Love how this article is trying to give Trump the benefit of the doubt. Fuck the media for trying to still normalize him and shame on you OP for posting this bs.
this bs
It’s NPR.
Appeal to authority fallacy. Even good sources put out shit content, and it’s hilarious that the main defense of the argument is source not content.
For good reason, the content is shit coming from a decent source.
There isn’t even any substantial disagreement with what she’s saying in this very article. Instead, it MORE than disavows things that Trump has specifically said, or tacitly endorsed, like Project 2025. Why in the fuck would you write an article essentially saying “Well, these statements are based in reality and facts, but you can’t just say bad things without seeing it happen first.”
YES, YOU FUCKING CAN. HE HAS SAID THESE THINGS.
God damn, NPR. Never thought I’d be downvoting something coming from you.
I bailed when they couldn’t bring themselves to call “enhanced interrogation” what it is in the early 2000s. Fuck that.
12 in 40 minutes. Oh no. Better than the 12 in 40 seconds you get with the other guy…
Literally the point that the article opens with
It’s the role of the press to try and hold politicians to account for the accuracy of their statements in a good-faith way. The dozen Harris statements lacking in context are far less in comparison to 162 misstatements, exaggerations and outright lies that NPR found from Trump’s hour-long news conference Aug. 8.
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/11/nx-s1-5070566/trump-news-conference
The other side of the coin. 162 vs 12
Oh no, better open up the article to see how egregious the lies are:
Harris says that her administration wants to pass laws. But she did not mention that laws have to be passed by Congress! How dare she mislead people like that!
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- “[W]e know and we know what a second Trump term would look like. It’s all laid out in Project 2025, written by his closest advisers. And its sum total is to pull our country back to the past.”
‘Trump has lied and said he doesn’t know anything about it, even though tons of people part of P2025 are close to trump’
Straight into the bin you go NPR.
Good for NPR, showing us how it’s done. I love to see this kind of holding to account rather than the unquestioning tribalism and sycophantism you get from right wing outlets.
You can vote for a candidate, and even support them - encouraging others to vote for them, while being critical of them as well. Just have to make sure it’s the right context (not whataboutism or sealioning).
(Obligatory I’m-not-American disclaimer.)
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MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - United States of America
Wikipedia about this sourceSearch topics on Ground.News
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/25/g-s1-19480/harris-dnc-fact-check
The tolerant left is on full display in the comments XD
If it were the same title except with “Trump’s RNC speech” at the end, it would have 4567898765456789 upvotes