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Quiet Em

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3. Yeah, and then Elie Honig or Scott Jennings or whoever would attempt to normalize it all.

Reply to Silent Type (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 12, 2024, 12:44 AM

Dec 12

"Oh, he's in court, the blue collar guy can relate to that."

C'mon.

Yeah, 1/2 the voters thought this was ok. But the media acted like it was ok as well.

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The attempts to normalize the con artist by media like CNN was bad enough [View all] Quiet Em Dec 12 OP

Our "Independent Media" seems to be rapidly making the transition The Unmitigated Gall Dec 12 #1

+1 jalan48 Dec 12 #5

Normalized? CNN showed that MFer 24/7 in court, doing/saying stupid things, interviewed people he raped, Silent Type Dec 12 #2

Yeah, and then Elie Honig or Scott Jennings or whoever would attempt to normalize it all. Quiet Em Dec 12 #3

Don't think Jennings, etc., fooled anyone. Besides their audience is small. Did he sway you, or anyone Silent Type Dec 12 #4

Didn't fool me, didn't fool you, didn't fool people who wanted to vote for Trump because of his bigotry either Quiet Em Dec 12 #6

Damn right he's a vile racist/bigot. Everyone knew it and CNN never said/projected otherwise. Silent Type Dec 12 #9

I don't have the same opinion. Quiet Em Dec 12 #10

Relatively very few people in the country watch cable news Kaleva Dec 12 #7

yeah that seems to be true. Quiet Em Dec 12 #8

Yes Kaleva Dec 12 #15

The media are largely responsible for him rising to power in the first place Meowmee Dec 12 #11

IMO, everything the magat party said was a cover up for bigotry and hatred. usonian Dec 12 #12

Turn off CNN and never speak of them again. flvegan Dec 12 #13

excellent post Skittles Dec 12 #14