocula Tuesday #22
Tough coverage. Heck, if they ran it all day, media would get accused of sanewashing Silent Type Tuesday #23
But seriously, not if covered in the right perspective BaronChocula Tuesday #25
I think it's just giving the Republicans a pass. BlueKota Tuesday #5
As I stated BaronChocula Tuesday #21
It does make sense BlueKota Tuesday #26
Now I'm off to mail my ballot! BaronChocula Tuesday #28
Google trump town hall. Ocelot II Tuesday #8
I'm talking coverage vs. FRENZY BaronChocula Tuesday #17
Nicolle Wallace literally had it on a small screen on her show. nolabear Tuesday #11
He was lucky she wasn't armed BlueKota Tuesday #27
It's coming up on Facebook for all the major networks. It's just getting going! nt Quixote1818 Tuesday #13
But I said FRENZY! BaronChocula Tuesday #15
EXACTLY! While lots of Trump's weird behavior and horrible rhetoric does get called out... RidinWithHarris Tuesday #29
TY! BaronChocula Tuesday #30
It is all over the place obamanut2012 Tuesday #16
I clarify in the comment above BaronChocula Tuesday #18
Imagine if that was Kamala Harris, the news media would have her doc03 Tuesday #19
THANK YOU! BaronChocula Tuesday #20
Rhetorical question. Amirite? Autumn Tuesday #24

Ocelot II

(119,697 posts)
3. It wasn't so much of a freeze as an episode where he spent 39 minutes
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 04:44 PM
Tuesday

at a town hall just grooving to some tunes instead of answering questions. And it is being covered by the media, at least some of it, or we wouldn't know about it at all. Nicole Wallace has spent most of the first half of her show on it.

malaise

(276,777 posts)
2. It's getting lots of coverage
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 04:42 PM
Tuesday

all day.
Are you watching Nicole. She has all 39 minutes playing in the background.

Silent Type

(5,977 posts)
4. Getting lots of coverage on media I watch/read. Here's CNN laughing at the ole fool.
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 04:45 PM
Tuesday
Go to 1:10 for lead in to trump clown show. And Bill Maher will be on CNN Saturday and guarantee he'll do his joke about trump dancing like he's jerking off two guys.

BaronChocula

(2,388 posts)
25. But seriously, not if covered in the right perspective
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 05:57 PM
Tuesday

Joe Biden got hammered for his debate performance. That was not sanewashing. Nicole Wallace covered trump's inaction in a proper perspective being "this is part of a larger fucking problem." Media can objectively follow suit, but they won't.

trump just gets the white man's pass.

BlueKota

(3,193 posts)
5. I think it's just giving the Republicans a pass.
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 04:46 PM
Tuesday

I mean President Biden is a white man and look at how much they went after him for even the slightest lapse while he
was still in the race.

Where as Trump is showing signs he needs to be in a dementia unit at a nursing care facility, and we hear crickets from mainstream media.

The Republicans falsely accused the press of being liberally biased for so long that the media has actually become right wing kiss asses, by trying to go out of their way to show they are not biased for the left.

BaronChocula

(2,388 posts)
21. As I stated
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 05:21 PM
Tuesday

Republicans get the white man's pass more so than even white male Democrats because of the association. The mere association of the less white, less male party gives people and institutions permission to fuck with white male Democrats in a way they wouldn't fuck with a white male Republicans.

So your comment actually proves my point.

I hope that makes sense.

nolabear

(42,894 posts)
11. Nicolle Wallace literally had it on a small screen on her show.
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 04:55 PM
Tuesday

She put it on and ran the entire 38 minutes in the bottom corner with a counter. When you actually see it, it boggles the mind. He looked like he was waiting for a bus that never came, gazing off and swaying and doing that weird little handjob dance—FOR THIRTY EIGHT MINUTES. Kristi Noem must be breathing into a bag right now. She looked like the caretaker stuck with a very, very crazy patient.

BaronChocula

(2,388 posts)
15. But I said FRENZY!
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 05:10 PM
Tuesday

Great word, frenzy, like when Joe Biden had a lackluster debate performance in June. It was followed by a FRENZY that was fed by the FRENZY over his age.

A convicted felon and rapist stands on stage moving to music for over a half hour at what's supposed to be a town hall. It feeds into the notion that he's unfit. There's coverage. But there's no FRENZY.

RidinWithHarris

(628 posts)
29. EXACTLY! While lots of Trump's weird behavior and horrible rhetoric does get called out...
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 06:13 PM
Tuesday

...now and then, never EVER does it result in anything CLOSE the the weeks-long wall-to-wall coverage of Biden's fitness that followed his debate performance.

Yet what Trump is doing far more worthy of that kind of hand-wringing concern.

BaronChocula

(2,388 posts)
20. THANK YOU!
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 05:15 PM
Tuesday

trump gets mere coverage for significantly questionable behavior. It's definitely not leading news anywhere I see.

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