Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumHere is a great letter from the Biden campaign to the New York Times
I love this letter to the NYT. I will not subscribe to the NYT due to the NYT coverage of Clinton last cycle and Biden this cycle
Link to tweet
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BlueMississippi
(776 posts)Go Joe!!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
PhoenixDem
(581 posts)and lax corroboration before anything goes to print.
Good for Biden.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Dem4Life1102
(3,974 posts)in the early 90s pushed the Whitewater scandal despite the Clinton's having been cleared of wrong doing in every investigation.
During the 2000 election Times Reporter Kit Seelye was hostile to Gore and even misquoted him in order to smear him as a liar.
In 2008 columnist Maureen Dowd repeatedly attacked and mocked Barack Obama calling him "obambi".
And is 16 they pushed the discredited "Clinton Cash" book as well as taking the lead on the emails story, often misleading and mis-characterizing facts causing them to later have to print corrections.
Now they are going after Biden starting with the highly inaccurate article by Ken Vogel back in May.
So what does the supposedly liberal New York Times have against Democrats?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)Link to tweet
In a letter sent to New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet, Bidens campaign called Schweizer a discredited right-wing polemicist and suggested the op-ed was part of a larger pattern of journalistic malpractice.
Are you truly blind to what you got wrong in 2016, or are you deliberately continuing policies that distort reality for the sake of controversy and the clicks that accompany it? Kate Bedingfield, Bidens deputy campaign manager, wrote in the Wednesday letter, which was posted by CNNs Oliver Darcy....
In his letter to the Times, Bidens campaign complains that the piece makes more malicious claims about the Biden family.
Despite voluminous work done by the independent press and fact-checkers including some by The Times to refute the heinous conspiracy theory that Donald Trump attempted to bully Ukraine into propping-up for him, the paper ran an op-ed by none other than Peter Schweizer, making more malicious claims about the Biden family, Bedingfield wrote in the letter.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
peggysue2
(10,839 posts)Peter Schweizer (Clinton Cash) and his crew of scandal mongers. These are people who traffic in fringe conspiracy theories and accusations. As they did in 2016, the NYT has given a bunch of anti-democratic sleaze merchants a platform and microphone. You can't defend that under 'freedom of speech.' Not unless you want to hand the country over to a bunch of fascists.
I'm quitting my subscription to the NYTs today. Enough is enough!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
peggysue2
(10,839 posts)I cancelled my NYTs digital subscription after a lot of rigamarole. But it's done. I can hardly believe I'm choosing the Washington Post over the NYTs. We're living in strange, strange times!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
peggysue2
(10,839 posts)WAPO has been doing outstanding reporting; I'm sticking with them The NYTs? I'm done with the editorial decisions the paper has made over these last few years. You want to indirectly support Donald Trump? Then I won't support your effort.
Done, finished.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)From the Daily Kos https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/10/1891479/-Biden-s-campaign-reminds-the-New-York-Times-just-how-much-they-ve-spread-right-wing-lies
Back in May, months before the term whistleblower began to dominate the headlines, there was still one place to go where mentions of Joe Biden and Ukraine frequently came together. At the beginning of that month, The New York Times was all too happy to serve as a mouthpiece for Rudy Giuliani, repeating his conspiracy theories about Bidens actions and his sons position. Times reporter Kenneth Vogel is now busily posting tweets claiming that he broke the Ukraine story, but only if that means that he dutifully repeated what Giuliani told him and repeated long-debunked claims. In fact, that article gets the basic facts of the story wrong on the two most critical points. It reports that Joe Biden acted at a time when the company where Bidens son worked was in the sights of a prosecutor that Biden pushed to have removed, and that the current Ukrainian prosecutor general [chose] to reverse himself and reopen an investigation. Neither of these statements had any basis in fact.
There was no investigation into the company where Hunter Biden served on the board at the time of Joe Bidens visit to Ukraine. And the prosecutor general had not reopened any such investigation.
The first of these statements was simply wrong, part of a long-debunked conspiracy theory put forward by right-wing elements at the time. But the second was worse, because it appears to have been nothing but a flat-out lie passed along to The New York Times, and dutifully printed, straight from the lips of Rudy Giuliani. Less than a week later, Bloomberg did what The New York Times did notit sent reporters to Ukraine to investigate. And their very first report absolutely destroyed everything Giuliani and the Times were pushing.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
NYMinute
(3,256 posts)who seemed to be intent on destroying Biden like they did HRC.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(297,655 posts)Very Necessary and Important letter.. Mahalo, Goth!
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden