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   William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 08:14:09 JST William Lindsey :toad:

   "Since Saturday’s shooting, it has been notable that there has not been a medical review of Trump’s injuries, although he has said he was injured by a bullet that ripped through his ear."

   ~ Heather Cox Richardson

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   https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-19-2024

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 08:14:02 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "—For Donald Trump, every flub, fantasy, non-sequitur, 'Sir' story, or revelation of profound ignorance dulls and blunts the case against him. 'That’s just Trump.' 'Are you new here? Never heard a MAGA rally speech before?' 'It’s what the crowd is waiting for'. 'Oh, here comes the "shark" again!' There’s an ever-thickening layer of habituation, normalization, jadedness, just plain tedium."

     #Trump #Biden #media #MediaFail
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     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 08:14:02 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "The first five times Trump tells the Hannibal Lecter story, reporters notice and write about it. The next hundred times, they’re checking their phones. …

     The obvious and unequal result: The public registers more and more about Biden’s “fitness” based on his appearances, less and less about Trump’s."

     #Trump #Biden #media #MediaFail
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 08:14:03 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Right now we have these opposing, imbalanced narrative cycles:

     —For Joe Biden, every flub, freeze, slurred word, or physical-or-verbal misstep adds to the case against him. There’s an ever-mounting dossier, which can only grow in cumulative importance. 'In another difficult moment for the President….' 'Coming after his disastrous debate appearance…'”

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 08:14:04 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "We’ve never had any word from investigating authorities at all. This is precisely why it’s necessary that we get that. It really couldn’t be simpler. It’s the most normal and standard thing in the world. And it’s a huge failure of the nation’s leading press organizations that they’ve been afraid to press the point because they’ve feared blowback from the Trump campaign."

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 08:14:04 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Trump’s disastrous speech follows Biden’s disastrous debate. A simple proposal for the press: Give one of these disasters as much attention as you’ve given the other. ...

     This post has one central point. It is that the press should give 'fair and balanced' attention to what each of the major candidates is revealing about temperament, competence, and cognition, especially in their public performances."

     ~ James Fallows

     #Trump #Biden #media #MediaFail
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     https://fallows.substack.com/p/election-countdown-108-days-to-go

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 08:14:05 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Pennsylvania State Police initially told reporters on the scene that Trump had been struck by shards of glass. Then Trump himself said he’d been hit with a bullet and that was the end of the matter. There’s small detail from a local news report from last Sunday that suggests it as at least plausible that the initial report was correct, that Trump was struck by some flying debris."

     ~ Josh Marshall

     #Trump #Biden #media #MediaFail
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     https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/one-other-detail

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 08:14:06 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     Tom Nichols says that when Trump went off-script in the longest acceptance speech ever delivered to a national US political convention, we saw "a man who has serious psychological problems. All of it was on display last night: rage, paranoia, pettiness, desolating selfishness."

     #Trump #Biden #media #MediaFail
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     https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/07/a-searing-reminder-that-trump-is-unwell/679170/

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 08:14:06 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Much of the media response to Biden’s troubles and Trump’s madness has been mired in equivalences that obscure what’s happening to both men, and what’s at stake for the nation. (As I was writing this, for example, a Washington Post newsletter arrived in my inbox and told me that the GOP had just wrapped up 'an energized, focused convention.' That’s an interesting description of a Republican gathering that featured a sex worker, Hulk Hogan, and a spaced-out Trump.)"

     #Trump #Biden #media
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 08:14:07 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Interestingly, he did not say he was hit by a bullet, but that when he felt the injury he thought, 'it can only be a bullet.' Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo today noted a report from local Pennsylvania television station WPXI that four motorcycle officers standing within feet of Trump suffered minor injuries from flying debris. Trump has likely cut off further discussion of the topic by saying it is too painful to tell the story again."

     #Trump #Biden #media #MediaFail
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 08:14:08 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "This matters not only because of the extent of his injuries, but also because Trump has made the story part of his identity without any fact check, and the media appears simply to be letting it go on Trump’s say-so, something that adds to the sense that media outlets are treating Trump and Biden differently.

     Last night, Trump perhaps tried to address this lack by recounting last Saturday’s shooting."

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 10:54:12 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "Here’s the quote from Gupta that caught my eye: 'It’s not even clear that he was struck by a primary projectile from the rifle, a secondary projectile or a combination of both. Sometimes, it can be difficult to know without an in-depth evaluation.'

     Just to explain..., the bullet is the primary projectile. A secondary projectile is another flying object put in motion by the bullet – so a metal fragment, a shard of glass, etc."

     ~ Josh Marshall

     #Trump #MediaFail
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 10:54:13 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "It is still surprising that we have not heard more about the exact diagnosis and care of what may have been a catastrophic injury. And, while all the attention has been on his ear and right side of his head, that doesn’t mean other injuries may not be present."

     ~ Dr. Sanjay Gupta

     #Trump #Biden #media #MediaFail
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     https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/18/health/dr-sanjay-gupta-analysis-trump/index.html

     Elledeeay repeated this.
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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 10:54:14 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "What is consequential about Trump’s entire political persona is the surreality of it all. After nearly a decade of being subjected to it, to those for whom Trump’s litany of grievances isn’t emotionally resonant, his persona has induced a sense of disorientation and demoralization."

     ~ Jonathan Weiler

     #Trump #Biden #media #MediaFail
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     https://jonathanweiler.substack.com/p/the-day-or-two-after

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     William Lindsey :toad: (wdlindsy@toad.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2024 10:54:14 JST William Lindsey :toad:

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     "The next day, I re-read a transcript of the speech – all 18 pages of it, single-spaced. There were far-afield excursions and diversions, side tribs and rabbit holes. The never-ending drone of a man who not only felt the love, but was making love – to the sound of his own voice. Here are just some of the subjects he covered in stream-of-consciousness fashion:"

     ~ Matt Labash

     I invite you to read Labash's excerpts after the colon.

     #Trump #Biden #media #MediaFail
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     https://mattlabash.substack.com/p/thanks-mr-trump