This is particularly rich because Aaron Rupar made his following on Twitter by editing videos down to the syllable and then posting them without context. Remember the two-week media freak-out over Donald Trump saying it would be a "bloodbath" if Joe Biden were to win re-election?
This isn't the first time Biden has done this. In 2022, after signing the climate hoax bill mistakenly named the Inflation Reduction Act, we touted the fact that his administration had invested "over a billion 200, a trillion, 200 billion dollars" in clean energy.
At a rally, Biden once again mixed up billions and trillions. Rupar thinks that Biden's going to have a tough time beating Trump when faced with a media hanging on his every syllable.
Whether you think Biden is the best candidate for the job or not, I'm very confident in saying he'll have an extremely tough time beating Trump in the face of a media environment hanging on his every syllable and hunting for stuff like this pic.twitter.com/fpAMPF89uA
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 5, 2024
Yes, it's the notoriously right-wing media that's "hunting for stuff like this."
He said it loudly. At a public rally. With the cameras rolling.
— Jay Caruso (@JayCaruso) July 6, 2024
But the media is “hunting” for it according to Rupar. https://t.co/waX4W0HfrY
Rupar, who goes over every Trump rally frame-by-frame.
Have these guys slept through the last eight years of Trump coverage?
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) July 6, 2024
It doesn’t take a lot of “hunting“ to see a pretty big gap between billions and trillions. https://t.co/GuptGAZzbS
OK one last politics tweet: The "media environment" isn't an exogenous factor, it's downstream of the fact that the dude obviously shouldn't be president until he's 86 and also that the White House and people like Rupar kinda tried to gaslight people about this. https://t.co/9QWlFkIwX9
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) July 6, 2024
I, along with his handlers, have probably been hanging on every syllable since his age started becoming an issue.
Yes, the "media" environment.
— Constance Underfoot (@ConstanceProse) July 6, 2024
- They've been so disengaged from Trump lo these meany years.
Thing is, the media was well aware of all of his deficiencies the last 4+ years and they didn't just hide it, they told their audience that this was all a right wing conspiracy theory.
— CryptoPermaBull (@PermaBull2024) July 6, 2024
After years of following Rupar on Twitter, journalists started writing pieces about "misleading videos" showing Biden, say, wandering off from the rest of the G7 leaders in Italy. So now they have a problem with "selectively edited" videos.
Is media working against him now?
— Mountain Digest (@Mountaindigest1) July 6, 2024
These are "tumultuous times" for journalists because they all personally want to swap Biden out but are programmed to nothing but cover for him. They don't know what to do.
This is the highest position in the land. IMO, both candidates should be scrutinized on all aspects of their candidacy. This topic of Biden will continue to escalate unless there is reason not to discuss it.
— Christoph J (@CJeans70) July 6, 2024
Agree with your broader point, but Rupar is in complete denial. Gaslighting requires self-aware dishonesty. Not in the Rupar wheelhouse.
— BRAD 🇺🇲🇮🇱🇻🇪 (@_MorseCoded) July 6, 2024
Journalists like Rupar are weird. I mean, you'd think he'd want to shed his reputation for being a Dem hack. But he seems to double down on it every chance he gets.
— Power Creek (@powercreek) July 6, 2024
He bases his reputation on being a Democrat hack. Would he have posted a clip of Biden stumbling over those words? Of course not. Would he post audio of Biden claiming to be the first black woman to serve as vice president? Of course not.
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