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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Both 🎸🎸🎸Jeff 👑👑👑 and Alexandra Petri criticized the MSM coverage of Trump's wingnut speech to the Economic Club of New York. She says the headline should read:

“Would-Be President Rambles Unintelligibly For Eighty Minutes After Promising He Would Speak About The Economy; At Intervals We Glimpsed Something In The Torrent Of Words That If Pulled Out And Dried Off Might Become A Policy Idea, So We Sent Several Guys In After It, But None Of Them Returned Alive, Except For One Guy Who Just Said ‘The Horror, The Horror’ After We Retrieved Him And He’s Now Staring Off Silently Into The Void. Is Donald Trump Entirely Well? Harris Also Delivered Remarks But Not As Many As We Wanted.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/06/trump-speech-parody-childcare

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counterlife's avatar

Interesting that WaPo assigns their "parody" writer to telling the truth about most of them and Trump. It won't change the basic bias for Trump because Bezos wants some more tax breaks. Imagine that, someone with obscene wealth and the power that comes with it thinks he needs more. "Enough" means "more" for those freaks. Always.

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Mary Hall's avatar

So many billionaires become money hoarders. It's a mental illness because they will never have enough.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

I don't think anyone assigns a topic to Alexandra except in the rare cases that she is sent on the road to cover an event. She is so beloved by her fans that there would be riots in the streets of Washington if she was ever fired.

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

Always the best American commentator, she really delivered on this one.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

And the media finds a way to give him favorable coverage for that rambling wreck of a speech

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Teri's avatar

Yeah, I was pleased to read Petri too. And WAPO's #Phillip Bump is speaking out, but buried inside the paper.

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Richard's avatar

I had missed that article. Thanks, it is so very good.

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Barbara B's avatar

I love Alexandra Petri.

Ron Charles wrote a review in the Washington Post of Trump’s new photobook. You’d enjoy it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/09/04/donald-trump-save-america-book/

My favorite line is in about the middle of the paragraph that starts

“Arriving just two months before the presidential election,….” and contains an adjective and a proper name i would have been hard-pressed to fit together in a sentence.

i know from having discussed this review with a few other people that others may have different favorites and that’s okey donkey.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

I read and enjoyed it too!

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