Media instantly pan GOP convention
headlined by Trump and his son
Posted By: MissMolly, 8/25/2020 4:07:14 AM
About an hour into the first night of the virtual proceedings, The New York Times ran this banner headline: “GOP Pushes Falsehoods and Fear at Convention.” CNN and MSNBC, which carried virtually every minute of the Democratic convention, kept breaking in with fact-checking, criticism and punditry. That’s not to say the GOP show was above aggressive analysis. Several of the speakers made over-the-top, even apocalyptic charges against Joe Biden at the Democrats that stretched well beyond traditional political hyperbole. But in terms of the media applying roughly the same standards to each convention, it wasn’t even close. Some of the speakers sounded very much like President Trump, aiming to rouse the base
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