The press gnawing on this bone a hell of a lot harder and longer than they ever did January 6. Republicans skirted questions on that by like mid-February. - ThreadSky

mattortega.com • 16 days ago

The press gnawing on this bone a hell of a lot harder and longer than they ever did January 6. Republicans skirted questions on that by like mid-February.

Reposted from The Wall Street Journal

Democrats are trying to move beyond Joe Biden, but continued questions about his cognitive abilities while president are emerging as both a major distraction and a litmus test for party leaders

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fromtheburgh.bsky.social•16 days ago

WTF people (and the press), prostrate cancer doesn't affect your brain!

missmastermind.bsky.social•16 days ago

No, but being old does. Look at the current political leadership.

arleighhelfer.bsky.social•15 days ago

For those old enough to remember, it's like the press covering the OJ trial. Lazy. Minimal effort to get eyeballs and ratings. The profit-driven press is so often a bad joke.

mattortega.com•15 days ago

Is Ryan J. Reilly the only journalist at an outlet of any heft to publish a book on January 6?

serious-bichon.bsky.social•16 days ago

Centrism is Nihilism, and the media continues to fail to prove me wrong

lebaron13.bsky.social•16 days ago

80% of men over 80 will get prostrate cancer. This is like saying your kid is coughing.

anwitch.bsky.social•16 days ago

No, they don't.

luckytrashfox.bsky.social•15 days ago

I think there should be more grilling for both sides, actually. Too many want to focus on Trump like it wasnt normalized with Biden. What are we doing here, yall.

williamphamilton.bsky.social•15 days ago

It seems more likely that it was a cancer diagnosis covered up than cognitive decline. With the standard of care that a President gets, it's not something they'd miss.

And it fits better with his late withdrawal from candidacy.

doubtingtommy.bsky.social•16 days ago

Low hanging fruit

chrisgodinho.bsky.social•16 days ago

Reagan was suffering the early stages of dementia by his second term, but you won't hear a peep about that.

tequila-sundae.bsky.social•16 days ago

There were weeks and weeks of intensive press coverage of the Congressional select committee’s hearings and findings.

It’s not the press’s fault that many American voters, who apparently suffer from collective fetal alcohol syndrome, decided that Trump’s insurrection was irrelevant.

protanope.bsky.social•16 days ago

yup PBS can’t help themselves

https://bsky.app/profile/protanope.bsky.social/post/3lpkw3prmf22y

michaelmcbrien.bsky.social•16 days ago

this is what Trump would do...not answer a single question. not engage one second with a sick, codependent press.

pataz1.bsky.social•16 days ago

I’m shocked that the level of interest the mainstream media has in the cognitive decline of the president is entirely dependent upon the president’s political party affiliation

misshay99.bsky.social•15 days ago

Democrats need to stop talking abt it.

luckytrashfox.bsky.social•15 days ago

Heads should be rolling, actually. I want to see firings.

misshay99.bsky.social•15 days ago

We are their audience. If we stop watching them they are done. We watch daily. IF Biden had acted like "groceries" was an old fashioned word the same media would lose their minds. But they just act like it's a normal day.

luckytrashfox.bsky.social•15 days ago

The media shouldve been losing their minds since like 2018 then. He hasnt been up to the task the whole time, neither of them are/were.

misshay99.bsky.social•15 days ago

The media isn't gonna lose their minds on any Republican especially not Trump. The news rooms have been bought and paid to put out a particular message its been this way for a long time. When Democrats win it's immediately seen as a loss or they have no mandate. Every time.

nikkicolumbus.bsky.social•15 days ago

But of course, Democrats are helping the press

babrahamse.bsky.social•16 days ago

mainly because they are cowards and reporting on an old man who's no longer present is easy but reporting on an old man who is a dictator is not

luckytrashfox.bsky.social•15 days ago

Dont do that. We can hold both accountable, no need to excuse him or his handlers just because you like the other guy less.

w-adler.bsky.social•16 days ago

Right… anything to distract from Trump ignoring the courts, selling the family business, tariffs, taxes, and dismantling public services, etc…

phlegm47.bsky.social•15 days ago

"it doesn't seem to bother you that the current president can barely string together a sentence" is all they need to say, but the media will just stop doing live interviews and cut the ones that say that

They sincerely want the oligarchs to rule, they're not just being naive

notabelle.bsky.social•16 days ago

If this was so important last year and the press KNEW about project 2025, they could have ENDORSED the non-old, clearly lucid candidate. But noooo, they found so many reasons to reject Harris.

sounders-guy.bsky.social•14 days ago

Because it is important you giant moron

mattortega.com•14 days ago

No, it really isn’t. Thanks for playing.

sounders-guy.bsky.social•13 days ago

lol the party covered up him being a dementia patient dying of cancer

battlebear.bsky.social•16 days ago

Democrsts need to answer this by, saying "lets not focus on the past, but on the unstable president currently in the White House"

missmastermind.bsky.social•16 days ago

Democrats need to answer by changing the subject to more important matters, like how they plan to implement single payer health care and what they are going to do to strengthen worker's rights.

battlebear.bsky.social•16 days ago

Our best objective right now is to keep letting people see the crazy in the White House. Hate sells. It is how they won.

skyquake.bsky.social•15 days ago

We can all see the crazy in the White House which is being heavily and actively by Democrats who agree with Trump’s financial aims even if they think his methods are uncouth. We’ll get politely, inertly waiting for the next Republican advances if the Dems aren’t restructured.

missmastermind.bsky.social•16 days ago

I have news for you, they know. They didn't win because of hate. They won because they have spent the better part of SIX decades rigging the elections. They won because the democrats aren't interested in governing, and the younger generations are fed up with it. They won because nothing changes.

battlebear.bsky.social•16 days ago

Have talking real hard facts ever worked? No, we need to throw the media in their face that they fail to call out the "president." They are talking about Biden when Trump is talking crazier than ever and driving the economy to the brink. Single payer. With what money when they are done?

missmastermind.bsky.social•16 days ago

Good luck with that. Maybe keeping Trump at the center of the conversation will work this time, like it did in 2016 and 2024. Democrats can campaign on trump failures but they should say what they could do. When the wsj asks about Biden, the dems can talk about the failing health care system.

battlebear.bsky.social•16 days ago

And that will get buried by the media. It has no pizazz. Talking about real issues fails to get at the top of news searches. He won on the wall. Now he wins on deportations. Much was outright lies that were easily fact-checked. The public does not forward-think; they react, and Trump exploits that.

absgd.bsky.social•16 days ago

It’s the new “Hillary’s emails” trumps 34 felony convictions lasted for about 2 days

lmfiore.bsky.social•16 days ago

The "media" is made up of bright young things who care less about the truth than making a name by hot takes. They are useless.

pyrholidon.bsky.social•16 days ago

WSJ desperate for daddy’s approval.

illimij.bsky.social•16 days ago

Even the impeachment after 1/6 was framed as "is it politically wise for the Democrats to...?"

gohanprolife.bsky.social•16 days ago

Bro 4 years later haha the debate between Trump and Harris was if he disavowed that little riot

jakubiakradek.bsky.social•16 days ago

Uh.. a presidents cognitive abilities are relevant?

Unless retrospectively only, there’s an elephant in the room.

jrode91.bsky.social•16 days ago

They’re not afraid of Democrats. And they’re incredibly lazy.

lwo123.bsky.social•16 days ago

We have way bigger problems to deal with

cosmonautilus5.bsky.social•16 days ago

Maybe that's because all mainstream media is owned by the maliciously wealthy, only interested in narratives that allow them to maintain capitalist hegemony.

nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social•15 days ago

It feels to me like some political journalists are desperate to avoid talking about the current president.

Joe Biden is not going to order their employer to fire them if they ask the wrong question.

missmastermind.bsky.social•16 days ago

Let them. Give them Schumer and Pelosi too. While the press is distracted with people too old to govern, let the progressive wing work. Change the narrative. Answer questions about Biden's health with plans to tackle the lack of social safety nets that make health problems worse.

luckytrashfox.bsky.social•15 days ago

First, heads should roll, and then push progressive policies. There needs to be some consequences for the people who keep putting us in these situations.

debster-r.bsky.social•16 days ago

Trump is president now. Let's focus on HIS mental acuity, FFS.

williamphamilton.bsky.social•15 days ago

There are no "continuing questions" let alone "distractions" about Biden's mental fitness. Except for their own incestuous obsession with reporting about what media writers are obsessing over.

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