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The DC Bubble

Posted: July 2, 2024 by chrisharper in Uncategorized
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By Christopher Harper

I spent nearly two years in the Washington news bubble, which became so bad that I left to cover the civil war in Lebanon.

My experience in Washington happened more than 40 years ago, but not much has changed.

Back then, Washington journalists had become part of the city’s elites, bringing down presidents, earning big bucks from book deals, and failing to acknowledge their biases.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 2,000 journalists work in Washington, the highest concentration of reporters in the country. One out of every 30 people in the District of Columbia works in journalism.

A recent study from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications revealed a stark lack of political diversity among American journalists, with just 3.4% identifying as Republicans and a significant 36.4% as Democrats.

Simply put, many of those polled lied. Many journalists of my era chose their jobs because they wanted to see change. They spouted the required allegiance to objectivity, fairness, and nonpartisanship. But you also had to present a point of view to stay acceptable to those on the cocktail and dinner circuits.

I worked in Washington during Jimmy Carter’s presidency. The group grope was that Carter and his band of Georgians were country rabble and had no business running the country.

The press corps was hell-bent on ensuring he didn’t get a second term. I generally covered the second or third-string Carter f-up stories for Newsweek. It wasn’t hard to find these stories because Carter and his aides didn’t know much about running the federal government.

Back then, the bar talk revolved around how the country could survive a president who wore a sweater during an address to the nation about energy policy.

For the past eight years, the Washington media elite has attacked Trump as a dangerous rube who had no business running the country. Now, in yet another group grope, the journalistic elite, who covered up Biden’s intellectual decline, suddenly realized the current president isn’t up to snuff.

I hope the nation realizes President Biden was not the only loser in last week’s debate. The Washington media should also be blamed for allowing him to hide his weaknesses.

CNN Airbrushes Scott Jennings Comments From Their Debate Panel & I Surprise Myself

Posted: July 2, 2024 by datechguy in culture, media
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Today I was going to post about the stunning and brave move to send Joe Biden out for a full four minutes to read from a teleprompter (yeah this guy is actually president) when something caught my eye.

Having seen that and not believing what I saw I wanted to re-watch the reactions of the CNN panel post debate so I went to CNN on youtube where they had a video of the panel. As I have to leave for work in a few minutes I’m going to tell the story in the four tweets my discovery produced.

Tweet 2

Tweet 3, The inquirey

Tweet four, self realization

What I sucker I am.

Now You Know Why Joe Biden Bypassed the New Hampshire Primary

Posted: July 1, 2024 by datechguy in Blame Biden Administration, elections, elections, politics, primaries, primaries
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As I’ve been pondering who is actually running this country a thought hit me.

For a very long time we’ve been told that Joe Biden’s team skipped the normal primary order in order to maximize the black vote which he had an advantage with and discourage primary opponents. That statement was very plausible and everyone including me believed that this was the primary reason for this decision.

Well now an even more plausible explanation comes to the forefront. Consider this:

  • On July 4, 2021, Biden hosted a party on the South Lawn in which he declared “independence” from the coronavirus pandemic.
  • It was a hot day and after hours outside, Biden went back into the White House through the Diplomatic Room, and then into the nearby Map Room.
  • Biden sat down and the door was abruptly shut as Biden’s aides blocked the White House butlers and residence staff from aiding the president.

They suggested to the staffers that the president was just a little overheated. But the episode left residence staff feeling like his close aides were creating a barrier around anything possibly related to the president’s health, the former official said.

Two points:

  1. This is from Axos not Breitbart, not Fox News, not Hotair, not Me. They are left Left LEFT.
  2. This event is from 2021 which means this has gone on for YEARS!

In other word this has been known for years.

And THAT’S why there is no way Joe Biden could take part in the New Hampshire Primary.

I have covered the NH primary in person. It is all about meeting people face to face, talking to people face to face dealing with individuals.

There is absolutely no way Joe Biden could do this and hide the state of his decline to New Hampshire voters. Not in intimate and personal settings, it would not be done. If he went there as he is and tried to do so he would have not only lost the primary to whatever democrat faced him, he would have lost the nomination.

And that would be that the Obama team would no longer be in charge of this White House, of the foreign policy of the US, of the economic policy of the US. It would be all over.

And THIS is the reason why Joe Biden skipped the New Hampshire primary, not to discourage any challenger but to preserve his candidacy which would have ended right there in the Granite State.

In case you wondered before, now you know.

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