TPM: Harris’ Campaign Is Working—Get Used to It
“Presidential campaigns are about defining choices about the direction of country. Having people getting excited about your campaign and your vision about the future of the country is a good thing, not some frivolous sugar high. I’m sure Harris will do some sit-down interviews. But we should remember that the purpose of a campaign is to win an election.”
Sick of the BS narrative begun by the NY Times (of course…) of “Honeymoon phase” and “Sugar high” and it’s like WTF? Just let it be … it’s real and it’s a cultural phenom already…and there’s a deep deep thirst for the Harris/Walz campaign. Don’t second guess asshole horse race news agencies needing to manufacture drama (like the insipid NY Slimes), just fcking report the facts jackasses…
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@TheAbbotTrithemius I was just saying to a friend how woeful and transparent press motives are. But if you were a self-respecting organization with journalistic standards and a desire to report events, wouldn’t you want to observe and explore the marvel of a groundswell movement? A potential sea change in the political landscape? Because that’s what this feels like to me.
It is… it’s not like people are stupid and just jump on board with things so full-heartedly if they weren’t already 90 % there themselves.
But since the MaGA-cult is now the pathetic bar being set for a political movement, NY Time’s and Co news agencies want to false equivalent everything because they’re lazy and cynical.
Not fair and insulting actually.
Instead of holding journalistic standards they’ve decided to lower them in deference to Trump’s threats of no access.
@TheAbbotTrithemius @LnzyHou @LKNWoman
It's not like the New York Times, or any paper, is obliged to underwrite "cultural phenomenons" and not to quote the Democratic ex-governor of Nebraska, who's the one who said "honeymoon phase".
The Times simply QUOTED him.
Find a better example.
@TheAbbotTrithemius @LnzyHou @LKNWoman
Not to mention a more recent one. That story's two weeks old, and a lot has happened.
When was the LAST time the Times quoted someone calling it a "sugar high"? Was it someone on the TRUMP CAMPAIGN?
Are they insisting it's a "honeymoon phase" that's sure to end soon within the past week?
"The New York Times is sucking Trump's dick" is a pretty weighty accusation.
@mcfate @TheAbbotTrithemius @LnzyHou You mean in the same way they’ve stuck their fingers up the ass of that cultural phenomenon known as the MAGA movement and said “cough” so we could all really get a good look? Has there ever been a group of voters more over-represented in press coverage? For my part, any piece that fails to acknowledge Trump’s amorality, criminality, and unfitness for office is the equivalent of s*****g his ****. Anyway, I’m pretty tired rn and may be missing your point. 🤷🏼♀️
@LKNWoman @TheAbbotTrithemius @LnzyHou
I get it.
You want newspapers to be nothing but opinion columns, and only the opinions that tell you whatever it is you already believe.
It's fascinating to me that out of the two of you, one of you has the Times sucking Trump's dick and the other has it giving him a prostate massage.
You guys are telling me a lot more about yourselves than the Times, quite frankly.
@LKNWoman @TheAbbotTrithemius @LnzyHou
And doctors don't do hernia exams by sticking their fingers up anyone's ass.
So, that's about as on-the-mark as the rest of this.
@mcfate @TheAbbotTrithemius @LnzyHou Thanks for your opinion. I’ll be super duper careful with my metaphors from now on.
@LKNWoman @TheAbbotTrithemius @LnzyHou
Don't bother, I'll never hear any of them.
@mcfate @TheAbbotTrithemius @LnzyHou Nah. Not even close to what I want. MY point was, if no paper has to “underwrite a cultural phenomenon,” why have they spent so much time on interviewing MAGA voters? I’m not familiar with the specific “sugar high” example in the original post, but my thoughts on a similar subject seemed relevant and I shared them. On that post. I’m not trying to tell you anything about the Times. I expressed an opinion that offended you. Greatly, evidently.
@LKNWoman @TheAbbotTrithemius
Precisely what it is.