we're exactly midway between Cayuga and Seneca lakes. Worked in Ithaca for 30 years, my wife still works there. cute dog by the way!
True. I live in upstate as well and non-metro regions were always Republican/Trump majority voters . In 2016, I noticed strong support to Ted Cruz but once that is done, most switched to Trump. that being said, all the conversation of NY becoming battle ground is clickbait. Reminds me of the conversation of Hillary winning Texas!!
Cute pupper! We divide time between Owasco and Skaneateles. Pop down to Itchica and Syracuse to get away from all the stuffy white hairs and blue bloods.
Nephew just graduated from St. john Fisher. Niece starting the PA program at RIT in the fall. In laws are in Buffalo. When we hit Rochester, I know we are only an hour and a half until i get a beer in my hand.
again, that's your term, not mine. https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4762423-media-omission-biden-cognitive-challenges/ Why didn’t the media question Biden’s fitness for office until now? by Jeffrey M. McCall, opinion contributor American poet Marianne Moore once wrote, “Omissions are not accidents.” Her observation applies perfectly to the journalism of omission that has been practiced by the establishment media over the last several years. The news industry’s sudden interest in reporting on President Biden’s frailty and cognitive challenges belies its concerted effort to omit such coverage up to this point. Whatever the president’s mental difficulties might currently be, it is safe to say they didn’t just begin during his unimpressive showing in last month’s debate. The media were negligent in failing to report on the president’s limitations during his time in office, many of which were in plain sight. For example, when the Easter Bunny is managing the presidentof the United States, which occurred two years ago, there is surely a problem. The president’s unavailability for press conferences or serious interviews with journalists was another glaring sign that something was amiss, not to mention his extensive vacation calendar. The White House even declined the annual Super Bowl interview, which usually provides presidents with an easy way to look good in front of millions of football viewers. The story of the president’s apparent decline should have been a key part of the news agenda a year ago. Had it been, the Democratic Party could have had a more methodical and rational deliberation about whether to keep Biden at the top of the ticket. Instead, the party is now in panic, the election season is in chaos, and the media’s tanking credibility has taken another hit. The media’s soft treatment of Biden can be traced back to the 2020 campaign, when candidate Biden ran a virtual and stealthy campaign from his basement. The press excused that strategy because of COVID. It is worth noting that Biden’s debate performance in 2020 was subpar by normal presidential debate expectations. He hardly came off as JFK. But his weak showing was overshadowed by Donald Trump’s inartful and brawling approach. Special counsel Robert Hur’s report about Biden's hoarding of classified documents provided a convenient pathway for the press to delve into Biden’s cognitive capabilities. Hur’s team had interviewed the president at length in October and the report was released last winter. The report revealed the kind of mental lapses that the press now suddenly wants to cover. But at the time, the media focus was only the fact that Biden wouldn’t be charged for mishandling classified documents. Then journalist pack moved on, reporting with a straight face Vice President Kamala Harris’s full-throated (and likely misleading) defense of the president, angrily dismissing the Hur report as an "inappropriate" and "inaccurate" political hit job. Journalists failed to fully wonder whether Harris “doth protest too much.” Covering a president in decline is surely a monumental journalistic task, particularly given Biden’s tight circle and the steps taken to screen for him. Nobody wants to come off as belittling a senior citizen, particularly a president, struggling with the inevitable effects of aging. This story, however, can’t be limited merely by compassion. It demands a fair and accurate assessment of just how capable the sitting president is. Official sources such as press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Cabinet secretaries can’t be considered credible for reporting about the president’s capabilities or lack thereof. Their loyalty is in the way. It is their job to provide cover and propaganda for Biden. But, as the Brookings Institute has tracked, the Biden administration has experienced a good deal of turnover lately. Certainly, some of those departing staffers could have shed some insight, at least as background sources, if only the press had been sufficiently interested. It is worth pondering whether the establishment press would have continued to overlook the president’s difficulties if Biden were comfortably ahead in the polls and remained an apparent shoo-in for reelection. The “bad day” debate may have forced the media to finally and grudgingly cover this story. That “bad day” was in front of 50 million people, but plenty of other bad days preceded it, as Robert Hur knows well. So do plenty of Democratic leaders and probably many members of the White House press corps. The American people expect the news media to report the truth, wherever the facts might lead. The journalism of omission regarding Biden’s capabilities has shown the press to have, instead, fallen into the trap of journalistic activism. This negligence has, in essence, been censorship by the press. Whatever eventually happens when voters go to the polls in November, it is clear that journalism industry machinations will have affected the course of the election season. Jeffrey M. McCall is a media critic and professor of communication at DePauw University. He has worked as a radio news director, a newspaper reporter and as a political media consultant.
I do blame Republicans for America's race to the bottom. They'll shout and scream about the Clintons but project the wildest fantasies that they later do and elect crazies who will do it. Media silence is not a new conspiracy or professional standard. Many Americans at the time didn't know FDR used a wheelchair or died at his mistress's house. With the staffers keeping silent, it's more about hiring ultra loyal Team Players who think more about winning against the opposition than serving the nation. So I agree with you that standards should be kept and upheld. They might think Biden's health is a little white lie compared to the whoppers the last guy's staff had to swallow. If everything is relative, then they're definitely right. But it really isn't...
Biden can not stop Trump. Republicans like Haley have failed to stop Trump. If Biden does not step down, Trump will win and I do not believe our democracy will survive. Many may not believe our democracy is at risk. I get that. I think some actually want our democracy to end. That having an authoritarian Trump is what they truly seek versus a democratic nation where white men are not on top. But for those who do value democracy, you can not want Trump to win.
I do not necessarily want Trump to win, but if he did, I do not believe that spells the end of democracy. I think all the "survival of democracy" rhetoric is pretty much overblown. Trump was president for four years, and we're all still here. If he's president for another four years, we will all still be here when that period of time is over.
There is no one who can stop The Trump Train..... The only hope Dems have at the moment is for some really big scandal to break out from Trump's side and Trump to auto destruct....
Democrats need to let this go, I get they are scared for Trump to start investigating their corruption but if you are clean you have nothing to worry about. Its time for them to start looking into 2028 with a young fresh candidate that isn't far left. The far left experiment has failed, time to vote AOC and all her little friends out.... The unfortunate part is that Dems will drag this country down before just letting Trump take office, their fear mongering will get worse and worse.
Boomers can't face their own mortality. That's why we have all these corpses in office and all of these Boomers in our lives with extreme FOMO.
