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senseandsensibility

(21,543 posts)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 07:41 PM Jan 16

This is how CNN is covering Biden's warning about oligarchs

Biden warns about oligarchs. Some officials feel he may have helped create one.

Did not click on it.

So the oligarchy thing is Biden's problem? He created it? I have to say that CNN is even worse post election that I had expected, and my expectations were below ground level.
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This is how CNN is covering Biden's warning about oligarchs (Original Post) senseandsensibility Jan 16 OP
"some say" is the laziest of journalism. nt 2 Meow Momma Jan 16 #1
Lazy indeed- and it is the same rhetorical device that Trump uses. Redleg Jan 16 #11
What? Cirsium Jan 16 #2
I didn't click on it so I can't tell you what their senseandsensibility Jan 16 #3
I read it Cirsium Jan 16 #6
If you want to share details, I'll read them here senseandsensibility Jan 16 #7
OK Cirsium Jan 16 #9
OMG senseandsensibility Jan 16 #10
"One"!? "One"???? Which one ..? live love laugh Jan 16 #4
"Some say" Mossfern Jan 16 #5
I know, saw it and damn near trashed my CNN app.......I should. a kennedy Jan 16 #8

Redleg

(6,419 posts)
11. Lazy indeed- and it is the same rhetorical device that Trump uses.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 11:47 PM
Jan 16

The media appears to be bending over backwards to both-sides every damned issue.

Cirsium

(2,162 posts)
2. What?
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 07:54 PM
Jan 16

Biden created an oligarch? How'd he do that? Dr. Frankenbiden must be hard at work in his laboratory.

Maybe AI created a journalist?

This goes way beyond sloppy or irresponsible journalism. Someone worked very hard to twist reality into that pretzel shape.

senseandsensibility

(21,543 posts)
3. I didn't click on it so I can't tell you what their
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 07:58 PM
Jan 16

"premise" is but I guarantee you they are trying to "both sider" this and it's BS.

Cirsium

(2,162 posts)
9. OK
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 08:23 PM
Jan 16

Biden snubbed Musk, supposedly. Somehow that magically turned Musk into an oligarch.

President Joe Biden’s warnings Wednesday night about social media misinformation, the tech-industrial complex and the concentration of wealth and power struck many as a not-so-subtle shot across the bow at Elon Musk, the world’s richest man who’s also become President-elect Donald Trump’s closest consigliere.

But within the White House, many officials are grappling with a missed opportunity to cultivate Musk as an ally, whose interests as an electric vehicle manufacturer often aligned with the administration, a staunch supporter of clean energy initiatives. Worse, some have wondered whether their actions to exclude Musk may have emboldened the entrepreneur to back Trump and pour a quarter-billion dollars into efforts to reelect him. Musk, a former Democrat, had not backed either candidate until Trump survived a mid-July assassination attempt.

Then, Biden responded forcefully to lies from Musk about the administration. That made Musk mad, so he turned into a fascist. All Biden's fault, don't you know?

As Musk’s criticism throughout the term grew louder, the White House clapped back instead of trying to quiet it.

One anonymous White House official made this vague statement to the "journalist":

“There were people excluded from conversations that they shouldn’t have done that to,” said one senior official of the decision to isolate Biden from people with opposing views. “They made a mistake. I think they miscalculated.”


That seals the deal, I guess. Yup, Biden created an oligarch with his snubs and fact checking.

It's all Biden's fault! (whatever it is).

senseandsensibility

(21,543 posts)
10. OMG
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 08:35 PM
Jan 16

Thanks for that. Even weaker premise than I thought. Big Bad Biden forced little Elon to go oligarch? Pathetic.

a kennedy

(33,176 posts)
8. I know, saw it and damn near trashed my CNN app.......I should.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 08:07 PM
Jan 16

It’s just been a habit to check them out, but they have seriously gone off the deep end.

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