Eric Boehlert: Fox News brainwashes anti-vaxxers -- and the press blames Biden
Fox News brainwashes anti-vaxxers — and the press blames Biden
Stop whitewashing
Eric Boehlert
59 min ago
Busy extending the list of “crises” that President Joe Biden must face, the Beltway media are busy adding Covid vaccinations as a looming failure for the Democrat, as the nation readies a national mandate for the inoculations.
By putting the onus on Biden for the millions of defiant Trump voters who refuse to take the free, safe, and effective shot even as their neighbors become sick and die around them, the press is boosting the GOP — and missing a huge story.
We’re witnessing one of the great mass brainwashings in American political history, as millions of Fox News Covid zombies eagerly swallow an ocean of lies, distortions, and misinformation. Yet the press blames Biden for not being able to convince them otherwise. Worse, the press blames the president without ever acknowledging the large-scale brainwashing that is happening.
Uncomfortable with reporting on a conservative movement that has lost touch with reality, the Beltway media are much more comfortable treating the vaccine story as one about a Democratic president who’s failing to properly communicate and persuade. And one who’s being outmaneuvered by Republicans.
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Virtually every reporter is working from the same script: Covid is surging and deaths are up because of Biden’s “inability” to persuade vaccine “skeptics.” What the Times report never addressed, and virtually none of them ever do, is that the reason millions of Americans still won’t get vaccinated is because there is a choreographed, deep-pocketed political and media campaign designed to make sure millions of people don’t get vaccinated. Period.
The press wants us to believe this is all just happening, by chance. It’s not. Biden is battling powerful forces that reject science and are committed to prolonging the pandemic. That’s essential to understand our continued health crisis, yet the press refuses to address it. Holding vaccine dead enders responsible for their actions is just not something they want to do.
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I live in rural MA and there's quite a few accessible here. I'm sure you have country music stations there... probably a few bible stations too! When they're not playn' honky tonk or sermonizing, that's when you'll find the talkers round here. It all goes together, you see...
If you go by Nielson since 2015.
Regardless, that general idea is exactly right. The numbers aren't as big as media want to histrionically present.
And the ripple effect Boehlert describes can dissipate across the 3rd largest country and only ideologues across regions to incessantly revive some content, and with no mainstream cable or broadband to counter the hair on fire existential lies, the 74 million of trumcult will stay glued.
The numbers aren't necessarily working in the gop's favor, though, because the truth comes out in time and so the trumcult vote might not hold in the next two cycles.
So these media stir a lot of anxiety, fear and distrust that this president has to damp down almost daily. And his poll numbers are better than tfg's ever were.
During that Afghanistan withdrawal after 20 long years, I saw very few Dems defending Biden. There were some very popular Dem political tweeters who were wondering "Where Dem support for Biden was?" Some were saying, that the ones out there aren't offering Biden much of a defense.
Democrats offer some harsh reviews of Biden on Afghanistan.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/17/democrats-offer-some-harsh-reviews-biden-afghanistan/
Vulnerable Democrats seek distance from Biden on ... - CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/31/politics/vulnerable-democrats-reaction-biden-afghanistan/index.html
Biden Finally Unifies Congress—Against His Afghanistan Withdrawal Debacle
In a rare display of bipartisanship, angry lawmakers of both parties are pushing the president to do more to aid Afghan refugees.
https://newrepublic.com/article/163310/democrats-midterm-elections-afghanistan-withdrawal
I found article after article after article where there was a surprising amount of Dems criticizing Pres. Biden on the Afghanistan pullout. And as you rightfully mention, most bookings on news shows were given to those GQP/US Taliban supporters who were harshly critical of Biden's Afghanistan Withdrawal. They went on and on and in on Biden. And here we are post the Jan. 6th insurrection and there are still PLENTY GQP/US Taliban party members still defending and standing behind their treasonous, insane, fascist, authoritarian leader whose out there continuing his super-spreader rallies/events crying about the 2020 GE was rigged and stolen from him by Pres. Biden and the Democrat Machine, and fatso's doing permanent damage to this country daily and some of these asses in the non-existent liberal but really corporate media are going after Biden on one thing after another, except now ramping up their criticism of his handling of Covid-19 It doesn't matter that RED state GQP/US Taliban party governors are murdering their own constituents with their non-mask mandates or in the case of DeathSentence, making money off giving them meds that will kill them, and meanwhile he's too busy campaigning and raising dark boat loads of money so he can run for the US Presidency. I guess he wants to win the Presidency so he can murder us all off, or enough of us who are liberal, old, or Democrats or black. Someone told me that Chuck Todd said something along the lines of "Why doesn't pres. Biden do something about the spreading variants of Covid-19?" Like, what the fuck is he going to do with RED state governors who want to murder off their whole populations and make covid-19 worse so they can blame Pres. Biden for it? So it's Biden's fault that DeathSentence, Abbott and jerk Noem in SD are murdering off their OWN constituents, and especially to children? Biden's trying to push-back himself against RED state murdering governors, but with Todd, Tapper and Mrs. Greenspan in there, who needs enemies? Dems gotta come down hard and heavy on that, or the so-called liberal media may just pivot to asking why Pres. Biden won't DO something to stop the spread of Covid-19 for the next 3 years of his administration.
I know you know who Eric Boehlert is. I subscribe to his baby http://PressRun.Media instead of reading the biased times and becoming more biased Washington Post.
https://twitter.com/EricBoehlert?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
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Biden's numbers were wrecked due to a corporate media who WANTS blood, ratings and more war, and Richard Engel made a complete jack ass of himself with his biased and extremely slanted right coverage of Biden's troop removal from Afghanistan. Biden doesn't give a damn about poll numbers. He's interested in what's best for this country, and getting the hell out of Bush/Cheney's war that they lied the US into was the correct answer. But no, the mostly corporate media wants more war, ad dollars and their ratings to come back to what they were with ring-master tRump--their fat cash cow--destroying our country, it's democracy and fucking up things in general.
