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senseandsensibility

(24,250 posts)
Sun May 18, 2025, 05:33 PM May 2025

If you were wondering if CNN would back off Biden now

I hate to be the bearer of bad news. Flipped out of morbid curiosity, and Jeff Zeleny was saying that Biden is now a Shakespearian tragic character and basically that it proves that he should have backed out of the Presidency sooner and that this will just continue to raise more questions. Could not get off of that station fast enough. But not fast enough to miss his praise of trump for being "respectful" in this moment.

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If you were wondering if CNN would back off Biden now (Original Post) senseandsensibility May 2025 OP
Cancer affects both young and old these days newdeal2 May 2025 #1
ABC Evening news talking about his mental acuity HereForTheParty May 2025 #2
Yuck senseandsensibility May 2025 #3
Probably because he advocated "making the rich pay their fair share". n/t Mister Ed May 2025 #4
No they dont. They dont give a crap either johnnyfins May 2025 #13
Not in the segment I saw. The report mentioned Biden having been generally out of the public eye lapucelle May 2025 #7
not about the president's. barbtries May 2025 #16
Pretty much what I expected Meowmee May 2025 #5
I have to admit that I was shocked senseandsensibility May 2025 #6
Yes it is still shocking even though it is expected Meowmee May 2025 #18
For some, bullying is habit-forming BaronChocula May 2025 #8
Just a reminder: HARRIS ran for president in 2024. Young, articulate and very healthy. SunSeeker May 2025 #9
If you wanted to land on your feet after a fascist takeover... hay rick May 2025 #10
"praise of trump for being "respectful" in this moment" dflprincess May 2025 #11
I expected nothing else MustLoveBeagles May 2025 #12
Who the fuck is Jeff Zeleny? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2025 #14
thanks for the report. barbtries May 2025 #15
Thank you for this list MustLoveBeagles May 2025 #17
you are so welcome. barbtries May 2025 #19

johnnyfins

(3,441 posts)
13. No they dont. They dont give a crap either
Sun May 18, 2025, 08:29 PM
May 2025

Way. They are just making sure TSFs failures are not front and center. THAT is the truth.

lapucelle

(20,948 posts)
7. Not in the segment I saw. The report mentioned Biden having been generally out of the public eye
Sun May 18, 2025, 07:20 PM
May 2025

until May when he attended the Pope's funeral and did some interviews to defend himself against the charges in Jake Tapper's fabulist novel.

Former President Joe Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' prostate cancer

Biden's office announced his illness Sunday afternoon.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/former-president-joe-biden-diagnosed-prostate-cancer/story?id=121932146

Meowmee

(9,212 posts)
5. Pretty much what I expected
Sun May 18, 2025, 05:48 PM
May 2025

Sickening... most of the media are whores. I don't care for that word but it fits here so much.

senseandsensibility

(24,250 posts)
6. I have to admit that I was shocked
Sun May 18, 2025, 05:56 PM
May 2025

and I wasn't expecting much, just a little common decency.

Meowmee

(9,212 posts)
18. Yes it is still shocking even though it is expected
Sun May 18, 2025, 08:44 PM
May 2025

Every time they do something terrible regarding the psycho also. 😩

BaronChocula

(4,031 posts)
8. For some, bullying is habit-forming
Sun May 18, 2025, 08:14 PM
May 2025

When weak entities can join others in picking on someone without due consequences, they have no incentive to stop. At least that's what it looks like here.

SunSeeker

(57,560 posts)
9. Just a reminder: HARRIS ran for president in 2024. Young, articulate and very healthy.
Sun May 18, 2025, 08:18 PM
May 2025

Yet the 78-year-old deranged, word-salad-spewing, 34-felony-convicted Trump got more votes than her. So fuck you very much, MSM.

dflprincess

(29,175 posts)
11. "praise of trump for being "respectful" in this moment"
Sun May 18, 2025, 08:26 PM
May 2025

Proof of how low the bar is for Trump if he gets praised for behaving like an adult.

BTW I saw a post on Facebook that indicates Donnie, Jr is handling the hateful posts about Biden. So let's not be too impressed.

barbtries

(31,127 posts)
15. thanks for the report.
Sun May 18, 2025, 08:37 PM
May 2025

pity that anyone still watches that tripe.

there are options, really good ones
https://www.youtube.com/@MaryTrumpMedia
https://www.youtube.com/@MSWMediaPods
https://www.youtube.com/@heathercoxrichardson
https://www.youtube.com/@DemocracyDocket
https://www.youtube.com/@LegalAFMTN
https://www.youtube.com/@politiscapetv (full disclosure this is my great nephew)
https://www.youtube.com/@ReallyAmerican
https://www.youtube.com/@pattymurray
https://www.youtube.com/@MeidasTouch
https://www.youtube.com/@MicrobeTV
https://www.youtube.com/@DemocracyNow
@occupydemocratsyoutube

and a world of substacks with names you know, like Joyce Vance, Steve Schmidt, Jon Pavlovitz, God, Andy Borowitz, and on and on.

I'm over legacy and for profit media. Like DU, these Independent Media providers will lead you to sources all over the world. The Guardian, The Intercept, and so many more.

I could go on with Chris Murphy and Patty Murray for instance, lawmakers providing news and perspective, or the several public health information sources I've found just since krasnov and doge began destroying the country.

CNN to me is so 20th century, and it appears to be going down the magat hole, so fuck them.






barbtries

(31,127 posts)
19. you are so welcome.
Sun May 18, 2025, 08:44 PM
May 2025

I started a substack myself, which I've been extremely derelict about keeping up with, but here is my first post back in January.

https://barbtries.substack.com/p/alternative-media
Alternative (make that Independent) Media
It's abundant, viable, and necessary. I advocate for shitcanning all the rest

This post will be full of links. Consider clicking on and subscribing to each one.

Many of us are pretty much entirely over the “news” as we have known it for decades. We are sick of the both-sides bullshit. We are sick of the sane-washing of what is transparently and objectively (at least to us; the brainwashed multitudes is a whole other subject) insane and destructive lies and propaganda.
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