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deletedDec 3, 2021Liked by Greg Olear
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Again: you nailed it.

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Dec 3, 2021Liked by Greg Olear

I’ve admired MVP since I watched her at the hearing for Bret Kavanaugh. She is obviously extremely intelligent, well-prepared, & quick thinking. It is upsetting to me the way she is dismissed by the media. Not sure why the media is so critical, but then I think about the way they have dismissed able females (HRC & Amy Klobuchar, for example) & embrace the likes of TFG, I should not be surprised.

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Dec 3, 2021Liked by Greg Olear

I thought I posted this, but it isn't showing up. Forgive me if I repeat myself.

AMEN to your analysis! Chris Cillizza is the #1 reason I do not watch or read anything from CNN. Incidentally, I tweeted this to CNN and tagged him as well. I also sent it to MSNBC just as an fyi.

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Dec 3, 2021Liked by Greg Olear

Accurate diagnosis, "racism and misogyny" is a powerful motivation that seems as problematic as ever.

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Dec 3, 2021Liked by Greg Olear

"Maybe he thinks we can pray away the Rona, like he thinks we can pray away the gay?" Greg, you slay me. I couldn’t stop laughing.

As usual, great article. Spot on.

A minister who told his flock not to get vaccinated, better to pray away the virus, died from the virus.

The last Vice President had no free will. Whatever spell the Former Guy had over him was total. But they still wrote about him, didn’t they?

But, “Make no mistake about it, the media and Harris critics are not merely oblivious to her presence, they are refusing to acknowledge it.” It’s hard not to say the prime reason the media don’t acknowledge VP Harris is, she’s Black/Asian and so doesn’t have anything worthwhile to say. And her presence is overlooked as she is not “out there” read, loud and obnoxious, as some have said, and she doesn’t garner the ratings as say, the orange man.

The right wing attack VP: they wanted Princess Purses, as Ivanka is called, to be in her shoes. Not happening.

As to Cillizza, he isn’t a journalist when he was with The Washington Post, and he isn’t now. But there he is on CNN spouting claptrap.

Today, the headline in INSIDER reads, Body language can say a lot. Here's what one expert told us after studying Kamala Harris's and Pete Buttigieg's interactions on their joint trip to Charlotte.

A body language expert started by telling us Buttigieg is gay. What that has to do with his position as Transportation Secretary is beyond me.

He tells how their feet are pointed— Secretary Pete’s feet “Neither one of his feet are pointing toward her once toward the door a little bit sort of anger toward the door.” Odd sentence, but OK.

Body language is important, in some instances, but this is not one of them. And true to form, reporters didn’t ask about infrastructure they asked about 2024 election.

Heaven help us all.

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I have been ignoring the lame and sporadic articles about “problems in the White House” with the veep. I am from California. I voted for Harris in the primary (I think, maybe it was Warren or Sanders, the embarrassment of riches in 2020 leaves me mesmerized and befuddled). Harris is a magnificent human being. Magnificent. And she’s from Oakland and Berkeley. Everything I have ever seen about her personally in print in California makes you smile. What’s not to love. OK, she’s had some career problems. Who hasn’t.

Perhaps the journalists in the lame-stream media (covering the VP) all live in trailer parks and shanty towns and read National Enquirer first thing when they get up every day. After catching the headlines in the Enquirer, perhaps they tune into Jerry Springer. Because I think they’re all addicted to salacious gossip. They’ve had four years of the biggest criminal and scumbag in the oval office, and now they are geared to looking for dirt. They appear to have forgotten that there are people who are honest, hard-working, ethical, and competent. The lame-stream media does not seem equipped or prepared to report on competent government work in the WH. Always hunting for scandal, even when there isn’t any. I’m surprised they’re not reporting about Hunter Biden every week, like the greaseball media does.

I think, based on insufficient information and being just an outsider, that the mainstream media is falling into the same racist and misogynist trap that the greaseball news sources revel in.

Dummies.

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“But let me make this as simple as possible, in case Cillizza is reading this: The last Vice President tried to kill us all. The MVP is trying to make our lives better.”

I love you, Greg, but that is not the narrative here. I agree with Reecie. We already had a president with an African-born father, and now we are on the verge of having a president who is a woman with a Jamaican-born father and an Indian-born mother.

That is the narrative. That is definitely why the right wing press is going bonkers, and I would venture to say that the White House itself must be racist and misogynist, why else would they try to make her invisible. And your CNN turkey is part of the white male racist sexist corps as well if he has any problem with Kamala. Kamala is an absolutely magnificent human being.

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Yep. Just racism and misogyny, with a soupçon of antisemitism mixed in, since her family by marriage is all Jewish.

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Thank You. Right on, sadly.

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Dec 3, 2021Liked by Greg Olear

Thank you. Your article was excellent and I'm so glad you engaged Reecie Colbert in this discussion. I am enraged at the media coverage of MVP Harris. OK, I'm enraged at the media all the time. I think we need to just say it - the media are as sick, twisted and Fascist enabling as Trump and the GQP and they are willfully and gleefully engaged in undermining democracy. We have to stop making excuses for them. The kindest thing I can say about them is that they're lazy, sycophantic stenographic hacks who are not very bright. Thank you for letting me rant.

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Dec 3, 2021Liked by Greg Olear

I follow Reecie on Twitter!!! I'm a Fan Geezer since I'm way too old to be a Fan Girl!

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Dec 3, 2021Liked by Greg Olear

Jaimie Harrison, DNC Chair, is implementing exactly what Reecie is talking about. DNC is hiring people who live and work in communities to engage in organizing and networking all year long. He agrees that we just can't waltz into precincts 3 months before elections and expect to effectively engage voters.

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"...Yet even as she embarked on a high profile (and ultimately successful) diplomatic trip to Paris. . . which included bilateral talks with President Emmanuel Macron of France, the media ran multiple stories falsely claiming that she was invisible....”

Indeed. We heard a lot about $500 cookware too, didn't we? All through the Trump years I took the media's side, believing that ultimately what they were doing and reporting on was good; that even though Trump supporters, and certainly Trump himself, kept whining that they were being treated unfairly, the media was only reporting on what they herd and observed. But, now it seems that nothing much has changed. I will NEVER go so far as to say that Trump actually WAS treated unfairly because he was and is, a garbage person who hasn't even had the common courtesy to die, but it does seem like the media is only out to drum up controversy for their own bottom line. I think Roland first mentioned rose colored glasses. I've now taken them off and smashed them.

Kamala Harris was my first choice as candidate in 2020 during the primaries, and I was more than a little excited when she was chosen as the VP by Biden. Now, I fail to see the reasons for not only the low polling, but the media coverage of her. I guess since I'm not a racist or a misogynist (I couldn't even spell that without my spell-checker!), I didn't recognize what's been happening. Now, of course, I do. The media -- almost ALL media -- is obscene in their continued quest for dollars in their piggy banks. It hasn't been QUITE as important up until now, because now, this kind of crap is really weakening our democracy. It's a damned shame that one has to read every news story now with a Bullshit Meter running in the background, constantly checking if what you're reading is 100% true. Luckily, for most of us here, bullshit still rings as bullshit, and for those of us with common sense, it is hard to put one over on us. It's still a shame though that something enshrined in the First Amendment can't really be trusted anymore.

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