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Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social |
People really need to give up the idea that politicians have the power to 'sell' their actions to the public. Regardless of what he says, Biden's message will be filtered through the media and boiled down into horse-race headlines. It will be *very* obvious he's stepping aside after a bad debate.
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Roger Ailes
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If he withdraws, we will see four-plus months of what did Harris know and when did she know it, up to and including lawsuits, Congressional hearings, impeachment proceedings and round the clock inquiries on every news channel, front page and opinion page. And the press whisperers will not be spared.
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Eric Blair
@protecttruth.bsky.social
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Media… matters?! Media ownership and bias and structure matters?! someone tell Democratic leaders this ASAP!
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Grumpy Rootbeer
@grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social
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At least until we have our first TikTok president
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@thewettanktops.bsky.social
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Biden certainly does less media hits than past presidents… however almost everyone talks about him like he did the SOTU and the debate was the first time anyone had seen him since. He’s on camera like 2-4 days a week! Literally nobody seems to care what Biden does if it’s not feeding the narrative
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tbd
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The beauty of horse-race coverage is he could get all hopped up on butterscotch ice cream, say he's dropping out because of a bad debate, mic drop moonwalk off stage and there'd still be a not insignificant chunk of contrarian 'takes'
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Dzee Szed
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Amazing that the media is conjuring the idea of Biden being too old to be competent on such a widespread degree but if he just steps down then oh well there's nothing the media can do to spin THAT as a loss for Dems
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Michael Hobbes
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If you want to make the case that Biden should step aside anyway, that's fine. But the entire concept of giving the right speech or deploying the perfect "framing" to make this not look extremely bad for Democrats just isn't possible in the media environment we have.
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Unknowable Entiby
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Clinton had a website full of policies, some of the most solid and detailed stuff I've ever seen. The media still happily reported that she had no policies other than "I'm not Trump"
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Ed
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And then they’re going to start the outcry for him to resign the office now
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Patricia Shannon
@patriciashannon.bsky.social
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And what do you think the media would do to his replacement?
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Mezentine
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I both think that if he does step down the only alternative is Harris and also that anyone who thinks that this sort of move will improve media optics is naive bordering on delusional. The media will flip to open racism and misogyny overnight, they won't miss a beat
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Lauren Persoff
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There would be a ton of sympathy for him! Most people have first hand experience with watching the elders in their family having to face up to their limitations.
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Aubrey Gilleran
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Agreeing to the debate will be looked back on as the biggest mistake of the campaign. His other public appearances this week could have gone exactly the same and they wouldn’t have led to calls for him to step down.
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