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Related: About this forumThe media are propping up Trump like they propped up Bush in 2000...
and they are Goreing Hillary.
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The media are propping up Trump like they propped up Bush in 2000... (Original Post)
MohRokTah
Jul 2016
OP
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)1. It's very well known they have an anti-left/anti-Clinton bias....
and promote conservatism. Have for decades.
jehop61
(1,735 posts)2. This a.m.
I couldn't find ant pro Hillary commentators on any channel. Finally tuned to House Hunters
cutroot
(877 posts)3. They make their money on the race. The closer the better.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)4. Absolutely. The FALSE EQUIVALENCE is playing with fire,
reporting a highly qualified candidate and a dangerously dysfunctional buffoon with strong fascist leanings as if they were somehow equal choices.
One of the well-worn tropes of the 2016 presidential campaign is that the presumptive nominees of the two major parties both have high negatives.
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More importantly, this particular version of false equivalence is dangerously misleading. ... Because a negative rating can mean anything from I guess Ive never really liked her, but I cant really say why to He scares me to death, and I would do anything to stop him from becoming President, calling Clinton and Trump equivalently disliked seriously misrepresents reality.
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American conservatives developed an immediate and intense dislike of Hillary Clinton. From her early decision to keep her maiden name to her defense of her choice not to be a stay-at-home wife and mother, Clinton embodied The Sixties in a way that allowed Republicans to focus their fear of social change on one woman. This has resulted in a constant drumbeat of negative portrayals of Clinton in the press, with the narrative of Clinton as a soulless political striver having taken hold even in the non-rightwing ether.
http://www.newsweek.com/false-equivalence-clinton-trump-negatives-472818
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More importantly, this particular version of false equivalence is dangerously misleading. ... Because a negative rating can mean anything from I guess Ive never really liked her, but I cant really say why to He scares me to death, and I would do anything to stop him from becoming President, calling Clinton and Trump equivalently disliked seriously misrepresents reality.
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American conservatives developed an immediate and intense dislike of Hillary Clinton. From her early decision to keep her maiden name to her defense of her choice not to be a stay-at-home wife and mother, Clinton embodied The Sixties in a way that allowed Republicans to focus their fear of social change on one woman. This has resulted in a constant drumbeat of negative portrayals of Clinton in the press, with the narrative of Clinton as a soulless political striver having taken hold even in the non-rightwing ether.
http://www.newsweek.com/false-equivalence-clinton-trump-negatives-472818