Via Aaron Rupar. My transcription:
“They don’t even have to get permission. They just go up to the autopen. That's a subversion. That’s a takeover of our government. And you people ought to start looking at it.That’s a takeover — not only did they cheat – I guess you saw yesterday, it came out, with China and the license plates. Tens of thousands of cards. They used those cards to vote on the second election, my second, the one 2020. ’Cause as everybody here knows I won that election by a lot. But the only good thing I can say is this is a much more historic term than I think I could have had as a second term. This is a much more historic election. And now we’re gonna put up a beautiful flagpole, and we’re gonna put a flag, and I hope you enjoy it, and let’s see how real people work. These are real people. You’re not real people, your job is too easy. Okay? Thank you.”And the first question you can hear at the end is “Mr. President, how tall is the flagpole?” A journalist doing her job.
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I wonder whether, somewhere, some professor is using such a transcript as an example of the lowest boundary for communication. No, make that sub-low, in a course that would include what P.T. Barnum said, and his sign "This way to the egress."
Speaking of journalists, when I wrote for our campus student newspaper, we attributed everything. Lawrence O'Donnel of MSNBC documented the NY Times stating as a fact, without attribution, that Trump left the G-7 early to do Middle East stuff.
No mention that Trump might not be emotionally—or physically— capable of subordinating himself to group work. (I have a masters of facilitating) No mention that the leader of Ukrainian president was due to arrive (I am from Canada, the country with the most Ukrainians in the world outside of Russia)
If journalists won't be journalists then they can't complain if we turn to social media.
When I watch commercial network news at night, which I do less and less often, I notice more and more what’s missing. If I remember correctly, NBC failed to even mention the EU flub with Keir Starmer. They said only that there was a ”deal.“
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