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1. I don't think "the media have attempted to contextualize" him.
Thu Sep 12, 2024, 10:03 AM
Sep 2024

In fact, I think the media refused to put him in proper context.

He's the most thoroughly documented liar in history, yet it took years for them to even say he "has a problem with the truth". They had no such struggles calling bill Clinton a liar over one statement about Monica, and no such struggles calling Al gore a liar over his internet boast that they had to misquote in order to pretend it was a lie.

Democratic scandals are constantly reported on as career-threatening, we need pure and honest people in government, etc., but for republicans, and Donnie in particular, everything is ho-hum, he did this but magats still support him so we'll just move on.

The media continues to decontextualize Donnie, to treat him as exempt from all the normal rules of politics, law, decency, ethics, etc.

They act as if they are bound by a non-disparagement agreement, and I would not be shocked if it eventually turned out that that is exactly why they "struggle" to cover him.

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