Almost every day we think we’ve reached peak “journalism,” but almost every day the bar keeps getting raised (or lowered, depending on how you look at it). However, the Biden administration and Dems will be glad to know they can count a Washington Post reporter among those helping push their agenda, even if it involves trying to scare people into supporting it:
Someone who tweets stuff like this has no business covering this subject as a reporter.
This legislation would have minimal impact on global warming. It also has significant downsides. pic.twitter.com/BAVQQLM37U
— AG (@AGHamilton29) July 13, 2022
We start off lightly with a couple tweets about Sen. Joe Manchin being among those currently not supporting the rest of the Biden agenda:
OK so for all 6 of your who still have the stomach for this story here’s what my reporting says about the White House-Manchin climate bill/BBB saga dynamics & why it may be intractable
Long thread … sorry sorry
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) July 13, 2022
So this is a vexing impasse. Remarkably, both sides have a similar outcome my reporting suggests it seems they’d be happy to get to: Approve oil/gas projects + Dem climate bill
But that requires a leap of faith.
Is the trust b/w Manchin & the WH there?
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) July 13, 2022
It was a long thread that’s capped off by the “we might all die if Biden doesn’t get his entire agenda through” warning:
While we wait, the planet is warming catastrophically.
The consequences of failure are fatal, permanent, and global.
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) July 13, 2022
Yowza. “White House economics reporter for the Washington Post,” everybody!
It’s a cult https://t.co/2EVM2KeiDt
— 🗯 (@vocdetox) July 13, 2022
That’s abundantly clear. And this is a “journalist.”
these people are religious nuts way more than anti-abortionists, because this isn't about arbitrarily assigning value to a clump of cells, this is actually believing something that is literally false and grotesquely so https://t.co/V1uBIeiOOV
— Lucio Martelli (@LucioMM1) July 13, 2022
#journalism https://t.co/9AYdnMPPpF
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) July 13, 2022
Here's some objective reporting from @washingtonpost. https://t.co/VWcuDYKv32
— Steven Groves (@stevegroves) July 13, 2022
And yet they wonder why trust in media has plummeted.
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