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President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Jan 20, 2021.

  1. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    When alternate facts even isn’t enough …
     
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  2. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    It's a lesson the press struggle to learn.

    Front of the Guardian, Tuesday January 31, 7:25 EST:

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    News, sport and opinion from the Guardian's US edition | The Guardian
     
  3. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Of course it gets a huge headline. He's the former president. It's Bob Woodward. It's a YUGE number.

    But the purpose of the front page treatment at this point, isn't because anyone takes Trump seriously, or thinks he might have a legit $50 million lawsuit against Bob Woodward. The distinction is that people click on that to read about the ridiculousness / douchbaggery of Trump, not because anyone is taking a lawsuit from him seriously. Nobody is going to even read any details about the suit before they are rolling their eyes.
     
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  4. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    "You know, Bob, I love the tapes. They're so great. We love tapes. I mean, no president you ever wrote about had a problem with tapes, right, Bob?"
     
  5. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member


    That's the thing - not only is every Trump lawsuit catnip to the press, as a former president, it's now mandatory catnip to the press.

    Trump hasn't changed his game for 40 years.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...n-trump/88ecf4ba-6c1e-4226-8924-4101a60f5478/

    He's like a Roy Cohn cover band.

    Also worth remembering how bad his lawyers have always been.
     
    Last edited: Jan 31, 2023
  6. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    Headline should read: Trump files baseless suit for $50m over Trump Tapes, followed up with an explainer by a lawyer telling the stupid masses why the lawsuit is baseless. Eight years later and we haven’t learned our lesson with this guy.
     
  7. Brooklyn Bridge

    Brooklyn Bridge Well-Known Member

    Do they know Pinochet lived to be 91, and Mugabe was 95? TFG can be with them for another 20 years.
     
  8. Octave

    Octave Well-Known Member

    Woodward is such a gullible tool he was shocked by what he heard in those 'interviews'
     
  9. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    Reading the article might be of use so you can know what the issue is.
     
  10. Woody Long

    Woody Long Well-Known Member

    Do you think that a political party that has blindly celebrated "American Exceptionalism" for the past 40 years has ever made any attempt to study the history of... anywhere else, save for Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union?
     
  11. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

  12. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    True enough. I had by the time I made that comment. Trump suing people who piss him off is a dog bites man story.
     
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