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blm

(113,063 posts)
Sun Oct 6, 2019, 10:16 AM Oct 2019

NYT blaming Biden is BS. Most media is calling foul on Trump's actions.

NYT is trying to play both-siderism with an issue that has only one side that is completely wrong - Trump’s.

Even the right-leaning Hill has it right.

Key Republicans split with Trump on Biden investigation push

Source: Hill

BY ALEXANDER BOLTON - 10/06/19 06:00 AM EDT

President Trump is pushing hard for an investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, but the prospect of using the Oval Office to go after a political rival is prompting some GOP senators to speak out.

Sens. Mitt Romney (Utah), Susan Collins (Maine), Ben Sasse (Neb.) and Lindsey Graham (S.C.) have raised concerns, to varying degrees, about launching a politically motivated probe into the Bidens

Romney on Friday said Trump's call for China to investigate Biden was "wrong and appalling. "When the only American citizen President Trump singles out for China’s investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the Democratic nomination process, it strains credulity to suggest that it is anything other than politically motivated," Romney said in a statement, which he also tweeted.

A day later, Collins said it was "completely inappropriate" for Trump to urge China to investigate Biden and his son. "I thought the president made a big mistake by asking China to get involved in investigating a political opponent," Collins told the Bangor Daily News. "It’s completely inappropriate."
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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/464476-key-republicans-split-with-trump-on-biden-investigation-push

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NYT blaming Biden is BS. Most media is calling foul on Trump's actions. (Original Post) blm Oct 2019 OP
It is very sad but the NY Times has been doing this for some time now still_one Oct 2019 #1
IMO, there IS a DeepState working for GOP at several MSM outlets. blm Oct 2019 #2

still_one

(92,213 posts)
1. It is very sad but the NY Times has been doing this for some time now
Sun Oct 6, 2019, 11:20 AM
Oct 2019

This was an article blaming the Obama administration and the Democrats for causing republicans to reject climate change:

"The Republican Party’s fast journey from debating how to combat human-caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favoring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over cooperation and conciliation."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/us/politics/republican-leaders-climate-change.html

They setup false equivalencies between the republicans and Democrats where they have a video by Mark Scheffle and Shane O'Neill telling us how both republicans and Democrats have flip-flopped on Comey. It is so out of context it is pathetic. Shame on the NY Times for this garbage.

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000005090191/comey-fired-democrats-republicans.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

and again when one of the Democrats on the FEC stepped down, they built the false equivalency argument that how there is deadlock because both sides won't budge. That was NOT the case at all, and was a gross distortion again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/us/politics/fec-elections-ann-ravel-campaign-finance.html

In fact that report was so messed up, that the Democrat who resign from the commission wrote a rebuttal to state the reality of the situation:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/opinion/dysfunction-and-deadlock-at-the-federal-election-commission.html

There are quite a few examples of this "both siderisms" where the NY Times has used.

If the Times believes this gives them the appearance of objectivity, it does quite the opposite.

blm

(113,063 posts)
2. IMO, there IS a DeepState working for GOP at several MSM outlets.
Sun Oct 6, 2019, 11:24 AM
Oct 2019

Big money for these propaganda pieces, no doubt in my mind. The last 2 weeks of 2016 election cycle hit pieces on Clinton made it clear.

Your links add even more clarity.

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