Dan Gillmor

Naturally, Dowd's latest column in the NY Times is another volley in the organization's dump-Biden barrage. It focuses on the president's tendency to garble sentences here and there, something he's been doing for, oh, 60 years but now does more quietly than before.

Needless to say, not even a hint of the constant firehose of incoherent sewage that Trump spews in every speech and interview.

Of course, the piece is only about (anti) Biden. Just like most of the Times' coverage.

Jul 7, 2024 at 11:22pmWeb
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@dangillmor

Always thought her live on camera interviews were incredibly garbled and incoherent. Perhaps we should dump her.

Show threadJerseyBlueJul 7, 2024
@dangillmor Once upon a time, Dowd was funny and sharp. Now she’s just sad and pathetic, past her expiration.
Show threadTom Bellin Jul 8, 2024
@dnelson @dangillmor 40 years ago?
Show threadJerseyBlueJul 8, 2024
@tob @dangillmor Who’s counting?
Show threadSilversaltyJul 7, 2024
@dangillmor
The idea that Biden's demeanor effectively hasn't changed in 60 yrs is nonsense. He's obviously in early stage dementia. That he's the likely 'best' choice to run against Trump is the Dem party's fault. That's the reality America faces. We can hope for the best.
Show threadTom Bellin Jul 8, 2024

@Silversalty @dangillmor "I watched two 30-second clips from the debate, and now I am qualified to make a clinical diagnosis (and prognosis) on the President!"

Go somewhere else, troll

Show threadSilversaltyJul 8, 2024
@tob @dangillmor
I cared for my lawyer father for years as dementia took hold of him. I've been seeing my father in Biden's behavior for some time now. You don't have to be a clinician to tell there's something not there.
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Jul 7, 2024

quoting myself:

"Cathleen Parker and Maureen Dowd would have been one of those slave-owning proto-feminists gringas like to harp about"

https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/112743188587295915

@dangillmor

Show threadJohn GordonJul 7, 2024
@dangillmor I just wan’t to say thank you for omitting any links. Id rather ignore Dowd completely but if one must mention her glad it wasn’t a link.
Show threadRoadskater, Ph.D.Jul 8, 2024
@jgordon @dangillmor She's been generating drek for so long that I quit reading her going on 20 years ago. I've been convinced she has something incriminating on Sulzberger that keeps her from getting canned.
Show threadJohn GordonJul 8, 2024
@roadskater I have wondered if Sulzberger and Trump have some shared shame.
Show threadRacerXJul 7, 2024
@dangillmor F*CK the NYT.
Show threadFlowermobJul 7, 2024
@dangillmor @nytimes why are you rootin for putin? #mediafail
Show threadMike MartinJul 8, 2024
@dangillmor
It’s time to acknowledge that despite having a clear editorial bias, many liberal leaning outlets are secretly thrilled at the prospect of a second Trump presidency. They understand it will bring 4 years of social injustice, economic inequality, international instability, climate destruction and maybe even another plague, and they can’t wait to start angrily writing about it. Another 4 years of the democrats will be just fine for the US and the world at large but unfortunately it will also be a little boring and much harder to make word counts for your weekly columns
Show threadDjembro, RO, supports 🇺🇦🇬🇪Jul 8, 2024

@dangillmor
Rebecca Solnit’s piece in Saturday’s Guardian:

“[The MSM] have become a stampeding herd producing an avalanche of stories suggesting Biden is unfit, [...] They do this while ignoring something every scholar and critic of journalism knows well and every journalist should. As Nikole Hannah-Jones put it: ‘As media we consistently proclaim that we are just reporting the news when in fact we are driving it. What we cover, how we cover it, determines often what Americans think is important and how they perceive these issues yet we keep pretending it’s not so.’ They are not reporting that he is a loser; they are making him one.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/06/biden-trump-race-rebecca-solnit

Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race?

Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

The Guardian
Show threadDonald HobernJul 8, 2024

@djembro @dangillmor

I wish that was the viewpoint expressed by most of the articles in the Guardian. They have published more than their fair share of "dire debate", Harris candidacy, and "Biden’s doctor reportedly met with top neurologist at White House" articles.

Show threadJonJul 8, 2024
@djembro @dangillmor as an undergraduate I went to the library several times/week to skim the front sections of the LA TImes, NY Times, and WaPo. There was pretty similar coverage of stories *when they covered them*. But the choices about what stories to cover, or not, were interesting and probably reflective of their priorities in influencing the agenda - though I was too young to understand that at the time.
Show threadDoug 🌈🇨🇦 Jul 8, 2024
@dangillmor
Don't read the NYT and stop reporting on the drivel it prints.
Show threadsimbaJul 8, 2024
@dangillmor I’m not one to support NYT, but I think we can’t attribute his 2024 performance purely to speech impediment. It’s Biden’s *own team* that said he shouldn’t be doing public appearances after 8 pm. He skirted the Super Bowl interview and has avoided unscripted events. He called the leader of Egypt the Prime Minister of Mexico. These are all serious changes that reporters should note. Is Trump vile and infinitely worse? Yes. Does Biden deserve his own scrutiny? Also yes.
Show threadFr. MartyJul 8, 2024

@dangillmor
Maybe it is time to have a little game. Post an incoherent quote and let everyone guess who said it.

The only way I'd agree with Biden stepping aside is if Trump agreed to do the same. If Trump stays, then Biden must stay. We can as a country, and the Democrats as a party, deal with Biden's apparent frailty significantly more easily than Trump's narcissism and sociopathic fascist inner working. Besides, I firmly believe that if Trump wins, there will be no more US elections.

Show threadJon BosakJul 8, 2024

@dangillmor This is not about one bad debate, and saying that it is is gaslighting.

In 2020, Americans saw that Biden could engage an adversary in real time. In 2024, Americans saw that Biden can no longer do that. Anyone who actually saw the debate knows that it wasn't just a bad night. And they can't unsee it. They've learned since that they have been lied to about Biden's deterioration, and they can see that he is in denial.

Biden is toast. Anyone else would stand a better chance.