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applegrove

(124,250 posts) Tue Feb 4, 2025, 11:08 PM 9 hrs ago

Lawrence O'Donnell Shows How The Mainstream Media Enables Trump By Chasing Distractions

Lawrence O'Donnell Shows How The Mainstream Media Enables Trump By Chasing Distractions

Lawrence O'Donnell pointed out that the mainstream media falls for Trump's stupid distractions and never asks about what he is really doing.

Sarah Jones & Jason Easley

Feb 5

https://www.politicususa.com/

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Lawrence O’Donnell said:

But he managed to hijack the programming of some news networks so that they are not talking about life-saving medicine. being blocked from children. And they're not talking about starvation, preventing food that the United States Agency for International Development is not delivering tonight because of Donald Trump and Elon Musk who decided to illegally shut down that agency, stop all the employees of USAID around the world from doing their jobs.

There is a famine in Sudan. And USAID had food shipments on the way that Elon Musk decided to stop, because Elon Musk does not believe those people in Africa should be fed. He apparently does not believe that they have a right to life. The richest person in the world decided that the poorest people in the world should starve.

The richest person in the world decided that the poorest people in the world should die. And the President of the United States, who lied about Gaza in that press conference tonight, was not asked a single question about why he is blocking life saving medicine to babies, to mothers, to grandmothers, and why he's blocking the delivery of food to starving people.

Not one question. Because he threw out that madness about Gaza becoming the Riviera of the Middle East, and the reporters fell for it. The reporters chased him. The reporters all wanted to waste their questions on the infrastructure weak goofiness of that press conference. Every single question they asked Donald Trump about infrastructure during his first presidency was a wasted question.

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Lawrence O'Donnell Shows How The Mainstream Media Enables Trump By Chasing Distractions (Original Post) applegrove 9 hrs ago OP

Figured he would FHRRK 9 hrs ago #1

I don't get Rachel. I watched Abby Phillip on CNN applegrove 9 hrs ago #2

Yep, none of them are talking much about Chinese tariffs uponit7771 7 hrs ago #3

You'd think at least a few of 'em would have caught on by now. calimary 6 hrs ago #4

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FHRRK

(1,027 posts)

1. Figured he would

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Feb 4, 2025, 11:19 PM

9 hrs ago

Any idea what Rachel did?

Right after the Bibi Donald shit show I watched five minutes of Joy Reid and Alex Wagner reporting exclusively on Gaza. When Joy stated, even Bibi seem to be surprised, I had enough.

JFC they learned jack fucking shit in ten fucking years.

The only proper response is basically, he is trying his misdirection once again. With that his comments are very alarming to soft targets in the US and military targets in the MidEast. Another example of tRump and Hegseth being in way over their heads, now lets focus on the Treasury.

Full disclosure, I am not one of those against condemning Dem leaders, in this case the Dems dragged their asses over to Treasury and ripped Edolph and tRump a new one. So, is the media ignorant, lazy, or complicit?

applegrove

(124,250 posts)

2. I don't get Rachel. I watched Abby Phillip on CNN

Reply to FHRRK (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 4, 2025, 11:24 PM

9 hrs ago

and her mixed panel saw a clip of Democrats outside the Treasury Bldg and both the Republicans and the Democrats on the panel were, let's just say, not awed by it.