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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It was pretty close (yet another fellatio-esque gift to Trunp) This came out July 30th before Karma -la-la-la even chose her VP:
Harris Looks to Maintain Momentum as ‘Honeymoon Phase’ Winds Down
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/29/us/politics/harris-nomination-vice-president.html
Looking at the article, the phrase that's got you so bothered is an exact quote of a comment from a former (Democratic) governor of Nebraska.
"'I would call it a honeymoon phase,' said Steve Sisolak, the former Democratic governor of Nevada, a key swing state. 'We’ve got to keep the energy going. You got it started — now you’ve got to keep it going. It’s going to be a challenge for everybody.'"
At that stage, it's actually a perfectly reasonable observation and comment.
So, tell me which part of this is unreasonable and unfair?
I mean, the Times literally PUT QUOTES around "honeymoon phase" in the headline.
Calling it sucking Trump's dick is WAY, WAY over the top.
I think I’m being somewhat reserved when I compare normalizing a hollow stupid insipid grotesque amAssNeck on a daily basis as an act of fellating.
To each his own.
Of course you do.
This is a real thing. I’ve posted about it before. Josh Marshall of TPM, one of the keenest erudite political journalists wrote:
“ There’s an appetite brewing in major segments of the political press for Harris’ momentum and press dominance to end. The Times had a piece a week ago saying Harris’s “honeymoon” was ending and that she had to find new ways to keep up her campaign’s momentum. That turned out to be editors trying to manifest a reality into existence. It didn’t work.
That’s via:
A Miscellany of Observations
By Josh Marshall
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-miscellany-of-observations
Go find a nice house to haunt.
I think you just won an oubliette.
Ell oh ell.
The New York Times did NOT have ANY such piece, by the way, as I've already pointed out to you.
They had a piece QUOTING someone expressing that view, and not even slightly incorrectly in the context it was made.
If this bozo working for the right-wing site is so "keen" and "erudite", how did he fail to NOTICE that?
TPM isn’t right wing. What’re you talking about??
And your question is ridiculous. What story do I want the NY Time to write about Harris?? How about just report the fuxking facts for one and then maybe they shouldn’t write these kinds of stories they have an agenda about and from ONE fxking quote..
You can stop now.
Stay angry, if you must, but I'm not interested in having to watch it.
This is the story THEY chose.
Just out of pure, stupid curiosity, what's the story that they SHOULD have chosen?
Just out of pure stupid cantankerousness on my part, that’s not the issue, thanks very much. Alrighty friend. Just back away from the laptop now… and we can all go home still friends.
NO U
Did you just say you were LOOKING for a fight? I think you did.
Seriously, you've made yourself look silly enough already. No need to compound things.
They "chose" that story, you have no BETTER story for them to choose. And that, somehow, is "not the issue", in spite of it being the only issue you've actually raised.
Muting this thread, it started out dopey and it's wandered into "preposterous".
@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.
Precisely what it is.
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.
@TheAbbotTrithemius The NYT is not a friend to the Harris/Walz campaign, all the more because they perceive that they are becoming redundant. Social media has become the new mainstream.
NYT needs strife because drama sells.
We'll show them it's not a honeymoon phase, it's the way it once was, and it's the way it'll stay.
@TheAbbotTrithemius
It was people in the Dickless campaign who first suggested the Harris' gains were a "honeymoon".