Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "SE Cupp: Can't shame someone incapable of that emotion" video.
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***MEDIA FAIL*** -- CNN and top NY Times reporter analyze problems in U.S. political landscape, yet NEVER even one single mention of some of the most important salient facts!
1) Putin is playing U.S. population, gaming elections.
2) Republicans are playing U.S. population, gaming elections.
3) Republicans are willfully and knowingly spreading Putin's debunked propaganda in aid of both their own and Russia's aforementioned efforts.
4) Republicans are willfully and knowingly protecting a President that has compromised himself with our chief foreign adversary, Russia, despite clear and overwhelming evidence of criminality of the highest order threatening our elections, democracy, and national security.
No rational analysis of the situation can be obtained by omission of such relevant facts. Instead, what the public is provided in this mediocre media presentation is a mindless mish-mash of moral mush and doubt where the skies are ever so clear and bright, the danger ever so present.
Moreover, any reasonable analysis does not ignore that a Republican cult has been created over decades by right-wing media and demagogues that is without parallel on the left. Bruni was right that Trump is not the only problem, but fails to make the logical case that Trump is merely a symptom of the disease, a figurehead which can be replaced. Bruni fails to account how Republican politicians are now beholden to the cult they created.
Bruni, CNN and, indeed, most of MSM, consistently fail to make critical distinctions necessary to informing the public by falsely inferring or equating left and right when it involves matters of right or wrong, with truth on one side, nothing but deceptions on the other. This is a recurring theme in MSM which is highly destructive to our society--hope the media keeps that in mind next time they discuss how destructive the partisan divide is without assigning blame where blame rightly belongs.
Bruni basically states that both sides equally view the other as something of an existential threat, but fails to provide any crucial context, rational or comparison of the two to support his opinion. How is it equal, when one side is praying for the other side preying on others and getting preyed upon? How is equal when one side seeks to unite, the other to divide? If true both sides living in mortal fear of the other, what reason for each side for that fear? When was that fear instilled for each side? Was there justification, or was it the product of demagoguery? All very important question any good journalist should be addressing, but MSM fails spectacularly again to inform the public.
The problem is clear, the solution more complicated. The problem isn't actually Russia, but right-wing media, demagoguery, and propaganda dividing us into two realities in a world where--obviously--only one can exist. Only one of those realities is Orwellian. That world was being created with GOP Potemkin villages long before Russia even thought about meddling in U.S. elections. If not their initial intent, GOP propaganda opened the door, facilitating similar Russian attacks against us; nevertheless, Putin merely represents just one more poison added to their already toxic stew. Is media REALLY this stupid? Which side calls a free press the "enemy of the American people?"
So, we know the problem, and we don't start blaming the whole classroom when one student or group starts acting out. Now, what to do; how does the media help make the public aware of this Republican cult and the dangers their behavior poses to society, including their own selves? How do we stop or protect ourselves from such partisan disinformation programming of the population now and in the future? How can Americans that are typically apathetic or indifferent to politics be persuaded that they have a moral and patriotic obligation to become informed and to speak out, to protest, to vote, to make a difference for their country and society when vitally needed? THAT'S the discussion we ought to be having. Media BE better, WE be better!
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