The Bad Faith GOP, the Both-Sides Press, and the Biden Documents
The Bad Faith GOP, the Both-Sides Press, and the Biden DocumentsJust like in 2016, the press is once again echoing bad faith GOP attacks on Dem Presidential candidate
On Monday afternoon, CBS News broke a blockbuster story that threatened to shake up the political order. According to the report:
Well, this isn’t good. And it closely mirrors what caused the FBI to raid Donald Trump’s beach house last year — or maybe not. As it turns out, the situations could not be more different. But that won’t stop all of the players in our political drama from playing their roles.  EXCLUSIVE: Classified documents from Joe Biden’s vice-presidential office were discovered by the president's personal attorneys at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank in Washington, D.C. The traditional media went into overdrive — issuing push alerts and tweets about a criminal investigation into President Biden. The both-sides pundits foolishly drew false equivalence between Biden and Trump, and speculated about the political impact on an election that occurs in more than a year and half. And the Republicans (of course) engaged in performative outrage — demanding answers and accountability. It was all predictable and eerily reminiscent of the initial reaction to the reports in 2015 stating Hillary Clinton used a personal email server. And much like the Clinton situation, absent strong pushback from Democrats, the Republicans — aided and abetted by the political media — will shape the narrative, do damage to President Biden, and let Trump off the hook with a bunch of whataboutalism bullshit. Why Biden ≠ TrumpIf you are simply skimming Twitter or watching cable with one eye, you may have missed the specifics of the situation and how it differed dramatically from the Trump situation... Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to The Message Box to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. A subscription gets you:
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Stuff You Should Consume - Jan 15, 2023
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