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This comment is really weird. There is a good reason why the media publishes more negative articles about some presidents and fewer on others; some presidents are legitimately better or worse than others.

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I thought it was a good comment. I don't know why the left fears a legitimately impartial press instead of one that leaks debate questions to the Democratic candidate.

Source for the debate question leak? The one I know of was given to Clinton against Sanders in the Democratic primary... so it was the "further left" being antagonized lol. But if there's a recent instance of this between a Democrat vs Republican debate I'd be interested to hear of it.

Also debunked as false. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/clinton-received-debate-qu...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-email-shows-dnc-boss-gi...

Is it?

That is about the primary, not the presidential debate.

It's funny when people try to play this up as some huge scandal.

Someone told Clinton's campaign manager that there would be a question by a woman experiencing heath problems related to Flint's water supply. [1]

The debate was being held in Flint.

Do you think maybe everyone kind of knew that one was coming?

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/303556-emails-brazi...

Seriously? This president has not started/entered into a war for the first time since Carter, reformed the criminal justice system to reverse laws that unfairly targeted minorities and non-violent drug crimes (laws supported by Biden when they were passed, btw), presided over a record low unemployment rate and record high wage increases for American workers prior to the pandemic and the media treats him like he's the reincarnation of Hitler.

Imagine if Obama reformed the criminal justice system, wasn't a war monger in Syria/Libya and presided over a record economic boom? He'd be made a saint or something.

Go figure.

By this metric, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un are greatest leaders the world has ever seen.

No serious person with an interest in politics respects the state-sponsored news outlets of Russia or DPRK, but okay.

Are you implying that political pressure might mean some leaders get more bad press than others?

No-one respects CNN and the likes also. They are just like Newsmax, but serving the opposite side.

Do you seriously believe that CNN's standards for truth are just as bad as Newsmax? That's quite a claim.

I see their standards to be just about the same with Russian state propaganda channels. If you'd seen them both you'd be amazed with the similarity. Unless,of course, you would choose to overlook it - people often shield themselves from the information that doesn't fit their paradigm.

There's no way to square this statement given the coverage of Obama and Trump looking only at their policies.

Why would you only look at "policies" instead of everything they do in an official capacity? "Policies" are basically just the stories that politicians tell about themselves. What they actually do matters, not just what they claim to support.

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