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I think Joe Jonas should be near the top of the list. Gotta give liberals their pound of flesh.

Well, looking back, I lodged my standard concern around media..... you seemed to object, apparently defend this "journalist". You seem to want me to not criticize the "journalist", but I do not accept that a journalist is above criticism.

I don't care when or why, irrelevant to the act. If you mean to suggest that military leadership relative the Afghanistan admitted nothing to avoid culpability, all you do is reinforce my point. Leadership.....real leadership.....is admitting. You might not be familiar with it, if you lean left so this might be something new.

You asked I answered....

Correct, This was established more or less from the first post, by the way.....

There is government accountability. Now, I could suddenly be all concerned and vocal.....and irate and insistent about firing etc.....but I didnt do that when service members actually died when military leadership made a mistake.....so to now do it would make me rather hypocritical, and then someone such as yourself would use that against me....so I have to stay firm. Now since my concerns around journalism are far from new and consistent to now pretend I am suddenly all about journalists....is a little farcical.

1) The laptop story was covered in such a manner as to manipulate voters into not seeing it as valid; so agree with your literal point, but maybe your point is a little disingenuous. 2) There was not literal censorship, there was activist journalistic manipulated to render the laptop story as inconsequential. 3) It was rendered "unimportant" on purpose by the media. 4) Hard to argue with this point, I also have doubts it would have moved the needle on the election. But why risk it? So media stepped in to collaborate with the Democrat party to discredit it 5) I remain confident based on the whistleblowers, IRS documents, bank records, laptop contents and investigation overall that Biden was absolutely selling influence to benefit financially. If you think that is not "corruption" that is fine for you, I assume Trump is now free to replicate everything documented that Biden did, right?

I did that multiple times, do you really want to pretend I did not? You do you of course... It is proper journalism, you can find this ideal in sources such as the SPJ, Reuters handbook and the BBC editorial guidelines. Its an expectation that should be met, and if we can get journalists back to this simple act, the later revisions to their work will lower......the initial reporting will increase in accuracy

I will do this again, and I hope for the last time........ I AGREE WITH YOU HE DIDNT DO ANYTHING WRONG. I JUST WISH HE WOULD HAVE PRACTICED PROPER JOURNALISM AND ...SIMPLY FOCKING CONTACTED THEM TO FINISH HIS INVESTIGATION. Can I now stop repeating the same focking position over and over, or do we have to watch you continue to writhe in defense of your ideological partner?

The same question I have already answered multiple times? Or some new tangential thing you want to try?

I have made my position clear. You want to protect the journalist, I get that, he is an activist for the liberal causes.... I have no value in protecting any journalist, nor politician.

Legacy media, a few of them, insisted it was a perfect campaign. Could it be true that media was lying to us to serve the Democrat party? Harris was a bad candidate to be sure, so if the media had not lied for Biden and she had more runway, could it be true that she may have had a little more time to refine and get better? Maybe? The media actively protected the Democrats, really all of them. You have Fox on one side running cover for the Republicans and the rest running cover for the Democrats. And then....when either group bothers to really get after something, its purely performative, with no real substance.....meanwhile politicians use the misdirection to be corrupt. So right now, we have a Republican in office...two things will be true. Democrats will grab on to anything and with white-knuckled zeal they will engage in performative outrage and concern to drum up eyes and serve Democrats.....at the same time Fox will run cover for Republicans. When the next Democrat comes into office, same players....reverse the roles. We deserve, and should expect, much better.

Instead of pretending its "whataboutism" as a deflection against a position I have held now for years, call out repeatedly and just provided an example of how it impacted you.....maybe consider I might have a point here.

You should not presume this disparity only helps you. Consider.....what if the media had not lied about Bidens mental state? What if instead of serving Democrat leadership propaganda they instead reported honestly? What may have happened if Harris has a year....or two.....instead of weeks....to make her run for President? Consider that it might feel good right now, but everything has a consequence.....

You should not presume this disparity only helps you. Consider.....what if the media had not lied about Bidens mental state? What if instead of serving Democrat leadership propaganda they instead reported honestly? What may have happened if Harris has a year....or two.....instead of weeks....to make her run for President? Consider that it might feel good right now, but everything has a consequence.....

I concern myself with this because journalism is supposed to protect us from power. it is not supposed to collaborate with power. Without the enthusastic efforts of journalism to out political corruption we get fake russian collusion.....no inflation anywhere......biden is mentally fine.... Without propr journalism "WE".....all focking pay in the end. We need them to get back to doing their job regardless of how they feel about politics.

I set no rules, ever.

Journalism IS a problem, hence their ongoing loss of viewership due to the lack of credibility. Now, I see you are attempting to conflate my concerns with journalism and this mistake.....which is not a great idea as the two are mutually exclusive. I can call out the mistake made, as well as the journalistic mistake at the same time. I do not care about provisions, the fact that someone...anyone...in power actually admitted to a mistake is such a leap forward, I will take it...

How can it not be about the President? I mean you all seem intent that he should fire someone, how can I exclude the person from the conversation who you insist must act?

Mike Waltz accepted accountability. Now I could object to Trump not doing something to him, but then I would be a hypocrite since I did not insist that Biden bench anyone. Especially since this mistake resulted in no American deaths..... If I decide to call out a reporters behavior it would be perfectly in line with my ongoing issue with "journalism" not anything new. Lets not pretend I have not had this concern for some time, ok?

Why would I do such a thing? That makes no sense. In Biden, well with any Democrat and almost every politician, you have people who refuse to admit anything and instead lie and redirect.....for the first time in memory in this instance we have someone admitting fault....and then the President saying it was a mistake.... It is a refreshing change.

I did not. When the conversation arose I participated only because they were calling out Biden for the problem, and I objected to Biden being the one accountable. My position remains that you point at Biden is inane, instead you need to point to the leaders in charge of the operation itself.....did they follow the plan? If that did follow the plan, was it a bad plan? Who created it. Rather than go after Milley or some other senior official....just to be a focking d!ck.....we should instead look to those who planned and executed and address it where it matters. So, who the the mistake, and what was the outcome? Did people die? No....so then its just about being a d!ck....nothing more...

This is an activist journalist, who should have done better. I am fine with him reporting on this, but ask yourself....after the last four years of the media actively protecting Biden...do you honestly believe this guy would have handled the same situation the same way? C'mon, be honest....

Now see, here is the difference. I called out both situations using the same approach, I did not demand firings but instead accountability. YOUR version of accountability may differ from mine, and "I" will not insist you hold my expectations.....unlike you are doing right now..... More importantly, "I" will not base my ethics and morality on a corrupt political movement, such as you do. It is weak people like you that create the most harm, because YOUR morality will ebb adnd flow based on politics. That is the big difference between us, I strive to stay intellectually honest, you are just a common sycophant to the powerful

Nor would I expect it to, maybe they care copying the Biden admin