Considering New York magazine's Jonathan Chait has pegged Twitchy as a "conservative rage curator," we'll do our best to keep our rage in check. The last we checked in with Chait, he was stubbornly arguing that Donald Trump had pulled out of a debate he'd scheduled with President Joe Biden after Biden pulled out of the race completely.
As we reported earlier, Autism Capital compiled all of the negative headlines following Trump's conversation with Elon Musk on Monday night.
Collection of the negative headlines from the Trump x Elon spaces pic.twitter.com/0lyQdygytt
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) August 13, 2024
The conversation took place after a Washington Post correspondent had asked press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre if there wasn't some way the White House could "intervene" to prevent dangerous political misinformation from being spread.
We also showed you the subtle difference between TIME Magazine's covers of Trump and of Kamala Harris, who declined to be interviewed for her own puff piece:
Spot the difference pic.twitter.com/D3MKlX9kv6
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 12, 2024
Forget all of that, because Chait has informed us that the media indeed follows a double standard, and it favors Trump, not Harris.
Yes, the media has a double standard. It favors Trump, not Harris. https://t.co/ZQTNkzmRq9
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) August 13, 2024
Please, enlighten us:
The most important way Trump benefits from a double standard is simply that his violations of democratic and civic norms are so widespread that the media have given up on holding him to anything resembling a customary standard of behavior for a presidential candidate.
A recent example will suffice: Imagine if Harris published a statement alleging that a recent Trump rally attended by thousands of people was actually empty, that the crowd at the rally was faked through artificial intelligence, and that the news media helped perpetuate this gigantic fraud. Suppose she proceeded to argue that this alleged fakery was a form of “election interference” that disqualified Trump from the ballot.
This would be an existential crisis for Harris. Cable news would break into its programming to cover this and wouldn’t stop until she was driven from the race. Newspapers would print multiple Watergate-level front-page stories about Harris going stark raving mad and threatening democracy.
Notice how Chait has to resort to a hypothetical. He does so, of course, knowing that the Trump campaign has actually done this, although we're not sure which AI-enhanced photo we're talking about. Sure Harris' teeming crowds have six fingers and don't cast reflections, but that doesn't mean they're faked.
OK, look. Here's another example. Compare CBS News' coverage of Trump's "no tax on tips" policy with Harris' curiously identical policy announcement:
You don’t hate the media enough
— Chet Cannon (@Chet_Cannon) August 12, 2024
June 14 vs. Aug. 12 pic.twitter.com/qcLknhAKRe
The double standard is obvious.
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) August 13, 2024
I cannot decide if you're clinically insane or an enormous liar. I suppose "both" is also possible.
— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) August 13, 2024
— Rob G (@NYYFan63) August 13, 2024
Of course a profession with 95% Democrat Party membership supports the Republican candidate… pic.twitter.com/YrDowDlxLt
— Ars Sababa 🇮🇱 🇫🇷 🚁 🚁 (@ArsSababa) August 13, 2024
We think it's actually 96 percent.
Are you a troll, unethical, or just a liar?
— Michael Crane (@MikeJCzapla) August 13, 2024
How about when Trump was shot, and CNN's headline reported that he "fell down."
Totally. pic.twitter.com/p5mueJ1M2r
— El Magnífico (@MagnificoIX) August 13, 2024
Source -- pic.twitter.com/6Rbh0jxfwQ
— JK Johnny (@_JohnnyJones) August 13, 2024
This is the most delusional take I’ve ever seen in my life. It’s also demonstrably false.
— Sam (@Samantha_SN1) August 13, 2024
Ummmm, nope. pic.twitter.com/aVLoMPE8Rh
— Shadyhugs (@Shadyhugs) August 13, 2024
Oh yes, the morning after the Harris campaign sent out the memo to use the word "joy" to describe her campaign against Trump's message of doom and gloom.
The media hasn’t written a single critical sentence of Harris yet
— Phil (@RealPhillyP) August 13, 2024
If they have, we haven't seen it. Media coverage of Harris consists of going back and "correcting" three-year-old stories where she was mistakenly referred to as the "border czar."
Just a flat out lie. You guys are phoning in the propaganda.
— Daxton Brown (@daxtonbrown) August 13, 2024
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