Hunter’s recent post on how this NYT led campaign to get Biden to drop out is like the 2015-16 “Hillary is going to die” bullshit (not to mention “but her emails”) reminded me of another NYT led campaign to lie us into a war in Iraq.
The media’s non-stop beating of the war drums, despite widespread opposition to invading Iraq and the fact that they had nothing to do with 9/11, was what drove me to sites like dailykos, media whores online, eschaton, and bartcop. What seems different to me this time is the participation of supposedly liberal sites like Rawstory.com and Huffpost. The reach of dark money, evil billionaires, and greedy corporations seems much longer and deeper. Rawstory’s clickbait nonsense has recently included repeated attacks on Fani Willis. Recently I counted all the images on their front page and there were only two images of democrats and 43 images of republicans, most of them IQ45.
We here at dkos know that Huffpost and Rawstory do not define liberal opinion. Just as the march to war in 2002-03 sickened me and eroded my faith in televised and print media, this coordinated attack on Joe Biden has increased my skepticism (which I didn’t think was possible). Even after the extreme court’s made up ruling on immunity should have dominated all print and televised media, they continue to call for Joe’s dropping out without a word about how the demented fascist should drop out, and/or what this immunity ruling would mean if he were reelected.
If there is a silver lining here it is that this smacks of the desperation of powerful interests who recognize that Trump is going to lose and that their last best chance is to get Biden to drop out. This is a time when a clear line between friends and foes is being drawn. I will follow Maya Angelou’s advice: "When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time."