Posted on 05/08/2020 7:50:05 AM PDT by rktman
Has the pandemic caused the liberal media to lose whatever vestigial grip on reality it ever had? The question arises in light of a surreal conversation on today's Morning Joe between Mika Brzezinski and Eugene Robinson.
The pair were discussing Robinson's latest Washington Post column, the gist of which is that Democrat campaign tactics are too nice, being based on "reason and fairness." Robinson urged Dems to instead "go straight for the jugular" by using tough Republican campaign tactics that employ "emotion, patriotism, and cultural affinity."
Democrats rely on "reason and fairness" in their campaigns? Has Robinson gone mad?
He's been around long enough to remember perhaps the most brutal, emotion-laden ad in American political history, the infamous "Daisy" ad of 1964 that LBJ ran against Republican Barry Goldwater. It displayed the explosion of an atom bomb, vaporizing little Daisy and suggesting nothing less than that Goldwater threatened the very end of civilization.
Jump ahead to the 2000 election, when Al Gore's allies at the NAACP ran an ad depicting the truck-dragging murder of James Byrd, Jr., with his daughter on voice-over accusing George W. Bush of killing her father "all over again" for not supporting a certain hate crime bill. Even the New York Times described the ad as an "emotional appeal."
Let's not forget good old fair-and-reasonable Joe Biden himself. During the 2012 campaign, Biden told a largely black audience that if elected, Mitt Romney would "put y'all back in chains!" Yup, no appeal to "emotion" or "cultural affinity" there!
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Morning Shmo is a loathsome feature.
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Democrats have been appealing to Reason? When? Is it the 1820s again?
Eugene Robinson is an idiot, and always has been.
Democrats rely on “reason and fairness” in their campaigns?
WHAT?? We really need Mandatory Drug and Alcohol screening for Presstitutes.
Your being kind a racist also
Lori is still dead Banjo Boy; how’d that happen?
Comedy Central material.
Idiocy knows no color. :-)
Biden is winning by 10 points. Why change anything?
There’s a quote attributed to former CIA director William Casey: “The intelligence agencies will have done their job when everything the American people believe is false.” I don’t know if that’s an accurate quote, but we seem to be rapidly heading in that direction. The lies spread by the twin prongs of the MSM and the Deep State are filling the sky with clouds and obscuring the Sun.
Because Hilary Clinton was winning by 12 points. Slow Joe needs another 2 points to lose like Hilary.
Dems have never campaigned with the TRUTH, PERIOD, as Joe likes to say.
Huuuhhhh????
Sounds like textbook projection, to me
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