The media is trying to "T-Bag" impeachment

[maxrandb]

You've got to hand it to them. They find something that works and they beat that horse...in fact, they dig that horse out of the grave and beat its rotten corpse.

Remember the "breathless" coverage of T-Bagging ass-pickles screaming like unhinged banshees and threatening violence at Democratic Town Halls?

Remember that shit? Half a dozen "turd polishing dipshits" getting 24/7 media coverage?

Now, I may be mistaken, but I don't remember, in my numerous years, the media doing a splitscreen of some Congressional Town Hall in some tiny district in the past.

That may have been local, or public access TV in earlier times, but I guess if it bleeds, it leads.

Soon we'll have "journalist interviewing journalist" about how bad this is for Democrats.

They'll circle jerk this shit for days.

So, what should be some insignificant bullshit story about some hayseed acting like an asshat will suddenly become a "movement".

This will become such a "hugely important" story that we'll be "blessed" with roundtable discussions where these asshats are invited to sit around a table and tell us all how "they wish Donnie Shit for Brains would tweet less, but blah, blah, blah...

Why it's almost like turning on CNN and seeing an empty podium.

Fuck the media.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Is this about the Adam Schiff townhall?

[maxrandb]

2. And Congresswoman Slotkin

MSNBC has been desperately hoping punches are thrown all morning.

Who is Congresswoman Slotkin? Hell, I don't have one fucking clue.

That's the point. I don't need to know who she is. She's important to her district.

I can tell you who represents my district. I give not one fuck about people's uncivilized behavior at this Congresswoman's Town Hall.

There's only one reason the national media would cover this. They want to see fisticuffs...no, they want to SHOW and REPORT on fisticuffs.

Watch for the copycats who will show up and act like dipshits all over the country.

Amazing how the media can take an obscure Town Hall in a small town and cultivate into a "movement".

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. Yeah

I hope that they don't turn this into a "movement". I originally scoffed off the "teabaggers" but they somehow got turned into a legitimate political movement and Republican pols decided to cater to them- even though I still don't really even know what they ever actually stood for other than just being a bunch of far-right conspiracy mongering cranks with no discernible principles other than being mad that Obama was elected President.

[gratuitous]

3. The earnest discussion will also include sympathetic coverage for the violent

The folks instigating the violence need to be "understood" about how badly they're suffering from "economic anxiety" or some such, and how Democrats really need to be listening to and catering to these folks who feel they're not being represented.

Naturally, any outbursts at a Republican office-holder's town hall will be deemed "uncivil" or "partisan," stoked by a bunch of babies who (for example) can't handle being homeless because of health issues, and why aren't they working instead of taking out their problems on poor Senator or Congressman Do-Little?

[maxrandb]

4. Don't forget

They will also lament how any Democrats protesting obviously ""should be working".

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. And we just can't "get over" the fact that Trump won

[MineralMan]

5. "journalist interviewing journalist"

Sounds like the late afternoon shows on MSNBC. I watch them, but they're not news programs. They're discussion groups, where people talk about their reactions to the news stories of the day.

After a while, you begin to recognize them as the incestuous things that they are, really. We're losing sight of what news actually is, and starting to believe that reporters talking to each other is the news. We need to stop doing that. There's very little straight news reporting on the cable "news" channels. You can find some on the broadcast network news programs and even more on your local news broadcasts, but you won't find it on cable news any longer.

They should stop calling themselves news broadcasters. They're opinion shows.

[pecosbob]

6. Funny thing is most of those 'discussions' seem to become warnings for Dems to vote like Republicans

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. Curious that

[spanone]

10. the media has made HUGE PROFITS off of the 'reality show' of trump

[Maven]

11. Why anyone still watches cable news (especially CNN) as though they care about the public interest

is beyond me.

[Takket]

12. oh yeah... i remember it very distictly......

the media invented the tea party from a few coordinated efforts among a handful of people to yell and scream and project their anger out. they called in the media promising them "fireworks". The tea party was born of about 20 people screaming on TV and as you've said, has the media ever shown up at a local congressional town hall prior or since?

[octoberlib]

13. I just saw a comment from a person who was actually there on a WaPo article

There were only boo’s from a few actual constituents. The bulk of the organized protest, complete with Trump signage, were members of the Republican Club of Michigan.

They are actively targeting Democrats and when Slotkin mentioned her national security background, they tried to drown her out screaming “deep state” and “traitor.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/michigan-democrat-in-trump-district-comes-out-for-impeachment-says-it-may-cost-her-reelection/2019/12/16/fddbb6ce-2030-11ea-9c2b-060477c13959_story.html#comments-wrapper

The boo-ers were from the Republican Club of Michigan , who want that seat back badly. The press should do some investigating and report this.

Same exact thing here in Conor Lamb’s district.

They’ve had two rallies.

About twenty people. About five of those were actually in the district.