The Blatant Hypocrisy Behind The Media's Attempted Garbage Controversy

Those in the media who are warping Biden's garbage comment into a controversy are exposing their bad faith hypocrisy.

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The Media And Garbage

There is a basic fact that needs to be understood for the purposes of this discussion. Political media in the United States is always chasing a previous high. The political media has never forgotten the high that was the 2008 Democratic primary, when the nation was glued on to the race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. I was in the hospital in a life and death situation in January of 2008 and once I was stabilized and on the road to recovery the first non-medical question a nurse asked me was who is going to win Hillary or Barack?

The corporate political media has never forgotten those ratings, readers, and revenue. They have been chasing that high ever since. The 2016 election was full of drama and scandals. The nation was captured by the twists and turns of that race, and the media thought that it was Donald Trump that gave them their profits fix.

In 2024, Trump is constantly creating scandal and negative publicity for himself as Kamala Harris has run a flawless campaign, but the high isn’t there anymore. The ratings and readers aren’t following along. In some circles desperation sets in.

With days to go before election day, the some of the worst of political media decided to intentionally invent a scandal, and if Kamala Harris wouldn’t give them one, they would look to Joe Biden and his stutter to manufacture something.

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell summed up the media’ hypocrisy:

Not one reporter ever asked Donald Trump about that statement. Not one. The day Donald Trump called Kamala Harris supporters garbage no one wrote a headline about that. It wasn't a news story, the poisonous American candidate for president who uses Hitler's language constantly and calls Democrats garbage. That was not news but the very same news media that ignored all the times Donald Trump has called American citizens and American voters scum and garbage, actually tried to turn Joe Biden's use of the word garbage into a controversial news story today and to do so, they had to refuse to listen to the actual sentence Joe Biden spoke. They had to refuse to look at the written words of that sentence. They had to refuse to understand English grammar. They had to refuse to understand what a singular possessive is. They had to refuse to understand what apostrophe s means.

They had to refuse to remember what they learned in elementary school about the English language and they can do that because this campaign is being covered by some of the best reporters I've ever seen and by some of the worst reporters I've ever seen and the worst of them actually tried to create a controversy today and tried to equate what President Biden said last night to what the man he was condemning said in Madison Square Garden.

And those reporters know that that is false, but it is the kind of false narrative that panicked stupid campaign coverage exists to amplify. Not one of the reporters who got excited about this today asked Donald Trump to name the good things that Adolf Hitler did after Donald Trump was quoted by his White House chief of staff, John Kelly saying, quote, Hitler did some good things.

The terrible campaign reporters and commentators who are covering this campaign. It's not all of them, just the terrible ones are completely exploitable by Donald Trump and Donald Trump knows it, which is why Donald Trump, the stupidest candidate ever to run for president climbed into a garbage truck today to try to draw more attention to what President Biden said last night, which Donald Trump stupidly does not understand, requires drawing more attention to what he and his vile speakers had to say at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

Watch O’Donnell:

Trump Regularly Calls Democrats And America Garbage

Donald Trump has called Democrats garbage too many times to count. Donald Trump has recently taken to calling the United States a garbage can. It wasn’t until a Trump comedian called an entire group of Americans garbage that the corporate media cared, and even then, no one bothered to asked Trump at his Wisconsin garbage truck stunt to apologize to Puerto Rico.