If you were to transcribe in excruciating detail me describing the Tom Junod Esquire article about Fred Rogers, it would be filled with these kinds of pauses as I tried to compose myself. And that’s one billionth as emotionally affecting as someone’s *second* dead child. - ThreadSky

figgityfigs.bsky.social • 14 days ago

If you were to transcribe in excruciating detail me describing the Tom Junod Esquire article about Fred Rogers, it would be filled with these kinds of pauses as I tried to compose myself. And that’s one billionth as emotionally affecting as someone’s *second* dead child.

Reposted from Sky Marchini

Alex Thompson wrote this *today* about Biden having trouble speaking about Beau, and framed it as “wow look at what they were hiding from us” instead of a grieving father and it was clearly so offensive that *someone else* stuck a “reality check” in at the bottom of this. Truly a vile person

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spudman.bsky.social•14 days ago

Alex deserves the fucken smoke

weirdlittledude.bsky.social•14 days ago

Such a great article,one of the pantheon of great 1990s nonfiction pieces along with HST’s Nixon obit and DFW spending a week on a cruise ship.

rwillson.bsky.social•12 days ago

I think it is wise to remember at heart journalists are whores
Whores for the story they follow and creating never ending sensationalism to promote the work

Sorry they are, some are good some are bad and often do very important work but it doesn’t negate the fact

magicrabbit.bsky.social•14 days ago

I know you meant this as a comparison, but I'd never read that article, so I sought it out, and it's a stunning piece of writing (here's a free upload since Esquire's archives are locked to subscribers):

https://formationreimagined.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Can-You-Say...Hero-Mr.-Rogers-Profile-Interview.pdf

figgityfigs.bsky.social•14 days ago

Oh I wasn’t kidding, it’s a masterpiece.

gabesmall.bsky.social•14 days ago

They transcribed the ticks and tocks of the clock?!?!?

That is DERANGED

hrryan.bsky.social•14 days ago

Gross. I hope their careers go down the toilet.

ibumichele.bsky.social•14 days ago

Especially if you actually had a disability that made it difficult to get words out. Biden has a documented disability of stuttering

ghowell73.bsky.social•14 days ago

Joe has been through so much loss.

figgityfigs.bsky.social•14 days ago

These motherfuckers have just decided Biden simply isn’t human and they’re demonstrating that they’re incapable of thinking of him as such (and this is the *generous* take, that they’re capable of thinking of others as human).

ok-now-what.bsky.social•14 days ago

It's almost exactly Orwell's "two minutes hate". The administration has called for a ritual humiliation and its toadies are rushing to comply.

graez.bsky.social•14 days ago

Those bastards are demonstrating that *they* are not human.

alderfish.bsky.social•14 days ago

And Tapper has kids. A normal person can empathize with Biden no matter how you feel about him politically. This whole thing is disgusting.

figgityfigs.bsky.social•14 days ago

This is all by the way what made every single treatment of Hunter and Joe’s relationship so deeply vile. He was a father who’d lost two children and deeply loved his troubled son even as the press wanted him to treat him solely as a liability.

minerva1.bsky.social•14 days ago

They saw Biden’s love for his struggling son as an opportunity. And they bludgeoned him with it.

raflw.bsky.social•14 days ago

One starts to understand that the Alex types like Trump because they share his inability to see anyone but themselves as having value.

annenotation.bsky.social•14 days ago

They wanted Hunter to kill himself and they're furious he didn't.

figgityfigs.bsky.social•14 days ago

Yeah, they wanted Biden to break and they figured that would do it and politicians’ kids are off limits except come on, the guy who already has two dead kids, wouldn’t it be fun to see if he could handle one more?

crentist.bsky.social•14 days ago

Man the reason to go into journalism is to try to serve the public, and it's interesting that the form in which public service manifests itself today is shouting "Describe your dead son's eyes, braniac!" while a clock loudly ticks and you turn up electroshock voltage in a Milgram experiment

annenotation.bsky.social•14 days ago

They pretend they've been but they never were. They fucked up carters daughter for life too, she doesn't like to be in public at all to this day.

bumbledan.bsky.social•14 days ago

Brutalized would not be too strong of a term for what happened to Amy Carter. Mfers that do that sort of shit to a kid should burn in hell.

sameoldstory.co•14 days ago

I think the rule is much more real for Republican president’s kids.

ljevans.bsky.social•14 days ago

This is even worse than what they did to Hillary Clinton. She's never lost a child. Biden has lost *two* and nearly lost Hunter. Exploiting his grief for the agonizing death of Beau is beyond horrible.

What the hell is wrong with these people?

repetitiveuser.bsky.social•14 days ago

This is where the whole "I'm a JOURNALIST!!" automatic self assumption of "there is no higher calling in life than the mantle of perfect lack of bias that I have now taken on" is such poisonous garbage.

acreed.bsky.social•14 days ago

Three years ago I loved reading Thompson and listening to his podcast. Now? The best article he could write is a detailed account of him throwing himself into a volcano.

akatzel.bsky.social•14 days ago

outerleftfield.net•14 days ago

This writer is dogshit, and writing this, especially in context, is vile.

outerleftfield.net•14 days ago

Naturally it exists to cover up Trump fucking the whole country over by getting our bond rating downgraded.

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