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Joseph Mangano's avatar

Being on Trump’s "naughty list" should be read as a badge of honor. Unfortunately, with the FCC's involvement, it could come with real consequences, but you're in good company in a spiritual sense if you're ruffling his feathers.

eric achenbach's avatar

i still remember folks jostling to get on nixon's enemies list; it was a badge of honor to be hated by that man. rinse and repeat.

SteveB's avatar

If anyone else is interested in the psychological defense mechanism on display in the comments this morning (and there's no reason you should be) any criticism of Trump will always be met with "Hey, look over there! Look over there! THE LEFT is doing something BAD!" Just misdirection and the ol' whatabout, all the way down, til we finally get back to Hillary's Emails.

I know some people speculate about what happens as Trump's incompetence and corruption becomes undeniable, how will his MAGA minions respond, but this was never really about Trump, it's always been about us and their hatred of us. And that will live on, long after Trump is gone.

SteveB's avatar

And he literally can't imagine that people would hate Trump because the guy makes awful decisions that hurt people. No, no, we must all have some deep psychological need to hate Trump, that's it. Paging Dr. Freud to explain why people hate the most unpopular president in history. I wonder why people didn't like Herbert Hoover, was they psychological too?

eric achenbach's avatar

well, but it is normal ... for these corrupt bozo boys.

we'll see over the next two years if it's 'the new normal' for america, or if the country can get a reset.

Frank Lee's avatar

I agree with Trump... this left/Democrat bias, including subtle, covert and deniability-framed bias, needs to stop for any organization that gets to brand itself a "news" organization with all the benefits of the "free press" including all 1st Amendment rights.

I don't want any content producer silenced or banned, but those that are not focused on journalistic codes of conduct, and are pushing a political agenda, they should not be categorized as news organizations. Just like The Present Age is not a news organization.

There were many, many ways to frame that comment so that it did not take a disingenuous swipe at Trump. It is like being anti-Micheal Phelps and writing that he had mixed results in his Olympic events having come in third in two or three of them.

The real news isn't a place we should allow upset liberals to keep taking pot shots at the politicians they don't like.

Sean Corfield's avatar

Oh, how I wish this comment was satire...

Jonathan D. Simon's avatar

Goodness, without Fox News, OANN, Newsmax, Sinclair, and Clear Channel, how are you going to manage to stay informed?

Frank Lee's avatar

Well not from any of that since I don't watch any of that. I do listen to news talk radio and podcasts, but mostly read. I subscribe top Ground News, as well as the NYT, WSJ and the S.F. Chronicle and many magazines. Most of all that is severally Democrat biased and supporting and anti-Trump, including the WSJ that has taken' that turn. Mostly, I read books and Substack.

And please do not make me make the list of all the network programming that is left-biased. I don't want to embarrass you for your inane attempt.

NormanS's avatar

at the risk of being insulted by the unbiased here, but if there is a left and a right point of view, what are they? left is generally helping people and being empathetic to their plight, and right is leaving them to sicken and suffer as consequences of their own doing. So it's weird to consider them equal types of opinions that each deserve protection against bias. It's like saying to a sick person, I'd like to help you get well, and consider that bias against the illness. I just can't decide if it's absurd or insane.

SteveB's avatar

"I just can't decide if it's absurd or insane."

No need to choose, it's both!

Frank Lee's avatar

It's complicated. There is a globalist corporatist oligarchy with its billionaire assets managed by Wall Street. Wall Street owns controlling interest in the corporate media and tech. The oligarchy opposes the end of the US funded global order. That requires that the US does not re-industrakuze and basically bleeds out while going into more debt while continuing to provide global security and keeping its markets open accepting large trade deficits. The left is just a bunch of useful tools for the oligarchy to manipulate with media propaganda against Trump who is committed to ending the Global Order and bringing back US industrial might.

SteveB's avatar

1. I agree with Trump...

2. I don't want any content producer silenced or banned

See the contradiction here, Frank? Think REAL HARD.