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after receiving a spectacular jobs
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report for September 2023 President
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Biden was challenged by the media to
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explain the discrepancy between the
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economic data and the perceptions of the
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American people and Biden gave an answer
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which was honest and blunt and then the
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media proved him right and further
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debunked a long-standing myth about the
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relationship between the media and the
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Democratic party but before we unpack
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all that if you haven't yet please hit
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so this is a bit of an unexpected
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follow-up story to a story that we did
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yesterday which was about the September
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2023 jobs report so just as a quick
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recap it was spectacular President Biden
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consistently gets great monthly jobs
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reports they're very very high 14
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million jobs have been created on his
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watch and in September
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339,000 jobs were added to the economy
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which was twice it was double what was
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initially projected fantastic news but
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then the media challenged him when he
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gave public remarks about this to
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explain La okay the economic dat data
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says one thing but the American people
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feel something else why is that I think
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most people still don't feel positive or
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feel good news about the economy well
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first of all you just heard the news
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today too they haven't heard it I think
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the people those 300 plus thousand
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people who got jobs feel better about
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the economy I
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look I got to choose my words here
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CL you all are not happiest people in
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the world what you
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report and I mean it
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sincerely it gets a more little you get
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more legs when you're reporting
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something that's negative I don't mean I
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don't mean you're picking on me I'm just
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the nature of things you turn on the
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television and there's not a whole lot
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about boy saves dog as he swims in the
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lake you know to say you know it's about
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you know somebody pushed a dog in a
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lake so the president is absolutely
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correct as clums L as that may have been
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worded simply true negative stories get
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more attention than positive stories
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it's not just in the media it's just
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period I mean that's why like trash
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reality TV and drama sell so well we are
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drawn as a society it's not unique to
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America it's just how the world works we
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are drawn to more negativity than we are
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positivity okay and then what's
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interesting is right after this jobs
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report was announced the media proved
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his point and not just Fox News CNN of
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all places so after the September jobs
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report came out the headline from CNN
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was why the shockingly good jobs report
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is going to cost you the implication
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clearly being that that great jobs
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report isn't really that great but
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behold what the same Source CNN had to
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say back in 2018 When Donald Trump got
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half that number of jobs Trump's right
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the economy is doing well and he
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deserves some credit so CNN part of the
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mainstream media which is supposed to be
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in the pocket of the democratic party is
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actually praising Trump for doing half
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the good or getting half the results
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that Biden got and meanwhile Biden is
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held to this impossibly high standard
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the point is this I don't think it's
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because CNN you know CNN journalists or
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whatever they love Trump I don't think
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it's because they're voting Trump they
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probably have a personal liberal bias
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but in terms of their reporting they'll
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throw Biden and the Democrats under the
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bus because it generates clicks and
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attention and Trump is a constant drama
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machine so Trump in power and Trump
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being relevant even if they may
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personally despise it it's actually
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really good for business because again
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negativity sells far more and generates
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far more attention than positivity and
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so I want to play a couple of Clips here
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this is with John Stewart more than a
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decade ago I think this is about 12
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years ago okay this was he did an
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interview an extended interview with Fox
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News or former Fox News host Chris
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Wallace he was employed by Fox at the
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time in which they had a discussion
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about the difference between right-wing
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media as exemplified by Fox and the main
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stream media and I want to play two
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clips because I think John Stewart Nails
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it perfectly because the bias of are
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indefensible the bias of the mainstream
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oh I'm not saying it's defensible but
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the bias of the mainstream media is
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towards sensationalism conflict and
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laziness well okay okay well put I want
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to play one more clip from him and it's
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towards the end of that same interview
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it's about a 20-minute interview should
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definitely check it out because it still
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has a lot of relevance even if the
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examples cited don't just because of
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time but this is uh this is John Stewart
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getting into it again with Chris Wallace
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towards the end of the interview every
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single one of the 24-hour news networks
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24-hour news networks are built for one
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thing and that's 911 and the type of you
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know gigantic news event that the type
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of apparatus that exists in this
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building and exists at the other 24 news
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hours is perfectly suited to cover in
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the absence of that they're not just
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going to say there's not that much
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that's urgent or important or conflicted
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happening today so so we are going to
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Jin up we are going to uh bring forth
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more conflict and more sensationalism
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because we want you to continue watching
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us 24 hours a day seven days a week even
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when the news doesn't necessarily
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warrant that type of behavior so here's
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my example of what news bias is in my
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mind three networks Fox CNN
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MSNBC are going live to the nany Pelosi
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news conference because they are sure
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coming on the heels of Anthony Weiner
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resigning that she is going to make some
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sort of incredible statement about you
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know uh I'm disappointed Anthony we so
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they're all locked on it and the whole
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time there's hand ringing I can't
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believe we got to go and and do this you
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know the American people don't care
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about this they care about jobs they
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care about the economy that's what the
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American people care about we're about
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to go live to uh speaker Pelosi she's
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about to do that she steps up to the
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podium and says what I'm not going to
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comment about Anthony Weiner I'm going
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to talk about jobs and I'm going to talk
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about the economy and what did everybody
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do
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left so what's your proof again about
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the partisan agenda and what I
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do that's the embarrassment the
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embarrassment is that I'm given
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credibility in this world because of the
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disappointment that the public has in
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what the news media does not because I
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have an ideological I don't think our
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viewers are the least bit disappointed
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with us I think our viewers think
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finally they're getting somebody who
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tells the other side of the
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story who is the most consistently
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misinformed media viewers the most
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consistently misinformed fox fox
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viewers so great interview he's so good
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at this U and even though those things
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came from more than 10 years ago they're
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absolutely
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relevant Democrats absolutely have to
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get better with message discipline
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there's no question about it as I said
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in the video yesterday facts don't speak
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for themselves and if facts and feelings
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are in conf you can just bet on feelings
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Feelings Will trump facts okay so
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Democrats absolutely have to get
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infinitely more disciplined and
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persuasive in terms of conveying the
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facts to the American people while also
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being sensitive to the fact that there
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are legitimate economic anxieties and
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pains still under Biden okay but also
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that challenge is infinitely harder when
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we're in a media ecosystem which wants
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to grade Republicans on a curve and hold
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Democrats to the most ludicrous ly
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impossible standards so the media just
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absolutely made the case they proved
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Biden correct and I want you to keep
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this in mind okay because again we have
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to fight this every single chance we get
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in the smallest possible ways there is
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no liberal bias in the media other than
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just the fact that reality as Steven
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coar famously said has a well-known
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liberal bias but journalists even in the
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mainstream media even those journalists
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who probably vote for Democrats because
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they don't you know support Republic
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uans when it comes to their work they
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will absolutely throw Democrats under
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the bus and Biden under the bus in a way
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that Fox News oann Newsmax and then
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right-wing alternate media never will
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right-wing media is motivated by
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ideology mainstream media is as John
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Stewart said motivated by laziness
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sensationalism and drama
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